Follow a trail of smashed cupcakes to a break room filled with popped balloons and overturned chairs—and you’re smack-dab in the middle of the wildest work-related baby shower you’ve ever seen. Well, maybe not super “wild,” but reckless in the sense that you left a stack of papers on your desk for a good 1-2 hours, and so did everyone else in the office, but oh, well. They will still be waiting for you when the baby shower is all over.
At the most recent baby shower at work, (there have been two in four months), I did get a chance to go wild with children’s wooden blocks and paint markers, and it was a truly enjoyable experience. My co-worker came up with the idea to have everyone paint the blocks so that our pregnant co-worker could decorate her nursery with them. Most of the people I work with are actual artists in real life, but I’m proud of the watermelon-like thing I made, and I’m hoping it will bring a child a lifetime of wonky wonder and optimism ‘cause that’s my motto: Build a wonder of wonkiness one block at a time.
This activity sure beats the baby shower game I came up with once in my 20s for a pregnant friend. Maybe I found the game on the internet—I don’t know. You might have even played it before. It goes like this:
–Blindfold everyone in the room, except for yourself.
–Throw cotton balls onto the floor and give everyone a wooden spoon.
–Each person will take turns trying to scoop up as many cotton balls as they can into a bowl.
–The person who gets the most into the bowl “wins.”
Here’s the twist:
–The only other person in the room who is not blindfolded (you), gets to write down everyone’s comments as they’re scooping cotton balls into the bowl. Those utterances will be the comments made in the delivery room, which you can read back to your party guests. As you can imagine, the comments go something like this:
“Am I doing it? Is this right?”
“Woohoo! I got 20!”
“I dropped one.”
“Did I win?”
I’m not sure if my co-workers would want to crawl around on the floor, looking for cotton balls, so I’m definitely glad I didn’t sign up for the “games” committee. They DO like to roller skate, so maybe this game could be kicked up a notch with the addition of a make-shift roller rink and cupcake obstacle course. Such a stunt would put a delightfully wonky spin on a birthing-room scenario where the words “Look out!” really deliver.
Your Turn: What’s your favorite party game?
Fixin' Leaks and Leeks 
It’s been so long since I’ve been at a party, I have no idea!
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Yeah, it’s hard to remember what parties were like 🙂
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The cotton on the spoon game sounds fun. We used to play a card game called “mafia” where you had to figure out who was in the mafia and who was not – it had been a while but you deal the cards and five are designated as the mafia and then everyone goes around and takes guesses
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I like your wonky watermelon
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That sounds like a fun game! 🙂
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☀️😊
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We played a fun game where there were a couple of dozen random little objects on a tray. You had 20 seconds to look at them all then had to write down as many as you could remember. The winner was the one who had the longest list. It was actually a lot of fun despite me being super-pregnant and uncomfortable!
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That does sound like fun–I love a good memory game–keeps me sharp.
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I remember that game – won’t say how long ago though! Your watermelon is wonderful.
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Thank you so much!
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I think the cotton ball game is a phenomenal idea. What fun in the delivery room. 😆
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It would definitely make for some delivery room fun!
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I can see the roller derby bout in-office now! Ha! And that’s a fun idea to make stuff for the nursery!
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Ha! Yeah, my co-worker had a great idea there with the blocks.
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The blocks idea is cute. Your game idea is brilliant and hilarious!
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Why thank you! I don’t think I can take the credit. I may have heard about it/seen it on the internet before, but it was fun to play way back when.
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Still, fun idea to share. Cool that you put it into practice.
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Decorating wooden blocks is a wonderful idea! I never liked party games of any type, so an activity like this would be more my speed:)
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My co-worker had a great idea there with the blocks.
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Definitely!
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I avoid baby showers as a rule, since I am always terrified it’s catching. 🙂 But your party sounds like a lot of fun. Only you could write about one of the events I dislike most in life and make it sound both humorous and engaging. Nicely done!
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Thank you so much! The baby bug is definitely catching at work–there will be more showers in the future. (Not for me, though.) 🙂
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