15 Under the Sea Baby Shower Games for an Ocean Party

Planning under the sea baby shower games is honestly one of the most fun parts of throwing an ocean-themed party — and I say that as someone who has sat through more than a few baby showers where the ‘games’ were just a polite word for ‘awkward silence.’

The good news? When you’ve got a theme as magical as the deep blue sea, it basically does half the creative work for you.

Mermaids, sea turtles, starfish, and coral reefs make for the most charming backdrop, and the games in this list are designed to match every bit of that vibe.

Whether your crowd is rowdy and competitive or the type that would rather sip punch and quietly fill out a card, there’s something here for everyone.

I’ve rounded up 15 games — a mix of active group games, printable sheets, and sweet keepsake-style activities — so you can mix and match based on your crowd. (Pro tip: you don’t have to play all 15 in one afternoon.

Your guests will thank you.) These are interleaved on purpose so the energy ebbs and flows just like the tide — a little loud, a little calm, then fun all over again. Grab your seashell decor, print out a few sheets, and let’s dive in!

1. Mommy or Daddy?

This is one of those under the sea baby shower games that sounds simple but has guests howling within the first three questions. The premise: a printed sheet lists 15–20 baby-related traits, habits, or predictions — things like ‘Who will do the midnight feeds?’

or ‘Who will be the stricter parent?’ — and guests circle whether they think it’ll be Mommy or Daddy. You can theme every question with an ocean twist: ‘Who will be the shark (overprotective)?’ and ‘Who will be the dolphin (the fun one)?’

are always crowd favorites.

To set this up, prepare your printed sheets in advance with your chosen questions — aim for at least 12 so it feels substantial.

Hand them out with pens, give everyone about five minutes, then reveal what the parents-to-be actually answered ahead of time (have Mom and Dad each fill one out secretly before the shower!).

The guest whose answers match the parents’ most accurately wins a small prize, like a little sea-themed candle or bath bomb.

What makes this game such a reliable hit is that it doubles as entertainment AND insight — you learn a lot about a couple when their answers don’t match each other, tbh.

For a fun variation, read the most outrageous disagreements between Mom and Dad aloud at the end. The room will absolutely lose it, and the parents-to-be will be laughing the hardest.

Just maybe don’t read the one about who changes more diapers if you want to keep the peace!

2. Ocean Nursery Rhyme Karaoke

If you want one game that absolutely guarantees nobody is staring at their phone, this is it.

Ocean Nursery Rhyme Karaoke works exactly how it sounds: guests (or teams) are handed the lyrics to a classic nursery rhyme and must perform it karaoke-style — but to a completely unexpected musical backing track.

Think ‘Row Row Row Your Boat’ performed to a hip-hop beat, or ‘Humpty Dumpty’ belted out over a dramatic ballad instrumental. The results are chaotic, hilarious, and entirely unpredictable, which is exactly what you want.

To run this smoothly, print out the lyrics to six to eight classic nursery rhymes beforehand — ones everyone vaguely knows, like ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider,’ ‘Jack and Jill,’ and ‘Little Bo Peep.’

Assign different instrumental genres to each (pull them up on YouTube or Spotify: rap beats, reggae, country twang, dramatic movie scores — all fair game). A host or DJ picks the genre randomly for each performer so nobody knows what they’re walking into.

Guests or teams take turns performing, and the crowd votes for the winner.

This is hands-down one of the most viral-worthy under the sea baby shower games on this whole list, and guests genuinely lose it every round.

To lean into the ocean theme, you could tie each nursery rhyme to a sea creature: whoever performs ‘Row Your Boat’ is officially the Sea Captain, whoever does ‘Humpty Dumpty’ is the Pufferfish (fragile and dramatic), and so on.

Award a silly ribbon crown to the winner. Host tip: have at least one responsible adult who is NOT performing recording video. Trust me on this one.

3. Measure Mom’s Bump

This is the game where guests confidently tear off a length of ribbon or string to represent how big they think Mom’s belly is — and then the whole room gasps when they try to wrap it around her.

It’s equal parts sweet and brutally humbling for everyone involved (myself included, the one time I guessed way too big and had to live with the shame).

It’s a classic for a reason, and the ocean theme makes it even cuter when you use aqua or teal ribbon and label it ‘Measuring the Little Mermaid’s Cave.’

Setup is nearly zero effort: grab a roll of ribbon or twine in your party colors and a pair of scissors.

Each guest quietly cuts a length they think will match Mom’s bump, writes their name on a sticky tag or piece of tape, and attaches it to their piece.

Once everyone has cut their piece, Mom holds each one up to her belly one by one to see whose guess was closest. The winner — closest without going over, Price Is Right rules — gets a small prize.

What makes this game work so well at an under the sea shower is that you can label the ribbon spool ‘The Tape Measure of the Deep’ and lean into theatrical reactions as each piece is held up.

Encourage guests to defend their guess before it’s measured — ‘I’m telling you, she’s the size of a manatee!’ is the kind of commentary this game was made for.

It’s also a game that gets the mom-to-be laughing and feeling celebrated rather than put on the spot, which is always the goal.

4. Time Capsule Predictions Card

This one is less ‘game’ and more ‘gift,’ tbh — but it is absolutely one of the most treasured things a mom-to-be will keep from her shower, so it earns its spot on this list without question.

Each guest fills out a printed predictions card with their best guesses about the baby: birth date, weight, eye color, who the baby will look like, first word, and future career (always the most creative category).

The cards get sealed in an envelope and opened on the baby’s first birthday, making it a little time capsule of love from everyone who was there.

For your ocean theme, design the cards with a message-in-a-bottle illustration at the top and label them ‘Messages from the Deep: To Be Opened on Your First Birthday.’

Have guests fill them out during the quieter gift-opening portion of the shower when people need something to do with their hands anyway.

Collect all the cards, put them in a decorative box or jar labeled with the baby’s name and ‘Open: [due date + 1 year],’ and gift it to Mom as one of her shower presents.

The genius of this card is that it creates a built-in memory for the family — and the mom-to-be genuinely looks forward to opening it. Make sure there’s space for each guest’s name on the card so the parents know whose predictions were whose.

You’ll also want to include a couple of funny prompts like ‘The baby will definitely have Mom’s ___ and Dad’s ___’ to encourage guests to be creative rather than just guessing a weight range.

Bonus: if you pair this with birth month flowers and what they say about your baby’s personality, you can add a little astrology-adjacent fun to the card!

5. Baby Name Acronym

This is the printable game that looks easy but will have guests staring at the ceiling for a solid three minutes trying to think of a baby word that starts with ‘Q.’

The Baby Name Acronym game uses the letters of the baby’s name (or Mom’s name if the baby’s name is a surprise) as the starting letters for a list of baby-related words, phrases, or wishes.

For example, if the baby’s name is CORAL (because we’re doing an ocean theme, obviously), guests write a baby word for C, O, R, A, and L. The most creative answer wins!

Print one sheet per guest with the baby’s name spelled vertically in large letters down the left side of the page, leaving a blank line next to each letter.

Give guests three to four minutes to fill it in — you can make it open-ended (any baby word) or themed (only ocean or sea-related words, which is hilarious when you hit a letter like X or Z).

Collect the sheets and read the best entries aloud; the crowd votes for their favorite by applause, and whoever gets the biggest reaction wins a small prize.

This game is endlessly adaptable — if the parents are keeping the name a secret, use the word BABY or OCEAN instead. For a co-ed shower, using DAD or the father’s name is always good for laughs.

The host tip here is to set a timer for exactly three minutes once sheets are handed out: the time pressure is what makes people write truly unhinged things and then get embarrassed when they have to read them aloud, which is where all the comedy comes from.

6. Deep Sea Baby Shower Trivia Showdown

Nothing unites a room of adults faster than a little friendly competition, and Deep Sea Baby Shower Trivia Showdown delivers exactly that energy.

This is a team-based oral trivia game where the host reads questions aloud, teams confer for ten seconds, and then shout (or hold up a written) answer.

Questions cover pregnancy facts, baby milestones, parenting knowledge, and a few ocean-themed wildcards that’ll make the science nerds in the room very smug — like ‘Which animal has the longest pregnancy?’

(Elephants, 22 months — which, honestly, should be the answer every time someone complains about nine months.)

Divide guests into teams of two to four people — name each team after an ocean creature for maximum theme cohesion.

The host reads 20 questions total across four categories: Classic Baby Facts (5 questions), Ocean Animal Trivia (5 questions), Baby Pop Culture (5 questions — think celebrity baby names and movie babies), and True or False Pregnancy Myths (5 questions).

Keep a running score on a whiteboard or flip chart, and award bonus points for the funniest wrong answer in each round.

The team with the most points at the end wins a prize; the team with the funniest wrong answers gets a consolation trophy (a plastic toy fish works perfectly).

The key to making trivia work at a baby shower — as opposed to feeling like a pop quiz — is to mix the difficulty levels so that everyone gets at least a few right answers and feels smart for a moment.

Harder questions about gestational development should be balanced with gimmes like ‘What does a baby call its mother?’

Lean into the drama of a close final score, and if you want to go next-level, channel your inner game show host with a dramatic pause before each correct answer reveal. Your guests will absolutely play along.

7. Don’t Say Baby!

This is the sneaky game that runs in the background the entire shower, which means zero setup time during the party itself and maximum chaos for hours.

The premise is beautifully simple: when guests arrive, each person gets a small token — a mini clothespin, a shell bracelet, a plastic sea star, whatever fits your ocean theme — and the rule is that nobody is allowed to say the word ‘baby’ for the duration of the shower.

If someone catches you saying it, they steal your token. The person holding the most tokens at the end of the shower wins.

To theme it for your under the sea baby shower, swap out the traditional clothespins for something oceanic: small shell clip-on earrings (dollar store gold!), mini starfish hair clips, or even tiny plastic sea creature figurines guests pin to their outfits.

Hand them out with a little card that explains the rule as guests arrive, so everyone knows from the start. The host should announce a reminder at the beginning of the shower and then gleefully watch as guests start policing each other mid-sentence.

What makes Don’t Say Baby so genius is that it actively makes guests more engaged with each other — they’re listening carefully to every conversation, which means people are actually talking instead of sitting in silence scrolling their phones.

It’s also the great equalizer: the most competitive person in the room will get caught saying ‘baby’ within the first ten minutes, guaranteed (I lost my token in under three minutes at the last shower I attended, and I am still not over it).

For a fun variation, add a second forbidden word like ‘shower’ or ‘mom’ to double the difficulty.

8. Onesie Decorating Station

Okay, this one is less ‘game’ in the traditional sense and more ‘beloved activity that doubles as a gift for the baby,’ and honestly those are the best kind.

The Onesie Decorating Station gives every guest a plain white onesie (or the host provides a stack of them in various sizes) and a spread of fabric markers, iron-on sea creature patches, and ocean-themed stencils.

Guests design their onesie, sign the tag, and the whole collection becomes an adorable handmade wardrobe for the new baby — one-of-a-kind pieces from every person who came to celebrate.

Set this station up on a table covered with a craft mat or disposable tablecloth (fabric markers are permanent, ask me how I know).

Craft-based activities like this are always the most-photographed moments at any party, so make sure it’s in a well-lit area with good backgrounds.

Lay out fabric markers in ocean colors — teal, navy, coral, seafoam green — along with stencils of sea turtles, starfish, waves, and seahorses. Provide iron-on patches as accent options for guests who aren’t confident in their artistic abilities (this is a judgment-free station!).

Set up a drying rack or dedicated table space where finished onesies can lie flat.

To make this feel more game-like, you can run a little competition: vote on the most creative design, the cutest design, and the most ‘will the baby actually wear this’ design, and award tiny prizes in each category.

The real win, though, is that Mom goes home with a collection of onesies that each hold a memory — she’ll know exactly who painted the slightly-wonky octopus on the 3-month size, and that’s the part that makes this activity irreplaceable.

Host tip: buy onesies in a range of sizes from newborn to 12 months so the baby gets use out of them for longer.

9. Registry Guessing Game

This one is equal parts impressive and humbling depending on how closely you’ve been paying attention to Mom’s registry.

The Registry Guessing Game gives guests a printed list of 10–15 baby items with the prices blacked out (or removed entirely), and guests have to guess the retail price of each item.

It’s basically The Price Is Right at a baby shower, and it is absolutely wild how wrong people’s guesses can be about the cost of a sound machine or a breast pump. The person closest to the actual total price across all items wins.

To prep, pull 12–15 items directly from the mom-to-be’s registry that span a good price range — a $12 pack of washcloths all the way up to a $400 stroller.

List them with a photo or description but no price on your printed sheet, and include the actual price on a host answer key. Guests write their price guess next to each item, then tally their total.

Compare totals to the real answer and the closest wins. For the ocean theme, you can name the sheet ‘What’s in Davy Jones’s Locker?’ and list each item as a ‘treasure’ with a little anchor icon next to it.

The conversation this game generates is genuinely useful — guests start asking questions about items they didn’t know existed, which often leads to people deciding what to buy off the registry right then and there. That’s a bonus nobody talks about!

Make sure you include at least one item that’s surprisingly cheap (under $10) and one that’s surprisingly expensive (over $200) to create those satisfying gasps of ‘wait, THAT costs HOW much?!’ It’s that moment of collective shock that makes the whole room bond instantly.

10. Pin the Pacifier on the Baby

You already know exactly how this game goes, and that is completely fine, because it is a classic for a reason — it is wildly funny every single time and requires approximately zero explanation to anyone over the age of four.

Pin the Pacifier on the Baby is the ocean-themed upgrade to Pin the Tail on the Donkey: instead of a donkey, you have a large poster of a cute cartoon baby (or a little mermaid baby, if you’re feeling fancy), and instead of a tail, guests are pinned and blindfolded and try to stick the pacifier on the baby’s mouth.

Emphasis on ‘try.’

To make this, either purchase a pre-made baby shower version from a party supply shop or DIY it with a large foam board and printed clipart.

For the ocean theme, make the baby a little mermaid baby in a seashell, or draw a cute baby fish with a big open mouth — the ‘mouth’ becomes the target.

Cut out pacifiers from cardstock, add sticky tack or double-sided tape to the back, and label each one with a guest’s name so you know who placed where.

Blindfold each player with a silk scarf or eye mask, spin them gently three times, and let them go.

The real entertainment in this game isn’t who wins — it’s watching confident people dramatically fail in the funniest possible ways.

The person who’s absolutely certain they’re right on target and ends up on the ear will become the highlight reel of the party, so make sure someone is snapping photos for every single attempt.

Award a prize to whoever gets closest to the mouth, and absolutely roast (lovingly) whoever ends up furthest away. For a slightly more challenging version, do three gentle spins instead of one.

11. Baby Bottle Chug Race

Few baby shower games produce the sound of genuine, helpless laughter the way the Bottle Chug Race does.

The concept: each participant gets a baby bottle filled with a drink of their choice — juice, water, lemonade, or a mocktail — and on ‘Go,’ they have to drain the bottle as fast as possible. The twist?

They have to use the actual bottle nipple to drink, which is approximately one thousand times harder than it looks and will absolutely humble your most competitive guest in under thirty seconds.

Fill the bottles with something festive that fits the theme: ocean blue lemonade (blue food coloring + lemonade = instant magic), tropical coconut water, or a sparkling water with a splash of blue raspberry syrup.

Label each bottle with the guest’s name and set them up in a row for the start. Make it a tournament-style bracket if you have a big group: heats of four, then semifinals, then a final showdown.

The crowd should absolutely be cheering at maximum volume because that is the only appropriate response to watching a grown adult struggle to drink out of a baby bottle.

This game gets even better if you make it a relay — teams of two where each teammate has to finish their bottle before passing it to their partner.

For co-ed showers, put the dads-to-be or male guests in their own heat, because grown men trying and failing to use a bottle nipple while their partners howl at them is genuinely one of the funniest things you will ever witness at a party.

Clean up is minimal (just rinse and toss the bottles), and the whole game takes about ten to fifteen minutes including setup — maximum fun, minimum effort, peak host win.

12. Gender-Neutral Name Brainstorm

This is the printable game that turns into a deeply passionate debate nobody saw coming.

The Gender-Neutral Name Brainstorm challenges guests to fill a printed sheet with as many gender-neutral baby names as they can think of in three minutes — and then each guest circles their top three favorites from their own list.

Names are shared aloud, tallied, and the most-suggested name across all sheets is crowned the winner.

It’s casual, it’s creative, and it somehow always generates at least one guest who suggests a name so out-there that the whole room goes quiet for a second before erupting into laughter.

Your printed sheet should have a large open box or numbered lines for guests to brainstorm (aim for 15–20 lines so there’s room to really go for it), plus a section at the bottom to circle their top three.

For the ocean theme, add a small prompt on the sheet: ‘Bonus points for ocean-inspired names! (Hint: River, Coral, Bay, and Ocean are all fair game.)’

This nudge gives guests a creative direction without boxing them in, and it means you’ll end up with at least five people writing ‘Coral’ and having a moment of feeling very original before they look around the table.

The reason this game works so beautifully is that it feels helpful rather than silly — like guests are genuinely contributing to the baby’s story.

(Whether or not the parents ever actually use any of the suggestions is beside the point, but it happens more than you’d think.)

If the parents have already chosen a name and aren’t sharing, flip the premise: guests guess what the name IS, writing their best guesses on the sheet. The host confirms or denies at the end, and whoever got it right wins.

Either version creates the perfect combination of fun and genuine engagement.

13. Baby’s Firsts Prediction

If the Time Capsule Predictions card is the sentimental keepsake of this list, Baby’s Firsts Prediction is its slightly more competitive cousin.

Guests fill out a printed sheet predicting the exact dates (or age in months) of a series of baby milestones: first smile, first tooth, first word, first steps, first solid food, and first haircut.

The sheet gets sealed away with the others in that decorative memory box, and at the baby’s first birthday party, Mom pulls them all out and awards prizes to whoever was closest on the most milestones.

It’s like a long-game raffle that pays off a year later — how fun is that?

Design the sheet with milestone prompts down the left side and two columns on the right: one for the guest’s date prediction and one left blank for Mom to fill in the actual date later.

For the ocean theme, frame it as ‘This Little Mermaid’s First Adventures’ and give each milestone a nautical name: ‘First smile = First Sunrise over the Sea,’ ‘First steps = First Walk on the Shore,’ and so on.

It sounds extra but it is so cute on a printed card, and guests actually spend more time on it when the prompts feel fun rather than clinical.

The practical setup here is to staple or paper-clip all the prediction sheets together, put them in a labeled envelope, and give that envelope to Mom along with instructions to open it at the one-year birthday party.

You can even include a note: ‘Whoever predicted the most milestones correctly wins a prize from Mom!’ — which gives her a fun hosting hook for the birthday party before she even has a newborn.

It is honestly one of the cleverest under the sea baby shower games on this list for that reason alone: it creates a second celebration down the line.

14. Labor or Lie?

This is the baby shower game version of Two Truths and a Lie, but make it chaotic and pregnancy-themed.

Labor or Lie gives guests a printed list of wild, shocking, or seemingly impossible facts about labor, pregnancy, and babies — and guests have to decide for each one: Is it a real fact (Labor) or a made-up myth (Lie)?

Some of them are so outrageous that they HAVE to be lies… and then they’re not. That moment of collective disbelief when someone reads the answer aloud is pure gold every single time.

Your printed sheet should list 15 statements — a mix of true facts and plausible-sounding myths — with a circle next to each reading ‘LABOR (True)’ or ‘LIE (False).’ Aim for roughly 8 true and 7 false (or vice versa) so the split feels unpredictable.

Great examples of real facts that sound fake: babies can cry in the womb as early as 28 weeks; the longest recorded labor lasted 75 hours; newborns have more bones than adults (around 300 vs. the adult 206).

For ocean flair, throw in some animal pregnancy comparisons: ‘A seahorse pregnancy lasts just 10–45 days — LABOR or LIE?’ (It’s Labor — and it’s the MALE seahorse who carries the babies, which always makes people absolutely lose their minds.)

Include a mini answer key printed upside-down at the very bottom of the sheet so guests can grade their own papers at the end.

The person with the most correct answers wins a prize, but honestly the real prize is the conversation that erupts when the seahorse fact gets confirmed.

This game travels really well to co-ed showers because it’s knowledge-based rather than female-experience-based, and the ocean trivia blend makes it feel fresh rather than like the same baby shower game everyone has played a hundred times. That alone makes it worth including.

15. Famous Parents Trivia

This is the printable game for the pop culture lovers in the room — the ones who could tell you the names of every celebrity baby born in the last five years without blinking.

Famous Parents Trivia challenges guests to match celebrity parents to their children’s names, or identify which famous person said a well-known parenting quote. You can also flip it and give the (sometimes gloriously bizarre) celebrity baby name and ask guests to identify the parents.

Either way, the results are hilarious and the debate about whether those baby names are ‘cute’ or ‘a cry for help’ will carry the room for a solid ten minutes.

Your printed sheet works best as a two-column matching exercise: Column A lists 15 celebrity parent names or pairs, and Column B lists their children’s names scrambled out of order. Guests draw lines to match them.

Include a mix of well-known classic celebrity families and some newer pop culture names to balance the difficulty for guests of different ages. For the ocean theme, include a bonus question: ‘Which of these celebrity babies has an ocean-themed name?’

and list four options including one real answer — it ties the game back to the party without feeling forced.

Print the answer key upside-down at the bottom of the sheet and have guests swap papers to grade each other once time is called — the self-grading moment is always its own entertainment because people start arguing about answers before they’ve even checked the key.

This game works particularly well at showers with a wide age range: the grandmothers know the classic celebrity families, the younger guests know the newer ones, and the mix means everyone has a moment of feeling like the smartest person in the room.

That balance is exactly what makes a great party game.

Frequently Asked Questions

What games do you play at an under the sea baby shower?

The best under the sea baby shower games mix active group games, printable sheet games, and quiet keepsake activities so the energy of the party ebbs and flows naturally.

Great options include Mommy or Daddy trivia, Don’t Say Baby (a running game that lasts the whole shower), Measure Mom’s Bump with teal ribbon, a Onesie Decorating Station with ocean-themed fabric markers, and printable games like Labor or Lie and Famous Parents Trivia.

Mixing all three types keeps everyone engaged whether they love competition or prefer something quieter and creative.

What is the ‘Guess the Sea Creature’ game at a baby shower?

Guess the Sea Creature is a popular under the sea baby shower game where guests are given clues, emoji pictograms, or scrambled letters representing different ocean animals and must correctly identify each one.

It can be played as a printable sheet game where guests work individually, or as a team game where the host reads clues aloud. Some versions use photos of real sea creatures at extreme close-up for an extra challenge.

The guest or team with the most correct identifications wins a small prize.

How do you play under the sea baby shower bingo?

Under the sea baby shower bingo works just like classic bingo but with an ocean twist: instead of numbers, each square on the bingo card contains a baby gift, a sea creature name, or an ocean-themed baby word.

Cards are printed in advance (each one unique) and distributed to guests at the start of the shower.

As the host reads items from the call list — or as Mom opens her gifts and guests mark off what appears — guests mark off matching squares. First to complete a row, column, or diagonal calls ‘Bingo!’ and wins.

Gift-opening bingo is especially popular because it keeps guests engaged during what can otherwise be a long portion of the shower.

What are some DIY under the sea baby shower games?

There are so many great DIY under the sea baby shower games that cost next to nothing to make! Measure Mom’s Bump with teal or aqua ribbon from a craft store is a zero-cost classic.

For printable DIY games, design your own Baby Name Acronym sheet, Labor or Lie facts list, or Time Capsule Predictions card in Canva (free!) and print at home.

The Onesie Decorating Station is a DIY activity that doubles as a baby gift — just grab plain onesies, fabric markers, and ocean stencils. Pin the Pacifier on the Baby can be hand-drawn on foam board if you don’t want to buy a kit.

What is the ‘My Water Broke’ game at a baby shower?

The ‘My Water Broke’ game is a fun icebreaker where tiny plastic babies are frozen inside ice cubes before the shower — one cube per guest.

Guests receive their ice cube in their drink at the start of the party, and the first person whose ice cube melts enough for the baby to float free yells ‘My water broke!’ and wins a prize.

It’s a great passive game that runs in the background without requiring the host to manage it, and it doubles as a cute conversation starter when guests notice the baby in their drink.

Are under the sea baby shower games gender neutral?

Yes!

One of the best things about the under the sea theme is that it is completely gender neutral, which makes it perfect for showers where the sex of the baby is unknown, for co-ed showers, or for parents who simply prefer to skip the pink-vs-blue tradition.

Ocean creatures, nautical colors like teal, navy, coral, and seafoam green, and sea-themed games like Measure Mom’s Bump, Don’t Say Baby, Trivia Showdown, and Bottle Chug Race work beautifully for any guest list regardless of gender.

The printable games in this list — like Labor or Lie and Famous Parents Trivia — are also designed to be inclusive and fun for everyone.

Where can I find printable under the sea baby shower games?

You can find printable under the sea baby shower games on Etsy (search ‘ocean baby shower games printable’ for instant-download bundles), Creative Union Design, Zazzle, and Canva (where you can customize templates yourself for free).

Pinterest is also a great starting point for finding free printable options — many bloggers share free downloads.

What is a good word scramble for an under the sea baby shower?

A great under the sea baby shower word scramble mixes ocean-themed words with classic baby words so the theme really shines. Good words to scramble include: SEAHORSE, STARFISH, CORAL REEF, NAUTICAL, LULLABY, PACIFIER, SWADDLE, MERMAID, MANATEE, BASSINET, OCTOPUS, ONESIE, NURSERY, DOLPHIN, and SEASHELL.

Print them in a scrambled format on a sheet with a decorative ocean border, and always include an answer key printed upside-down at the bottom of the sheet so guests can self-grade. Aim for 15 words — enough to be challenging without being exhausting.

How do you play ‘Guess the Number’ at an ocean-themed baby shower?

For an ocean-themed ‘Guess the Number’ game, fill a large glass jar or fishbowl with ocean-themed items — mini starfish, goldfish crackers, Swedish Fish candy, blue gumballs, or small plastic sea creatures.

Place the jar in a visible spot at the party with a card and pen next to it so guests can write their name and their guess throughout the shower.

At the end of the party, the host counts the items and the guest with the closest guess (without going over, Price Is Right style) wins the entire jar as their prize — which doubles as a cute ocean-themed treat.

What baby shower games work for both a mermaid and under the sea theme?

Most games on this list work perfectly for both mermaid and broader under the sea themes with minor tweaks to the wording and decor! Measure Mom’s Bump with shimmery iridescent ribbon feels very mermaid-core.

The Onesie Decorating Station can include mermaid tail stencils alongside general sea creature ones. Pin the Pacifier on the Baby can feature a mermaid baby instead of a regular one.

For printable games like Baby’s Firsts Predictions and Time Capsule cards, simply swap in mermaid-themed language (‘First Swim,’ ‘First Splash’) and add mermaid tail clip art to the header.

The ocean and mermaid themes share the same color palette — teal, aqua, purple, and iridescent — so decor transitions seamlessly between the two.

There you have it — 15 under the sea baby shower games that cover every kind of guest, every energy level, and every moment of your party timeline.

You don’t need to play every single one (please don’t play every single one, your guests need bathroom breaks), but mixing four to six from this list will give you a shower that feels fun, flowing, and genuinely memorable.

Print your sheets in advance, prep your ribbon and baby bottles the night before, and — most importantly — remember that the goal is for everyone to leave smiling, including you.

Now go throw the most adorable ocean party anyone on dry land has ever seen!

And if you’re looking for more party-planning inspiration, check out these simple party games that work for any crowd — great to bookmark for the baby’s first birthday party, which will be here before you know it!

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