Baby Food Jars Game

Preparation Time:  30 minutes

Duration:  15 minutes

Ingredients needed: Several jars of baby food, tape or stickers to mark them, pads of paper.

Description: Unlabeled jars of baby food, numbered 1 thru 10 (or however many you choose) are passed around.  Based solely on color and visual texture (they cannot open the jars), the guests must figure out what food is in the jar.

How to get ready:  Purchase several jars of baby food - ten is a good number.  Look for some that are similar in color (reds, oranges, greens).  Also try to find ones with only one ingredient - its easier to guess green beans than peas&corn.  Once you have the jars, label each one with a number and then create a Master List that tells you what each number is.  Then remove the labels - don't throw them away!  

The guests are given 10 - 15 minute to figure out what is in the jars.  They are not allowed to open them, but they can pick them up, shake them, whatever.  Then have the mommy-to-be read out what each jar is, starting with #1.  Whoever get the most labels correct wins!  And all the jars (and those labels!) are given to the Mommy-To-Be.

Helpful stuff:  WRITE DOWN what each jar is BEFORE you rip off the label!!!  Even if you lose the labels, you can give the list to the Mommy-To-Be.

Variations:  If you have a brave group of people, you can let them smell or even taste the foods to try to figure them out.  If you do let them taste, you'll have to provide lots of plastic spoons or those wooden Popsicle sticks - we don't want to pass around any germs!  And don't bother to try to give these to the mommy-to-be... 

Another variant of this, the Spice Jar Game, can be done for a Bridal Shower, using various spices instead of baby food.