This ABC baby shower game prints a race sheet: one line for every letter from A to Z, a name line and a points box. Guests write a baby word for each letter. Press Print blank sheet.
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A to Z baby shower game free printable: four layouts
A to Z race sheet is one guest's sheet. Half sheets: A to M and N to Z splits the alphabet between two partners: cut between M and the second name line. Table sheet is filled in by one table together. Judge's word list prints our accepted words, four for each letter.
Run the race and score it
Set a time limit and start everyone together. When time is up, read the letters aloud: a point for each letter with a word, and one more for a word nobody else wrote. Each guest adds up and writes the total in the points box.
Tips
The judge's list has four words for each of Q, U, X and Z, among them quilt, undershirt, xylophone and zwieback.
Say before the start whether baby names count. Our list accepts two for X: Xavier and Ximena.
Questions and answers
How do you play the ABC game at a baby shower?
Each guest gets a sheet with the letters A to Z and writes one baby word beside each letter before time runs out. The most letters filled wins. Our sheet adds a bonus point for a word nobody else wrote.
What are baby words for Q, U, X and Z?
Our judge's list accepts quadruplets, quiet, quilt and quintuplets for Q; uncle, undershirt, unisex and upsy-daisy for U; Xavier, Ximena, xoxo and xylophone for X; and zebra, zipper, zoo and zwieback for Z.
How is the game scored?
One point for each letter with a baby word, and one more for each word that no other guest wrote. That scoring is our suggestion: the game has no official rules, so a host may count letters only.
Who decides whether a word counts?
The host, or a judge the host names. The judge's word list gives 104 words we would accept, each checked in a dictionary. A word that is not on it still counts if the room agrees it belongs to babies.
A to Z answer lineTwenty-six lines, lettered A to Z, each for one word that belongs to babies.
Race pointsOne point for each letter with a word, and one more for each word that no other guest wrote. Add them up and write the total here.
Half sheets 3
Letters A to M, upper halfThe upper half sheet: thirteen lines, A to M.
Letters N to Z, lower halfThe lower half sheet: thirteen lines, N to Z.
Name of the N to Z partnerHalf sheets are cut apart, so the lower one carries a name line too.
Judge's sheet 1
Ruling on a doubtful wordOn the judge's sheet: the word, and whether it counted, so that every table is judged alike.
Judge's list: accepted words, A to Z 26
A: afghan, alphabet, applesauce, aunt
B: bassinet, bib, blanket, bottle
C: carriage, cradle, crib, cuddle
D: daddy, diaper, doll, drool
E: eat, elephant, embrace, expecting
F: family, feeding, footprint, formula
G: giggle, grandma, grandpa, gurgle
H: hiccup, highchair, hug, hush
I: imitate, infancy, infant, itsy-bitsy
J: jack-in-the-box, jiggle, juice, jumper
K: keepsake, kick, kiss, knit
L: lamb, layette, love, lullaby
M: milk, mittens, mobile, mommy
N: nanny, nap, newborn, nursery
O: oatmeal, offspring, ointment, overalls
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Judge's list: accepted words, A to Z, continued
P: pacifier, peekaboo, playpen, pram
Q: quadruplets, quiet, quilt, quintuplets
R: rattle, rhyme, rocker, romper
S: sleeper, storybook, stroller, swaddle
T: teddy, teether, toddler, twins
U: uncle, undershirt, unisex, upsy-daisy
V: velveteen, vest, visitor, voice
W: wagon, walker, washcloth, wipes
X: Xavier, Ximena, xoxo, xylophone
Y: yarn, yawn, yogurt, youngster
Z: zebra, zipper, zoo, zwieback
Printed under the sheet 4
Each filled line scoresBlank lines score nothing.
Every line takes something that belongs to babiesA thing, a person, a name or a sound, starting with the line's letter.
The judge's ruling is finalA word that is not on this list still counts if the room agrees it belongs to babies.
One more point for a word nobody else wroteA bonus of our own. Leave it out for a quicker count.
How this list was compiled: Written by the Game Night Generator editors on 2026-10-02. The game is a folk game with no governing body and no standard sheet, so the layouts, the sizes and the scoring are the editors' own, and the page says so. No brand name is on any list. The judge's list is the editors' own choice of 104 words they would accept, four for each letter. Each was checked on 2026-10-02 as an English dictionary entry: 93 in the word list of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (1934, public domain), six of them as the plural or -ing form of a listed word, and 11 that are newer or hyphenated (highchair, itsy-bitsy, jack-in-the-box, newborn, teether, unisex, upsy-daisy, xoxo, the given names Xavier and Ximena, yogurt) in the English entries of Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). That a word belongs to babies is the editors' judgment. Licence: own work