Mermaid Baby Shower Games – Free Printable Sheets

How it works

These mermaid baby shower games are three sheets to print and two lists of party games. Guests name a baby seal, call true or false on sea parents, or unscramble words from the sea. The sheets print plain, without pictures.

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Print a sheet for each guest

Sea babies comes up first: 15 sea animals, each with a line to write on. The answers print on a last page; keep that one for the host. The other two sheets are Sea parents, true or false and Under-the-sea word scramble.

Under the sea baby shower games

For an under the sea shower the rows fit as they are: seals, seahorses, whales and words from the shore. The printed heading still says mermaid, and one scramble word is MERMAID; the × beside it takes it off the sheet.

Nautical baby shower games

Nautical party games lists eight played with boats, knots and anchors, such as a paper boat race, untie the knots and message in a bottle. The word scramble has a sailor's four: anchor, compass, sailboat and lighthouse.

Baby puffin and baby octopus are the stumpers. The answer page gives a second word to count as right for each.
Fishing for pacifiers, sink or float and the paper boat race each need a tub of water: set them up outdoors or on a towel.

Questions and answers

What games can you play at a mermaid baby shower?

Ten are on the Mermaid party games list, among them pearl hunt, fishing for pacifiers, find the pearl under three shells, hot starfish and a mermaid tail race. Each is a classic party game played with a sea prop.

Are these mermaid baby shower games free?

Yes. Every sheet and both game lists print free from this page with no sign-up, in as many copies as you have guests.

What is a baby seal called?

A pup. So are a baby shark, a baby sea lion and a baby stingray. A baby walrus, manatee or narwhal is a calf, and a baby puffin is a puffling. All 15 are on the Sea babies sheet.

Do male seahorses give birth?

Yes. The female puts her eggs in the male's brood pouch and he carries them until the young are born, as NOAA's National Ocean Service describes. It is the first line of the true or false sheet.

All 60 rows

Sea babies 15

Baby manatee Calf.
Baby narwhal Calf.
Baby octopus Paralarva, a hatchling that drifts with the plankton. Count hatchling as right.
Baby pelican Chick.
Baby penguin Chick.
Baby polar bear Cub.
Baby puffin Puffling. Count chick as right.
Baby sea lion Pup.
Baby sea turtle Hatchling.
Baby seahorse Fry.
Baby seal Pup.
Baby shark Pup.
Baby starfish Larva. An early swimming stage is called a bipinnaria.
Baby stingray Pup.
Baby walrus Calf.

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Sea parents, true or false 12

A bottlenose dolphin calf leaves its mother after a few weeks. False. It nurses for about 20 months and usually stays 3 to 6 years.
A harbor seal pup can swim on the day it is born. True. Harbor seal pups can swim at birth.
A harp seal pup nurses for about a year. False. It nurses for about 12 days.
A humpback whale usually has twins. False. A female has a single calf, every 2 to 3 years on average.
A lobster buries her eggs in the sand. False. She carries them under her tail for 9 to 11 months.
A male seahorse carries the babies and gives birth to them. True. The female puts her eggs in his brood pouch.
A mother sea lion can find her pup among hundreds by its call. True. She then smells it as a final check.
A sperm whale calf may nurse for several years. True, though it eats solid food before it is a year old.
Chinook salmon lay their eggs in the open sea. False. They swim back to the stream where they were born and lay their eggs in gravel nests.
Every shark lays eggs. False. Some sharks lay eggs and others bear live young.
Gray whale calves are often born in shallow lagoons. True. They are born in the lagoons and bays of Mexico, or on the way there.
The warmth of the sand decides whether a sea turtle hatches male or female. True. Cooler sand produces males and warmer sand females.

Under-the-sea word scramble 15

DALSIN Island: land with water all around it.
DETTRIN Trident: a spear with three prongs.
DIMRAME Mermaid: a legendary sea creature, half woman and half fish.
DROOWFDIT Driftwood: wood floating in the water or washed ashore.
ERUSTARE Treasure: stored-up money, jewels or other valuables.
HEGLOTHUSI Lighthouse: a tower with a strong light that guides ships.
LASELESH Seashell: the shell of a sea mollusk.
LOCRA Coral: tiny sea animals whose hard skeletons build reefs.
NOGALO Lagoon: shallow water cut off from the sea by sandbars or reefs.
NORACH Anchor: a heavy object dropped to hold a boat in place.
OBALSITA Sailboat: a small boat moved by sails.
RAPLE Pearl: a smooth gem that forms inside the shell of a mollusk.
SIFTHARS Starfish: a sea animal that usually has five arms.
SPACMOS Compass: a tool whose needle shows direction.
WEADESE Seaweed: algae that grow in the sea, such as kelp.

Mermaid party games 10

Don't say mermaid: everyone wears a shell necklace; say the word and lose it to whoever heard you.
Find the pearl: the three-cup shuffle, played with three big shells and one bead.
Fishing for pacifiers: magnet fishing; hook paper-clipped pacifiers from a tub with a magnet on a string.
Hot starfish: hot potato with a plush starfish; whoever holds it when the song stops is out.
Key to the treasure chest: each guest draws a key from a bowl; only one opens the prize box.
Mermaid tail race: a sack race in pillowcase tails, from one side of the room to the other.
Musical islands: musical chairs on beach towels; take one towel away each time the music stops.
Pearl hunt: the pins-in-rice classic; blindfolded, pick white beads out of a bowl of small shells.
Sink or float: guess which baby things will float, then drop each one into a tub of water.
Whisper in the shell: the telephone game; pass a wish for the baby down the line behind a seashell.

Nautical party games 8

Drop anchor: the clothespin drop; stand over a jar and drop clothespin anchors in from waist height.
Float your boat: shape a boat from foil and load it with pennies; the one that holds the most wins.
Message in a bottle: write a wish for the baby, roll it up and post it in a bottle for the parents.
Paper boat race: fold paper boats and blow them across a tub of water through a straw.
Port and starboard: the host calls port, starboard, bow or stern; the last guest to that wall is out.
Sailor hat race: fold a sheet of newspaper into a sailor hat; the first guest wearing one wins.
Swab the deck: sweep a balloon round a chair and back with a broom; the fastest team wins.
Untie the knots: teams race to undo ten knots in a length of rope.

How this list was compiled: Own work: five lists written for this page. The 15 young names were read on 8 October 2026 in Wikipedia's List of animal names and the animal's own article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), on NOAA Fisheries species pages for the sea turtle, sea lion and narwhal, and in the American Heritage Dictionary, under pup, for the shark. The 12 true-or-false lines were read the same day on the NOAA Fisheries page for each species, the seahorse line on NOAA's National Ocean Service page 'How do seahorses differ from all other animals?' and the shark line on the NOAA Fisheries feature '12 Shark Facts That May Surprise You'. The scramble words and their meanings are from the American Heritage Dictionary. The party games are versions of classic games and have no source. Licence: own work