• The Little Stinker: Fold white napkins into little diapers and close with a safety pin. Give one to each guest. At the end of the party, everyone gets to open their "diaper." The one with the "poop" stain wins a prize. The stain can be made from melted chocolate.

• Baby Memories: Have your guests bring in baby pictures of themselves. Shuffle the photos and pass them around. Everybody guesses whose baby picture they are holding.

• Baby Cuisine: Buy several different flavored baby foods Remove the labels. Each guest samples each jar. The one who correctly guesses all the flavors wins.

• Guess that Number: Fill a baby bottle with candy.The person who guesses closest to the number of candy pieces inside wins the bottle.

• Don't Say Baby: Each guest gets to wear a baby pin. No one is allowed to say the word "baby." Whoever catches another guest saying the word takes that person's pin. At party's end, whoever has the most pins wins.

Some ideas adapted from: DF Creations.

So you're hosting a party soon. Seems simple right? But what if all your guests don't know each other, and no one bothers to mingle, leaving you with a reputation as a lame party host?

It takes a skilled party master to organize games to entertain everyone. But before the games begin, your guests need to get acquainted. Try these simple icebreakers to get your party started right.

• Food Works Wonders: Have everyone sit in a circle and bring out a bowl filled with candy (Skittles and M&Ms work well). Pass the bowl around and tell everyone to take as many pieces as they want. Before everyone gobbles the goodies up, count their candies. For each piece they have, they need to share a little-known fact about themselves.

• Money Makes the Difference: This icebreaker can work for an entire party or small groups. The host gives everyone a penny. Then each person looks at the year on their coin. Next, everyone takes turns sharing nostalgia from that year. This can be anything from a milestone, to a job, to where they lived at the time.

• Spicing Things Up: Before the party, fill several plastic sandwich bags with different spices. When guests arrive, pair them up and give them a bag. Have each smell the spice and tell their partner what memories the scent conjures up. Pass the bags around the room and watch your guests savor an atmosphere awash in childhood memories.

• Famous for a Day: Tape the names of famous people to the backs of your guests. As everyone socializes they can ask for clues, using only yes or no questions, about their famous person. The first person to guess the name on his or her back wins a prize.

• It's All in the Cards: Place Trivial Pursuit game cards around your home where guests will see them. Tell each guest to find a card and to ask the nearest person to answer the question.

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• The Bride's purse: The hostess asks the bride to go through her purse and make a list of everything she has in it. When guests arrive they try to match their purse's contents to the bride's. The person with the most matching items wins.

• It's All In a Name: Guests get a sheet of paper and are told to fold it in half. On one half they write the name of the bride and, on the other half, the groom. Then they each have five minutes to make as many words out of the letters in the bridal couple's names as they can. The winner has the most legitimate words.

• Bridal Rice: Fill a large bowl with uncooked rice and hide 50 small safety pins inside. Each guest gets to reach into the bowl and pull out as many pins as she can in one minute. The winner is the person with the most pins.

Some ideas adapted from
The Party Works.com.