It might not be convenient to have a computer set up at your baby shower or gender reveal party for guests to join your baby pool online. Because of that, we’re excited to release our free printable game cards! (PDF)  They work just like our printable baby pool template, only they’re individual cards instead of one big spreadsheet. (I think that makes them easier to use at parties, not to mention cuter!)

There are four to a sheet of standard letter paper, so you can print as many copies as you need at home and simply cut along the dotted lines. Try placing the cards near your guest sign-in sheet next to a cute basket to drop them in, or pass them out when it’s time to play other shower games.

Guests can make their predictions about the baby’s gender, birth date and time, weight and length, and hair and eye color just like they would online. Then you just collect the cards and add their predictions to your pool later (more on how to do that in this post).

My own baby shower is coming up at the end of the month, and I’m excited to try these out. I think they’ll be handy for older guests who want to join my pool but aren’t computer-savvy (not to mention those busy friends who keep saying “Oh yeah, I need to do that!”).

If you use them for your shower or gender reveal party, let us know what you think! Just leave a comment here or send us an e-mail.

Download the printable baby shower guessing game cards.

Mollee and her husband, Matt, live in Midlothian, Virginia, and are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first baby (a girl!) in May 2013. (Check out her baby pool here.) Although she helps pay the bills as a graphic designer, Mollee’s true passion is for making things with her hands. Find more of her recipes, paintings and crafts at molleemade.com.

Update Jan 21, 2013: You can now use this paper template to gather predictions and enter the guesses on the website without asking people to sign up and enter the guesses on their own. Check out this post for details on the new feature.

At whatsinmybelly.com we have one goal: make great tools for expecting parents. When I started this website I wanted to make it as easy as possible to setup and run a baby pool. I think most people will want to use our website over the traditional baby pool organized with good ol’ pen and paper. But in a world with 6.8 billion people, there has to be a few people out there who want to run a baby pool the old fashioned way. And according to Google there are about 1,600 searches for “baby pool template” every month. So, for those of you who prefer to print and write, here is our first printable baby pool template in PDF format.

I created this baby pool template using Adobe InDesign, and I’m making the PDF available as a free download:

Download Baby Pool Template (point based) PDF

Now, there are many ways to run a betting pool of any type, and baby pools are no different. This particular template is set up to use a similar model as our baby pool website. It’s point-based: each of the baby’s stats (gender, birthday, time, weight, etc) earns points, so the closer your guess on each stat, the more points you earn. The person with the most points wins. Other people prefer a date/time grid and I’ll create a template for that style soon.

How do you prefer to run a baby pool? Leave a comment to this post describing your preferred method and I’ll create a template that fits your style of baby pool.