Bridal Shower Ice Breaker "Name the Kitchen Gadget"

When my daughter was married 6 years ago I came up with an icebreaker game that was so much fun that I decided to play it again at my future Daughter In-law's shower.  I call the game "Name the Kitchen Gadget". The post for my daughter's shower was on Aug 25, 2014.

This is the table setting for my Daughter's shower. The kitchen gadgets are numbered and lay along the middle of the tables.

For my Daughter's shower I found about 20 unique, and odd gadgets for our guests to guess, and believe it or not, I was able to find 17 items for my Daughter In-law's shower, and didn't duplicate one of the items from 6 years ago.

Gadgets from our Bridal Shower ice breaker. Do you know what they are?

Many of the items I bought were just a few dollars each, and I was able to get most of them at the Kitchen Store in the local Outlet Mall. Some of the items were so weird I had to ask the sales person at the store what they were, and how to use them.

The video below is my sister demonstrating one of the kitchen gadgets from our "Name the Kitchen Gadget" bridal shower game.

                                             

I made number tags for each item and attached the tag with a string to the gadget. The tagged gadgets were put along the table runners at the shower.

The tags represented our theme of "Cactus and Lace". Lace on the front.

Cacti on the back.

When the shower guests arrive they are given a numbered paper and a pen.

The answer sheet has an Arizona blue sky and each had a cactus sticker on the bottom.

You may think this is a cactus plant:

But, you would be Wrong!! They are pens made by my sister Jean in honor of my Mom. My Mom would make flower pens and pass them out to everyone she met. 

The guests look at the gadget, try to figure out what it is, and write their guess on the paper next to the corresponding number. As they are looking at the items they are talking to the other guests discussing the items, and trying to guess what they are used for.

The gadgets were place along the table runner on the tables.

When everyone is finished we see who guessed the most gadgets correctly. I pick each item up, tell them the gadgets number and have the guests tell me what they think it is. This is the best part, listening to their funny guesses.

This gadget was the most talked about, and no one guessed what it was. Many of the wrong guesses had something to do with it being some kind of timer, because of the numbers on the top. It is a cake or pie divider. There is a piece on the back (you can see it in the top picture of all the  gadgets) that you push into the center of the cake. First, you line the red slit pieces under the line on the red top. Then you move the white slit piece under the number of pieces you want to get out of the cake or pie. Next, you use a knife to mark the cake at the slips and then cut a piece of cake or pie.

The guest with the most correct answers wins a gift, in our case it was one of the large succulent centerpieces. At this shower we had 17 gadgets and the winner of the game was only able to guess 6 correctly.  The "Bride To Be" gets to take all the gadgets home with her. Hopefully she can remember what they are all used for, lol.