Party suggestions please?!
What we have: a great place booked with great food.
What we need: an agenda, game ideas, icebreakers, and other fun stuff.
Your ideas please! Thanks!
Answers: Okay, here's the deal. My workplace is having it's Christmas party this Friday night (I know, I know, Christmas is over) and the person who was planning it just went down with a serious illness and cannot be there or plan the party. We can't cancel.
What we have: a great place booked with great food.
What we need: an agenda, game ideas, icebreakers, and other fun stuff.
Your ideas please! Thanks!
Objective: A great game for parties or groups of people
Categories:
Adults, Couples
Game type:
Passive. Little or no movement is required.
Players:
2 or more players.
Needed: Toes
Rules: Everyone takes off their shoes. Take turns showing your big toe for all to see! Choose a panel of three judges. Give prizes to the winners of the following:
1. Whose big toe is the longest?
2. Whose big toe is widest?
3. Whose big toe is the hairiest?
4. Whose big toe has the most sock lint?
5. Whose big toenail is the longest?
6. Whose big toe is the prettiest?
Objective: A game where you try not to get too confused!
Categories:
Adults, Ice Breakers
Game type:
Passive. Little or no movement is required.
Players:
2 or more players.
Needed: Two objects such as a knife and a spoon (but could be anything) or as many objects as people for the more complex variation
Rules: The leader of the game starts by passing the first object to the person on their right and saying, "This is a whit." The reply is, "A What?" The leader would then clarify, "A whit." This question sequence continues around the circle but the question "A what?" is passed all the way back to the beginning and back again. This game can be confused by adding an additional object called a Watt in the opposite direction.
Variation: In this version, you have a circle of however many people, and the same number of monosyllabic items (i.e. knife, spoon). Therefore if the circle has 10 people you need 10 items. One person, the leader, starts by choosing one object, let's say it is a spoon. He/she hands this object to the person on his right, and says: "This is a spoon." The person replies: "A What?" Leader: "A Spoon." Person: "Oh, A spoon!" The person then takes the spoon and hands it to the person on their right, now becoming the leader. At the same time, the original leader has picked up a new object, and has passed it on. The second person now must carry on two conversations at the same time, looking from one to the other. Here's an example:
Leader: This is a spoon.
Person #1: A What?
Leader: A Spoon
Person#1: A What?
Leader: A Spoon
Person #1: Oh! A Spoon
Leader: This is a knife
Person #1: This is a spoon
Person #1: A What?
Person #2: A What?
Leader: A knife!
Person #1: A Spoon
Person #1: A What?
Person #2: A What?
Leader: A Knife!
Person #1: A Spoon!
Person r#1: Oh, a knife!
Person #2: Oh, a spoon! etc. etc.
This game is really fun, and it tends to get louder and louder as the more people play the game. we did this with a group of about 35 once, and it is so much fun. It can be really frustrating to learn, but it really is a blast!
Objective: A juicy game of comparisons. This game is receiving rave customer reviews and was a national competition winner with Mensa, the high-IQ organization.
Categories:
Adults, Teens, Board Game
Game type:
Passive. Little or no movement is required.
Players:
4 to 10 players
Needed: Order the game from Amazon.com!
Picture:
Buy it: Click here to order Apples To Apples!
Game comments: This simple game is a good choice for parties or family groups. It comes with a card tray and two sets of cards: red apples and green apples. The red apple cards name a person, place, thing, or event, and the green apple cards feature a characteristic (from adorable to zany). The judge (who rotates on each turn) reads a green card, and all the players have to slap down their choice of red apple cards for that characteristic. Some juicy choices and comparisons are bound to emerge--along with some fruitful lessons in famous people and events. It's an apple barrel full of laughs!
For the last 15 years or so it's been my job to bring home the games we play over the holidays. This year's game was Apples to Apples. My family likes games anyway, and so it wasn't a hard sell when I brought it home for Thanksgiving. Still, we must have played the game 15 times. The big surprise, though, was taking it over to my wife's family's house for Christmas. They do NOT like games, but couldn't get enough of it. Again, we must have played 10 times.
In short, each player has a hand full of noun cards. A judge turns over an adjective card, and players lay the card(s) from their hand which most closely matches the adjective played. The judge then collects the cards and chooses which he/she thinks is the best match. Players can argue for their cards to be selected, but the judge (who changes each round) reigns supreme, he may choose the funniest match, the exact opposite or whatever tickles his fancy at the time. As an example, I'm a technical type person, so some people would play cards that might not even match the adjective, but would have some technical slant, just so I'd pick their card. On the surface it doesn't sound like that much fun, but I think the game shines when the word is 'spooky' and people lay everything from 'Democrats' to 'Charlton Heston'.
Objective: Kiss things which start with each letter of the Alphabet.
Categories:
Adults, Couples, Singles, Valentines
Game type:
Active. A lot of movement may be required.
Players:
2 players only
Needed: None
Rules: One player starts with the letter "A" and has to kiss a body part on the other player beginning with that letter. The other player starts with "B" and so on. Some of the letters are very tricky so you'll have to use your imagination. However, you'll be amazed at what a little creative thinking can come up. Don't stop until you get to "Z".
Objective: Make someone in the circle laugh by saying "Baby if you love me won't you please smile?"
Categories:
Adults, Teens, Couples, Singles
Game type:
Passive. Little or no movement is required.
Players:
6 or more players.
Needed: None
Rules: Everyone sits in a circle. Placement doesn't matter. A player is chosen to go first. The player goes to another player in the circle that they think will laugh easily. Then they sit on their lap and say "Baby if you love me, won't you please smile?" They can play with that player's hair or whisper in their ear or act loving or anything that will get them to laugh. It all depends on the type of party and the ages of the players. If it is in a youth group or with kids or with teens that have adults around you may have to set rules on what type of touching, etc. is allowed. If it is with adults, couples, singles, or teens it all depends on what they
decide. You may say anything goes or you may say that no touching another player is allowed.
After the person says "Baby if you love me won't you please smile?" the player being sat on must say "Baby I love ya but I just can't smile" without laughing or even cracking a smile. If they don't smile and say the phrase without a hitch, the person on their lap moves on to try and get somebody else. If the person being sat on does laugh it's their turn to be the person in the middle.
bjective: Don't burst the balloon or else you might make a fool of yourself!
Categories:
Adults, Couples
Game type:
Active. A lot of movement may be required.
Players:
2 or more players.
Needed: Balloons with crazy ideas
Rules: Set up several balloons with strips of paper inside which say to do silly things (sing "New York, New York, bark like a dog, do the Charleston etc.) Place all the players in a circle. Pass a balloon around the circle. Each player has to sit on the balloon with all their weight for 3 seconds. If someone breaks the balloon, they must do what it says on the message.
Here are some crazy ideas:
1. Read from the phone book as a Shakespearean actor.
2. Act out this scene - a cow being branded
3. Do and sing the macarena
4. Sing jailhouse rock as Elvis
and ill give u a few more about 3
Objective: Have the women judge the men in a exotic dancing exhibition!
Categories:
Adults, Couples, Singles
Game type:
Active. A lot of movement may be required.
Players:
6 or more players.
Needed: Scarves Arabic music
Rules: Have all men in the group participate. Have men wear scarves around their faces and pull up or take off their shirts to expose their bellies. Start the music and watch the laughs. Let them dance at the same time or one at a time for 30 seconds each. The most "voluptuous" and "fairest of them all" wins.
Objective: A dizzy girl must get the banana into the mouth of her guy!
Categories:
Adults, Couples, Singles
Game type:
Active. A lot of movement may be required.
Players:
6 or more players.
Needed: Banana and blindfolds for each team
Rules: Divide the group into pairs or couples. The guys will blindfold the girl who holds a long banana in her hand. When the music starts, she is required to spin around in circle. Once music stops, the girl stops spinning and attempts to feed the banana to the guy, who will be squatting like a monkey. The one with the banana in his mouth wins.
Objective: In this game everyone behaves like their favorite barnyard animal.
Categories:
Groups, Adults, Ice Breakers
Game type:
Active. A lot of movement may be required.
Players:
6 or more players.
Needed: Several prizes Pencils and paper
Rules: Have everyone write down their favorite barnyard animal, as long as it is NOT the rooster. Next have everyone write down five different numbers between 1-20 (depending on the group size). The host starts calling out numbers between 1-20 randomly (don't use the same number twice), and the people who have that number written on their paper have to make the sound of the animal they wrote on their paper. Pause slightly between numbers. Barnyard animals are not shy, so there should be a lot of loud sounds. After someone has all five numbers called out that they wrote down, they win...BUT...they have to stand up, bend their knees, flap their "wings" and crow like a rooster to receive their prize. Be aware that several may win at the same time.
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u can look up party planners online or got to a party store and get games and stuff.
Do a white elephant gift exchange (cuz it's a Christmas party). This is supposed to be silly or different gift under 10 dollars. You all put the gifts in the middle and then put numbers in a hat and pick. #1 picks first then looks at gift. #2 picks gift, looks, then can keep it or switch it with #1's gift. Once a gift has been switched 3 times no one else can take it. Last person gets best pick.
I love this game, it's an ice breaker. You all write down your craziest your funniest memory from 2007, then put them in a hat and pass it around, everyone takes one and reads it out loud. Then you all guess who's is who.
You can do the same thing for everyone's wackiest new year's resolution.
You can print out a piece of paper for everyone that has a list that says things like:
1) Who is the most likely to get a new style in 2008?
2) Who will have the biggest regret in 2008?
3) Which two employees are most likely to become a couple in 2008? OR which two employees would make the funniest couple?
Different things like this, make sure everyone knows that it is supposed to jokey and fun. Then you can collect them and someone (like the MC) can read off the winners of each or the best answers. People can fill these out in groups, like in tables, or individually. If you do it in tables you can even have each table (like if there are 4 tables) yell there's out to the crowd. It will be funny and break the ice for sure. Whichever team wins, or people win can get a prize, like a box of chocolates or something.
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