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Big Squeeze

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: none
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: first group to finish
Timed Event: No

Easy game for a big group (at least 20, if not more). Quickly divide into 2 teams and announce that each team will be racing to squeeze into the shape of the item mentioned. For example: if the leaders yells out the word "football" the teams must squeeze into the shape of a football as would be seen from above. Keep score- first team to 10 wins. Good Squeeze Shapes (Squeeze into the shape of . . .) California, A dog, A pair of sunglasses, A baseball bat, A shark A map of the U.S.A.

Butt Charades

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: none
Age Group: Age 10 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring:
Timed Event: Yes

Cut up slips of paper with words on them and put them into a bag. Break up into two teams. Get a volunteer from each team to spell the word he/she took out of the bag by moving their hips (spelling the words with thier butts!). (Make sure they do not say a word to give away clues.) If their team does not figure out the word after two spellings, the other team gets to guess.

Make it interesting by the words you choose, try to keep it clean. We don't want any dirty butts!

Clothespin Relay

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: clothespins
Age Group: Age 10 and up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: First finished
Timed Event: No

This is set up like any relay with multiple teams, each team with 5 clothespins. Have the first person in line attach the clothespins to their shirt, clothes, or body part, run around a certain designated point and return to have the clothespins removed by a designated pin person with thier teeth and then they are pinned to the next person in line and that person runs the course and back. This is doen until the last person makes it back and all the pins are removed.

Cotton Bombs

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Q-tips and straws
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: First to knock cup off
Timed Event: No

Divide into two teams and give each member a straw (wide straws work best - McDonald's has them, but it would be wise to ask instead of just grabbing that amount) and a pile of Q-tips. One team member from each side sits on their side of the room on a chair with a paper cup on their head. The object is to knock the opposite team's paper cup off the person's head by blowing the Q-tips through the straws. No blocking Q-tips by anyone during the battle.

Encore

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: None
Age Group: Age 15 on up
Difficultly: A (none)
Scoring: first to sing
Timed Event: No

This is a simple game that tests contestants ability to think fast. Divide into teams (usually divide into girls and guys for good competition). Yell out a word that is commonly found in songs (love, road, river, girl, baby, need . . . ). The teams must sing a song in unison (together) using that word. The first team to do it wins a point. Play as long as they like it.

Nylon Golfballs

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Golfballs & Pantyhose
Age Group: Age 15 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: First team to finishline
Timed Event: No

This game can be a relay, but I, personally, think relays just take too much stinkin' time and leave kids just standing there bored . . . so I usually do this as an up-front game for everyone to watch a couple people do.

Tape two lines on the floor about fifteen feet apart. Have ready two pair of pantyhose and four golf balls. Put one golf ball in the leg of the pantyhose and one golf ball on the ground. After wrapping the other leg of the pantyhose around your waist, the leg with the golf ball should be hanging down in front of you just barely touching the ground. With movement from your body alone, you are to hit the golf ball on the ground with the one hanging from your waist. The object is to move the golf ball from one line to the next. Pass the pantyhose to the next person and they must go back. This is repeated until 5-10 people on each team have completed the task.

Mummy Wrap

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: case of toilet paper
Age Group: 10 on up
Difficultly: A (none)
Scoring: Judged by audience
Timed Event: Could be

Pick three groups of three people each. Give each a roll or two of toilet paper. Make sure you give each team the same amount. Two people wrap up (like a mummy) the third person in the group. The object of the game is to: See who can wrap up their "mummy" first or who is most creative in their "mummifying". You may wish to add a few other objects into the game (Q-tips, t.p. rolls, etc.) to aid in the "artistic expression possibilities". You could have the crowd vote or the staff. You need 3 or 6 rolls of toilet paper.

Play Doh Pictionary

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Play-doh
Age Group: 15 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: correct guesses
Timed Event: No

Just like it sounds! Pictionary, but with Play-doh. Divide into teams. Have a representative come up front from each group. Whisper a Pictionary word (like "dog") to the group and they must run back to their group and, without talking, mold that word with Play-doh. Put a staff member on each team cause kids will cheat (so do some staff members!)

Q-Tip Shuffle

 

PlaceYouth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Q-Tips
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: First team done
Timed Event: No

Another stupid relay . . . but some of you might actually like those pathetic things! Several teams divide in half and stand in two lines on the opposite sides of the room for this relay game. A person in front of the line shoves six Q-tips in different orifices of his/her body (sticking out of pockets, between knees, protruding from armpits . . . ), then shuffles across room to the person in front of the other line who grabs Q-tips with their teeth, and drops them on the floor. That person then sticks the Q-tips on their body somewhere and does the same, running (shuffling) back to the original line. First team to finish the relay wins.

TP OverUnder

 

PlaceYouth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Toilet Paper
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: First team done
Timed Event: No

This pathetic game actually works sometimes, although don't count your chickens. Line up your teams (however many you want). The object is to pass toilet paper, unraveling it as you go over their head then the next person under their legs and so on until the back of the line. If toilet paper breaks, the person must tie it together before continuing to unravel. First one to the back (or back up, or the back person runs it to the front of the line, etc.) wins.

Eggdrop

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: egg, balloons, straws, masking tape
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: which one does not break
Timed Event: No

Give each team 6ft of masking tape, 1 balloon, a handful of straws, and 1 raw egg. They have to build a "capsule" out of those materials that will protect the egg when dropped from various heights off a tall ladder until only one egg survives.

 

Porky

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: marshmallos, toothpicks
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: most picks in mallo
Timed Event: Yes

Each person on the team has a toothpick in their mouth. Without using their hands they must pass the marshmallow down the line, sticking their toothpick into the marshmallow and passing it to the next person. The team with the most toothpicks that stay in the marshmallow wins.

 

Toe Jammin

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: glass marbles, bucket, jello
Age Group: Age 15 and up
Difficultly: AA
Scoring: Most marble out
Timed Event: Yes

The Marble-pickup consists of a bucket or container with 10 glass marbles inside. Each one person from team gets a bucket. The trick is, that the container is filled with jello, and the team trying to get the marbles out have to use their toes. One with the most out wins

Gargle It

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Glass of beverage
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: count guesses most wins
Timed Event: No

Simple one this. All it requires is a glass of water. Secretly show a team member the name of a well know song or tune, it can be anything, chart song, nursery rhyme etc. Get them to take a large gulp of water and they must gargle the tune and the others in their team try to guess what it is. If the team guesses it you move on to a harder tune keeping score. The first time they miss they are out. This resulted in some hilarious water coming down someone's nose episode when we it!

Suck & Blow

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Index Cards
Age Group: Age 15 on up
Difficultly: A (none)
Scoring: first done
Timed Event: Yes

This racy title just happens to describe what you do. Line the kids up, and have them pass an index card down the line as fast as they can using only their mouths. You need to suck in wind to keep the card on your lips in order to pass it (by blowing out) to the next person in line. This game is especially great with boys, because if one person drops the card at just the right point, the two come very close to locking lips. If you want to see a 200 pound ninth grader giggle, this is the game to play. The first group to pass the card all the way down and back if you wish wins.

Greasey Spoon

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Spoon & yarn
Age Group: Age 15 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: First team to thread
Timed Event: No

Preparation is everything for this game! At least one hour before you play, cut the yarn into long segments, allowing about 4 feet of yarn per team member. If in doubt, always make your yarn longer than necessary. Tie one end of one piece of yarn to the end of one spoon. Do this for each team. Put the spoons (with the yarn attached) in the FREEZER to chill for an hour - the colder the better. You may want to dip the spoons in water first to add a little ice build-up. Hand the spoon to the team member and instruct them to put the spoon down their shirt, through pants legs (or skirts) and out by their feet. The fact that the spoons are cold will be apparent very quickly. The first person should also be instructed to hold the end of the yarn while the rest of the team repeats the threading process. First team to thread it all the way wins

Kiss & Tell

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Oreo cookies, plexglass
Age Group: 15 on up
Difficultly: A (none)
Scoring: First to eat them all
Timed Event: Could be

Start with a large sheet of Plexiglas -- about 6 feet long, 4 feet high. Put it upright on the floor longways (two people need to hold it). Clean it. Divide the Plexiglas in two with a piece of masking tape, giving you two sections Now take the Oreos and separate the halves -- then take the half that retains the white stuff and stick it to the Plexiglas. Put the same amount on each side, scattered randomly, high and low. Get two volunteers, or just pick two people, for the game. Face the Plexiglas so that the white side of the Oreos is facing the rest of the audience. Then stand the two "contestants" behind the Plexiglas, facing everyone. Their goal: eat the Oreos off the Plexiglas without using any part of their body other than their mouth. Give 'em a minute or two and then let 'em go!

Spew

 

Place: Youth event Corporate Picnic
Items Needed: Alka-seltzer
Age Group: 15 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: One that hold it the longest
Timed Event: No

Get some ALKA-SELTZER and some carbonated clear drink... such as Sprite, 7UP, maybe Ginger Ale, or Squirt. Tell each of your participants to place a single ALKA-SELTZER underneath their tongue. Don't worry.. they won't be able to taste or swallow it with it under the tongue.

Now... give them each a cup of the clear carbonated drink. Fill it with about 3 or 4 ounces. The OBJECT is to see who can hold it in their mouth the longest, but trust me, it will EXPLODE and SPEW out of their mouths! I wouldn't advise swallowing it. It won't hurt them but yuck. They must have at least a couple ounces in order for it to work... though it is not about how much they can "drink." It's about how long they can hold it.

Dough Stack

 

Place:Indoors or Out
Items Needed: Bread Dough
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Highest stack
Timed Event: Yes

Give each player a bowl of bread dough balls. In this timed event they must stack the bread dough balls. The one with the highest stack when time is called wins.

Bagel Run

 

Place: Indoors or Out
Items Needed: Bagels & poles
Age Group: 13 on up
Difficultly: AA
Scoring: Most on pole
Timed Event: Yes

Attach a 1/2" dowl to a base for each player. At one side of the play area have a bowl of bagels for each player. The object in this timed event is for each player to grab a bagel with his or her teeth run to thier pole and place it on the pole them run back. The one that has the most at the bell wins.

Sunglasses At Night

 

Place: Indoor or Out
Items Needed: Sunglasses
Age Group: 6 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most on head
Timed Event: Yes

Purchase everytype of sunglasses you can find at a dollar store. Include funglases like the oversized and clown glasses from novelty shops. Each player gets a bag of glasses. At the start they must place as many sunglasses on thier head as they can. The person with the most on at the end wins.

Balloon Grab

 

Place: Outdoors
Items Needed: Water Balloons
Age Group: 10 on up
Difficultly: AA
Scoring: Most held
Timed Event: Yes

Each player is given a bowl of water balloons. At the start of time they must grab and hold as many as they can without placing them in thier clothing. Most at bell wins.

Helium Basketball

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Helium balloons tennis racket
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most in during time
Timed Event: Yes

Fill ballons with helium and place in bag. On one end of play area an upsidown hoop is setup. Give each player a tennis racket. On the start they must take one balloon from the bag and place it under the racket and walk it over to the hoop and let it go up through the hoop. One with the most baskets wins.

Pie In The Face

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Canned Whip & Pie Pan
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: First to read word
Timed Event: No

Write a word on a round peice of paper, laminate it and place in the bottom of each pie pan. Fill your pie pan with whipped cream to look like a pie. Each player is given a "pie". They must eat through the pie to get to the word and read it. First one reading it wins.

Sticky Pants

 

Place: Indoors or Out
Items Needed: Sweat pants, magnets, steel
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most peices stuck
Timed Event: Yes

Attach strips of pliable magnetic plastic to the back of each pair of sweat pants. Each player must get down in the crab position and walk across the area where the steel peices at laid out and pick up as many as possible with his or her butt. Most wins. Note avoid using sharp objects and the magnetic sign material works great!

Tissue Pull

 

Place:Indoors or Out
Items Needed: Boxes of tissues
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: No tissues left wins
Timed Event: No

Give each player a new box of non-sented tissues. Duct tape it to the table in fron tof them. Without using their hands and only their mouths they must pull out all the tissues and stack them to the side.

Ball Flip

 

Place: Outdoors
Items Needed: 3 tennis balls, string
Age Group: 13 on up
Difficultly: AA
Scoring: First to wrap the string
Timed Event: No

Suspend a sturdy limbo pole between two stands. From that hang the three tennis balls using the string. Mark the string with a red marker 4" up from the ball. The obeject of the game is to flip and wrap each tennis ball seperately around the limbo pole by hitting them with a soft racket. The first player with all the balls wrapped up to the red wins.

Got You Pegged

 

Place: Indoor or Out
Items Needed: Clothes pegs
Age Group: 6 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most pegs
Timed Event: Yes

Give each player a bowl of plastic clothes pegs. On go they must pin the to their faces and around their head. They cannot be pegged to their hair. At the end of the time the one with the most pegged wins!

Just Ducky

 

Place: Outdoors
Items Needed: Special helmet, rubber ducks
Age Group: 10 on up
Difficultly: AA(Relay race)
Scoring: Most ducks
Timed Event: Yes

Attach a clear plastic mixing bowl to a bike helmet with epoxy. Take three players from each team. One player wears a helmet on each team. Fill the helmet with water. Pace the other two 15 yards apart with a bag of 10 rubber ducks. The object ist for the player wearing the helmet to relay from one teammate to the other. Each teammate must had off a duck to the person with the helmet. They must them place it in the bowl. Team with the most ducks in the water winns.

Ping Pong Tube

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Pingpong balls, spoon, tube
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most in during time
Timed Event: Yes

Take a 2" clear plastic tube 3 feet long and attach it to a base. Each player gets a spoon, bowl of pingpong balls and a tube setup. Using only their mouths holding the spoon they must scoop up a ball and deliver it to the waiting tube. One with the most in during the time wins.

Fly Toss

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Toy flys,velcro, shirt
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most flys stuck
Timed Event: Yes

Create a shirt out of a material that is compatable with the hook side of velcro. Give a shirt to each player. Using only the hook side of the velcro affix it to the toy flys. The player must chuck the flys in the air and catch them on their shirt.

Water Balloon Catch

 

Place: Outdoors
Items Needed: Umbrella, water balloons
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A (use of hands only)
Scoring: Most water balloons caught
Timed Event: Yes

Each player gets an umbrella. Placed in front of them is another basket filled with water balloons. At the start each player must toss balloons one at a time into the air over a limbo pole setup on stands at a hirght of 12' and catch them in the umbrella. Most unpopped balloons caught wins.

Grab It

 

Place:Outdoors
Items Needed: Water balloons
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (running involved)
Scoring: Most balloons wins
Timed Event: Yes

Two baskets filled with watered balloons are placed at each end of the course. Each player must choose a balloon out of the basket, holds it in arms and runs to the other and chooses another placing it with the first. This continues until the time runs out. If they drop a balloon they must leave it and move on. They must not use their clothing to hold balloons. Most balloons held wins.

Egg Head

 

Place: Outdoors
Items Needed: Headbands, smocks, 2 doz eggs (4 hard)
Age Group: 13 on up
Difficultly: AA (real messy)
Scoring: First to find 4 hard eggs
Timed Event: No

For each player take large bowls and fill them with the regular eggs mixing in the four hard boiled ones. Each contestant puts on a headband and rain smocks. On the start they must pick eggs from their bowl and crack them on their headband in search of all four hard boiled ones. First one to find all of them wins.

Pancake Flip

 

Place: Indoor or Out
Items Needed: Pancakes bike helmet
Age Group: 6 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most pancakes stacked
Timed Event: Yes

Attach a plate to a bike helmet for each contestant. Each contestant gets a stack of pancakes and a pancake turner. The contestants must flip the pancakes one at a time up on to the plate/helmet. The one with the most pancakes flipped and stacked on the plate/helmet wins.

Pickle Toss

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Bowl of sliced pickles.
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most pickles on burger
Timed Event: Yes

Create a hamburger out of Styrofoam for as many contestants as you wish. Place the burger 10-15 feet in front of the contestant. Give each contestant the pickle slices. The object is to throw the pickles one at a time on to the burger. Most pickles wins.

Stamp Stick

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: 1 cent stamps
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A
Scoring: Most stamps stuck

Give each contestant a pile of 1 cent stamps and on the start they must lick them and stick them to their faces. The one with the most stamps stuck to their face wins.

Hip Hat

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Hip Hop, and lots of hats
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some hopping involved)
Scoring: Most hats relayed
Timed Event: Yes

At the start line the contestant hops on their hip hop and places a hat on their head. They must hop across the room or field and deposit the hat in the head of a wait partner and hop back to get another. Most hats relayed to their partner wins.

Water Balloon Heads

 

Place: Outdoors
Items Needed: Bike helmet w/ small basket, water balloons
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A (use of hands only)
Scoring: Most water balloons caught
Timed Event: Yes

Each player wears a bike helmet that has a small laundry basket attached to the top of it. Placed in front of them is another basket filled with water balloons. At the start each player must toss balloons one at a time into the basket on their heads. Most unpopped balloons caught wins.

Paddle It

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Ping pong balls and paddles
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A (some balanced involved)
Scoring: One that lasts longest
Timed Event: No

Give each contestant a ball and ping pong paddle. The object is to bounce the ball on the paddle, keeping it on top. If they drop it they are out. Last one still bouncing wins.

Bobbing For Bugs

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Bowls of water and plastic bugs
Age Group: 13 on up
Difficultly: AA (some running and water involved)
Scoring: Most bugs in bowl
Timed Event: Yes

Take large bowls and fill them with with water and plastic bugs. Each player bobs for bugs and grabs them with their mouth and runs over to another bowl and drops them. Most bugs in at the end of the time limit wins.

Ping Pong Ball Relay

 

Place: Indoor or Out
Items Needed: Ping pong balls, Spoons, Bowls
Age Group: 6 on up
Difficultly: AA (some running involved)
Scoring: Most balls transferred wins
Timed Event: Yes

You need two bowls, one spoon, and 25 ping pong balls per contestant. Fill one bowl with the balls and place it on a table or on the floor. Approximately 25-30 feet away place the other bowl on a table or on the floor. Give each contestant a spoon. The object is to scoop up a ball with the spoon and carry it to the other bowl. Repeat until time runs out. If a ball is dropped they must go back and get another. Count balls at the end of time. Most balls wins.

Cracker Deposit

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Bowls of saltine crackers and plastic piggy banks.
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some eating involved)
Scoring: Most crackers in the bank
Timed Event: Yes

Take the bowls of saltine crackers and place them on a table. Next to the bowl secure a plastic piggy bank with ducktape. The object is to pick up one saltine at a time with their mouth and deposit it in the piggy bank. You will need one counter per contestant to pull this game off fairly.

Jelly Suck

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Bowls of Jello, clear 1" plastic tube, bowl
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some running involved)
Scoring: First to fill up the bowl to the line

Place the bowl with the Jello in it on one table and a bowl with a line on it on another table about 15' away. Each contestant places the tube in their mouth and sucks Jello up and runs it over to the other bowl and blows it out. This is repeated until the bowl is filled up to the line. First one with it filled wins

Sock Toss

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Lots of pairs of old socks, laundry baskets
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some running involved)
Scoring: Most matched pairs
Timed Event: Yes

Each contestant gets one has their own laundry basket and pile of socks. The object is for the each contestant to match up socks and throw them into a basket. The contestant with the most pairs matched wins.

Boxing Ring

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Boxing gloves, boxer shorts, bell
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A (use of hands only)
Scoring: Most shorts on
Timed Event: Yes

Each player wears boxing gloves and is placed in front of a pile of boxer shorts and a bell. The player puts on a pair of boxer shorts and then rings the bell and repeats the process until the time runs out. Most shorts on wins.

Holiday Party Games

 

Dance Floor BINGO

 

Place: Holiday Party or Youth event
Items Needed: 5" Vinyl Letters
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: who's on
Timed Event: No

Take your vinyl letters that are cut out of festive greens and reds and spellout in different places on the dance floor words that are associated with the holiday season or with the company whose party you are playing for. Example: Rudolph, Santa, Party, Cheer, Egg Nog, Ho-Ho, Yule. In the middle of a good song you say, "dance floor bingo" then the word the person dancing on that word wins a small prize.

Celebrity Guess

 

Place: Holiday Party or Youth event
Items Needed: sticky name tags
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: guess the star
Timed Event: No

On sticky name tags write the names of Hollywood stars. Each guest is gets slapped on the back with one name tag in an area where they cannot be seen by them. During cocktail hour the object is to ask yes or no questions to other people in regards to who their "star" is. Like, "Is is a guy or gal?, Are they in the movies?, etc." Honesty plays a part here but the first person or persons to determine their "star" wins. It's a great mixer.

Decorate The Tree

 

Place: Holiday Party or Youth event
Items Needed: gift wrap, ornaments, garland,etc
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: Vote for the best decorated tree
Timed Event: Yes

The disc jockey will find two - three volunteers as team leaders. The volunteers will each pick 3 people to be on their team. Each team is supplied with a bag off goodies. Starting with the gift wrap they "wrap" the team leader attaching the bows, garland, ornaments, and whatever else they can find to make them the perfect Holiday Tree. Once finished they step back and let the audience choose the best decorated tree.

Pass The Gift

 

Place: Holiday Party or Youth event
Items Needed: Small gifts wrapped in lots of boxes
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring:
Timed Event: No

This is a fun game where a group of people make a circle on the dance floor. A large present is brought out onto the dance floor. To start, one person tears the wrap off and opens the box and passes it on to the next person. This is done until a person finally gets to the gift then it is theirs.

Puzzling

 

Place: Holiday Party or Youth event
Items Needed: Small Puzzles
Age Group: Age 5 on up
Difficultly: A (none)
Scoring: First table.
Timed Event: No

Buy simple childrens puzzles and code each piece with a number that will relate to that puzzle. Distribute a bag of pieces to each table. The object is to see who can finish their puzzle first and signify by waving all their hands in the air.

Roll The Dice

 

Place: Holiday Party
Items Needed: One pair of dice and a pie plate.
Age Group: Adult
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring: First getting an 8 or 9 at each table wins
Timed Event: No

Distribute to each table one pair of dice and a pie plate. To start one person rolls the dice if they don't get an 8 or 9 they pass the plate to the next person and they roll and so on until someone gets an 8 or 9. Once someone gets an eight or nine in any combination they stand and get a prize. You can stop there or keep going until all the prizes are gone.

Special Person

 

Place: Corporate / Holiday Party
Items Needed: Ten dollar bill
Age Group: Adult
Difficultly: A (none)
Scoring: First, tenth and last person wins
Timed Event: Yes

At most corporate parties the management is wanting their people to mingle and socialize during the cocktail portion of the evening. One great way to promote this is to have the management choose a "Special Person" for the party before hand. Then the DJ announces that during the cocktail hour all the guests are to walk up and shake hands and introduce themselves to as many people as possible because there is a "Special Person" out there that is ready to give away money to the first, tenth and last person that does. The person chosen makes a mental note of the winners and at dinner the DJ announces the "Special Person" and invites them to tell everyone the winners. The management present the cash awards.

Twelve Days Of

 

Place: Holiday Party
Items Needed: N/A
Age Group: Adult
Difficultly: A (not much)
Scoring:
Timed Event: No

Choose twelve tables and give each of them a numbered paper with the instructions to write down three items that relate to their company, office, section, business, etc. Then on the mic the DJ announces that for all those people that received papers will be participating in an official company exercise call the Twelve days of <insert company name here>. When you call their numbers the table must rise and do there part of the song.

Picnic Games

 

Fox & The Chickens

 

Place: Outdoor relay race for corporate picnics
Items Needed: Hula Hoop, Round Water Balloons
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some running involved)
Scoring: Each popped balloon in time given
Timed Event: No

The play field needs to span 50-100 ft. Marked off with cones. Have your team captain choose a "fox" out of his or her group. Have all the teams except for the fox lineup behind each other they are the chickens. Filled water balloons should be stationed in buckets or coolers next to each team. Have the foxes take a hula hoop down to the far side of the field and place it on the ground directly across from their team.

One at a time each chicken must place a water balloon between it's legs and run, hop, waddle, walk it to were the fox is and drop it in the hula hoop. If it doesn't break in the hoop the fox must sit on it to break it. A point is scored for each balloon popped in the hoop.

Bar Mitzvah & Youth Games

 

Chubby Bunny

 

This Game can and has killed! Please read this: Chubby Bunny

Homer Simpson

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: 1 doz donuts/ special pole setup
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some eating involved)
Scoring: First one to drop all the donuts wins
Timed Event: No

Take two 4"x4"x5' poles for each player and drill starting at the top 1/2" x 2" deep holes every 6 " down 3' on one side of it. Attach a base on the bottom of the pole so as it stands upright. Take an ordinary 1/2" dowel and place it in one of the holes on each upright standing pole. Thread 1 dozen donuts on each dowell. Now you should have two of these setups for each player. (The holes you drilled are for you to adjust the height to match the player.)

Place the setups 10' apart. When you say go the players must "eat" enough of the first donut to make it drop to the floor or ground then run to the other setup and to the same. back and forth until all the donuts have dropped. The first person to drop all of his or her donuts wins. Donuts with sprinkles are optional.

Jump N Stomp

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Bungee straps Balloons
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: AA (some jumping involved)
Scoring: First person to pop all wins

 

Blow up the balloons and tape or stake them to the floor or ground in two rows, half in each row. These rows should be about 6 to 8 feet apart. Take the bungee strap and lock it around the players legs to tie them together.

Starting at on end the player must hop or jump over the the right balloon and pop it the hop or jump over the the left balloon directly across from it and back and forth till all the balloons are popped. The first person to pop them all wins.

Paper Roll

 

Place: Indoors or Outdoors
Items Needed: Toilet Rolls, Limbo sticks
Age Group: 5 on up
Difficultly: A (use of hands only)
Scoring: First person with no paper wins

Each player needs two assistants and a limbo pole. Take the limbo poles and place two rolls of toilet paper on each. Have the assistants hold each end of of the limbo pole.

Using just there hands the player must unroll both rolls of toilet paper. The first player that is finished with both rolls wins!

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DJzone and it's writers are not responsible for any damages or claims that are incurred by the use of these games. They are listed here for reference only with no warrantees or guarantees. You use them at your own risk. These games are property of their respective owners and may not be copied for use in any publication.

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