New Year's Eve Scramble:
Write a bunch of different words on a piece of paper that have to do
with New Year's Eve and scramble the letters. The person who guesses the
most words correctly wins a prize.
Predict the Future:
Throughout the party, present a magazine picture to each table of kids.
These pictures should show something from the past year, such as a
winning football game, a new toy, a political event, etc. Each table of
kids must make a prediction for the next year, based on the picture. For
example: The Yankees will win the pennant, Bill Clinton will become a
rock star, the president will be a woman, and so on. Keep providing
pictures after each course for the kids' predictions.
Some other fun ideas
that will keep the kids busy for hours until the clock strikes midnight
are to have them create their own time capsule, strike a piñata, make
New Year's resolutions (and guess whose resolutions they are), decorate
cookies, and have a huge indoor treasure hunt with clues.
Naming of Candy
For this you need:
About 6 different candies that have given names like M&M's, Crunch,
Wrigley's , etc. 1 Die (or 2 dice if the crowd is very large) Everyone
is seated on the floor in a circle. Packaged candy bars or candy are
placed in the middle of the circle. Everyone starts by saying their own
names. The leader then makes sure that everyone knows what candy is in
the middle. someone begins by rolling the dice. If they roll a 6, they
can take one of the candies in the middle. The die continues to go
quickly around the circle while people keep picking up candy. When all
of the candies are taken, people then can get other people's candy. In
order to get their candy, they must state the person's first name and
the name of the candy they hold. The person who rolls a 6 and matches
the name of the candy and the person takes the other's candy. If they
forget either name, they miss their turn and the dice goes to the next
person and they continue to roll. (One person can get more than one
candy and people can hide the candy behind their back). This is a great
way of getting to know people's name and how to get your favorite
candies!
Celebrity hunt
Everyone writes the
name of a celebrity, famous person or character on a piece of paper
which they stick to the forehead of the player on their left (use tape
or office Post-It notes). Make sure they don’t see the name. List down
the activity(s) or event(s) which has made them famous( but no names).
Paste the paper up on the wall so that every guest can see it. This will
act as cues and give the participants a direction to make guessing. Now
the game starts. Everyone else can see your forehead. The objective is
to work out who you are. Going around the table, each payer takes a turn
to ask the party questions about who they are - answers can be YES or NO
only. If you get a YES you may continue asking, if you get a NO play
moves on to the left. Last person to guess their name is the loser.
Simple, but very absorbing.
The Grouping Game
This is a good game to
play as a mixer. It is a fun, fast moving game. It starts out as
everyone collects in one big group. The leader initially calls out a
number, usually a number between two and fifteen. The number shouldn't
be more than half of the number of total participants. When the number
is called out everyone must try to collect in a group that contains that
number of people. The group members should be latching arms or have
their arms wrapped around each other so that the leader can see who is
in the group. If someone cannot enter a group because the number of
required members has been reached, he is out of the game. As different
numbers are successively called out the number of participants gets
smaller and smaller. Eventually, there are less than ten people. The
last group, or winning group, should have anywhere from two to five
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