Party Games

[fideldyfee]

Hi, not sure if this is the right place for this question or not but does anyone have any ideas of any party games i could organise for a party i am having on saturday? its my mums 50th birthday and its themed 60s and 70s. there will be about 20 people there teenage to old age so need something suitable for all thats a good laugh. its just in a house so wont have bags of room either. any help much appreciated. x

[ineedahobby]

oooh theres that old favourite where you have to pass the balloon from one end of a line of people down to the other end without using your hands!

What about the sticky label on the head game?  where everyone has the name of a famous person stuck on their forehead and you get to ask  questions (to which the answer can only be yes or no) until you get a no answer then its the next persons turn.basically this carries on until everyone can deduce who they are!

[baggins]

2 games we did at my daughters 12th birthday that i am sure wouls be fun with any age group:-

1. The cotton-wool ball game:- You need 2 clean buckets, plenty of cotton wool balls, a ladle and a blindfold. Place one bucket filled with cotton wool balls on a chair at one end of the room. Place the other bucket on a chair opposite the first one, a distance away. take it in turns to be blindfolded. The object is to walk to the full bucket with your ladle and using one hand only, scoop up the balls into your ladle and turn round and walk back to deposit them into the emty bucket!! This is done on a time limit which you can decide for yourselves. It is very funny to watch someone very carefully  making their way back to the empty bucket without any cotton balls in their ladle!!!! with everyone shouting to be careful, steady you dont drop the cotton wool, youre doing really well!!! and such things  -- a good one to video

2. The skittle game ( an alternative to the chocolate game) You will need a small tray, a die and shaker, a bowl full of skittles, straws and a plastic cup each. You all sit in a circle, then each shake the die in turn. The first person to get a six goes to the middle of the room to the bowl of skittles armed with their plastic cup and straw. They then have a timed limit to suck up as many skittle as they can with the straw and put them in the cup.  The game end when all the skittles have gone. The winner is the one with the most skittles in their cup.

HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Solarjunkie]

You can't beat the old children'sparty games - well,they would have been children in the 60's!

Games they will not have played for years, like Pass The Parcel, Musical Chairs or Musical Hats, they all give a great laugh when played years on.

Particularly good icebreaker is to give each person a namecard when they arrive, they have to find the other half, choose couples from the 60's & 70's to keep to your theme, like Sonny & Cher.

You can make an obstacle race - over a chair, under a table, behind curtains, step through a hoop, drink a glass of water, etc, and time people through it.

Don't forget word games. An old favourite is Farmyard story, each person is a farm animal, naturally you can have several of each animal. Someone tells a long rambling story about a farmer's day and each time each animal is mentioned, the appropriate people make the appropriate noise. When the word "farmyard" is mentioned, all the animals make a noise. Very simple, but great fun, especially after a few glasses of party punch!

Don't forget the cake & candles, and have a good time.

[curiosity]

Buy some pots of play dough, split into 3 0r 4 teams of around 5 people, have 1 person (either yourself or someone who doesn't feel too comfortable with games) have a collection of things written down on paper e.g English breakfast, chair, well anything really. Each member of the teams takes it in turn to go to the person for the paper, return to the group and try to get them to guess the answer by modelling with the play dough (no talking geticulating etc). Once they get it the next member goes up, the first team to get all 5 win! This is a very easy game to organise and usually gets people laughing. Another is to write down songs on paper and people have to humm them Only, to get people to guess (very funny) I could go on for ever. Have fun

[joko]

try something different like 'play your cards right', 'take a letter', 'the price is right', 'bullseye', blankety blank', 'generation game' even 'crackerjack'. you could do more than one

they'll take a bit of effort but guaranteed to be memorable. You could get the kids to make glitzy signs and prize boards and score boards, name badges - even giant playing cards if you choose 'play your cards right'. Prizes could be simple things like a kiss or box of chocs or whatever you can afford. You can get some great 70's bits and pieces from a charity shop for the conveyor belt of 'generation game'. make forfeits like getting something out of a bowl of blancmange with your teeth or jelly down the trousers. If you buy a load of cheap 70's clothes from the charity shop as well your guests wont mind getting messy. your sure to find the rules on the net. have fun

[Peghead]

A good word game is the celebrity game. You start with the name of a celebrity, i.e. Britney Spears, the next person has to think of a celebrity who's name begins with the first letter of the previous celebrity's surname, i.e. Simon Cowell, Carol Vorderman, etc... It starts off quite easy but after a while it gets really hard, especially if you've had a few drinks!

Another good word game is "I went to the shop..". The first person thinks of an object, i.e. a chair, and then starts with "I went to the shop and I bought a chair". The next person carries on and adds an object, i.e. a windcreen wiper (the more random the object, the better!). "I went to the shop and bought a chair and a windscreen wiper". Then on to the next person who adds another object. By the time you've got round 20 people everyone will be really confused - always guaranteed a laugh. If anyone forgets an item they are out of the game. 

Hope you have a good time on Saturday!

[spudqueen]

We have a family get together every year and one of the highlights is playing consequences. Everyone can join in from kids to adults and all the old family jokes come out - like 'in Grandads shed'. In case you've forgotten, everyone gets a long strip of paper (A4 cut lengthways into about 4 is fine) and writes the first bit, folds it over, passes it along and then writes the next bit on the paper they're given. We always go - BOYS NAME met GIRLS NAME, WHERE THEY MET, WHAT HE SAID, WHAT SHE SAID, THE CONSEQUENCE