Home Party Games

If you have a party to throw and do not want to spend money on calling in clowns and magicians but also want to ensure that everybody has a good time, then it is good idea to engage your guests in a few games. Here are a few fun home party games…

Remember the Items

This is a very interesting game that can be played both by adults and children. Place a large number of varied items on a large tray. The items can be anything from a toothbrush, a cell phone, a slice of bread, marbles, keys, few grains of rice, pudding, pencil, cucumber slices, money, pieces of wire, candy, glitter, plastic straws, paper bits and anything else that you can think of. The idea here is to get as imaginative as possible. Cover the tray with a large piece of cloth. To begin the game, distribute paper and pencils to your guests. Place the tray loaded with the items at the center and remove the cloth. At this point, the guests are not allowed to write down anything. Replace the cloth after a minute. Now, give the guests about five minutes in which they have to recall and write down whatever they have seen on the tray. The winner will be the person who has remembered the highest number of items. To make the game slightly more difficult, you can also the clause of negative marks for all the ‘imagined’ items on the lists provided by the guests.

Paper Dance

This is a fun game which can be played both by adults and children. All you will need is a newspaper and some great music. All the participants have to be divided into pairs. The children can be divided anyhow but it would be a good idea to divide the adults into a pair of a male and female. Distribute a single sheet of newspaper to each couple. They have to step on it. Start the music and the couples have to start dancing ensuring that they do not step outside the paper. Couples who have stepped outside are eliminated from the dance. After a couple of minutes, stop the music. The couples now have to fold the newspaper into half, step on it and start dancing again ensuring that they do not step outside the paper while the music is on. This process is repeated again. As the game proceeds, the paper becomes smaller and the couples too get eliminated. The winning couple is the one who does not step outside the boundary of the paper till the very end.

Duck, Duck, Goose…

This is a very simple, exciting game that is ideal for children between the ages 5 – 8. Ask all the children to sit in a circle except one who has been identified as ‘fox’. The fox moves on the outside of the circle patting each child on the head or shoulder saying ‘duck’ as he does so. At some point he pats someone and shouts ‘Goose’. The fox then has to run quickly around the circle and the goose chases him in the same direction. Here, the fox has to reach the spot where the goose was sitting and occupy the place before he is tagged by the goose. If the goose is not able to tag the fox before the before sits down, then the goose becomes the fox else the fox has to repeat the entire process again.

Chinese Whisper

This is a very good game among young children especially if the group of children is large. The children are asked to sit in a straight line. You whisper a very difficult tongue twister into the ears of the first child. This child whisper’s it into the ears of the child sitting next to him. The process continues till the whisper reaches the last child who has to say out the sentence aloud. Usually, there are no prizes in this game but the output of the game is quite hilarious. Some of the tongue twisters that you can use are:

• How much wood can a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck would chuck wood?
• She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
• Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter. So Betty bought some bitter butter that was not bitter.

Have fun!