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Host Your Own Middle Earth Party

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Hooray! January 3 is J.R.R. Tolkien Day! We celebrate the life and works of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on this day because it also happens to be his birthday. If you’re not already getting excited about the prospective ways to celebrate, you are either A. not a fan or B. comatose. Just in case you need some ideas for your own Middle Earth party, here are a few:

Dress in costume. What fun would a Middle Earth party be without costumes? Encourage couples to come as book couples, or make a few Elf ears and felt shawls to don people with as they walk through the door.

Decorate with your favorite scene. I’ve always wanted to live in the Shire myself, but if you want to try and make your pad into a Rivendell replica, go for it. This could be pretty hard to do, however, so you might just want to hang up LOTR posters and memorabilia if you’ve got it around. Read more

Free Party Games, Part 6: Bodily Contact!

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We’ve don some nearly-free drinking games, getting-to-know-you games, and basic obnoxious games. Now it’s time to get dirty with some bodily-contact games!

Okay, so we won’t really be getting that dirty; you’ll get to keep your clothes on, after all. But if you want to take your party up a notch and make everybody giggle, here are some drink-free games that are bound to get you cracking up.

The Sucking Face Game: Take a post-it note (or something similar) and line up everybody boy-girl-boy-girl (or randomly to make it interesting!). The first person has to suck the post-it note, open-mouthed, to his or her face, and pass it to the next person using only both their mouths! Read more

Free Party Games, Part 5: Getting to Know You

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When you have a group of people who don’t know each other assembled for an event—a birthday party, a family reunion, your uncle Larry’s bris—things can seem rather awkward at first. Nobody knows each other, people are wondering if they can legally ask someone out—or do so without crossing bloodlines—and it’s like a seventh-grade dance.

You don’t want to resort to name tags because, let’s face it, they don’t help because when you look down at Barbara’s name you think she thinks you’re looking at her boobs. And maybe you are—and why shouldn’t you be? There’s a big sign with her name on them! How can you not stare at that?

There are easier ways of making people get to know one another. Here are some free (or nearly-so) games geared at doing the thing Julie Andrews was so good at doing—getting to know you. Read more

Free Party Games, Part 4: To Tell the Truth

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If you’re familiar with the TV show To Tell the Truth, you know it’s about a few people who all say they are the same person. One really is that person; the rest are lying. The panel on the show must deduce who is the real person among the liars, and it’s usually pretty funny.

The party version is different, but still fun. I remember the first time I played it at a service camp I was attending while in junior high. It was shocking, funny, and a bonding experience all into one. I took that idea and often used it afterwards in leadership camps, parties, trips and other events, and it’s always proved to be at least interesting. Of course, you can spike the party version with a little bit of drinking if you like, but more on that later. Read more

Free Party Games Part 3: Theme Charades

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You remember charades, right? When you drew something out of a hat and had to act it out, using no sounds but only gestures? The entire game depended on your own acting skills—and if you sucked, like Sarah Jessica Parker did in The Family Stone, everybody hated your guts.

I remember charades being the most fun when they were themed. We always based ours on obscure things like historical people or band names, which can be hard to act out (exactly what do you do to get people to shout “Foghat!”?) Read more

Free Party Games, Part 2: Scavenger Hunt

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Yet another no-cost (or little cost; you’ll need paper, and a printer if you your writing skills resemble a second grader’s) game that everyone’s sure to have fun with is a scavenger hunt. Sure, you could go with the normal scavenger hunt, with a list of things people have to find (remote control, pine cone, tube of Preparation H). You could even give it a twist by making it into a grid where people can “bingo” their finds to win. Read more

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