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1. Air Time
All guests get a balloon. Every guest takes one breath and fills the balloon with that one breath. The biggest and smallest balloons win.
2. Balloon Stomp
This is a very high-energy game. Everybody gets a balloon attached to a string that is tied to their ankle. The object is to pop other peoples balloon while protecting yours. Players must stay within arranged areas. You can spice this up by adding a freeze portion. When the music stops, all must stop. Suggested Music: Get Ready For This, or any high-energy song!
3. Balloon Pop
Each team consists of two people, two poppers and two blowers. The object is simple, two people blow up the balloons and two people pop them. But they must be popped without using any hands by simply holding the balloon between the two people.
4. Hula Hoop Pass
There are many ways to use Hula Hoops, one of the best is to make big circles of people, have them hold hands, put the hoop between them, play a fast song, then, the hoop must be passed around the circle without breaking the hands. When the music stops, whoever has the hoop around them, is out. This continues until there is only one person left.
5. Musical Laps
Have as many people as desired sit on chairs in a circle. Then, have 1 less person going around the circle as people that are sitting. When the music stops, all must find a lap to sit on. The odd person is out. Remove 1 Chair and continue. The last couple wins!
6. Musical Chairs
Have any number of people greater than 3 participate. Two rows of chairs back to back are lined up, with one less chair than there are people. The music starts and everyone walks around the chairs. When the music stops, everyone finds a seat and the person without a chair is out. Every time one chair is taken away and people are eliminated until only one person is left with one chair and they are the winner.
7. Long Balloon Pass
Have everyone get into a circle. Use a long balloon and have guests pass it around the circle between their legs and not using their hands. When the music stops, whoever is touch the balloon is out. Suggested music: Can"t Touch This.
8. Pass and Guess
This is a good game for the dinner hour. A jar is filled with Jelly Beans and is passed around the table. Each person must write on a piece of paper their guess of how many jellybeans are in the jar and their name. They then hand it to the DJ. The person who gets the closest wins the jar and beans!
9. Human Ring Toss
This high energy game can be done many times to get everyone involved. It takes 6 teams of two, one person wears a hat with a point on it and is the catcher, the other is the tosser who is given a specific number of rings and tosses them attempting to land the ring around the catchers point on the hat. It is a simple game, the first team to catch 4 rings wins!
10. Marshmallow Run
This is a team game. Each person has a straw, they need to suck up 1 marshmallow and carry it across the dance floor and put it into a glass and run back and slap the hand of the next person in line. 1st team to get one marshmallow for each player wins.
Suggested Music: Rock "n Roll Part 2
11. Limbo
We all know how limbo is done. It always seems to be a crowd pleaser and you can have a girl and guy winner. You may also do this as a couple or team event with more than one going under at the same time.
Suggested Music: Limbo Rock, Lean Back, Get Low or other Island Music.
12. Dancin in Numbers
Everyone is on the dance floor. Play a song and have everyone dance. Yell out a number and the people must get into groups of that number. Anyone not in a group of that number is out. Everyone can play this, young and old!
13. Tri-Cycle Races
This is a very fast and upbeat activity. Two tri-cycle bikes are used with teams of how many ever you want. The object is to ride the bike down to an orange cone and back to the next team member. Before taking off on the trike, contestants must put on "Special Clothes". Any number of people can do this game. Huge pants with suspenders, huge gloves and hats and huge clown shoes work well.
14. Coke and Pepsi
This is a popular game because everyone old and young can play. Two lines across the dance floor, 1 Coke and 1 Pepsi. When one name is called that side runs to the other side and sits on the knee of their partner. Last ones there are out. You can mix this game up by using other names and other things to do, i.e. call out Seven-Up and Both Lines run to the middle and high 5 their partner, say Star Trek and everyone raises their right hand up and yells "BEAM ME UP SCOTTY", or you can call out the name of the guest of honor and everyone points at them and yells out "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!"
15. The ever Popular Egg/ Water Balloon Toss
This game has been done for years and years. It takes two lines of people evenly numbered. They toss the egg and catch it. Each time a step backward is taken. They get farther and farther apart. The last team wins. This is a game that must be done outside. You can also use water balloons.
16. Scavenger Hunt
You can have as many people as you like play this game. Have the players come to the dance floor with a chair. Everyone must sit. The MC calls something out like a "Mastercard". The players run to find one. While they are gone, we remove one chair. The person who comes back and doesn"t have a seat is out. This can be done quickly by calling another item while people are still out and removing another chair.
17. True/False Trivia
Everyone starts out in the middle of the dance floor. The DJ draw a line and on one side will be true, the other false. An example question is “The guest of honor at this party is the coolest person in this room.” Or the state bird of Florida is the penguin. Each person stands on either the true or false side of the line. The wrong side is out and everyone returns to the middle for the next question and so on until the predetermined number of winners is left.
18. Heads and Tails
A line is drawn by the DJ across the dance floor and everyone starts out in the middle. The DJ flips a silver dollar and everyone chooses a side: heads or tails. Depending on which side the coin lands on, the opposite side is out. This continues until the desired number of winners is left. Each winner receives a silver dollar as a prize.
19. The Bus, Train Rock Show
A Universal Disc Jockeys exclusive game and favorite. Music is started and it is something like “We like to Party”. Everyone joins in dancing and then jumps on the “bus” around the room and then jumps on the “train” and Ride da train plays. As the train goes around the room to the rock show, everyone jumps off and arrives at the rock show (works best with blow up guitars). The Rock Show by Blink 182 plays as the participants play at their own rock show. This game is always a huge hit with the participants and watchers.
20. Dance Contests
Everyone dances to the best and worst dance songs of all times and a winner is found. (best with a prize package)
21. Ribbon Tie
This game is easily learned and played. This game may be played boys vs girls or divided into any different 2 or more large teams. Each player is given a ribbon. In a designated amount of time, the players tie their ribbons into one long ribbon and at the end of the time, the team with the longest ribbon wins.
22. Endless Dance
This is a popular game because everyone gets to dance with everyone for a short time and it loosens everyone up and makes everyone less nervous to dance with everyone else the rest of the night. Everyone divides up into pairs in a large circle with one leader in the middle. The leader is given a stick and observes the dancing. When they feel it is the right moment, the leader throws their stick in the air and everyone changes partners. The leader attempts to take somebody’s place. The player with no partner is the next leader.
23. The Thizzelle Dance
This game is played well with any age. Everyone divides into groups with a minimum of 3 but no more than 5 people per group. Each group choreographs their own dance routine in a designated time to the groups chosen song. Each group performs their dance routine and a winning group is chosen and given prizes and praise.
24. Pass the Orange
This is a popular game with all ages. Arrange for teams of about 8 to stand in a line, one behind the other (can be arrange boy, girl, boy, girl, etc). Give each team an orange which the first person should tuck under his chin. This should be passed to the person behind. When the orange gets to the last person, they come to the front of the line and start again. The winning team is the first one which get their starting person to the front again.
25. Find your Picture
A picture is cut into 2-3 parts. One part is given to a girl and the other parts are given to boys. The boy who finds the girl with the rest of the picture first asks her for a dance.
26. Detective Dances
At the party, the girls secretly fill out questionnaires on index cards. In this questionnaire the girls indicate their height, hair color, eye color, jewelry, clothing style etc. The leader puts all the cards into a box and between dances, the leader asks the boys to find the girl with the description on the card. The boys take the cards and begin their search. The boy who finds the girl first is the winner. The boys then have to dance with the girls they have found.
27. Apple of Discord
Everyone divides into pairs and each pairs is given an apple to hold between their foreheads. The leader gives commands such as “Three steps to the left, three steps to the right, jump, squat” etc. The pairs that drop their apples are out until a winning pair is found. This game may also be played while the pair dancing to a series of upbeat songs while holding the apple between their foreheads and not dropping it.
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