A cool version of Musical Chairs for older children and adults, which has been used as entertainment at one wedding reception at least. Play in a similar fashion as Musical Chairs, but before individuals sit down they have to carry out various activities set by the Compère / host...
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Figure-of-Eight Musical Chairs
A variation on the normal musical chairs, which adds a ‘collision’ element to it. Arrange the chairs so they are facing outward in two circles that are within 6 or so feet of one another. Play as in normal musical chairs, but players walk around the circles in a...
Musical Chairs
Very old, traditional party game, certainly in the United Kingdom, and almost always played to Music. You’ll need something to play music out loud and you can easily pause the music playing (while that sounds obvious and easy, not everybody has access to smart technology… and for point of...
Keys
Everybody, except one person, takes a chair and sits on it anywhere they like in the room. The remaining person is given a set of keys to hold. They then proceed to move around the room and with their free hand grab the hand of somebody sitting who has...
Dancing Feet
At a given signal, players alternate from running on the spot very quickly to running around. Can be played to music with change in status happening to the music, eg running around while music playing, running on the spot while the music is stopped, back to running around when...
Shipwreck
Equipment: Hoops or chalked circles of various sizes scattered around the playing area. Players are told that these hoops or chalked circles are islands and they have to be standing in them to be safe from the sharks the signal is given. Also each hoop can only hold so...
Crash
AKA: Musical Crash or Clump Players mingle or dance around a space. Constantly moving until the leader shouts out a number. All players must then try to get into groups of that number. Any group/s that don’t succeed are out. Can be played to music, so that when the...
Musical Bumps
Classic, very simple, elimination, party game. Certainly familiar to many in the United Kingdom. Probably much more fun for younger children and encourages them to pay attention to an external stimulus or change in their environment. Have some music playing which players move or dance around to. Every now...
Who am I?
Prepare a card for each of your guests and write on it the name of a famous man or woman. On arrival, pin a card on the back of each guest who must then ask questions of each other in order to find out their identity. When they succeed,...
Two Truths and a Lie
Have each person write 2 truths and a lie about themselves. They then all put their papers into a communal box or hat. Members of the group then select papers at random, read them out and have the others guess which was the lie. by