04 Funny Games

Funny Game 1: Dress Up Contest

Ingredients:
Old Clothes, Scarves, Glasses, Shoes, Etc.

To Play:
Divide up into teams and choose one person to be the dress-up "dummy."
Use old clothes, scarves, glasses, shoes, and anything else that you can place on another person's body to dress up your "dummy."
Make your "dummy" as funny and creative as possible.
The funniest "dummy" is the winner.


Funny Game 2: Know Your Family

Ingredients: Hat, Pieces of Paper.

To Play:
Put all of the names of your relatives in a hat and have everyone draw a name.
They must discreetly interview that person sometime during the party and find out one secret that no one knows about them.
After everyone has had time to do the interviews, gather the group together and have them share the secret they learned.
The rest of the relatives must write down on a piece of paper what they think each secret is about. The person who guesses the most people correctly wins a prize.


Funny Game 3: Likes And Dislikes
Get to know your extended family even better.

Ingredients: Index Cards, Pens.

To Play:
Ask everyone to write down 5 of their likes and 5 of their dislikes on index cards.
Help the younger ones by writing for them.
At mealtime when everyone is gathered together, read the cards one at a time and have everyone try to guess which relative the information belongs to.

Funny Game 4: Scavenger Hunt 
This is a game that is usually relatively inexpensive and time-consuming, good for both kids and parents.

Ingredients: Clue Sheets, Polaroid Cameras.

To Play:
Give the party goers clues that take them from place to place.
You can have the hunt go around the house or around the city.
If you're driving around town, have everyone take pictures with the items they are supposed to find.
The team that gets all the items first wins!


Funny Game 5: Detective's Case 

Ingredients: Clue Sheets, Polaroid Cameras.

To Play:
Set out clues all over the yard and have kids collect them.
Then the kids have to figure out what the clues mean.
You might have them find clues to making a pizza, building a scarecrow, or solving a puzzle.


Funny Game 6: Crazy Olympics 
Have a Crazy Olympics party and let the kids play silly games.

Ingredients: Eggs, Frisbees, Blind Folds, Golf Balls, Cotton Balls, Plastic Spoons.

To Play:
Play games like the Backwards Crab Walk, Blind (folded) Leapfrog, Impossible Obstacle Course, Frisbee Golf, etc.
Add a few ridiculous relay races for extra fun like pass the eggs, carry cotton on a spoon, one-legged race, and so on.
The kids can also play Silly Sports.
For example, they can golf with their feet instead of a golf club, or play baseball with a broom instead of a bat.
They can even run the bases backwards.
Or add in the traditional picnic games, a Sack Race, Egg Toss, Tug of War, Capture the Flag, Dodge Ball and that way the adults can play too.


Funny Game 7: Family Lineup 
A fun game to see how well your family can actually work together. The aim is to get the team to lineup according to a distinguishing characteristic.

Ingredients: Just Add Guests!

To Play:
Gather the family and put them together in a few teams.
For example, put all of the cousins or aunts together as one team.
The emcee or leader of the reunion calls out a particular characteristic, like birth order, age, height, astrological sign, etc.
The first team to get lined up yells out “In Order” and they win that round.
Keep going for a few rounds.
The team with the most points wins a prize.


Prizes:
Photo Album Frame
Cookbooks
Family Recipes
Family Insignia Framed


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