Fun activities for birthday party: 34 Fun Birthday Party Ideas for Adults, Teens, and Kids 2022

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34 Fun Birthday Party Ideas for Adults, Teens, and Kids 2022

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Marking another year around the sun is something worth celebrating. Truth be told, birthday wishes penned in a card or a thoughtfully written and heartfelt message are perfect ways to celebrate someone special. Birthdays are truly a gift, and no matter how old you are turning, each birthday is a reason to get together with your favorite people and have some fun.

If planning a birthday party seems like a difficult task, we’ve got you covered. If you’re looking to take the festivities to the next level, and host a party at home, there are countless themes that will make your fête unique.

For kids, tap into the more magical elements with a superhero party or a celebration centered around unicorns. For teens, plan a version of backyard Olympics (think: cornhole or giant Jenga) or a game night, two ideas that no 13-year-old will roll their eyes at. And, for adults, consider an epic cookout, a bubbly brunch, a cozy fall-themed affair, or even a tropical luau (no beach required).

With a little creativity, these birthday party ideas can even be relatively inexpensive, since you’ll be able to lean on items you already own, plus a few simple crafty DIY projects to bring the whole thing together. And if you really want to just sit back and enjoy the day, we’ve also got ideas to help you plan a small, yet totally fabulous, completely hands-off event. Welcome to our birthday party planning playbook, with tried-and-true party ideas and games to make your celebration simply unforgettable.

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Backyard Olympics

Kids and adults alike will bond over some friendly competition. Set up a few games (three to five will do just fine), divide the party into teams, and DIY a scoreboard. Once a winner’s been declared, host a makeshift award ceremony—just make sure to have prizes on hand for the winning team.

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Around the World Party

Take your guests on a journey with an around-the-world-themed party. Each room of your house should be focused on a different destination, which allows your friends and family to experience multiple cuisines and drinks all at once. Take them to France with Champagne and a cheese spread filled with brie and Roquefort, followed by a trip to Japan filled with sake and sushi. There’s no limit to how many destinations you can squeeze into one unforgettable night.

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Spa Party

If you’re looking for self-care, rest, and relaxation in honor of your birthday, plan a spa party. All you need is a few beauty essentials, like at-home face masks, manicure and pedicure kits, plus a spa-inspired menu (think: tea sandwiches and cucumber water) to make this a luxe and zen experience for you and your besties.

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Girls’ Night In

Grab your girlfriends for a girls’ (or guys’, for that matter) night in that includes plenty of snacks, beverages, and classic romantic comedies. You don’t have to go all out with shiny disco balls and balloons (why not, though?)—a few colorful throws and pillows will do just fine. If you need extra seating, you can even put a few pillows or poufs on the floor. Serve up creative offerings like pink puppy chow and adult juice boxes.

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Rainbow Party

Rainbow is an inexpensive party theme that can be easily carried throughout, from the decor to the truly impressive layer cake.

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Kids’ Art Party

Any good kids’ party will be rife with activities, and a crafternoon, complete with Play-Doh, necklace-making, and painting is the perfect way to keep rowdy boys and girls busy.

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Karaoke Party

Whether you venture out to a karaoke bar or want to plan a karaoke experience at home, this is a foolproof party idea for music lovers of any age. Make sure your guests come prepared with song ideas, and if you’re hosting it at home, have your karaoke machine, decorations, and drinks ready to set the stage for fun.

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Summer Garden Party

If you’re celebrating a summer birthday, take advantage of the warm weather and set up a formal meal in the midst of your garden or a local park. We love the idea of putting the seating directly on the ground to make the event feel like a fancy picnic of sorts. Don’t forget the cafe lights, which add the most perfect glow.

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Brunch Party

Who said birthday parties have to be in the afternoon? Start the special day on the right foot with a brunch, complete with an awe-inspiring doughnut board.

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Moon and Stars Party

A celestial theme is sweet for kids, but it’s also a romantic idea for an adults-only dinner party.

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Pokemon Party

Pokemon is a classic theme that both boys and girls love. And it hinges on just a few simple colors—black, red, and white—so you can bring the idea to life relatively inexpensively.

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S’mores Party

If the weather is ripe for it, try a backyard bonfire complete with a s’mores bar. Set out all kinds of chocolate, various flavors of graham crackers, and big, puffy marshmallows. No campfire? No problem—try an indoor camp theme with an electric s’mores maker at the center of it all.

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Game Night

Who doesn’t love a good game night? There are plenty of classic board games guest will love, but you can really get creative by surprising party-goers with a custom version of Scattergories.

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Potluck Party

If you’re not much of a birthday person, a potluck party might be the best approach. Let your friends and family help you bring the celebration to life by assigning each guest a different course, dish, or item to bring. Make sure the host handles any heavy components or dishes that are difficult to transport. These parties really let your guests shine, which is the perfect situation for those who don’t love being the center of attention!

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Pool Party

On a hot summer day, there’s nothing better than the classic pool party—especially one with plenty of fun floats. And it turns out, you can make a splash even without a pool of your own—these days you can easily rent one through sites like Swimply. Not exactly warm? You can also get some inflatable pools and set them up in your living room as drink holders (just add ice and beverages!)

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Puppy Party

The surest way to bring a smile to your guests’ faces? Puppies, of course. Turn your living room into a puppy cafe of sorts, and invite everyone to bring their four-legged friends. Alternatively, you could even turn your party into a fundraiser for shelter animals by asking for donations in lieu of gifts. If you don’t feel comfortable asking for cash, suggest donations like old linens and towels, dog or cat food, and other items shelters frequently need.

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Movie Marathon

Queue up some of your favorite flicks on your streaming platform of choice and set up a snack bar reminiscent of the ones they have at the theater. You’ll want to have plenty of candy, some truly buttery popcorn, and some soda on hand. Midway through, hit pause to take a swing at this on-theme piñata.

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Minecraft Birthday Party

If there’s one theme that’s sure to please middle school-age kids, it’s Minecraft. Surprise the birthday boy or girl and their friends by bringing their favorite gaming characters to life.

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Dinosaur Party

Have a roaring good time celebrating any birthday boy or girl with a dinosaur-themed event. We love the idea of shaking things up with bold colors rather than the traditional greens and browns.

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Under the Sea Party

It’s easy to bring an undersea theme to life—lean on a host of clear balloons and iridescent cellophane to play backdrop to your buffet, then make sure to add some cleverly displayed food, like the adorable crab dip pictured here.

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Disco Party

For teenagers or adults, consider throwing a disco party with this amazing metallic balloon wall as the centerpiece of it all.

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Lego Party

A Lego party is a fun and engaging theme for both girls and boys–especially if you set up a big workstation where all the kids can put their heads together to create an entire world made out of the building blocks. You can even stream the movie based on the classic toy in the background.

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Sports Watch Party

When it comes time to celebrate the sports enthusiasts in your life, why not host a watch party? Grab a projector for a more immersive experience and set up your very own concession stand.

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Tea Party

For a light meal centered around a special birthday, consider a tea party. Scour local garage sales or eBay for vintage plates and cups to set your table or buffet for maximum effect.

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Superhero Party

You don’t have to buy fully licensed party decor to host a cool superhero party. Instead, plan out a few easy DIYs, like a city backdrop made out of construction paper, hand-lettered comic strip words, and masked Mylar balloons.

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Indoor Picnic

Turns out you can picnic even in the colder months. Set up a cozy and intimate meal on the floor. Bonus points if you have a small table, but it’s not necessary—blankets, throw pillows, and a host of trays work just as well.

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Backyard Barbecue

A backyard barbecue is one of the more standard birthday party ideas, but it’s one that can be made more interesting with a few clever touches, like a build-your-own gourmet hot dog bar.

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’90s Sleepover

The ’90s are back, baby! Take your party guests for a walk down memory lane with a slumber party complete with their favorite throwbacks—the Magic Eight ball, lava lamps, inflatable chairs, ring pops, Mall Madness, and more. Adults take note: Your guests don’t actually have to sleep over—just have them come in pajamas for effect.

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Ice Cream Party

Center your party around a treat just about everyone loves: ice cream. You can craft these cakes made to look like ice cream, or set up a gigantic sundae bar full of unique flavors and toppings.

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Tropical Garden Party

Longing to get away, but stuck at home? Bring the beach to you with a backyard luau. To set the mood, grab some palm fronds and tropical flowers from your local garden center. Then serve a host of summer cocktails for the adults—piña coladas, strawberry daiquiris, and frozen margaritas are all great choices.

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25 Best Birthday Party Activities for Children

I’ve been sharing children/s birthday party ideas for over a decade, and I’ve come across tons of fun birthday party activities for kids. So if you’re planning your child’s birthday party, come along… I’ve got just the activity for you!

A word on selecting the best party activity for your child’s birthday party. You know your child best. And you want your child’s birthday party to be fun. But here are a few things to remember when picking out a game or activity for the party.

Age of the Children – Keep in mind the ages of the party guests and select an activity suited for that age group. Younger children (2-4) will need parental help for arts and crafts activities. Older children (6+) have a lot of energy to burn off so stick to activities like backyard tag and anything that lets them run!
Weather – You can’t predict the weather but try to always keep it in mind and prepare a rain plan!
Your Child’s Interests – You might envision the perfect birthday party activity but try to choose a game or activity that you know your birthday girl or birthday boy will love!
Helping Hands – Some activities are naturally more messy than others. Arts and crafts? Consider having a few extra parents on hand to help along and perhaps having smocks or large t-shirts to avoid messy clothes.

Now let’s get to the fun part! All the best birthday activities for children! Some of these kids’ birthday party ideas are naturally geared towards boys and some more towards girls but many of these are perfect for mixed gender parties with boys and girls!

Kids Birthday Party Ideas: Activities

Gardening: Planting a Mini Garden Activity

Kids love to get their hands dirty (with cute gardening gloves from the dollar store, of course) so why not let them each create their own little garden to take home?

I love kid’s birthday party activities that double as a take-home favor too! Just buy a few different flats of flowers and let each child select a handful and plant them in soil. They can learn all about caring for their garden too!

Build a Fairy Garden

Take the garden one step further and let each child create their own enchanted fairy garden! Visit the dollar store for gems, pebbles, mini bird houses to use as “fairy houses”, and paint for them to decorate their house.

See more of this Enchanted Fairy Garden Party here! I go into more detail all about how we created this cute birthday party activity!

Decorating Cakes

If you have little ones that LOVE to help in the kitchen and love arts and crafts, let them “paint cakes” with edible food-safe paints. You can pick a few different colors, grab some sponges and paint brushes and let them paint!

Princess Academy

I absolutely LOVE this party activity for girls! A princess party is one of the most popular birthday party themes, so read on if you’re hosting a princess party!

I had my mom act as the “fairy godmother” to my daughter and her friends at her Princess Party. She read all the little girls a princess book, taught them how to sit like a princess, tea party table etiquette, wave and walk like a princess and a princess curtsy!

Each little girl had a ball earning her very own certificate of completion from princess academy!

For boys, you could do something similar where they all earn a superhero certificate, cowboy certificate, pirate certificate, the possibilities are endless! This is a great birthday party activity if it is rainy outside.

Decorate “Unicorn Horns”

Unicorn birthday parties are all the rage, so pick a birthday party activity to keep the little unicorn lovers busy! I adore how DarlingDarleen.com set up this party craft with ice cream cones and colored frosting! See more on her site here!

Sports Theme: Putt-Putt and Golf Lessons

You can find very inexpensive kids’ golf sets (I got these at Walmart) and they make the BEST birthday party activity for golf-themed parties (or any party for that matter).

Thankfully, my husband was a golf pro at the time so I made him “teach lessons” to my daughter and her friends at her golf birthday party. Set up a “putting green” in your backyard!

Decorate Cupcakes

Similar to the cake painting, one year we had my daughter and her friends all decorate cupcakes for her “Sprinkle Themed Birthday Party”. I used art palettes from the dollar store filled with various sprinkles. You can customize the sprinkles to fit your party theme.

This is a great idea for younger children because they don’t have to use a frosting tube or anything. It’s simply sprinkle on the cupcakes! These were a huge hit!

Sports Themed: Baseball

Batter’s Up! Sports themed birthday parties naturally have a built-in party activity with that sport, if you can host it on a field or turn your backyard into the right set-up for that sport. This baseball themed party is one of my favorites!

More Birthday Party Activities for Children

Set up an Arts & Crafts Station

This is a great one if you’re unsure of weather! Set up a small table with paper, markers, crayons, colored pencils, paints and print off free coloring sheets to match the theme of your party! If you’re hosting the party at a local restaurant, take these items with you (not the paint! Stick to crayons!) to keep the little ones busy while waiting for pizza or cake.

Host a Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger hunts are a great way to keep the kids busy and let them run around! You can host a scavenger hunt indoors or outside (or a combination!). There’s nothing more exciting to kids than running around for the next clue in a birthday scavenger hunt! See more of this idea and TONS of birthday scavenger hunt tips at House of Mahalo!

Host a Treasure Hunt

This is PERFECT for a pirate party. Fill a treasure chest with gold chocolate coins and little toys. X marks the spot! Give the kids a map to the treasure and let them go hunting for their prizes!

Spa Party: Manicures and Pedicures

Spa parties are so fun for little girls and what better activity than a nail station set up for manicures and pedicures! Let each little girl go home with a nail polish as a coordinating favor!

You can take it one step further and break the guests into small groups and have little spa stations they can rotate like facials, manicures, pedicures, hair, etc.

Set up a Relay Race

Set up competitive games like a relay race with different stations! Here are a few ideas to get you started. Based on the number of kids you have, you can divide them into teams or let everyone compete 1:1.

Sack Race
Three-Legged Race
Egg Race – see who can walk with an egg on their spoon without it breaking the fastest!

Set up an Obstacle Course

This is a great one if you have a larger backyard or host the party at a local park. Jac of All Things has the BEST blog post for how to create an obstacle course party! Let them play games after their obstacle course!

Play Musical Chairs

This classic game is always fun at a kids birthday party, especially for younger kids! Set up chairs in a circle, remove one chair so you have one less chair than participants. Turn on the music and when someone cuts the music off, everyone must find a seat on a chair. Whoever is left without a chair is out! Remove a chair and repeat! The last one sitting in a chair wins.

Petting Zoo

A petting zoo is a great idea for young children. Kids LOVE animals so set up a petting zoo if you have a company locally that can bring a variety of animals to your party. Or sometimes you can have a horse brought in for pony rides. See more from this petting zoo party on Kara’s Party Ideas!

Dance Party

This birthday party activity is great for kids of all ages. Everyone loves a dance party! Grab a colorful disco globe and turn your living room into a festive dance party! Create a Spotify playlist prior to the party so you have your jams ready to go.

A dance party is also a great party idea that doesn’t add any additional cost!

Ballet Lessons

A ballerina party is always a classic party theme for little girls and what better activity than a little ballet lesson for all the little girls? Encourage each girl to wear a tutu (or pass them out as favors) and watch the little ballerinas shine! This is best held at a ballet studio or dance studio, but could also be done at home with a parent willing to step in and teach!

Bounce House

If you want an easy birthday party activity you KNOW all the kids will love, get a bounce house! Just make sure you have a large open space in your backyard or host it at a park.

Farm Party Activities

Farm parties are just so cute! Set up different little games and activity stations like a county fair, such as moo ring toss, ride a pony (can be a toy pony on a stick style), etc. See more from the farm party above from Kara’s Party Ideas!

Pizza Making

Kids love to cook so why not host a birthday party where they can all make their own pizzas? I love how Jen of HWTM combined a Super Mario Brothers theme with pizza making, how perfect? Video game parties can be tricky as far as finding an activity (other than just playing video games) so I love how she incorporated a cooking activity!

Fossil Dig

If your child wants a dinosaur party, then a fossil dig is a great backyard party activity that’s easy to set-up and SO fun for the kids! Learn how to make dinosaur fossils here. Hide them and other plastic fossils down in sand as shown by So Festive!

Pool Party

This birthday party idea is seasonally dependent (unless you find an indoor pool location) but hosting a pool party has a built-in party activity! Break out the pool noodles, fun floats, water balloons and sprinklers for extra pool party fun!

Laser Tag

Laser tag is always a popular party activity because kids love it! Here are some tips for styling a laser tag party!

Bonus Holiday Birthday Party Activity

Decorating Gingerbread Houses

My birthday is in late November so growing up I had many birthday parties where my friends and I decorated gingerbread houses! Each guest got to take home her gingerbread house and they used them as decoration for Christmas! I have a full how to make a gingerbread house tutorial you can check out!

Adult birthday contests: funny, vulgar, funny, modern

When a group of adults gather around the table to celebrate someone’s birthday, as a rule, the feast turns into nostalgic memories of the past. There is nothing wrong with this, but turning such a happy day into empty chatter and stuffing your stomachs with delicious food is not at all the format of the holiday that the birthday person wants. How to revive such a company? Of course, use the funniest contests! Their choice is so large and varied that it is suitable for both liberated young people and more mature birthday people.

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Cheerful toasting tasks for guests

Not all people love and know how to make toasts, and many simply get off with the banal “I wish you health and happiness!”. Therefore, very funny alcohol contests for the birthday of adults are especially popular. To avoid these difficulties, and at the same time to amuse the audience, you can invite guests to say congratulations in an unusual style. Each guest needs to be given a piece of paper on which instructions are given on how he should pronounce his toast. Here are some fun options here:

Compose a congratulatory phrase, all the words of which would begin with one letter, for example, “We wish you hot wishes, a cheerful life, burning women!”.
Use some animal in the greeting, for example, “Stay slim like a deer!”.
Associate a congratulatory speech with food, for example, “May your life be sweet as honey!”.
Pronounce a toast in a foreign language.
Give a list of words from which the speaker must make his own toast.
Sing your congratulations.

Dirty contests

Soft-boiled eggs

Those who are looking for funny mobile contests can choose one that will become the apogee of a party for a well-heated company. The most “torn off” men will agree to participate in it. A transparent plastic bag with a pair of raw chicken eggs is tied to the belt of each participant on a string so that they hang at the level of the knees. The first pair is called to the “ring”. The “fighters”, legs wide apart and slightly crouching, begin to swing their egg bags with the help of swaying their hips, trying to hit them on the opponent’s balls. The one whose eggs will not stand and break, leaves the battlefield in disgrace, to which the next pair is invited.

The winners who have kept both or at least one egg then meet among themselves, revealing the final winner, who after the end of the competition can safely be called “The Man with the Strongest Eggs” and awarded with a special prize. Although traditionally this game is played among men, it can also be played by women (after all, it is the hen that lays the eggs, not the rooster).

Women’s tricks

This is not the end of vulgar birthday contests for adults. The next one is only for men who are going to feel a bit like women for a while. At the same time, the task before them is not at all difficult, every woman does it with ease every day – you need to put on a bra, and as quickly as possible. Such a trick is not easy for all men, so it will be fun for the assembled guests to watch the attempts of men.

When all participants of the competition can finally put on “cups”, having revealed the winner, then the next task will be to remove them, again, competing for a while. Surely among the participants there is one who, puffing and blushing, will say that he is used to taking bras off girls, and not putting them on himself.

Cheerful replacement

For this competition, you need to choose a girl and two guys. The girl is laid on the sofa, and small edible objects (nuts, pieces of cookies, etc.) are laid out on her body. After that, one of the guys is blindfolded and offered to eat everything that lies on the girl, without hands and blindfolded. At the command of the host, the guy starts sophisticated attempts, but the thing is that before, instead of the girl, another guy quietly appears on the couch. More and more, the guy who comes into lust only then begins to feel something was wrong when wild laughter begins around him.

But remember – such obscene birthday contests are only allowed for adults with a good sense of humor. Therefore, include this competition in your list only if you are sure that the company will adequately respond to it.

Funny intimate contests

Beautiful girl

Among the guests of the party, the leader needs to choose several ladies who came in skirts. Finding them, he lays a rug on the floor, and blindfolds the ladies. Their task is to pass over the mat with legs wide apart so as not to touch it. After all the girls have completed this task, the leader quickly lays himself face up over the rug and asks the ladies to remove their blindfolds. The winner of the competition is the lady who, at the sight of the opened picture, blushes more than others. How do you like this funny intimate birthday contest?

Default

Collect 3-4 pairs to participate in the contest. Girls under an incendiary melody should “make deposits” – hide small denomination banknotes in the clothes of their young people. When all the “contributions” are made, the young people are switched, and the host suddenly shouts “Default! Get your deposits!” Under a different melody, the girls must have time to find and withdraw “deposits” within a certain time. It will be even more interesting to offer to take other people’s “deposits”.

Fun contests and entertainment

For some reason, respectable people more often believe that entertainment contests are more to the face of the kids, however, this is not so. Even respectable adult uncles and aunts can get involved in funny birthday contests. You just need to relax, trust the host, and get not only pleasure, but also a good mood!

Compromising evidence

Adults should involve married couples in such contests and birthday parties. Men, secretly from their wives, write on a piece of paper under the numbers the names of 10 any animals. The women in their circle do the same. When the game starts, the host begins the phrase and asks the wives to continue it with the word that is under the first number in the list, and words are added strictly according to the list for the next questions. It turns out that the husband:

Handsome as…
Sweet as…
Sociable as…
Independent as…
Authoritative like…
Strong as…
Fast as…
Similar in character to…
Looks like…
Etc.

Then the turn to characterize the wives goes to the husbands. And then it turns out that the wife:

With relatives, like …
In transport, like …
In the store like…
With colleagues like…
With girlfriends like…
In a cafe or restaurant, like …
On vacation like…
With children, like…
At the spa like. ..
Etc.

Draw an elephant

The guests are divided into two teams, who are each given a sheet of paper. Then the team members take turns and blindfolded to draw the elements of an elephant: the first is the body, the second is the head, the third is the trunk, the fourth is the legs, etc. The team whose drawing is a little more like this animal is declared the winner.

Substitution

Holiday birthday contests do not have to be crowded, for example, 3 people participate in this. The host sits them at the table and puts a plate in front of each: one with a slice of banana, the other with an apple, the third with a slice of cake. After that, he blindfolds them and explains that they must, on command, as quickly as possible, without using their hands, eat their treat. But after all the participants are blindfolded, their desserts are replaced with something else, for example, instead of a banana, a cucumber, instead of an apple, a lemon, and instead of a cake, a piece of sausage with mustard. The participant who, despite the unexpected taste of his treat, will be the first to eat it will win.

Milk a cow

Do you want balloon contests? They can be extremely fun, especially if they are not ordinary balloons, but medical gloves. Participants should be divided into pairs and each pair should be given a rubber glove, with pinholes on each finger. Water is poured into the gloves. One player holds a glove, and the second tries to “milk” it. Whoever milks more is the winner. This competition looks all the more fun the less people who know what the milking process looks like participate in it.

Potato

Cool mobile contests are very diverse. In this case, pairs of players can compete, to the belt of which a potato is tied on a long cord, which should almost touch the floor. Two empty packs of cigarettes are placed on the floor at the start line. The task of the rivals is to push the pack of potatoes swinging between the legs to the finish line faster than the opponent.

Cool harmless contests for everyone

25 compliments

All guests of the holiday should be divided into 2 teams and each should be given a blank sheet of paper. In 2.5 minutes, each team must write 25 compliments on their sheet. After that, the host selects the sheets and compares the inscriptions on them, crossing out the same compliments. The team that wrote more original congratulations is declared the winner.

Communication

There are also competitions for the birthday boy, in which he takes part on an equal basis with the invited guests, and here he gets the main role. The birthday boy is seated in the center of the room on a chair or at the head of the table so that from there he can see all those gathered. Only the host stands behind him and from there shows the guests cards with some facts (“wears a suit”, “has given birth to twins”, “traveled abroad”, “rides a bicycle”, etc.) relating to someone from those present. The one to whom this fact applies must rise from his seat, and there may be several such people. The task of the birthday man is to understand what fact connects these people.

Find me

The host should hand out pieces of paper to all those present at the birthday party, on which they should describe their appearance. After that, all the leaves are collected in a box or bag. The host takes the first sheet out of the box, reads it out, and everyone tries to guess who this description fits. Each contestant has only one attempt per description. The winner of the competition is the one who was able to identify the most guests from the descriptions.

Magic balloon

This modern birthday contest is a bit like the American habit of wrapping small gifts in lots of big boxes. Well, we can transfer this tradition in the form of a joke to our holiday. To do this, we blind the “magic” ball.

First you need to prepare: find short riddles and write them on scraps of paper. Then you need to take a small souvenir and wrap it in foil. Attach a piece of paper with a riddle to the foil with tape. Then wrap the gift again with the next layer of foil and attach another puzzle to it again. As a result of such layers, at least 6-7 should be obtained. At the same time, the most difficult riddle should be in the depths, and the simplest one on the outside.

Next, you need to throw lots, who will be the first to begin to unfold the resulting magic ball. After removing the first layer of foil, the first participant gets to the first riddle, which he must solve in 5 seconds. If he fails, then everyone else comes to his aid, and the one who does it first gets the right to remove the next layer of foil and guess the second riddle. In the end, whoever solves the last riddle wins the prize.

Guess

Such competitions for adults are quite acceptable at a children’s birthday party. Guests need to be divided into two teams, which should be seated on opposite sides of the table. Determine a leader for each team. The first team must guess a word on a topic related to the celebration of the birthday, and its leader must secretly say this word to the leader of the opposing team. He should try to portray this word to his team with facial expressions and gestures. The players can ask him questions, but the facilitator can only nod “yes” or “no”.

You can guess the word for 3 minutes, and if it remains unguessed, then the team is punished by a phantom, for example, to sing a song in honor of the birthday boy.

How to use?

An item is placed on the table in front of the contestants. Next, they take turns to come up with a real action that can be performed with this object. The player who could not come up with another application is eliminated from the competition. In the end, there is only one winner.

Conductor

To all players, the leading “conductor” distributes cards with the names of cities – “tickets” with destinations. It then starts asking if the player knows what country their city is in. If he answers correctly, then the conductor punches his ticket. The winner is the “traveler” who scored the most validated tickets.

Music contests

Chastushok contest

Unusual music contests are always fun. For this song competition, you need to prepare prizes and a list of interesting words that should be inserted into the composed ditties. From the guests present, you need to put together several teams of 3-5 people. Then the facilitator pronounces a word that each team must insert into their ditty. About 3-5 minutes are allocated for creativity. The team that did not have time to compose something is eliminated from the competition, and the rest perform their ditties to the music. Then comes the turn of a new word and new ditties.

The team that manages to compose the most ditties wins. If several teams coped with the task equally well, then the winner is determined by the volume of applause.

Who is thinking about what

If you decide not only to dance, but also to make a funny musical break, then you should first ask the presenter to prepare cool music contests. He will select in advance fragments from songs that can somehow characterize the appearance or thoughts of the guests, and will also find a spectacular hat. When all the guests are sitting at the table, the host announces that he has got a magic hat that can read minds. After that, he puts it on the head of the guest and at the same time a fragment of the song is turned on.

Which competitions did you like the most? What other interesting entertainment can you offer for an adult’s birthday? Write about it in the comments.

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Birthday contests

If you work in a friendly team that loves good parties, then contests for a fun company will definitely come in handy for you. And if you just throw parties for your friends or children from time to time, then you know how interesting contests are held in high esteem, especially when people in the company are not very familiar with each other, but you still want to overcome embarrassment.

Contents

1 Why is it all necessary
2 Birthday Toast Game
3 Sitting Entertainment at the Table
4 My Pants Game
908 0 I-games 6 Ball of Destiny
7 Game “Why I came here”
8 Game “I’ll tell you a secret”
9 Changeling games
10 Game Who we really are

we will not point fingers, but most often these are not the most positive of our comrades) sometimes they ask the question – why all these contests? Usually I get off with jokes or weightily answer that otherwise it will be boring.

In fact, the reason, of course, is not boredom. Any holiday for adults most often involves alcohol, and in order for guests not to be too zealous with breastfeeding, they need to be a little distracted, amused, and simply raised to dance.

Another important aspect is embarrassment, which I often encounter when throwing a party for my children or nephews. They have already gone beyond the age when you can just come up and start playing together, and when children who are unfamiliar with each other are in the same company, you need to help them overcome a little chill in communication.

The only place where you can do without additional entertainment is a youth party in a good club, where it is not boring even without fun competitions for adults, and it is better to help any company of adults to spend time with pleasure and fun.

Getting ready

Don’t think you can prepare the whole party, including adult board games, at the last second. I usually set aside a few days for this because it will require:

to write the script;
pick up competitions for adults;
find or buy props;
stock up on small prizes for winners;
minimally rehearse (for example, if it is assumed that several large aunts from the accounting department will compete in bag jumps, then you need to check in advance whether the room can withstand such a scale and whether there is where to turn around).

Ideally, an assistant is needed for all this.

Birthday Toast Game

How to prepare fun birthday contests? It is best if they are at least a little connected with the hero of the occasion. An example of the simplest word game for a birthday is a toast to a birthday person, composed right there at the table.

What is required for this entertainment? A pen and a postcard in which you need to write a congratulatory text in advance, making gaps instead of adjectives – you will fill them in together with the guests.

Blank text for congratulating the birthday man:

more familiar with this type of table creativity, they will surely screw in something sudden and caustic.

While the guests are praising the birthday boy, you diligently fill in the words instead of the missing adjectives, and then read out the result loudly and with expression to the friendly laughter of the whole company.

Pick up one or two outdoor games on your birthday – for example, a small quest that can be arranged anywhere. Don’t make it too long, three to five steps will be enough.

Download the quest “Puzzles”

Download the quest “Pictures”

Download the quest “Riddles”

By the way, if you have enough courage, then try to make the main subject of the quest the key, which is closed to the banquet hall.

Good funny birthday contests also come from the usual restrictions – playing with forks makes guests moan with laughter. To hold this contest, you need to take a few ordinary items (if you are organizing a game on your birthday, these can be especially durable gifts that cannot be scratched or broken) and two dinner forks, as well as a thick scarf. The hero of the occasion is blindfolded, given forks, with which he can touch this or that object, and offered to guess what is in front of him.

Children’s or teenage party? Fun competitions for teenagers will help to defuse the situation no worse than competitions for adults. Fun entertainment can be done with four bananas and a stool (a coffee table will do). The essence is simple – you need to get on all fours, and using only your teeth to clean and eat a banana for a while.

Good contests for young people should be fun and very funny. Competitions for teenagers can also be theatrical. Prepare several sets of props (ordinary household items in unexpected combinations – for example, a hairbrush, a burnt out light bulb and a chair cover in one set, and a mop, a soft toy and a bright plastic glass in another), and also prepare several titles of popular films, focus on your audience – it is better to take what is familiar to everyone.

The essence of the task is to act out a scene from a movie using props. The winners are determined by applause.

“Seated entertainment” at the table

What to do if mobile competitions are not suitable for a feast? In this situation, it is better to pick up something neutral – the usual word games at the table like “crocodile” go very, very well.

“In My Pants” Game

Take pre-made or create your own adult birthday contests – for example, you can use the idea “In My Pants”.

The name need not be declared. The guests sit at the table, each tells his neighbor on the right the name of the film that came to his mind. And he remembers what his neighbor will tell him.

And then the facilitator announces: Now each of you in turn will say the following aloud: “In my pants …” , and then the name of the movie that your neighbor told you.

All guests speak in turn. It will be funny if someone has “Office Romance” or “300 Spartans” in their pants.

I-games

Fun table contests can be based on anything. For example, there are several varieties of “I”-games. One is predominantly teenage – in it two players compete to see how many candies fit in their mouths, after each candy you need to more or less clearly pronounce any stupid phrase, for example, “I’m a fat-cheeked lip-slapper.”

The adult version of the game is slightly different – guests must introduce themselves (pronounce the word 9 with a serious and unperturbed look0319 “I” ) in a circle until one of them gets confused or distracted (by the way, laughter is also considered a defeat), and the host invites other guests to give him a funny nickname.

After that, the fun begins, which unites all table contests like a chain reaction – it can be very difficult not to laugh, and after a couple of minutes everyone has a nickname that he introduces himself to (for example: “I am a furry pseudopod”, “I am a cheerful armpit ”, “I am a rosy-cheeked lip-slap”, etc.)

In the next round, the laugher is given a second nickname, and he must pronounce it in full (“I am a furry pseudopod – green Chingachgook”).

Usually this game ends on the fourth round because everyone is laughing! This competition is best done when the guests are already a little “on the fun”.

Ball of Destiny

Not only birthday contests are remembered by guests, but also the end of the evening. At any party, it would be appropriate to pay a little attention to the guests, for preparation you will need several balloons (according to the number of those present, plus a few in reserve), and notes with good rhyming wishes – when the invitees begin to disperse or you need to change their mood to a more positive one, invite the guests to choose their own balloon fate and burst it.

Collective readings of good wishes are usually accompanied by good-natured laughter and cheer up everyone.

Examples of wishes can be downloaded below, and then printed and cut out:

Over time, you will assemble your own collection of cool birthday contests and, according to the mood of the guests, you will understand which contests for the holiday will go with a bang, and which are better to arrange in an easy drunk.

All-in-One Ideas & Tips

Save some all-in-one company contests so you can be sure you’ll find something to do in any situation. If you are a novice presenter and do not have much experience, then it is better to have a separate notebook for board games and contests, as well as prepare props – for example, some games require sets of cards with recorded song or movie names.

As a rule, competitions for a drunken company are often very nasty, and this is understandable – adults become liberated when drunk.

Why I Came Here Game

Prepare entertainment that involves dancing or cuddling so guests can express their warmth in an appropriate way.

Game “I’ll tell you a secret”

An interesting entertainment for which you need to get a little prepared – “I’ll tell you a secret.” What is the essence of the game? Everything is very simple – each of the guests pulls out cards from a hat with a funny text prepared in advance in verse (here you have to try). All cards begin with the words “I’ll tell you a secret”, and then options are already possible, for example:

I’ll tell you a secret that I don’t wear underwear, if you’re in doubt, I’ll show you now;
I’ll tell you a secret, I’m on a diet, I eat only grass, I don’t look at meatballs.

If you’re looking for moving contests like best dance or running around chairs, make sure there’s enough space around for people of all sizes to feel comfortable.

Do you prefer contests for a small company? It happens that you need contests for parties, but for sure there will not be too big a company, try to play something chamber and not requiring a lot of people. These can be text games and competitions for a small company, or verbal ones, for example:

Burime;
writing a fairy tale line by line;
forfeits.

Flipping Games

Ask the guests to guess the lines from the songs. Examples can be downloaded here:

or TV show titles:

The game Who We Really Are

Looking for some fun anniversary contests? Then karaoke contests for an adult company and a table game Who we really are have been invented especially for you. This is a card game, the guests take turns drawing cards and reading the quatrains printed on them – usually each is met with smiles and laughter.

But karaoke contests are a great kind of entertainment for a large group of adults, and the older you get, the more emotional the game is. It is necessary to select several participants, as well as to establish a jury (usually all the guests who gathered at the birthday table play its role).

And then the usual karaoke duel goes on, but each participant must not only perform a song, but also artistically present it – you can play imaginary instruments, use simple props and invite “spectators”. Good mood is guaranteed for everyone!

In general, if you need to celebrate a birthday at home, karaoke is a great way to entertain a motley company at the table. It often happens that elderly relatives and young people meet at a birthday party, and people who are simply not very familiar with each other – song games will help unite everyone, and over tea and cake you can play board games – fortunately, now there are enough of them.

If you decide to prepare interesting entertainment and games for a drunk company, then it is better to refrain from what can be perceived as offensive – unfortunately, people do not always separate the gaming genre from reality, especially if they are not sober, which often happens in the company of friends and friends on holidays.