Birthday game with eyes closed. Funny birthday contests for adults

To make your birthday truly fun, interesting, and noisy, it will not be enough to take care only of a delicious festive table. It is important to think about interesting entertainment for guests. For example, pick up funny table contests for an adult’s birthday.

You shouldn’t just invite guests who come to your home or restaurant to immediately take part in cool competitions. First, you need to give the invitees the opportunity to calmly chat, rest, relax, and, of course, try all the offered treats. It is better to move on to entertainment at the moment when guests begin to get a little bored.

There are many fun birthday contests. The following are especially popular among adults:

  1. "Never give up!". All guests who are ready to participate in the competition are divided into pairs: man-girl. The participants of each tandem turn their backs to each other and become closer. The hands of the girl and the man are tied. At the command of an outside participant, all pairs begin to squat. Gradually, tired people drop out of the competition. The fun continues until only one couple remains squatting. Participants who do not give up are awarded a prize.
  2. "Chinese guests." Participants receive a saucer with a small amount of boiled rice sprinkled on it, as well as special chopsticks. It is important that the portions are the same. After the host's command, the guests begin to eat rice from the plate. The winner is the one who is the first to successfully complete the task. Instead of rice, you can use other foods and dishes.
  3. "Dream Bags" The host of the competition picks up two bags at once. One contains notes from guests, on which it is written what they would like to give to the hero of the occasion if they had an unlimited amount of money. In the other there are cards with cool tasks. The birthday person must alternately choose a note-card pair. The host of the competition announces to him that he will be able to receive the specified gift if its author completes the specified task. The result can be a lot of fun active entertainment, depending on the content of the cards in the second bag. There can be creative, sports and any other tasks.
  4. "Trick". Each guest is invited to recite a poem loudly, beautifully and with expression, trying to “outdo” the other participants with their performance. After all the texts have been spoken, the presenter says that it is time to reveal the winner. And suddenly it will become, for example, the person who turns out to be the tallest, or Blue eyes, or maximum foot size. You can come up with a lot of funny interesting options. The main thing is that expressive reading of poetry will be completely “off topic”.
  5. "Figure skating". Participants are briefly invited to become single skaters or work in pairs. Special music is played for each person or couple. For example, in a minute the participant must “skate” on imaginary skates, demonstrating his artistry and skill. The rest of the guests will evaluate the performance and give points. The winner will be one person or a couple.
  6. "Eye meter". All guests are invited to take turns trying to determine by eye the size of the shoes and clothes of their neighbor at the table. The competition goes in circles. When a participant manages to correctly name the size of the guest sitting next to him, he receives a miniature gift, but if not, he will have to drink a “penalty drink.”
  7. "Memories of childhood." Guests are invited to remember the very first years of their life and their favorite fairy tale or cartoon character. Next - each participant in the competition must go to the center of the hall and everyone possible ways portray this very hero. The rest of the guests will try to guess it. The prize goes to the person whose character those present guessed the fastest.
  8. “Write a ditty.” All guests are divided into small teams. It will be enough for 4-5 people in each. The birthday boy tells them a couple of any words, and the formed teams must write funny ditties in a minute. The winner will be determined by applause.

Any of the proposed competitions can be changed to your liking. For example, instead of ditties, suggest writing a joke, and instead of determining the size of clothes, suggest guessing the age of your neighbor.

The best table contests and games for an adult birthday

If the holiday is organized in a small apartment, it will be most convenient to use “sit-down” table competitions for adults. So that guests do not have to get up from their seats to complete tasks.

Mobile competitions

Even at the table you can organize outdoor games for adults. For example, invite each participant to depict cheerful dance in honor of the birthday boy, without getting up from your chair or sofa.

Or - turn on a selection of melodies of famous songs and invite the one who was the first to recognize it and is ready to guess it to clap loudly. The winner can be awarded a music prize. For example, a songbook or a collection of hits on a disc.

Hot dances

If the competition is based on fiery dances, you will still have to get up from the table. But you don’t need a lot of space to carry it out. Guests can sit next to their chairs.

It is dance competitions that make the holiday fun. If the presenter tries, it will be possible to involve everyone who wants to participate in them.

For the first version of such a competition, all participants stand in a circle, and the presenter asks the person standing next to him which part of his neighbor’s body is the most attractive. Then everyone takes each other for this very part and dances together. The places are constantly changing, becoming more and more fun. Of course, in such a competition you need to forget about vulgarity so as not to spoil it.

For a cheerful and noisy company, a dance competition with raw eggs is suitable. They are placed in a transparent bag, 2-3 pieces each. and hung on the participant’s belt so that the structure is between the legs. Next, the guests dance merrily right with the eggs. You can pair people up. The winner of the competition is the person who has the most whole eggs left after the fiery dance.

Another interesting dance option is with a rope. For such a competition, guests line up in a row. Fun, catchy songs are played. All participants begin to dance actively.

At this time, two people from the guests pull the rope wide and head towards the dancing and having fun. The participants’ task is to successfully step over the obstacle each time. The rope constantly rises higher and higher. The winner is the dancer who lasts the longest.

A competition with dancing in a circle is also popular. Participants should stand approximately a meter apart from each other. Throughout the game, music is played, constantly changing.

One of the guests stands in the center of the circle and begins to dance to the beat of the melody. The rest of the participants repeat all the movements after him. As soon as the song changes, so does the presenter. The game is repeated until each guest has time to stand in the center of the circle. The most graceful and cheerful dancer wins.

Intellectual competitions

Competitions at the table can also be made intellectual. But it is better to plan them at the beginning of the evening, when guests have not yet had time to drink too many strong drinks.

For example, choose several world-famous paintings and prepare a sheet of paper according to its size, with a small hole in any part. The presenter must combine the work of art and the paper overlay. Based on the part that opens, they will guess what kind of picture it is. The winner is the person who correctly pronounces the names of the maximum number of works of art.

If there are no art connoisseurs among the guests, you can simplify the competition. In this case, instead of paintings, you should use portraits of celebrities or other similar images.

The next competition will allow participants to feel like great poets. They will need to translate a famous work into a modern youth language. You can use all variants of slang and any interesting literary devices.

There are two options for conducting such a competition. The first invites you to rewrite a read passage from the classics yourself in a modern way, and the second, on the contrary, guesses the already altered text.

If you have several old magazines at home, you can choose from among them pages with pictures of celebrities or beautiful landscapes. And then cut the paper like a puzzle. There should be as many pages as there are teams of players. At the beginning of the competition, each of them receives an envelope with parts of the resulting puzzles. The team that collects the picture the fastest wins.

Another interesting competition involves using a large box. Any item that guests should not see is placed at its bottom. One of the players opens the box and tries to find the most successful expressions to describe the object he saw. The others are trying to guess it. You can use two boxes at once and divide the guests into as many teams. Then only one of them will become the winner, and the participants will probably compete with each other.

Funny and cheerful riddles

In order not to be involved in dividing players into teams and not to be too bothered by preparing competitions for adult company, you can simply download a lot of funny and cheerful riddles on the Internet. All that remains is to simply read them out at the table, giving those present time to think. Surely the process of guessing the proposed riddles will be fun and interesting.

To make such a competition even more exciting, you should take care of small, original prizes. This could be sweets, stationery with a funny design, all kinds of goods from a joke store, or even homemade gifts that reflect the tastes and hobbies of each guest.

An interesting quiz for the birthday boy

If a birthday is celebrated among colleagues, and the birthday person has only recently joined their company, it is worth organizing an exciting quiz for him. For example, make several interesting questions, which would allow us to better know the hero of the occasion.

First, those present should try to answer them, explaining why they decided to choose this particular option. And at the end of the quiz, the birthday boy himself will give the correct answers, and at the same time reward those who previously answered as correctly as possible.

Funny contests with balloons

Contests with balloons can be made interesting not only for children, but also for adults.

Among the most fun options are the following:

  1. Guests are paired up. An inflated balloon is tied to each person's ankle. Immediately after this, slow music starts. In the dance, the player must burst his partner's balloon, while keeping his own intact.
  2. Guests are divided into two teams and stand in a row. The leader gives the first person in each of the two “columns” balloon. The player must hold it between his legs and pass it to the next participant. The team that completes the relay first wins.
  3. The host invites the guests to collect as many balls as they can fit in their hands. Players will diligently try to hold onto as many airborne objects as possible. But at this moment they will not yet know that each ball contains a note with a task. The most “greedy” guest will entertain those present all evening.
  4. All participants line up one after another. A balloon is clamped between the first person's back and the second person's stomach. The resulting “centipede” of participants must dance actively, without popping or losing the balls.

Any relay race with balloons is also interesting. Guests squeeze them between their legs and try to run to the coveted prize as quickly as possible in order to pick it up. But not every participant is able to successfully cope with this task.

Competitions for those who like to celebrate outdoors

If a birthday is celebrated on the street, this will not be an obstacle for fun games and competitions. Almost each of the options described above can be tried in nature.

In addition, it is very convenient, fun and interesting to play Twister outside. If there is no special game in stock, the field for it can be drawn directly on the grass with spray paint, or with crayons on the asphalt.

It is very interesting to participate in all kinds of quests in nature. The birthday boy or guests can find the plan of the one they like most on the Internet or come up with it themselves. The more fun, interesting, and confusing tasks it contains, the better.

If you choose the right competitions for your holiday and prepare all the equipment necessary for them in advance, you can make the event truly bright and memorable. Even serious adults, having relaxed, will happily participate in all the entertainment offered.

When preparing to celebrate his birthday, inviting guests to the celebration, the birthday person needs to select funny table competitions in advance to make the holiday as bright and interesting as possible, and, most importantly, to avoid awkward, protracted pauses or unwanted conversations.

Competitions should be chosen exclusively for table competitions- as a rule, adults have absolutely no desire to get up from the table to participate in outdoor games - therefore an invitation to jump and run is unlikely to be greeted with enthusiasm by guests.

At the same time, the number of competitions should not exceed 5-6, otherwise even the funniest entertainment program will be unreasonably drawn out and will soon become boring.

Necessary props and organizational preparations

Most of the competitions below don't require a host, but some will require a host to be chosen through a public vote—which can be a fun contest in itself.
Or agree in advance that one of your loved ones will take on this role.

Props

For competitive program must be prepared in advance:

  • tokens or medals;
  • red box;
  • forfeits with tasks;
  • blindfold and mittens (according to the number of guests);
  • cards with drawings in a blue or pink (depending on whose birthday) box:
    – scales for weighing trucks,
    - desert,
    - telescope,
    - alcohol mashine,
    - tank,
    - police car,
    - lemon Tree,
    - propeller.
  • two bags (boxes);
  • cards with questions;
  • answer cards;
  • long nose made of cardboard and elastic;
  • glass of water;
  • ring.

Red box

A “Red Box” with forfeits is being prepared separately for those who lost in competitions or dropped out of the game.
You can make the “Red Box” yourself, from colored paper and tape, or buy a ready-made one.

Forfeit tasks should be as funny as possible, for example:

  • sing a funny song with a serious look, in a false voice, without hitting a single note;
  • dance while sitting (with your arms, shoulders, eyes, head, etc. funny dance);
  • show a trick (and in such a way that it doesn’t work - it’s clear that there are no magicians among the guests);
  • tell funny poem, ask an unusual riddle, tell a funny story, and so on.

Attention: The “red box” will remain in the middle of the table throughout entertainment program. As mentioned above, it is for the losing participants. Therefore, do not forget to “reward” the eliminated contestant with a phantom - and it doesn’t matter if the tasks are repeated - after all, everyone will perform them in their own way!

Competition No. 1 “Find the birthday boy”

Guests are blindfolded.
The leader moves everyone as he wants.

As a result, no one knows who is sitting where now, and who is nearby.

Each guest is given warm mittens. You need to find out by touch who is sitting next to you, touching with your hands in mittens only the head and face of your neighbor.
Firstly, it tickles and inevitably makes you laugh!
And secondly, it’s very interesting to try to guess a person through touch!

Each participant guesses who is on the left.
You can only try to guess once; the ultimate goal is to find the birthday person.

The headbands are removed only when the last participant has guessed or not guessed his neighbor, but if the birthday person is discovered, the game ends earlier.

Whoever fails to guess his neighbor draws a forfeit from the “Red Box” and completes a funny task.

Competition No. 2 “Wishes and funny gifts for the birthday boy”

This is a very funny competition for resourceful guests with a sense of humor.

First, the Presenter says the main congratulations.
It sounds like this: “Dear (our) birthday boy (ca)! We all sincerely love you and wish you good health, happiness and prosperity! May all your dreams come true! Now the rest of the guests will complement my wishes!”

Next, each participant must say the following phrase: , and then pull a picture out of the blue (or pink) box, show it to the birthday boy (or birthday girl), and explain why he gives this particular item to the hero of the occasion? If there is no explanation, the contestant reads out the text on the back of the picture.

The next participant, before taking the picture out of the box, again repeats the beginning of the congratulatory phrase “And I know that this is exactly what you really need, that’s why I’m giving it!” and takes out his funny “gift” with an explanation of why the hero of the occasion really needs it!

So, for example, having pulled out a picture of a desert, the participant first says the main phrase with which everyone who draws pictures begins: “And I know that this is exactly what you really need, that’s why I’m giving it!”, and if you didn’t find your wish, read the phrase written on the picture on the back side: “Let them go there, into the distance, forever, holding hands, and let all your enemies and enemies never be able to return, having captured all your troubles!”

What should be depicted and written in the pictures is indicated in the “Preliminary preparation” section, but let us repeat once again:

  1. The box contains pictures of unusual objects.
  2. On the reverse side, as a hint, wishes are written. First, the guest, looking at the picture pulled out of the box, tries to invent original wish to the birthday girl (birthday boy), then looks at the hint written on the back of the picture and adds to her congratulations.
  3. You can add other pictures, in any quantity - the more pictures and wishes, the more interesting the competition.

Minimum required images for the competition:

  • a picture of special scales for weighing loaded KamAZ trucks, on the reverse side it is written: “I wish you so much wealth that it is impossible to count, but only to weigh with such scales!”;
  • image of a telescope, on the back it says: “I wish that all dreams and their fulfillment were much closer than those stars in the sky that are visible through a telescope!”;
  • moonshine still, on the back there is a wish: “Let a considerable percentage of unbridled fun always play in your veins!”;
  • picture of a tank, wish: “So that you always have something to go to the store with!”
  • image of a police car with flashing lights: “So that when you drive, the people make way!”
  • tree with lemons growing, inscription: “So that you have “lemons” and not only fruits growing all year round!”
  • a picture of a desert, on the back it says: “Let all your enemies go there, into the distance, forever, holding hands, and never be able to return, taking all your troubles with you!”
  • image of a propeller from the film “Kid and Carlson”, inscription: “May your life always be Karslson, who lives on the roof and brings many valuable gifts!”

There are two winners in the competition:
First: the one who came up with the most funny congratulations birthday boy (birthday girl);
Second: the one who read the inscription on the picture funniest of all.

Competition No. 3 “Tell about yourself: let’s play cards”

Two bags (or two boxes): one contains chaotically mixed cards with questions, the other contains answers.
1. The presenter pulls a card from the bag with questions and reads it out loud.
2. The first participant in the feast draws a card from the bag with answers and an expression.

It's the random combinations of questions and answers that will be funny..

For example, Leader: “Have you ever been stopped by a traffic police officer?”
The answer might be: "It is so sweet".

You can only draw one card per question.
The game ends when all the cards are announced and all guests have read the answers to the questions.

Question cards:

1) Do you like to drink?
2) Do you like women?
3) Do you like men?
4) Do you eat at night?
5) Do you change your socks every day?
6) Do you watch TV?
7) Do you want to cut your hair bald?
8) Admit that you like to count other people's money?
9) Do you like to gossip?
10) Do you often play pranks on others?
11) Do you know how to use a cell phone?
12) Now for festive table did you look at who ate what and how much?
13) Have you ever driven drunk?
14) Have you ever come to a birthday party without a gift?
15) Have you ever howled at the moon?
16) Have you calculated how much the set table costs today?
17) Have you ever given something that was given to you that you didn’t need?
18) Do you hide food under your pillow?
19) Do you show obscene signs to other drivers?
20) Can you not open the door for guests?
21) Do you often miss work?

Answer cards:

1) Only at night, in the dark.
2) Perhaps, someday, while drunk.
3) I can’t live without this!
4) When no one sees.
5) No, it's not mine.
6) I only dream about this!
7) This is my secret dream.
8) I tried it once.
9) Of course yes!
10) Definitely not!
11) In childhood - yes.
12) Rarely, I want more often!
13) I was taught this since childhood.
14) This is very nice.
15) Definitely and without fail!
16) This doesn’t interest me at all.
17) Almost always!
18) Yes. The doctor prescribed this for me.
19) This is all I do.
20) Once a day.
21) No, I'm afraid.

Competition No. 4 “Intuition”

Each player is given a hoop with a specific shape on his head. It could be a fruit, a vegetable, a character, a famous person.

The players’ task is to guess who he is using clarifying questions that can only be answered “yes” or “no.”

Instead of hoops, you can make cardboard masks, then the game will turn out not only interesting, but also very funny.

Competition No. 5 “Long Nose”

Everyone puts on pre-prepared noses.

At the Leader’s command, you need to pass a small ring from nose to nose, and at the same time a glass of water from hand to hand, trying not to spill a drop.

The game is considered over when both the ring and the glass of water return to the “first” participant.
Anyone who drops a ring or spills water receives a forfeit.

Competition No. 6 “Find something in common”

Players are divided into teams.
The presenter shows three pictures that have something in common.
To motivate and cheer up the teams, the condition may be as follows: the team that did not guess the answer drinks penalty glasses.

For example, one picture shows a jacuzzi, the second shows the Eiffel Tower, and the third shows the periodic table. What unites them is the surname, because each image is an object named after its creator.

Competition No. 7 “Hat for the birthday boy”

In a deep hat you need to put a lot of folded pieces of paper with laudatory descriptions of the birthday boy (birthday girl), For example:
- smart (smart),
- beautiful (handsome),
- slender (slender),
- talented (talented)
- economic (economic), and so on.

Guests are divided into pairs. One partner takes out a piece of paper, reads the word to himself and explains to his partner using gestures what it means.
If the answer is not found, you can suggest one in words, but not by naming the word itself, but by describing its essence.
The team that gets the most correct answers wins.

You don't have to split into pairs. One person takes out a piece of paper and gestures at the word, while the others guess.
For each correct answer the player receives one point.
The player with the most points wins.

Competition No. 8 “Getting to the bottom of the truth”

An object, for example a carrot, needs to be wrapped in several layers of foil.
Each layer is accompanied by a riddle or task.

If the guest guesses the correct answer or completes the task, he expands the first layer. If not, he passes the baton to his neighbor and receives a forfeit.

The one who removes the last layer wins a prize.

Competition No. 9 “Gossip Girl”

This funny competition is more suitable for a small company, because headphones will be needed for all participants. Or several volunteers may participate and others will observe the process.
Players put on headphones and listen to music loudly so that no extraneous sounds can be heard.
Only the one who says the first phrase remains without headphones. This must be some kind of secret about the birthday girl (birthday boy).
He says it loudly, but in such a way that it is impossible to hear all the words clearly.

The second player passes on the phrase he supposedly heard to the third, the third to the fourth, and so on.
Guests who have already shared “gossip about the birthday girl” can take off their headphones and observe what other participants end up sharing.
The last player voices the phrase he heard, and the first player says the original.

Competition No. 10 “Second Half”

Guests will have to use all their acting skills.
Each player chooses a piece of paper on which is written the role that he will play.
The roles are paired: the goal is to find your partner as quickly as possible.

For example, Romeo and Juliet: Juliet can sing the text: “I’m standing on the balcony and waiting for my love” and so on.

Competition No. 11 “Common Efforts”

The presenter suggests writing a fairy tale about the birthday girl (birthday boy).

Everyone comes up with their own plot, but each player will write only one sentence on a common sheet.

The fairy tale begins with the sentence “One fine day (name) was born.”
The sheet is passed around in a circle.

The first person writes a continuation based on the first sentence.
The second person reads the first person's sentence, adds his own, and folds the piece of paper so that the third guest can only see the sentence that the person in front of him wrote.

In this way, the fairy tale is written until the piece of paper returns to the guest who first started writing it.

By joint efforts it will be very funny story about the hero of the occasion, which is then read out loud.

Competition No. 12 “Honest answer”

You need to prepare cards with questions and answers.
One guest takes a card from the deck with questions, and the one to whom the question is addressed - from the deck of answers.
The game continues in a circle.
The number of questions and answers should at least correspond to the number of players, and it is better to be two to three times more.

Approximate options

Questions:

1. Do you often walk around your apartment naked?
2. Do you envy rich people?
3. Do you have colorful dreams?
4. Do you sing in the shower?
5. Do you often lose your temper?
6. Have you ever declared your love to a monument?
7. Do you sometimes feel like you were created for some great mission?
8. Do you like to peek?
9. Do you often try on lace lingerie?
10. Do you often read other people's letters?

Answers:

1. No, only when I drink.
2. As an exception.
3. Oh yes. This sounds so much like me.
4. You might think this is a crime.
5. Only on holidays.
6. No, such nonsense is not for me.
7. Such thoughts visit me constantly.
8. This is my meaning in life.
9. Only when no one is looking.
10. Only when they pay.

Competition No. 13 “By ear”

All participants are blindfolded.
The presenter taps a pencil or fork on some object.
The one who guesses the item first will receive one point (you can use stickers and stick it on clothes).
Whoever has the most at the end of the game wins.

Competition No. 14 “Inarticulate Hamster”

All guests fill their mouths with marshmallows.
The first participant reads the phrase that is written on the sheet, but does not show it to the others.
He says it to his neighbor, but due to his full mouth, the words will be very illegible.

A phrase is a task that the one who ends up last will have to complete, for example, “You must dance the lezginka.”
The participant will have to perform the action that he heard.

Competition No. 15 “Top Secret”

Competition No. 16 “Sobriety test”

A game for a large company.
The first team is on one side of the table, the second team is on the other.
From the first player to the last you will need to pass various objects, holding them with matches.
The winner is the team that quickly transfers all the objects from one end of the table to the other in this way.

Competition No. 17 “Musical crocodile”

The first contestant takes out a piece of paper on which the name of the song and, possibly, the lyrics are written.
The task is to explain to others what song it is.
You can't explain it with words from the song itself.
For example, “When the apple trees bloom...” you cannot say “The apple trees bloomed in the garden.” You can say “In one place there is a tree, fruits appear on it” and something like that.

Competition No. 18 “Find your match”

To play the game you need to prepare cards with the names of various animals. There are two cards for each animal.
Participants pull out cards and then show each other their animal (meowing, crowing, etc.).
The game will be over only after all the pairs have been found.

Our competitions are designed for the most modest costs, both financial and organizational. If you take into account the age of the guests and their preferences, competitions can be very funny and mischievous.
This birthday celebration is sure to be remembered for a long time!
We wish you a noisy, cheerful feast!

Watch a video with a very funny competition (watching time 4.5 minutes):

Are you looking for how to organize funny competitions at a birthday party so that they are interesting and enjoyable for both children and adults? This collection should help!

Child's birthday party for adults

Birthdays are always valuable for children for their unique atmosphere of fun, friendly warmth and easy permissiveness on the part of adults. For the latter, arrange a holiday - labor-intensive task, requiring material and physical investments. It is the parents who prepare the celebration program, festive menu and room decoration for the birthday boy and his little guests.

In this fuss, they forget about another category of guests - parents of these same kids who will bring them to the holiday and will probably stay until it ends. As a standard, adults watch the children from the table, chatting on social topics with other parents and tasting dishes carefully prepared by the hosts of the evening. Such a pastime cannot be called particularly interesting, but There are entertainments that can unite all adults and establish a closer connection between them and children.

Holiday program for children

And yet, first it’s worth developing a holiday script for the birthday boy himself. In the case of small children under 7 years old, entertainment such as searching for “treasures” or solving a case is suitable about the “missing” birthday cake. You can come up with a huge number of ideas for such scenarios, and you don’t even have to order animators or spend money on props.

For example, in a missing birthday cake scenario, all you have to do is prepare the box in which this cake is supposed to lie, a note from the “kidnapper” and the toy thief himself. The treat can be “stealed” by a doll, a child’s favorite robot, or even a real character that one of the parents will dress up as. It is imperative that things be arranged in such a way that the children carried out the tasks of this “thief”, while having fun in competitions.

When inviting an animator or dressing up as a character yourself, find out from the children who they are interested in. For the effect of interacting with a character to be positive, it must be recognizable and loved by children.

In the end, the kids, of course, will receive a long-awaited treat and a sea of ​​positive emotions from past competitions, being pretty tired and giving their parents a rest. Adults themselves can also participate in the production, playing other characters or simply helping the children pass the “cake thief” tests. This will help unite parents and their children, for which adults will later tell you too Thanks a lot.

Possible ideas for competitions for children

Besides the main scenario a children's birthday party must necessarily consist of competitions that are interesting to children. They can be quite budget-friendly, but they will still bring a lot of joy to the kids. Some entertainment ideas that will suit children from 2 to 10 years old.

Crazy egg

The point of the game is to Transfer the colored egg in a teaspoon from one plate to another. For the competition you will need to buy plastic plates, boil and color two dozen eggs, prepare teaspoons and place two pairs of stools on opposite sides of the room. Two teams of kids will have to temporarily move all the eggs without dropping any, and The team with the most eggs at the end of the competition wins.

Help me collect leaves

Some character, perhaps the birthday boy's favorite toy, asks the kids to collect for her all the leaves scattered on the floor. She will give a sweet prize for special leaves; they will be marked with a special icon on the back. To play you will have to cut a few dozen leaves from thick colored paper and put a special symbol on some of them.

This idea can be made more useful and educational for kids if you write letters on the back of all the leaves and ask them to find, for example, only vowels. For musical children, you can draw notes.

Mr Frankenstein

Don't let this name scare you, the essence of the game is harmless: Children will take turns with their eyes closed and try to attach a part of the character's body to his image on the poster. The character can be absolutely anyone, and you will need to make several body parts– nose, ears, mouth and so on. It is better to do the drawing on whatman paper so that it is convenient for the child to attach another piece of paper with plasticine or a button.

Wind, wind, you are mighty

In this game the guys must move your ball from one part of the room to another faster than others, but this can only be done by blowing on the ball. The competition area should be clean and spacious enough for kids to roll around on the floor and blow on their balloons. All you need to do to play is to prepare a dozen fairly dense balls, leaving some in reserve, and the reward “For the Mighty Breath.”

Book antonyms

This competition will be able to “kill” three “birds with one stone” at once: help in the development of the thinking process in children, increase interest in books and cheer them up at the holiday. The essence of the game is for the presenter to pronounce the name of a book or fairy tale, but using only antonyms. The following options are available in the game:

  • Green hat - Red riding hood.
  • Castle - Teremok.
  • Blacksand minus the seven giants- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • Kilometer - Thumbelina.
  • Ugly and cute animal- The beauty and the Beast.
  • Cold-fish - Firebird.

Of course, in addition to book works, you can choose any others, the main thing is that they are interesting to your children. To be sure of this, ask the parents of the children invited to the evening in advance what they are interested in.

A gift for everyone

If financial possibilities allow, you can arrange a surprise for each guest of the evening, giving him a small gift. To do this, you need to blindfold all the children, spin them around and give them the opportunity to pull a gift for themselves from the ribbon that was hung in advance. Gifts can be keychains, stickers, pens and small toys.

Little wizards

This competition is quite similar to forfeits, because each participant in the game writes a wish in advance, perhaps with the help of his parents, and puts it in a special box. Afterwards, the kids take turns pulling out pieces of paper with wishes and fulfilling them: they dance, read a poem, hug everyone present, and so on. Children will especially like this game if parents also participate in it, because you can see them in an informal setting.

Decorations for the birthday boy

Not only sweets, but also pleasant speeches can please the hero of the occasion, which can be organized into one competition. To do this, you will have to prepare a small rope and a certain number of bagels for each child. The kids will take turns stringing the dryers and say something nice to the birthday boy, and the participant with the largest number of rings on the “beads” wins.

Be sure to give your children a rest between competitions so that they don’t get capricious and have time to participate in each one. Try to arrange the competitions from the most active to the calmest, inserting a tea party between them. At the end of the evening, be sure to treat each child to a piece of birthday cake.

Guessing the classics

Children these days watch and read a significant number of works, and some of them are considered classics. Invite the kids to play guessing phrases from popular cartoons, songs, books and films that have already become classics. Options may include:

  • What do you want, old man?- a fairy tale about the Golden Fish.
  • I'll sing now!– cartoon “Once upon a time there was a dog.”
  • Hakuna Matata- cartoon "The Lion King".
  • The talking bird is smart and quick-witted- cartoon “The Secret of the Third Planet”.
  • Smile and wave…- cartoon "Madagascar".
  • You are forever responsible for everyone you tamed- fairy tale “The Little Prince”.

It is better to look for ideas for the game on the Internet, after consulting with the parents of the kids about their favorite works. To find a popular phrase from a movie or song, just enter in the search engine “Phrases and quotes from Title_of the Work”, replacing the phrase in bold with your source.

Holiday program for adults

Surely you would also like to spend your baby’s holiday fun and relaxed, like in childhood, and this can be arranged with the help adult competitions and entertainment. Although parents must supervise their child, they have the right to relax and have fun by receiving their own holiday program. It will not be possible to hold games during children's competitions, but While the children are relaxing, the adults can have fun.

At the same time, while children are playing with the animator, you can invite adults, especially if they are family friends or relatives, to watch the video. It’s not at all difficult to edit a clip from photographs and video clips to children’s music, taking into account current technologies. You can either download a special program to your computer and take advantage of the editing lessons, or outsource this work to a special agency.

Clip from photos

You can edit a video for a boy’s birthday yourself

Such videos will be of particular interest to close relatives, especially if they find themselves in the footage.

In general, competitions for children and their parents can be safely alternate one after another, giving each group the opportunity to relax and refresh themselves at the festive table. It will be especially convenient if there are prepared two separate tables, and the birthday boy’s mom and dad will pay attention to their table. If one of your couple is not ready to play with the children in the evening, they can take turns.

For parents and especially adult children - brothers and sisters of children, there will be interesting Board games. You can place a dedicated area for one or two board games so that those who wish can relax there.

Possible ideas for competitions for adults

Adults also love to participate in competitions, but children's competitions are not suitable for them. Therefore, for everyone over fifteen, it is worth preparing separate entertainment. It could be any of the following ideas.

Predictable Guest

While all the parents are sitting at the festive table, you can offer them speak about the best qualities of the birthday boy, while playing this game with them. For this, you will have to prepare in advance a number of pieces of paper with the most popular options like “Kind” or “Talented” and write a wish on the back of each one. The person who says one of these qualities will have to fulfill the wish written on the piece of paper.

Grandma Wang

A rather unusual game can be called this one, where relatives try to guess How will the birthday boy grow up in the future?. To do this you need to prepare Whatman paper is about A3 in size and draw a table on it with the child’s age and the names of the guests. In the cells of their column, guests will write predictions regarding anything: height, character traits, hobbies, and more.

The table will look something like this:

Of course, there will be predictions in each cell, and if there are a lot of guests, then you should really choose big Whatman paper. After filling the table completely, roll up and pack the Whatman paper well, hiding it for several years. Give it to the birthday boy when he comes of age, so that he can periodically check it and note which of the prophecies came true correctly.

Remember all

If your company consists mainly of relatives, and many of them spent a lot of time with the hero of the occasion, this game is suitable for you. The essence of the competition is that participants tried to give as many correct answers as possible to questions about the birthday boy. To do this, you will have to prepare questions and answers in advance, which may include:

  • First word;
  • When the baby started walking;
  • Exact date of birth;
  • Favorite and least favorite dish;
  • Favorite toy;
  • All sections and clubs where the child goes.

There are plenty of ideas for questions, and it is important that you have exact answers. You can get a prize for winning the competition "For the closest person" with a photo of the baby and his words to the winner on the back.

Sweet Nothing

The Russian language is multifaceted and interesting, and adults know how to handle it, inventing really unusual words. People especially often like to come up with diminutive versions of names, which is what this competition will be based on. Participants need to say in a circle an affectionate version of the name of the hero of the occasion: Vanya, Vanyushka, Vanechka and so on.

The winner will be the one who can come up with his own version of the name last. As a gift, he can receive a drawn card from the birthday boy with warm words.

Clever Dad, Clever Mom

It will be extremely interesting for children to watch how their parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles trying to complete funny tasks, so this competition is simply necessary at a children's party. Its implementation is simple:

  • Buy and inflate enough dense balloons in advance so that there are plenty of them for everyone involved.
  • Scatter the balls all over the floor. You can draw mocking faces on them or encouraging phrases like “You can do it!”
  • Give the command for the adults to start collecting the balls. Their task is to keep as many balls in their hands as possible using any available means.
  • On purpose, do not end the competition too quickly so that adults can compete, trying to keep the balls from themselves and knock down others.

The winner who holds the most balls will give a notebook or postcard.

One person

If you are young parents, you can try find your baby photos, as well as photos of nephews and, of course, children. If the quality of the photographs is not too different, it will be difficult to guess who is depicted in the portrait. A game like this can be a good way to attract adults during children’s competitions.

If necessary, you can deliberately “age” recent photographs of children using graphic editors or third-party services. There you can remove the clarity of the photo, change its color and add “noise”.

We fall into childhood

Every parent has probably experienced an incredible feeling of irritation when a baby spits out a freshly washed and scalded pacifier. Now adults can feel like kids spitting nipples as far as possible and marking your length with chopsticks. To do this, you will have to purchase pacifiers in advance, not forgetting them sterilize every time before putting it in your mouth.

Unlike children, adults are not always willing to have fun with ridiculous tasks, so try not to be too intrusive. Accept that some guests may feel uneasy or simply out of sorts by allowing them to enjoy a delicious meal in peace. As the hosts of the evening, you must be courteous and attentive to each person invited, allowing him to relax in a relaxed atmosphere.

Possible ideas for joint competitions for children and adults

Unlike many previous ones, these competitions are aimed at spending time together between adults and children. Such games bring everyone together and are the “cherry” for everyone children's party, because adults have long wanted to relax, and children are interested in watching their parents in an unusual role. Such games are worth diluting children's and adult tasks.

My mighty dad

Many children are proud of how strong and agile their dads are, and this competition will help to emerge as a better father, bringing a lot of laughter to mothers. Dads should put the child on your back and crawl, jump and jump on all fours from one end of the room to the other. The winner is the one who carries his baby first without dropping him (because then he will receive from his mother).

Cacophony

If you want to defuse the holiday atmosphere and have the opportunity to make a lot of noise, collect a set of improvised "musical instruments" and give one to each guest. The list of such tools includes:

  • Iron pans;
  • Metal lids from frying pans;
  • Tin cans containing change;
  • Glass glasses combined with chopsticks;
  • Cabinet doors;
  • Not very thick tabletops that can sound like a drum.

The list can be continued for a long time, including real instruments, if you have them at home. They'll do for the job toy drums, whistles and children's xylophones, that sound unprofessional. The essence of the task is simple: create your own orchestra or play along to a famous song as best you can.

The path of Little Red Riding Hood

This competition is more suitable for the game with children under 6 years old, to equalize the chances between participants. To start the game, you need to lay out two ropes on the floor: a two-meter rope is placed straight, and a five-meter rope is placed in a spiral. Afterwards, a child and his parent are selected and will compete with each other to see who reaches the finish line first. Obviously baby must walk along a straight path, and the parent must walk along a winding forest path.

Try playing with your child beforehand to test the chances of both participants. This will allow you to choose the most optimal rope length.

Hello, Dear friends and blog guests about original gifts and congratulations! Let's fun competitions Let's discuss it for adults for a birthday?

So, I give the floor to Lena.

Hi all! I think that before the next holiday, which you plan to celebrate at home, you are also visited by a variety of thoughts. How to prepare a delicious table, how to clean and decorate an apartment or your own yard. But for the celebration to be remembered not only by fatigue and a bunch of envelopes with money, special emotions are needed. And achieving this state is much easier than you might think. All you need is an interesting event program.

What does this include? And everything that your imagination can suggest: games and fun competitions, unusual ways gift giving and even various theatrical performances. Previously, our birthdays left a very ambiguous feeling. They all looked alike. And sometimes this routine even brought tears to my eyes on a seemingly solemn day.

But now, before every holiday, I try to arrange something new so that not only the guests, but also we, the hosts, have pleasant emotions from the time spent.

In general, I’m sharing my work today! I really hope that this article will help you create your own interesting and colorful holiday program with your own hands. All the elements of the entertainment program that I will give below have already been successfully tested by us. So feel free to use it if you like something.

This article is dedicated to birthday competitions. So, choose for joy!

Competition "Rhymemaker"

Until the guests are very warmed up, there is no point in taking them away from the table. Therefore, you can start with “sedentary” competitions. This competition is simple, its essence is that participants are given cards on which any 3 words are written. The task is to compose a poem in honor of the holiday, the birthday boy and other heroes of the occasion, using all these words in the text. The number of participants is not limited.

The one who comes up with the most creative, fun poem wins.

A variation of this competition: a famous poem is given. The task is to remake it to fit the meaning of the holiday and certainly to rhyme. We played this at a friends wedding; there were two teams with a fairly large number of participants. Let me tell you, we laughed non-stop.

Competition "Fairytale"

This competition can also be held while sitting at the table. 2-3 participants (or two or three teams) are selected to whom they need to tell famous fairy tale in the genre of comedy, thriller, melodrama, horror film, etc. Participants choose genres in a lottery. The most exciting tale wins.

The competition is actually very unusual, it requires a creative approach, but it’s worth it! We made fun of the pockmarked chicken so much :)

Competition "Sausage"

This game is also a “sedentary” game, but it is better to play it when the guests have had enough fun. Everyone plays! The task is this: the presenter asks questions. And the participants take turns answering them with the word “sausage” or similar-root adjectives, participles, adverbs (for example, sausage, sausage, etc.). Everything would be simple, but you only need to answer with a serious face. The one who smiled, and even more so laughed, is eliminated. The most persistent one wins. You can even get a diploma for endurance.

The more inappropriate, the merrier. By the way, it is better to think through the list of questions in advance and make it as long as possible.

The guests enjoyed playing this game; it was a lot of fun, especially when there were some not very appropriate and not very decent questions.

Well, is it time to leave the table?

Competition "Ideal Gift"

Fun birthday competitions for adults can be not only fun, but also lively and noisy!

To participate, 2-3 teams of 2 people each are needed. And also props: wrapping paper (you can use thin corrugated paper, which is sold in any stationery store), ribbons and blanks for boxes with small gifts for the birthday boy. It is better if these boxes are of a non-standard shape, for example, round.

Team members sit/stand next to each other and have one hand tied (that is, one left, the other right). Hands are free at the edges of the tandem. Task: in 5 minutes, pack a gift box in paper as neatly and creatively as possible, tie it beautiful bow. And then present your work to the birthday boy, saying, of course, your sincere congratulations.

The catch is that participants can only use one of their hands. The second hand is the partner’s hand. Try to change your mind right away)))) We tried it, the gifts turned out just right 🙂!

Paper Shredder Competition

You need 2 participants, 2 A4 sheets, 2 bowls and a stopwatch. Task: in 30-40 seconds (maximum minute), tear a sheet of paper into small pieces into a bowl with one hand. The winner is the one who has the smallest piece of paper left in his hand (well, or no paper left at all). You cannot cheat, and the pieces in the bowl must be small!

Competition “Catch it, ball!”

We need 2 teams of 2 participants. Props: 2 plastic bowls, a pack of ping pong balls. In each team, one of the participants holds a bowl at chest level. And the second participant moves away to a distance of 3-4 meters. Task: within a minute he must throw as many balls as possible into that bowl. Naturally, the team that throws the most balls wins.

The funny thing is that the balls bounce off easily and it’s very difficult to keep them inside the bowl even after they seem to hit.

Creative birthday competitions (my favorites)

These competitions allow you to show your talent, which many may not even know about.

Competition "Clip"

The essence of this competition is to show a famous song using acting skills: facial expressions, gestures, characteristic sounds. Be sure to prepare several of these songs. So, the song starts, and then the participant(s) comes out in character and begins to show everything that is sung about in the selected composition.

We tried this on New Year to the song “A Christmas tree was born in the forest”, and in 2 versions - one year as a team, and another time one person showed. It was very interesting and fun.

Competition "Universal Artist"

I won’t say which show exactly the meaning of the next competition is close to, because... I just don’t watch TV, but the point is this: you need to sing a song in the style of a famous person.

Props: cards with the words of songs on the theme of the holiday or just the birthday boy’s favorite songs, cards with famous characters (politicians, show business stars, cartoon characters and other public figures). The number of cards in both categories must be the same.

Participants (there should be no more than character cards) take turns first drawing a piece of paper from the first pile, and then from the second.

We staged a real show, where I was the host, announcing, as expected, each participant. Of course, there was applause, standing ovations and a lot of positivity. Especially when V.V. Zhirinovsky appeared on the stage. I highly recommend this competition, it’s not like you’re looking for clothespins on someone else’s body :)

In fact, you can still find a lot of interesting and fun birthday competitions for adults on the Internet. I have given you just a small part of what was tested and remembered recently (and how much more is lost in the depths of memory!).

So try it, don't sit at the table. It’s good if you have somewhere to run and look for gifts. But even in an ordinary apartment you can arrange a real fun party, moreover, without disturbing your neighbors with your stomp and getting real positive emotions. And I talked about how to organize a holiday in nature on my blog Domovenok-Art (see the article at the link).

These are the kind of fun birthday contests for adults that each of you can arrange. I am very grateful to Lena for this interesting material. I hope that you will definitely use the information prepared by Lena and have an unforgettable holiday! Write your opinions and your favorite competitions in the comments below this article!