There are a few preparations required for each of these games.
Fumble Mitts
Gather together
- a small gift
- plenty of newspaper
- stick tape
- a pair of oven mitts
- two dice
Before the game wrap a gift, a small toy or some confectionary, in about a dozen layers of newspaper securing each with sticky tape. More layers can be added if players want a longer game.
Players sit in a cirlce, around a table is best, and place the gift in the middle along with a pair of oven mitts.
To begin, players take turns, going around the table, in rolling the dice. As soon as a player rolls dice that add up to seven they put on the oven mitts and start unwrapping the gift.
The other players take turns, going around the table as before, at rolling dice that add up to seven. As soon as a player does, the player who is unwrapping the gift must stop and pass the gift and oven mitts to the player who has just rolled a seven. This players then puts on the oven mitts and starts unwrapping the gift while the other players take it in turn to roll the dice. The next player to roll a seven is the next player to put on the oven mitts and try to unwrap the gift.
Continue until someone has unwrapped the last layer to reveal the gift, which is their prize.
Racing Cars
Gather together
- newspaper
- pens and pencils (paints are not suitable)
- a piece of stiff card or cardboard for each player
- string for the finish line
- a whistle
Cut out the shape of a card, about A4 size, from a single sheet of newspaper for each player.
Have each player decorate their cars and write their names on them. Paint is not suitable for this because it makes the paper too heavy.
Players should lay their cars in a line at one end of the room. This is the starting line. Designate the finishing line. It can be a piece of string stretched between two points or something as simple as the edge of the carpet or the wall on the opposite side of the room.
Give each player a piece of stiff card or cardboard. At the blow of the whistle the game starts and players must frantically wave their card up and down behind their car to create a breeze and send their car racing across the room to the finish line.
The first player to reach the finish line is the winner.
There are more party game idea at Party Games, Kids Games for Indoors and Best Ever Games.
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