Free Themed Party Games for Birthdays, Holidays and Parties

Congress declared that in order to honor all past presidents of the United States, a single holiday, to be called Presidents' Day, would be observed on the third Monday in February. To many this is a day off and a chance for a three day weekend of skiing. A Presidents' Day party should have Presidents' Day games to play. This game of bluff allows everyone to tell a stories in turn. As the tale-teller finishes his/her telling of the story all the players express their opinion in turn: true or fabricated. The players who are correct in their guesses receive a toothpick. The tale-tellers take their turns around the circle. As every player has told the story, the players count the toothpicks. The person with the most tooth picks wins!

Another Presidents' Day party game is like no other game you have played before. Buy eight jars of baby food - cereal, fruit, veggies, and meat. Cover the jars with foil and write a number on the side of each jar. Pass out plastic spoons, paper plates, and paper and pencil for each player. Ask players to write the numbers 1 through 8 around the outside of the plate. Pass around each jar of baby food and have players drop a spoonful next to each number. They must taste the globs and try to identify each flavor. Remove the foil to reveal the answers. Whoever has the most correct answers wins a prize. You'll get some funny faces during the tasting so keep the camera handy!

Chinese New Year lasts fifteen days and is often called Spring Festival. The festival marked the annual planting of the fields. Houses are cleaned from top to bottom in order to insure that all bad luck of the previous year is swept out the door and away from the occupants. An exchange of greetings and gifts is performed between family members and neighbors. Offerings of foods, burning incense, and other gifts are made to ancestors who have passed from this life. Chinese New Year parties are held with such free games to play as the following the three legged Chinese New Year Game:

The New Year challenge is on. This Chinese New Years game willl have you in stitches if you are actually playing or even watching. It is your basic relay race game. To play, each team delegates two players to stand hand in hand. Their adjacent ankles are tied together. At the leader's command, they run to the agreed place and return back. The fastest pair wins this competition.

You are 21 and the world is yours. What better way to celebrate but with a party! At your party should be 21st birthday party games for all to participate in which cost you little but adds so much fun to the event. First get the guests to separate into two groups. The instructor reads the first three words of the chorus of a well-known song. The group that gets the most correct wins.

Another 21st birthday party game that has proven time and time again to be loads of laughs is to get eight jars of baby food - cereal, fruit, veggies, etc. Cover each jar with foil and write a number on the side of each jar. Pass out plastic spoons, paper plates, and paper and pencil for each player. Ask players to write the numbers 1 through 8 around the outside of the plate. Pass around each jar of baby food and have players drop a spoonful next to each number. They must taste the globs and try to identify each flavor. Remove the foil to reveal the answers. Whoever has the most correct answers wins a prize. You'll get some funny faces during the tasting so keep the camera handy!

Let your Valentines Day games be the hit of your party. Here is your big chance to play cupid and throw the arrows of love. The contestants are given darts (arrows) with balloons shaped as hearts as targets. The balloon heart in the center can have scores on them. The one furthest away from the center can have lower scores, e.g. 10 points for the outside balloon hearts and 100 points for the center one. The players take turns. Each player can have five darts (or whichever amount is agreed upon.) The one with the highest score wins.

Another Valentines Day game to spice up your party which is sure to win his heart is in the game sweets for the sweet. In this game five couples need to participate. The guys blindfold the gals who are holding a heartshaped cardboard box of chocolate candies. When the music starts, she is required to turn a couple of rounds. Once the music stops, the girl will stop and attempt to feed the candy to her guy who will be sitting in a chair. The couple with all the candies in his mouth first, wins.

SWEETS FOR THE SWEETS GAME: Here is a romantic game sure to win his heart. Five (5) couples are needed to participate. The guys will blindfold the girl who is holding a heartshaped cardboard box of chocolate candy in her hand. When the music starts, she is required to turn a couple of rounds. Once the music stops, the girl will stop and attempt to feed the candy to the guy, who will be sitting in a chair. The one with the all the candies in his mouth, wins.

What party gathering would be complete without a few games to play? Here is a free Chinese New Year game that is fun for all. First, have everyone divide up into 2 teams (6 players in each one). Choose 3 persons for a jury. The teams number off. Each player must remember his/her number. The players form up 2 lines in file. The distance between the lines is 6-8 steps. Between the lines there stand 3 chairs. The first chair is "a bus", the second - is "a tram", the third - is "a trolley-bus". The instructor starts speaking: "It's early, early morning. All the people are hurrying to work. There are many people at the bus-stops. Now in the distance I see … I see… What do I see … Well, it's number 3 bus." His/her words the instructor pronounces quickly. Both numbers "3" must take place on the first chair. The player who takes the place the first brings a point to his/her team. Numbers "3" return to their places. The instructor continues: "There were so many people at the bus stop, that only 2 people managed to take the bus. (The instructor marks out the words "two" and "bus".) All the rest must wait again for the bus. Now I see number 1… tram (both numbers "1" must take place on the second chair) etc.

Between your Chinese New Year's decorations, supplies and Chinese New Year's games your party is guaranteed to be a success and one that will have your guests talking about for years to come.

Mardi Gras is a fun and joyful time of the year. Every Mardi Gras party should have at least one Mardi Gras game to play, if not many. This free Mardi Gras' Alphabet game is an educational and fun game for the children to enjoy. In this games a large boxful of letters should be provided, which can be purchased at any toy store or made by the young people themselves by cutting letters out of newspapers. The children should seat themselves around the table; the letters should then be well shuffled and dealt to the players. Each child has to form a word or sentence out of the letters which he has received. Another variation is to select a long word, and then in a given time to try to form several words from it such as names of well-known people, places, etc., can also be given. This games are not only amusing, but serve at the same time to instruct the young folk. Mardi Gras favors serve as excellent rewards for a game well played.

Another free game that is merely a new twist to a very old game is the Mardi Gras game called pin the mask on the face. Sound familiar?

Children have so much fun at the Chinese New Year parties when they play this delight Chinese NewYear's game. First, separate the guests into a few teams. Have an assortment of magazines (usually three to five per team), glue, scissors, and 11 x 14 pieces of construction paper for each team. Give each team a list of Chinese New Years celebration words such as calendar, dragons, fireworks, etc. Usually about 15 words will do. The object of the game is to find pictures that go with the words and glue them to the construction paper. The first team completed wins!

Another great Chinese New Year's game the children would enjoy is called Shot Put. For this game, have balloons filled up about 1/3rd with water. Then blow up the balloons about equal size. Each player must "shot put" (throw) as far as they possible can. The player who puts a shot the farthest is the winner! So don't forget to include the balloons, magazines, glue and construction as part of the Chinese New Year supplies.

The first day of the first month of the Lunar Year is the start of the Chinese New Year. As a symbol of good luck, red packets called Lai See Hong Bao (or Hongbao) with money are given out to the children. On the Chinese New Year's Day, a vegetarian dish called jai with root or fibrous vegetables is the main course.

On many of the Chinese New Year days are parties. And where there are Chinese New Years parties, there are Chinese New Years games. One game that is a big hit always with young children is Man and Object Game. In this game two persons go out of the room, and after agreeing together as to what they will represent, they come back in again. One of the two takes the part of some well-known person while the other person represents an object associated with the well-known person. When the two reenter the room, the other players take turns to ask them question to which both the man and the object have to answer with either a "yes" or a "no." The game is completed when both the man and the object are guessed and then two others can leave the room to continue. This game will prove to be a Chinese New Year's game both family and friends will want to play at your Chinese New Years party.