Kickoff Party Stage Game Ideas

Four Corners
This game can be played in any size room.  Choose an assistant, preferably a leader, to come up front. The assistant will turn his or her back from the group or put on a blind fold. Then explain that the entire group must choose to stand in one of the four corners of the room which are numbered from 1 to 4. The assistant will then yell out a number from 1 to 4 and everyone in that corner must have a seat. Once those people have a seat people in the remaining 3 corners are given time to switch corners to any of the 4 corners. Then another number is yelled out and those students sit down. 

Keep calling out corners and having them switch around until there is only one or a few people who are the winners. It gets the whole group moving and having fun and takes no preparation to play.  

Soda Chug – 12 pack; 12 students; No Spilling; Go!

 

Drink a Blended Happy Meal- HM + Blender + Extension Cord + Tarp

 

Look Down/ Look Up -Super Fun with group of 5-25

 

Best Tarzan Yell -Provide Sample ahead of time

 

Pizza Eating Contest- 

 

Marshmellow Homerun Derby- Bat, Big Marshmellows

 

Marshmellow Dodgeball- Tape, Marshmellows, Cones (don't play on carpet)

 

Armwrestling over plates of pudding

 

Strength Test- Bathroom scale

Use an ordinary bathroom scale. Each person holds the scale with two hands and squeezes it, pressing as hard as possible to register the highest

 

Counting Game - for the cerebrally minded

 

Blow Pop Challenge- Package of Blow Pops

Have 3 "volunteers" up front. Give them each a Blow Pop sucker. The first one to unwrap it, and bite into it, to the gum, and blow a bubble wins. 

 

Dollar Jump- $1

 

Egg Blow- Tube, Eggs, Wipes, Tarp

 

Nacho Libre Thumb Wrestling- Thumb Arena (a box works too)

 

Funnel/Penny- Funnel/Penny/Water

Take a funnel and shove the small end down the front of your pants so the wide end is facing up. Put your head back, place a penny on your forehead and close your eyes. Tilt your head forward, dropping the penny off of your forehead and into the funnel. Challenge the group that no one in the audience can do that three times in a row. Pick a student who is the most eager to prove you wrong (make sure they're a good sport). Set it up for the kid and emphasize how much you must close your eyes for at least three seconds before dropping the penny in. On the student's third try, pour a huge glass of ice water down the funnel (make sure that the funnel has a big enough opening to allow good water flow)

 

Ducttape Tag- Duct tape

 

Shuffle Your Buns
This game requires at least a good handful of people and a chair for everyone. Have everyone sit in a circle. Then select a person to go into the middle. When you say "go," they are to try to go back to their seat. Everyone slides their tush (shuffles their buns) over to block the person from sitting in the empty seat. The person will end up running around the circle trying to get to the rapidly moving empty seat. If he sits, then the person on his or her left is the person who has to go in the middle.  

 

Sharks n Minnows

 

Hand Light Saber Duels

 

Talent Show w/ Judges