The Ultimate Game Night
Idea by Michelle



Food
- We did appetizers and desserts. All finger-food as we only had napkins out for use. I of course left mine in the fridge (put there to keep it cold while I set-up), so I came home with most of mine. (Grin!) I believe there was enough, since I never got a opportunity to go back there I can't say for sure.

Kids - We had the nursery set up for the younger kids. There was an area to play, a table set up with coloring pages and crayons and a TV set up with a movie. I believe this also went well. I put someone else in charge of making sure there were adults rotated in to help watch the kids. I was trying to alleviate the problem of kids running the halls.

Games - When people came in we had a place where they could drop their names in the bucket of each game they wanted to play. We started exactly at seven so we could keep on schedule.

Win, Lose, or Draw - We played this for fifteen minutes while the stragglers came in. We would draw a name and they would come up and draw.  Whomever guessed it correctly won a pencil. Here is a list of the items we had to draw.

I Love to See the Temple
David & Goliath
Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree
Seagulls and the Crickets
Daniel and the Lions Den
Families Can Be Together Forever
Captain Moroni
Baptism
Scripture Study
Food Storage
Prayer
Family Home Evening
The Last Supper
Golden Plates
Samuel the Lamanite
Three Degrees of Glory
Tower of Babel
Noah's Ark
Book of Mormon Stories
I Hope They Call Me On A Mission
Liahona
Jonah and the Whale
Garden of Eden
2000 Stripling Warriors
Wise Man and the
Foolish Man
Nauvoo
Tree of Life

I did all the cards on "word" in a template, so they all came out the same size. I then printed the name of the game on the back and laminated them. This way, I can use the game again for Family Home Evening or whatever.
 

Name That Hymn - I also did these cards the same way. This was a harder game and it didn't turn out as well as I would have liked.  I'm going to rethink it and see if I can make it easier. It was the least popular game of the evening. If I can think of a way to make it better, I will let you know. The prizes we had were whistle pops for runners up and a giant symphony bar for the winner.

The Price is Right - We had purchased five items for this game. We called up four people for each one. The I read a "bit" I had written for that item (usually funny) and each of the four wrote on an index card what they thought the price was. A couple times they all over bid and had to try again. The winner got the item and the other contestants got two gold coins (chocolate ones). The audience had a great time calling out prices. We did two the between the first two games, and three between the last two. Our items were:

A Stand-Up Dishwasher - The kind you put dishwashing liquid into.
A Travel Manicure Set
A Box of Puffs Plus
A Kitchen Hand Towel - This was a fall-themed one.
A Golden Basket - A Christmas decoration item.
 

The Eternally Wed Show - We had four couples (one was the bishop and his wife). We asked the men three 5-point questions, the women were asked three 10-point questions and the 25-point bonus question. The audience really enjoyed this game. We had people to help write the answers that were given so that they could be shown like on the real show. The contestants were give gum and the winners (not our bishop by the way) were given a bag with "hugs and kisses".

Family Feud - The big hit of the night. We played just like the TV show. We called up five people for each team and I had someone writing the answers on the chalk board. Easier and quicker then trying to do paper strips. We also had some younger kids come up and hold up the "strikes". Big X's on pieces of paper. We did three questions, first two regular points and the third double. Then the winning team play the bonus round with five questions of course. The team that didn't make the bonus round got whistle pops and the winning team got a bag of candy with "hugs and kisses" and "treasures". We actually played two rounds of this. As for the questions, I'm still working on them and will post them at a later date.
 

Let's Make a Deal - This was hysterically funny. We play this a couple times during and then after when we had about ten minutes left. We would ask for an item, and the first person to find it would wind "100,000 dollar bar". We bought the mini ones. Anyone interested in the list of items we choose from (we didn't use them all), just let me know and I can also post it. Just as a side note, our missionaries took about 35 copies of our flier and passed them out. Actually all the missionaries from all the wards took them. We ended up with about 3 of 4 investigators and families showing up. I don't think any of them were from our ward but the Bishop thought it was great. We also had probably four pairs of missionaries show up.

 

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  November 26,  2006

 

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