ROLL IN THE NEW YEAR

How to Play:

1. Object is to roll a “midnight” roll (two 6’s) as many times as you can in one minute.
2. The player who rolls the most midnight rolls wins.

Items Needed:

• two die

DON’T DROP THE BALL

How to Play:

1. Object is to keep the ball from dropping to the floor without using your hands.
2. Player that keeps the ball in the air the longest wins.

CLOCK PUZZLE 

How to Play:

1. Give each player a scrambled clock puzzle.
2. First player to complete the puzzle is the winner!

Tip: make the puzzle easier for younger kids and harder for adults!

Items Needed:

• Clock Puzzle Download
• cardstock (or you could use a cereal box to make it last longer with glue)
• scissors
• make two puzzles

THE MOST KISSES

How to Play:

1. Object of the game is to unwrap the kisses first. (it’s more difficult than you’d think…and hilarious!)
2. Give each player ten kisses and the first one to unwrap them wins!

Tip: You could make things more interesting and have the players eat them, too!

Items Needed:

• bag or two of kisses

NEW YEARS PARTY HAT TOSS

How to Play:

1. Use two players per team. Each player gets a hat and catches as many as they can thrown by their partner.
2. The team who catches the most ping pong balls wins!

Items Needed:

• party hats
• ping pong balls

PARTY BLOWER DESTRUCTION

How to Play:

1. Object is to knock over all pop cans using the party blower — no hands allowed.
2. First to knock over all of the cans wins!

Items Needed:

• 6 empty pop cans per player
• party blower per player

Do you have any other fun New Year’s Eve Party Minute to Win It Games? Please share below!

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

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Here’s the thing.

They can be as easy as throwing on a few items (ingredients you have on hand) for an afternoon or they can be super fancy for a celebration or wedding.

Don’t make it too hard, and don’t go too wacky using things that the guests or family members won’t eat.

I’ve also seen many charcuterie boards used as “Sunday Snack Boards” where you have the family visit around these boards for family events, gospel study, etc. These can be great traditions!

Let me show you a few, fun examples to get us started! I think this one is kid-friendly (great for the picky-eater) and delicious for all ages!

Have a holiday party or event at work you’re in charge of? Create a holiday charcuterie board!

Another idea is to do a food theme board like this Smores version!

I hope by now your creative wheels are spinning for your next charcuterie board! Customize it with favorite foods/recipes, diet restrictions, family traditions, flavors/textures you name it!

Well, to make it even easier here is a list of 100 things you can put on a charcuterie board by category!

Fresh Fruits and Veggies

• grapes
• strawberries
• bananas
• apricots
• oranges
• apples
• kiwi
• watermelon
• pears
• cantaloupe
• cherries
• blueberries
• pineapple
• raspberries (any berries)
• snap peas
• carrots
• celery
• cucumbers
• cauliflower
• broccoli
• cherry tomatoes
• olives
• pickles
• peppers
• fresh herbs

Crackers/Cheeses/Dips

• crackers (Ritz, Wheat Thins, Triscuits, etc.)
• pretzels
• bruschetta
• chips
• Goldfish
• baguette slices
• almonds
• walnuts
• peanuts
• cashews
• pistachios
• croutons
• sunflower seeds
• fruit dip
• peanut butter
• honey
• veggie dip
• jellies/jams
• hummus
• ranch
• salsa
• guacamole
• cream cheese
• balsamic vinegar
• cottage cheese
• cheddar cheese
• gouda
• goat cheese
• feta
• brie
• blue cheese
• soft cheese/ hard cheeses
• manchego
• pepper jack cheese
• Swiss cheese
• Colby jack cheese
• mozzarella sticks or slices

Meats

• turkey
• ham
• roast beef
• chicken
• beef jerky
• prosciutto
• salami
• bacon
• pepperoni
• cured meat
• shrimp
• summer sausage
• boiled eggs

Treats/Desserts

• marshmallows
• chocolate chips
• cookies
• fruit snacks
• licorice
• Skittles
• Reese’s peanut butter cups
• jelly beans
• candy canes
• conversation hearts
• caramel
• taffy
• chocolate
• gummy bears
• popcorn
• m&ms
• Swedish fish
• cereal
• brownies
• pudding
• mints

…or anything your heart desires!!

Tip: make sure to include spoons, forks, knives, small bowls, and tongs if needed!

Remember they don’t have to be difficult to create, they are customizable to your family/event, and you can be as creative as you want!

Do you have a fun idea or tips when making a charcuterie platter? Please share in the comments below!

Post by: Kari Sweeten

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Supplies:

• t-shirt
• lots of wrapped candy
• glue gun & glue
• cardboard
• somebody with a fun personality and lots of energy!

Directions:

1. Place a piece of cardboard inside the t-shirt (this helps the front from being glued to the back)
2. Start gluing on candy. Tip – you only need a small amount so the children can easily tear the pieces of candy off of the shirt. 3. Glue to the front and back! Stick your hand in the shirt to make sure the t-shirt doesn’t stick to the cardboard. Oh, and don’t forget to do the sleeves!

How to Play…

Make a designated area that all children and runners stay inside of.  Give the runner a head start and let the children go crazy chasing and grabbing the candy!! It will be the hit of the party!

Tip: You can do more than one shirt for older kids and one for younger kids!

We’re having a big family reunion party next month and I want to show you some more fun games and ideas that you might not have heard of before…

What you need…

Grab a large tarp and cut random squares or circles (reinforce the edges with tape to make it last for other parties). Hang tarp between two trees, poles or wooden sticks. Fill a large bucket with water and sponges!

How to play…

The person to get the most sponges inside the squares wins!

What you need…

Two construction or soccer cones. Two beach balls.

How to play…

Divide into two teams. Each player has to balance the ball on top of the cone and race to the line and back. If you drop the ball you have to start over and no touching the beach ball with your face or hands! The team who finishes first wins!

What you need…

6-8 hula hoops and 1 pool noodle. Cut the pool noodle in half and place into the ground.

How to play…

The player who gets all hula hoops onto the noodles first wins!

What you need…

10 pool noodles, duct tape, and metal poles. Take 6 of the noodles and tape them together into a circle. Tape the circles together to look like the above picture. Attach to the outside noodles on the metal poles.

How to play…

Two players get a chance to throw their pool noodle through the hoops! The first player to do this wins! You might also like our fun Olympic games!

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How to Play:

 

1. Object is to bite off end of candy corns and stick them to a paper plate making a circle.

2. Player that gets the farthest around the plate within 60 seconds wins!

 

Items Needed:

Candy corns

Paper Plates

PUMPKINS & PANTYHOSE

 

How to Play:

1. Line up two rows of 4 unopened water bottles.

2. Player puts a pair of panty hose on their head with a mini pumpkin in the bottom.

3. Object is to hit over the bottles with the pantyhose and pumpkin in 60 seconds (swinging trunk side to side like an elephant).

 

Items Needed:

Mini Pumpkins

Pantyhose

Water Bottles

 

COTTON BALL PIE

How to Play:

1. Fill up one pie tin with cotton balls. Player puts vaseline on their nose and cheeks. Place the empty pie pan on other end of the table.

2. Object is for player to move cotton balls (only using their face) to empty pie tin. Player to get the most cotton balls within 60 seconds wins!

 

Items Needed:

Two Pie Tins (they sell them at the dollar store, too!)

Cotton Balls

Vaseline

POST BY: Kari Sweeten

 

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Have guests “clown around” with this fun idea greeting them to have fun!

Kids are crazy for animal cookies and they also make the cutest cupcake toppers!

Feed the Elephant Game at Planet of the Apels 

 

…and you can never go wrong with a classic bean bag toss game using colorful bowls or buckets!

Bean Bag Toss Game by One More Moore

 

I love how creative this ring toss game is using suckers!

Also learn how to make your own party backdrop for parties and events!

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Basically they are cakes made up of cupcakes and decorated as one! Today you’ll find some of the cutest pull apart cakes out there!

This Unicorn Pull Apart Cake by Real Moms is so much fun because she uses rainbow colored cupcakes, too!

Cupcake Bouquet Cake by Living Locurto – what a beautiful idea to use real stems and a ribbon.

Lion Pull Apart Cake by Rada Cutlery

Pull Apart Rainbow Cupcakes at BHG – love the mini marshmallows to make fluffy clouds!

Cupcake Flowers by See Vanessa Craft – this is the perfect cake idea for a Mother, friend, someone who loves flowers!

Pull Apart Dress Cake at The Melba Cakes – use this template to make any princess dress with different colors and designs!

Balloon Cupcakes at Around the World in 80 Cakes – the best tasting birthday balloons!

Pull Apart Fish Cake by My Cake School – love this for a kid’s birthday party or an event at a preschool.

American Flag Pull Apart Cake at Cake Central – celebrate Independence Day with USA cupcakes!

Gum ball Pull Apart Cake – Use a rectangle cake and some cupcakes to make a fun gum ball machine!

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 Naturally the best part of planning and creating a fun Kids Olympic Party is all about the games.  We have plenty of tiny kids in our family so we didn’t want to make too advanced games, but we still wanted it to be fun for the few older kids we did have.  So Kari, Danielle, and I put our heads together and came up with these amazing

 Backyard Olympic Games

As to how to make the Olympic Games, these are really self explanatory so I included just a sentence or two on how I made them and how we played them.

Balance Beam

Supply List & Instructions:

2 Cinder Blocks

1 2×4 plank of wood

Just put the blocks down and place the wood on top.

Kids younger than 5 years walked across and back…adding an optional trick if they wanted.

The older bunch had to walk to the middle turn around on one foot and walk back again.  This was hysterical to watch.

Noodle Throw

Supply List & Instructions:

Hula Hoop Rings made previously

4 pool noodles purchased at the dollar store

Secure the Giant Olympic Rings so they stand in the grass…we used bamboo shoots.

Two players each have 2 noodles.  They throw the noodles like javelins and try to make it throw the hoop.  Having two players at once is pretty fun because their noodles knock against each other and it’s unpredictable.

Designate a spot for older players father back the game more challenging.

You can give the hoops point values too, but since our littles are younger we were just hoping they would make it in a hoop.

Monster Ball Toss

Supply List & Instructions:

Foam Board

Super sharp x-acto knife

Markers

Draw your funky monster.  Cut out the mouth, the nose, the eye…whatever you’d like. Just make a hole for the kidlets to throw a ball or bean bag through.

This was our 3 and younger game so we made the hole pretty big.

Water Bucket Relay

Supply List & Instructions:

6 buckets from the dollar store; 3 of one color and 3 of another.

2 big car wash sponges

water…lots of water

Place three buckets in a line about 3 feet apart.  Do this with the other set of buckets, lining them up next to the other teams buckets.  Fill the buckets with water.

A child stands behind each bucket.  The first one has the huge sponge soaked with water and hands it over their head to the player behind them.  The next player is not directly behind them so this requires the kids to kind of toss the sponge over their head.

The next player dips the sponge in the bucket and throws it to the next person, etc.  Then we had the kids turn around and through it back, but this time like a quarterback…through their legs.  It was super fun!!

We even made the adults play this one. Needless to say, everyone ended up wet.

As you can see we had a great time!  This games were a HUGE hit for both young and old. We had a great time!

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Tassels make the perfect embellishment for bags, jewelry, party decor, planners, etc.!

Check out the many different tutorials and ways you can use tassels in your crafting. Attach them to a journal or planner…

DIY Planner Tassel

Add them to your purse/bag or use as a keychain…

DIY Suede Tassels by Wah So Simple

Create giant versions for your home decor using yarn…

Yarn Tassel Bedskirt Tutorial by My Sister’s Suitcase

Tassels are also great for parties! Grab some crepe paper and make beautiful garlands…

How to Make Tassel Garlands at Pizzazzerie

How fun is this two-toned version?

Two-Toned Leather Tassel Tutorial by Damask Love

Add mini tassels to your jewelry…

DIY Beaded Jewelry Tassel by iSpy DIY

How adorable are these for a small bunting? These would be great as gift toppers, too!

DIY Tassel Bunting by Bloesem Kids

Have fun making tassels with these amazing tutorials!!

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I chose to attend a Cookie Decorating Basics class at my local Michael’s craft store because when it comes to fancy frosting and decorating tips I was clueless.

To sign up: Simply go online and pick a favorite class or call your local store. Super easy!

The instructor began with the basics of mixing colors to make the perfect color of frosting you desire.

This next step might seem simple to you, but I’ve never used those frosting bags and tips! Kate (the teacher) was very helpful and showed me how to screw on the tips and adjust the bag just right without making a mess!

The fun part? Practicing techniques using the decorating tips!

Kate showed me how to turn vanilla wafers into a fun, spring treat using the techniques she taught us to make flowers!

I brought them home and the family gobbled them right up! I can’t wait to use some of these techniques on cupcakes next!

I also plan on taking the other Wilton classes so I can become more advanced in my frosting techniques!

Did you know that Michaels offers free classes in their stores? You can try out a new craft skill for just the cost of supplies.

Another great way to explore your creativity is by trying out a craft kit. Michaels has everything from sewing kits to art kits and everything in between.

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Balloons are the perfect addition to any birthday party, wedding, holiday party, or any event!

Your mind will be “blown” with these amazing beautiful balloon tutorials by these creative ladies…

Create a beautiful balloon garland as a backdrop for a wedding!

DIY Balloon Garland by Classy Clutter

Add cut outs to regular balloons to match your party theme!

How to Make Dinosaur Balloons by Brit + Co

Long, skinny balloons into popsicle sticks? Love these!

DIY Popsicle Balloons by StudioDIY

Turn balloons into treats by adding sprinkles and sticks!

Ice Cream Balloon Tutorial by Oh Happy Day

Not only would this be fun for any party, but would also be a gorgeous photo prop!

DIY Floral Balloon Garland by Style Me Pretty

Cacti are such a huge trend right now! I love how black marks and the placement of balloons turns 3 balloons into a fun cactus!

Cactus Balloon Tutorial by Design Improvised

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