MINUTE TO WIN IT With these games you have a MINUTE to WIN it! Most games have a link attached to the title to watch a video guide on how the game works. FACE THE COOKIE Place a cookie on someone’s forehead. They have to use only their face muscles (no hands) to get it into their mouth. Supplies Needed: Oreo Cookies DEFYING GRAVITY Give each player three balloons. They have to keep all three balloons up in the air for a minute. Supplies Needed- 3 (or more) balloons BABY RATTLE Fill one 2-liter bottle with something (Lucky Charms, Jelly Beans, etc.) then tape to another 2-liter bottle – players have to transfer all from one bottle to the other. Supplies Needed- x2 2-liter bottles (empty), a filling of your choice SHAKE IT UP Tape an empty Kleenex box to a pair of pantyhose, fill with ping pong balls, then tape around someone’s waist. They have to shake until all the balls fall out. Supplies Needed- Empty Kleenex box, Ping Pong balls DIZZY MUMMY A two-player game where one person has to wrap the other person in streamers, toilet paper, or something else. Supplies Needed- Streamers IRON MAN Use a chopstick to stack iron nuts on top of each other Supplies needed- Iron nuts, Chopstick CHOOSING CUPS Set out 25 cups, filling all of them partway with water. Put a sticker on the bottom of some of the cups. Players have to pick one cup at a time, trying to find a sticker. Supplies Needed- Plastic cups, marker or sticker CEREAL PUZZLE Outline with pencil on the back of a cereal box. Cut up the cereal box into small pieces and see who can reassemble it back in 1 minute. Supplies Needed- Cereal box, scissors CHOPSTICK PICK UP Give each team two plates with 20 pieces of candy on one plate. Have the players move each piece of candy to the other plate using chopsticks in under a minute. Supplies Needed- Candy, Chopsticks MOVING ON UP Stack 20 Cups of one color (blue) together then add one to the top of the stack in a different color (red). When the timer starts, players put the blue cup on the bottom and start restacking the cups until they get the blue cup back up to the top of the stack. Supplies Needed- Plastic cups A BIT DICEY Players place the plastic spoon in their mouth and try to stack 6 dice onto the end. Supplies Needed- Plastic spoon, 6 dice NOODLING AROUND Place uncooked penne pasta noodles on the edge of a table. Players try to pick up the penne noodles using a spaghetti piece they have in their mouth. See who can pick up the most in one minute Supplies Needed- Uncooked penne noodles, uncooked spaghetti noodles COIN STACK Players need to stack 25 pennies up in a minute. Bigger groups could try and see how many of their players can stack up 25 pennies in a minute. The team with the most players finishing the stack wins. Supplies Needed- Pennies. APPLE STACKING Each team tries to stack 5 apples in 1 minute. This is a more challenging game so it could be done individually or as a team to figure out the best way to keep them stacked. Supplies Needed- 5 Apples STRAW RACE Each team gets two plates with one plate having 10 pieces of candy while the other is empty. Players then use a straw to suck up the candy and transfer it to the other plate. The one with the most transferred candies wins. Supplies Needed- 2 plates, Candy, plastic straw BALLOON AIR Each player blows up their own balloon. Then they line up at a table or along a hard surface floor with a ping pong ball in front of them. Players release the air from the balloon to try and see who can make the ping pong ball go the furthest. Supplies Needed- Ping pong ball, balloon FRUIT LOOP THREAD Players have one minute to use a pipe cleaner to string as many fruit loops as they can onto their pipe cleaner. The tricky part is you can only use one hand. Supplies Needed- Pipe cleaner, fruit loop CANDELIER Players must stack all 15 cans up using 4 paper plates in between. Each team can work together on their strategy to get them all stacked in under 1 minute. There is no one way to make this work so it’s fun to see each team’s strategy. Supplies Needed- Empty soda cans, paper plates CARD NINJA Slice a watermelon in half and lean against a chair or boxes to prop it up so the red part of the watermelon is showing. Kids then throw the playing cards like a ninja at the watermelon and see how many they can get to stick in one minute. Supplies Needed- Watermelon, Playing cards BABY RATTLE This game involves makeshift rattles. The rattles are actually two soda bottles taped together. They both have the same number of gumballs inside them. Each player will be playing with two rattles. At the start of the game, all the gumballs are in one bottle. The goal is to shake the bottles until all the gumballs slip into the other bottle. Supplies Needed- 2 2-liter bottles, gumballs NOSE DIVE Here the contestants rely on petroleum jelly (or something similar) and a bowl full of cotton balls. The goal is to rub the jelly on your nose and use it to pick up the cotton balls. Once the cotton ball has stuck to your nose, you will need to walk across the room and deposit the ball in another bowl. You will then need to go back and repeat the process. This is how you will need to do it. Supplies Needed- petroleum jelly, cotton balls, 2 large bowls SEPARATION The players are each given a group of colored candies. There are also several glasses in front of them. This is equal to the number of colors of the candies. Only one color can be placed in each glass, according to a particular order. Using just one hand, the players will sort the candies into their specific glasses. Supplies Needed- Colored candies, plastic or glass cups WHIPPERSNAPPER Each player will be given a towel or a rug and will have a box a certain distance away from them. The front part of the cloth will be weighted down. A ping pong ball will be placed on the rug. You will need to flick the cloth – and the ball – upwards using the two free ends of the cloth. You will need to get the ball into the box with this method. Supplies Needed-towel or rug, box, ping pong ball PAPER DRAGON The two players have two rolls of streamers set in front of them, on the ground. There is one roll for each hand. A small length of the streamers are unloosed, and the players hold onto them. Once the game starts, the players will have to unwind the roll by waving their arms in a circular motion. The person to unspool all of it first is declared the winner. Supplies Needed- Streamers PUDDLE JUMPER Each player is faced with two rows of cups and as many columns as desired. The cups are filled with water, and a ping pong is balanced on the row nearest to the players. The players must then blow on the ping pong, make it leap from one cup to another. If the ball falls on the ground, the player has to try again. Supplies Needed-Plastic cups, ping pong balls, water FLOATATIOUS The players each get a bowl that is filled with water. They must then place a plate inside the bowl. They will then have to start off by stacking a soda can on this plate. Once that is balanced, they will have to continue to place the cans, one on top of the other. This can be continued as long as the tower remains standing. Supplies Needed- Large Bowl, water, plate, empty soda cans DON’T LOSE THE KING The idea behind this game is easy, but the actual execution of it is not. Each contestant is given their own space which contains a bunch of cards faced down on the table. All of the Kings are face up so that you can see them. It is up to the player to blow all the cards off the table except for the Kings. Supplies Needed- Playing cards BACKFLIP Each player has twelve pencils in front of them, divided into sets of two. This means there are six sets of pencils in front of them. The players have to start by bouncing two pencils off the back of their hand and catching it before it lands. If the player is successful, they have to place four pencils and try again. This continues until the player tries to catch all twelve pencils. Supplies Needed- 12 pencils PADDLE POPPERS This is an alternative way to play ping pong. Here, the ping pong paddles are kept upright on posts or high surfaces. It is the players’ jobs to knock the paddles down by throwing the ping pong balls from a certain distance away. Each player has their own set of paddles to knock down as well as a collection of ping pong balls. Supplies Needed- Ping pong balls,paddles BOUNCEE There is a row of water glasses lined up in front of each contestant and they are given a box of ping pong balls.