Games & Activities

Games to make your mitzvah pop

Musical Chair Scavenger Hunt

This starts out like traditional musical chairs.  You have one less chair than people playing.  The music plays and contestants walk around the chairs.  When the music stops, the DJ also calls out something that the contestants must find and bring back before they can sit down. For example, the DJ might call out, "a set of keys.".  Everyone must find a set of keys and bring it back to a chair.  A player is eliminated and then a chair is removed.  This time when the music stops and the DJ calls out an item to find, the players must return the first item before locating the new item.  Play continues until there is just one or two winners.

Coke and Pepsi

have all the people who want to play pick a partner and have them line up parallel to each other (similar to how you would see a balloon toss line). Dub one side coke and the other side pepsi. You explain to the kids when you say coke, the coke side runs to pepsi side and sits on partners knee. If you say pepsi the pepsi side does the same and sits on cokes knee.

Curveballs: SPRITE. Is freeze, DR PEPER, they meet in the middle and lock arms back to back.

Speed challenge meaning last team or couple sets of teams to compete each command are out. 

TRIVIA CONTESTS — Can be anything themed 

Name That TV Show: We have theme songs from TV shows going back to the 1960's.  We select 4 contestants at a time.  We play the song and the first one to guess the show it is from wins.  As an alternative, the winner could go on to a final round with 3 or 4 other winners from the first round.

NOTE: can also do this during down time or slow time with payed back gigs or during dinner to keep guests and kids active. First person to run up and answer wins.

Specific Trivia: We have thousands of trivia questions in all types of categories - the 1940's through the 1990's, music, general, fads, etc.  We can help prod your memory with memory jogging clues. We do not bring trivia questions unless requested.

Balloon Stuff Challenge

This is typically done with little little kids  using xxxxl shirts find a leader of a group of kids up to around 8 kids each team numbers depend on the amount of shirts you have. Get an adult or two for each team to blow up the balloons as the kids stuff the mist amount of balloons in the shirts as possible. At the end, you have the adults take them out the shirts and count. The team with most balloons in the shirts win!

21 Cups: 

This is a relay race style game, cups in a stack of 21 are handed to the line leader. Can be from 5 people to 21 people in each row times 2.  The leader runs to a specified location and stacks or places a single cup. Then runs back with the remaining stack and hands it off. Then next person runs and places or stacks next cup until all cups are stacked in a pyramid style of 21. 

Survivor / Huggy Bear

The guests dance during a song.  At some point, we stop the music and call out a number.  The guests must hold hands or hug to form circles with as many people as the number called.  If we call "5" all people who did not get in a circle or do not have 5 in their circle are out.  This continues until there are just 1 to 2 people left.

1. Build a Tent

2. Spear a fish

3. Hammock

4. Canoe

5. Survivor 

Elimination Dance:

 We start by having the guests dance to a song.  Periodically, we stop the music and call out a description.  If the guest fits the description, they must leave the dance floor.  The song continues until you have 1 or 2 winners.  Examples:

Anyone wearing red       Anyone wearing a watch       Anyone with a hat one

Freeze Dance

This is a great game to play with all of your guests. The object is simple. The guests are asked to dance to a song and then freeze when the music stops. They are to remain frozen until the music starts up again. The person or persons who did not freeze, or unfroze before the music started up again, are asked to leave the game. The person remaining wins a prize.

Fun things to do

Mix up the night a bit with a couple of different ideas to make guests remember your big day and help fill the gaps of traditionally slower times of the evening.

You become the DJ

Stand behind the dj booth and help mix tracks, take some pics and be the center of attention a bit more during your big day.

Co2 Canon Blast

During the best part of the song, You can be given our C02 Canon and spray all of your friends while they jump and dance while recording you and having an amazing time!

Dance off

Your DJ may get out there and start a Dance off and get your best most outgoing friends to battle it out with him on the dance floor or with other friends. This is a great way to get the energy up and continue a great night!

Candle Lighting Ceremony

Pick the most important 16 people in your life that are attending the party; people who have influenced you while growing up. If relatives and friends are invited, this list should include all grandparents, siblings and parents (or extended family). The list would then move on to important aunts and uncles, cousins, other family and friends. If it's just friends, the list should be considered carefully since you don't want anyone's feelings to be hurt. As if I have to tell you, 16-year-old girls are very, very sensitive!

Now comes the hardest part. Part of the ceremony is saying a little something about each person as you introduce them and call them up to light a candle. Thus, you have to write a paragraph or two about each, you may want to make it a poem, you may want to tell a favorite story or anecdote about something that happened to you, or you may want to mention your favorite thing(s) about that person (like Grandma's meatloaf or what it's like when your Mom and you go shopping).

A word to the wise--do not go on too long or your guests will be bored and fidgeting while you are trying to carry this off. So keep it short and to the point, but entertaining if you can.

Sometimes people do unusual things instead of using candles. For instance, they may go to a sign company and have a puzzle made. Then each person puts up a piece of the puzzle. When the puzzle is finally done, it has message like "Happy Birthday," or it's a picture of you as a baby or even now. There are all sorts of creative things you can do.

Finally, if you are using candles, you need to make sure that you tell the party center to have a table available to set them up. You need to buy the candles; they can be tapers, they can be ball-shaped or they can be creative representing one of your favorite things (like rose-shaped candles). Go to a local candle store and you'll see what they have available...it's amazing!