Mummy Wrap
(to the music “Monster Mash” by Bobby Boris Pickett)
Teams of four, one “mummy” and three “wrappers.” Two rolls of toilet paper are used for each team. “Wrappers” run around and wrap the “mummy.” Each time the paper breaks, they must switch “wrappers.” First team to finish both rolls, wins.
imbo Contest
(to a medley of Limbo music)
The "traditional way" by arching backward (with spotters or on a soft surface) or just whoever can go the lowest with only their feet touching the ground, wins. The Limbo can be staged as an event or grow out of the music as a dance floor routine.
Hula Hoop Contest
(to a medley of Disco music)
Whoever can last the longest while spinning the hoop around their waist, wins. (Contestants often must meet various challenges or be eliminated.)
Huggy Bear
(to the music “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge)
Everyone is on the dance floor. Play a song and have everyone dance. Yell out a number and the people must get into groups of that number. Anyone not in a group of that number is out. Good activity for all ages.
Coke and Pepsi
Two lines sitting on chairs, facing their partner across the dance floor, one line is “Coke” and the other is “Pepsi.” When one name is called, that line runs to the other side and sits on the knee of their partner. When “Seven Up” is called out both lines run to the middle and “High-Five” their partner. When “Star Trek” is called out, everyone raises their right hand up and yells "Beam me up, Scotty!” When the name of the Guest of Honor is called out, everyone points at him/her, and yells, “You’re the greatest!” Good activity for all ages.
Walla Balla
(to the music “Shake Your Booty” by KC and the Sunshine Band)
Up to sixteen people, four players at a time strap on a Walla Balla belt. The object of the game is to move your hips and body (no hands allowed) and swing the ball, that's hanging from the end of the string, into one of the 3 baskets. (Three minute time limit.) First to get their ball in wins that round. The winners of each round get a chance to be in the playoff against the other winners.
Wango Tango
( to the music "Hockey Party Jam")
Two team members face each other with the Wango Tango rod between them, waste high. On signal, they cooperate with one another to wrap the ball on the string around the rod, much like tether ball, but with both players aiming to wrap the ball in the same direction.
Musical Chairs Scavenger Hunt
(to the music “Jessica” by The Allman Brothers)
All players come to the dance floor with a chair. Everyone must sit. The DJ calls something out like a "Man's Belt," a "Cell Phone," or a "Man with a Mustache." The players run to find one. While they are gone, one chair is removed. The person who comes back and doesn't have a seat is out. Items get harder to find as there are fewer and fewer contestants.
Indoor Volley Ball
(to a mix of Techno Music)
A volley ball game with a long net set up on the dance floor, using a large beach ball instead of a hard volley ball. Hillarious activity, good for all ages.
Chicken Pops
(to the music "Chicken Head" by 36 Mafia)
Make some beaks out of party hats with a pin at the end. Then take a Balloon Bouquet of about 20 balloons for each team and place at one end of the room. Next, have the teams at the other end, when you say go, they have to walk like a chicken to the balloons and "peck" out a balloon and then return. Then the next player on the team does the same. This continues until all of the teams balloons are popped. If a player pops more than one balloon, they get a penalty point for each additional balloon they pop. The team that finishes first and has the fewest penalty points wins.
Balloon Soccer
(to the music "Hey Song")
Two goalies sit at opposite corners of the room in a chair. Both goalies have pushpins that will pop balloons. The rest of the group is divided into two teams. To begin, drop some (as many as you want) air-inflated balloons in the center of the room. Each team tries to get the balloons to its goalie, by kicking them. They may never touch a balloon with their hands. The goalie who gets a balloon and pops it scores a point for the team. The goalie must remain seated and cannot leave the chair to catch and pop a balloon. The team that pops the most balloons wins.
Balloon Sock Hop
(to the music "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley)
Balloon Sock Hop is a great game, but it requires lots of room and lots of balloons. For a 30 second game you'll need about 10 balloons for each player. To play, divide the players evenly into teams and assign a balloon color to each team. Then scatter an even number of different colors of balloons around the room. Have the players take off there shoes and start playing the music. The players have to stomp their color of balloons to pop them. After 30 seconds, stop the music, and count up the remaining balloons. Whichever team has the fewest balloons left of their color wins.
Twenty-One
(to the music of "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones)
Teams of 5 people each, form a line on one side of the dance floor. On the opposite side for each team there are 21 large plastic or Styrofoam cups. In the middle of the dance floor, taped in front of each team is an “X.” One at a time, a player from each team races to their cups, carries one to the “X” and forms a pyramid (6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). When a player has placed their cup, they go to the end of their line and the next player does the same thing. If the pyramid falls down during the building process, the team member on the dance floor has to set up the whole thing before their team can proceed. The team that finishes their pyramid first, wins.
