The Name Game is a super easy New Year's Eve party game that's great for a large group of adults looking for a fun but laid back game to play. For this game, each guest will need to contribute some names to a large bowl. These can be names of celebrities, fictional characters, historical characters, and even people in the room. Variations– You can play as this game between two people as solos too. Pass The Hat- New Years Eve Games. This is a very simple game yet a lot fun game to play. All the guests need to sit in a circle and everyone will pass on the hat to the next player, without using their hands. New Year's Eve is the perfect time to play some fun games together. Here are 15 fun ideas for activities to play with your friends and family! These New Year's Eve activities are great for kids or adults. 15 fun New Year's Eve Activities for Kids or Adults 1. Guessing the Resolutions Make each of your guests write down resolutions, each on its own slip of paper. Pull one slip of paper out of a.

1. Fun New Year's Eve Games

Before the clock strikes 12 on December 31, here are some entertaining fun games for your kids to kill time!

Balloon Wish

Take a strip of paper and write down your resolution for the new year. Fold this piece of paper and place it inside a balloon. Lastly, fill the balloon with helium and tie it with a ribbon. When the clock strikes 12, you and your kids could release it into the air!

Photo Memory Timeline

What are some of the best memories you’ve made this past year? If you’ve got some pictures depicting the same, print them out and hide them all around the house. Your kids need to hunt for these pictures and then arrange them in the right order to create a timeline of memories.

Tick Tock Tic Tac

For this fun game, all you need is a handful of breath mints/candy, small paper plates, and a pair of tweezers. Once you’ve gathered all these items, you need to use the tweezers to move as many Tic Tacs from one plate to another in 60 seconds! Whoever transfers the most mints wins.

Fireworks in a Jar

All you will need for this experiment is some clear glass jars, oil, water, and food coloring. Fill the jars with water about ¾ full. Then provide a bowl each to the kids so they can place several tablespoons of oil in their bowls. Let your child add drops of different food coloring and lightly stir with a fork. As each child pours this mixture into the glass jar, they can observe the liquid fireworks explode!

Spell it Out

Ask your kids to find letters to spell out “Happy New Year” by rummaging through a large plastic bin (or a bin filled with sand)! Make sure to set a timer to make this game more challenging. Whoever finds all the letters in the shortest amount of time, wins!

Kickstart 2021 With Osmo’s All-New Games

Do you know about our newly launched Math Wizard series for grades 1 & 2? These curriculum-inspired games alleviate math anxiety and help your kids apply everything they learn from Osmo to school and everyday life. The first two titles in the Math Wizard series are Magical Workshop and Secrets of the Dragons:

Magical Workshop is an addition and subtraction adventure, where kids brew potions with dragon claws and sparkle dust to master place value, and they continue their quest by counting balloons to help dragons fly. This learning box has 4 mini-games:

1. Potions – Learn addition and subtraction while mixing up potions with your trusty mixing mat, rods, and cubes.

2. Dragon Drop – Use a vertical number line to attach balloons to dragons for flight.

3. Magical Flight – Travel on a magic broom to rebuild castles all over Wyverndell. A construction crew will help out, but you have to double-check the count of materials.

4. Wyverndell Express – Operate your own dragon courier business! Solve math word problems at every train station to unlock new routes.

Secrets of the Dragons allows kids to learn and master measurement at their own pace, where they explore the Dragon Reserve and its outlying biomes. As dragon scouts, they discover new dragons, measure, and feed them based on their size.

The next two releases in the series will debut in March 2021. The Math Wizard series will be available in Canada in January 2021.
The Osmo family wishes you a happy new year! Don’t forget to stock your at-home classroom with our kids’ educational games for 2021. We also offer preschool games,fun math games for kids, and several other interactive kids’ gamesthat make learning fun.

I’m all for parties, but I hate planning them — it’s too much pressure to make sure everyone has a good time. Throwing parties as an adult can be especially difficult. Plan too many activities, and the fun can feel forced. Don’t plan at all, and you risk your party descending into awkward silence when everyone runs out of things to talk about. And when you throw New Year’s Eve — arguably the most overly hyped night of the year — into the mix, the pressure to entertain successfully can be downright crippling. But don’t fret. An easy way to make sure you and your guests have a good time is to have a couple of games on hand in case things get stale. So I’ve racked my brain and come up with New Year’s Eve party games for adults. You’re welcome in advance.

Going to parties as a kid was easy because the number of games you could play was basically never-ending. From telephone to duck duck goose, you could have a blast with no extra materials outside a circle of friends. Well I’ve got good news: Many of the same games you played as a kid are just as fun — if not more so — as an adult. I mean, everybody loves a good throwback.

1. Salad Bowl

This is a game I played in camp when I was 15, and again a few weeks ago — and let me tell you, both times were equally laugh-inducing. You’ll need a bunch of slips of paper, writing utensils, and a giant bowl (or bowl-like container) for this game. Here’s how it works: First, divide the room into two teams. Then, everybody writes the name of a person, celebrity, or fictional character on a slip of paper and puts all the slips in the bowl. Each team goes down the line member by member, picking out one slip of paper and trying to have their team members guess who it is. There are two catches, though: First, there’s a time limit (I think I did one minute, but whatever works for you). Second, there are three rounds. In the first round, you can use words, song, gestures, anything goes to get your team to guess. In the second round, you can only use one word. In the third round, no words or sounds are allowed. The slips of paper are returned to the bowl in between each round, though, so it becomes a sort of memory game as the rounds progress.

2. Tape Heads

Apparently this game is actually called Heads Up, but at camp we called it Tape Heads so that’s the name I’m going with forever. You may have seen it in Inglourious Basterds. Materials needed are either masking tape and marker; paper, tape, and pens; sticky notes, or some other form of paper that will have a way of sticking onto your forehead. Each person writes down the name of a famous person on their piece of paper and then passes the paper face-down to the person to their right. Without looking, everybody sticks the paper to their forehead. Then, you each take turns asking each other yes or no questions to try to determine who’s on your forehead. Watching people struggling to figure out something you already know is always hilarious, albeit in a slightly sadistic way.

3. Charades

Charades is the original party game; I shouldn’t have to explain how it works to anyone. Knock it all you want, but there’s a reason it’s been around since the 18th century.

4. Password

I play this game every year with my cousins at IHOP and it never fails to pass the time. You’ll need an even number of people for this game, so I suggest substitutions if someone’s left out. Divide the group into two evenly split groups and arrange the groups in a horizontal line facing one another. The person across from you is your partner. Each round, each group comes up with a word that they’re each going to try to get their partner to guess. What makes this game difficult is that you can only provide a one-word clue. You can’t use a word’s rhyme as its clue, and you can’t use proper nouns. Whoever guesses the word correctly gets a point, and you keep going to see who gets the most points.

5. 7 Up

If you didn’t play this game in school when you had a substitute, I don’t know what you were doing with your life back in the '90s. 7 Up (or the longer title, Heads Up 7 Up) got me through many a school day. Anyway, here’s how it works — no teams needed for this one. You’ll need to designate someone as “the teacher” — I would just pick the host to make it easier. The host picks seven people to be “It”. When the host says, 'Heads down, thumbs up,' the remaining people obey. The “It” people then go around and press down everyone’s thumbs. When everyone’s thumbs are down, the host says “Heads up, 7 up” and everyone tries to guess who pressed down their thumb. Whoever gets it right becomes the new “It.” Rinse, repeat, and maybe indulge yourselves in a little walk down memory lane.

6. Coke and Pepsi

This game is honestly my favorite. You actually need an odd number of people for this — one person will emcee rather than play. I could spend six pages going into all the intricacies and special rules of this game, so I’ll just help with the setup. Everybody picks a partner, and the partners go stand on opposite sides of the room from each other. One side of the room is designated as “Coke” and the other is “Pepsi.” When the emcee yells out “Coke,” the coke side has to run across the room and sit on their partner’s lap. When the emcee yells “Pepsi,” the Pepsi side has to run across the room. The last person there is out, so it’s sudden-death elimination. Like I said, there are many more rules — most named after different sugary beverages such as Mountain Dew, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, and more — but I really don’t have the time or finger strength to get into it. This blog post covers it pretty accurately, or you could just ask any one of your friends who’s ever been to a bar or bat mitzvah.

7. Catchphrase

Catchphrase is another word guessing game. You can play this with a board game or an app, or you can use the power of imagination and a pre-determined set of words — like, for example, a list. The goal is for each team to try to get their team to guess as many words as they can under a certain time limit. You obviously can’t use any parts of the word, or a rhyming word, in your clues.

8. Broken Telephone

Yeah, I might sound like I’m 10 years old right now, but I’m not even exaggerating that I’ve made friends and laughed myself into tears just by playing this game. This game is similar to telephone, except that instead of whispering what you just heard into the person next to you’s ear, you whisper the first thing that comes to mind. It’s really fun in the end to go around and say what each person said, and how you can start out with one word and end with something totally out of left field.

9. Two Truths And A Lie

This probably only works if your guests don’t know each other very well — or I guess it could also work if you go with very obscure facts about yourself. Either way, it’s a good way to get to know everyone a little better.

10. Never Have I Ever

Listen, this game doesn't have to get X-rated — for instance, I've never broken a bone. (That's my go-to, by the way.) But fair warning: once somebody takes it past PG-13 territory, there's usually no going back.

Fun New Year's Eve Games

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