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Minute To Win It Christmas Party - Part 1

Zach and I hosted an Ugly (aka really festive) Christmas Sweater party this year where everyone came ready to play some 60-second Minute to Win It games. Upon arrival, everyone was given a score card with the location of the games on it. We had to spread the games all throughout the house when we realized almost 30 people were coming! It was a very casual evening where appetizers and soup were ready for dinner when you wanted to take a break from playing games.

For the first portion of the night, we had five individual games set up throughout the house - the three 'living room' games were group games.

The Snowball Toss was located in the office. You can also see the 'photo booth' area behind the sign. The goal was to throw the marshmallows, one at a time, through the wreath and land at least 10 in the bucket within 60 seconds. Garrett did it!! And what happens if you don't have a bucket full of marshmallows to show off? Just look as cute as Caryn by poking your head through the wreath! The Christmas Nutstacker game was loads of fun too! The premise of this game was to load your candy cane with the 8 nuts and then stack them on top of each other - one at a time. In the same room, on the bed, was located 'Do You Hear What I Hear'? In this challenge, the Christmas tradition of shaking presents to figure out what's inside was turned into a 60-second game. Using the lift, rattle, and listen method, you must arrange 7 gift boxes filled with different quantities of jingle bells in ascending order from 5 bells to 35 bells - and then note your guess of the order on your score card. The fourth individual game was called 'Christmas Ball' and was located in the other guest bedroom. Zach moved the furniture around so that we could maximize the space. This game was surprisingly one of the most challenging games of the night. The premise is to fan an ornament using a wrapped gift box into a select area. From what I heard, only a few were able to do it! And as you can see above, here's our pretty wrapped gift box at the end of the night. And the last game... oh boy was this one fun. I choose to place 'Oh Christmas Tree' in the dining room for two reasons - 1. I needed another space and 2. If you failed and the cups came crashing down, everyone would know! How thoughtful of me.

It was certainly fun to watch! And here are some pictures of those who took the challenge! p.s. heres' the difference between using a flash and not using a flash. In the picture above, Rachel appears to be calmly placing the cups when in reality this is what she really looked like... Go Rachel, Go! And here's Merlin bringing the cups down for a victory! The skills - not to mention the outfits - of every person that came were so impressive! We have some competitive friends!

The individual games were really fun and a great start to our party. It allowed everyone to hang out, mingle, and even show off their competitive side. However, the group games (and by group, I mean, they were played in front of everyone) were a big hit. I had picked out and saved three games I thought would be the funniest to watch.

To see the group games, click here!

UPDATE: If you're looking for the templates I used for this event, you can access them here.
The fonts used are 'Cambria' and 'Blackjack'. You can download 'Blackjack' for free at dafont.com -- this is one of my favorite fonts!

Posted by Callie Miller at Thursday, December 29, 2011