Birthday contests at home

When a family celebration approaches, parents talk about how to spend the holiday in an interesting way. A child's birthday or an adult anniversary is an important event about which you want to leave the best memories. Of course, the organizer of festive events can take wonderful care of organizing the holiday. But this is not at all necessary.

This article describes how to have a fun birthday without a toastmaster at home in a small company. Stock up on ideas and enthusiasm. Prepare in advance for the holiday, think through the details. The holiday will be bright and wonderful!

Let's go

The presenter takes turns reading out the phrase: let's go... and then speaks in riddles, and the guests must guess the country or place in this world where the presenter proposes to go. For example: let’s go to where the whale says “ouch”? (To China). Let's go to where there is a geometric figure? (meaning the Bermuda Triangle). Did you go to the place where they repeat twice that I’m a pony? (meaning Japan). Did you go where there is something new? (New Zealand) and so on. The guest who guesses the most countries will win.

Interesting birthday for a man

It seems that men do not like pomp and extra hype - this is not true! Men, just like women, get great pleasure from vivid emotions and impressions. To please them on your birthday, organize a small party.

Celebration organization:

You can celebrate a family celebration both at home and outdoors. If your husband is an avid fisherman, arrange a fishing holiday: gather guests near the river, bring tents and fishing rods. Cook fish soup, grill kebabs, organize fishing competitions.
You can have a fun and interesting holiday at home. Men love jokes, laughter, noisy feasts. Create an interesting wall newspaper filled with humor with funny comments under the photos of the birthday boy.
Using Photoshop, create funny collages with a photo of the birthday boy and decorate the walls with paintings.
Record a playlist of your man's favorite songs and play them during the holiday.
Decorate the birthday boy's chair like a royal throne. Come up with a hymn to His Majesty. He will definitely like it.

Entertainment part

A birthday party cannot be complete without competitions and games. For a man's birthday, you can use the following ideas:

Organize an interesting quest. You can transform a room with rooms into some kind of adventure quest in the style of “Fort Buayaar”. Thematic, intense music, limited time to complete the task will add some excitement to the holiday. It is not necessary to come up with complex tasks. Let it be something related to the man’s hobbies.
Organize competitions with medals, honors and certificates. No need to jump long miles for long distance running. Let it be: arm wrestling, lifting a weight (dumbbell), doing push-ups (squats), standing on one leg. You can come up with funny competitions where representatives of the stronger sex will compete in braiding hair, painting nails, and sewing on buttons. The main thing is to reward the winners with pathos and enthusiasm.
Shouts, skits and improvisations are an excellent option for celebrating a man’s birthday. Choose the most interesting scenes and be sure to put them into action.
If among your guests there are those who own a musical instrument, hold a concert in honor of the birthday person. Performing a song from friends is a cool surprise.
Make a comic prize lottery “From the birthday boy”. It could be anything: an old newspaper, a burnt-out light bulb, a holey sock, a crooked nail, a broken lighter, and more. It is important to describe each item pompously and enthusiastically before helping out the lucky one.

Games

An event cannot be complete without entertaining games. For a man's birthday, you should give preference to funny games.

On this significant day...

“On this significant day, I...” - Each of the people present solemnly pronounces this phrase, and then pulls out a random piece of paper and reads the continuation of the phrase.

For example:

“...I came to you with greetings, to tell you that the sun has become...”
“... I wanted to shoot a five-wheeler at your place before payday!
“...just wanted to ask, what time is it?”
“...so hungry! Is there anything to eat?”
“... I didn’t expect to meet you here!”
“... from my heart and kidneys, I give you a flower.”
“... I wanted to say something, but I forgot...”
“... so glad to see everyone, my friends! What is the reason for everyone to gather?”
“...slept well and ate well!”
“... I wanted to congratulate you... uh... on your retirement... oh, on the first of May... happy new year! ... In general: Congratulations!”
“... I wanted to tell you - you look 100!”
“...I wanted to sing a song for you: “Something in my heart, something in my heart was disturbed, as if the wind blew a string-oo-oo!”

Crocodile

A popular game is pantomime, where each of the participants, without making a single sound, shows one of the life moments associated with the birthday person.

Tasks

The birthday boy sits on the potty for the first time.
...goes to first grade with a large briefcase.
... wakes up lazily in the morning.
... returns from a corporate event.
...watches football (fishes)

Add tasks in accordance with the life situations of the hero of the occasion. "Royal coat of arms"

Guests are given sheets of paper and markers. Each participant draws the coat of arms of the birthday person and comes up with a motto for him.

"Photo for memory"

Option 1 Each of those present must take a photo with the birthday boy so that the photo is not repeated, like his predecessors.
Option 2 Before taking a photo, the guest chooses a card with the inscription: “funny”, “dramatic”, “romantic”, “stupid”, “comical”, “menacing”, “strict” and more. The card sets the tone in what genre the participant should take a photo with the birthday boy.

Holiday toast

Everyone pours glasses and stands up to make a solemn speech in honor of the birthday boy. A plate is placed on the table with cards on which different owls are written: seagull, pencil, car, borscht, landscape, and so on. Guests take turns taking out a word and saying a toast using this word.

For example:

So that you can easily circle through life like a seagull.
Be a strong and simple person, like a pencil.
I wish to drive a luxury car.
Always be loved by those around you, like rich borscht.
I would like to buy a dacha in the Maldives with an amazing landscape.

Traditions of the countries of the world

Arrange entertainment at the holiday, in the traditions of the peoples of the world. Each country has its own customs associated with birthdays. Include them in your holiday program.

The birthday boy is brought long noodles, which he must eat while all the guests count his years in unison. The tradition was borrowed from China. Prophesies longevity.
According to Vietnamese tradition, a red envelope is passed around the circle of guests, into which the change that the participants find in their pockets is dropped. This is an envelope for the birthday boy with “Happy Money”.
In Lithuania they raise a chair with the birthday boy. This moment is possible if you have very strong friends at the holiday.
In Canada, it is customary to smear cream or cake on one's nose. Organize a competition where the birthday boy and the chosen daredevil are each given a cake “basket”. At the signal, you need to dirty your opponent’s face with cake.

Finally, sing “Loaf”, in the best ancient traditions of Russia.

Commercial break

We all know well what advertising is and how it affects product sales. But today it will be necessary to advertise not a product or a service, but a birthday person. Whichever participant comes up with the most creative and funniest advertisement will receive a prize. As an example, the presenter can read out the following advertisement: “A stylish, powerful, compact vacuum cleaner that will make your room clean and bright in an instant. Right now, buy a Yula vacuum cleaner on a special offer and receive sunglasses as a gift, they will make cleaning more fun.” Only guests should remember that the object of their advertising is the hero of the occasion.

Reasons for refusing a presenter

There are several reasons.

Small wedding budget. The services of a good host, who will hold a wedding in an original way and rid guests of boring clichés, are expensive. And democratic options may not satisfy young people. We have to take over the organization ourselves.
Small chamber wedding. It happens that only the closest relatives and friends are present at the wedding. And the presence of someone else like the presenter can confuse the company.
European wedding. This style involves performances by artists, the organization of show programs, live music and the absence of a formal host.
Active friends. It happens that close friends are creative and sociable people who love noisy parties and know how to organize them. Why not entrust the organization of the holiday to them? Moreover, if they themselves are “eager to fight.” Friends have known the newlyweds well for a long time, know about their preferences and will certainly be able to please both them and the guests.

Bread cutters

This competition is a great option to replenish the bread supply on the table. When the guests have stayed too long and there is no bread on the table, there is no need to disturb the host of the holiday. You can hold a competition. So, each participant receives a loaf or half a loaf of bread, as well as a board and a knife, and at the command “start” he begins to cut the bread of the specified format (triangles or rectangles), the main thing is that the format is the same for everyone. Whoever completes the task first—cuts the bread quickly and deftly—will receive a prize. And the birthday boy doesn’t need to run to the kitchen and cut the bread, because it’s already sliced.

Exclusive among guests

Guests receive leaves and pens. The presenter takes turns asking a task, for example, write your favorite fruit. Guests write their favorite fruit on leaves and take turns naming it; whoever has the same fruit written on the leaf stands up, and the guest who named this fruit and the guest who repeated it are eliminated. Guests who do not make matches continue the game. The host sets the task: write down your favorite non-alcoholic drink, and the game continues along the same chain. Guests who stay until the end and do not have matches with anyone are considered the most exclusive and receive prizes. Examples of tasks: Favorite vegetable; favorite color; favorite direction in music; favorite season; favorite flower; favorite gemstone and so on.

Crane

Guests are divided into pairs. One participant in a pair lies on the floor, and the second stands on the right side next to the head of the lying participant. At the feet of each first lying participant lies, for example, 10 balls (bouncy balls). At the command “start”, the lying participants with their right foot grab one jumper and lift it up, and the second participants take it away, then the first participants lower their legs and again grab the jumper and lift it up, and the second take it away. The pair whose crane works the fastest will win and receive a prize.

Entertainment without leaving your desk

The feast is an integral part of the anniversary celebration. However, sitting at the table, guests not only eat and drink, offering congratulations to the hero of the day.

The presenter must include in this part many different games and other entertainment that will not allow those gathered to get bored.

Competition "Nesmeyan"

Everyone remembers the fairy tale about the Little Princess. Its holding will amuse any company, lifting the mood not only of the players, but also of the spectators, which will be all the other guests.

Everyone sitting at the same table is divided into two teams of half - one opposite the other. One of the parts is designated as “non-comedians”, and the second as “comedians”.

The first should take on as sad and dejected a look as possible, and the second should make them laugh by all means.

Each player who laughs joins the mixer team and brings confusion to his former team.

The means of “mixing” can be any - pantomimes, jokes, etc., except direct touches.

Congratulatory rocket

Sometimes you need to warm up a little without leaving the table - to stir up the guests so that the holiday does not lose the overall fun.

Depending on the number and location of tables, guests are divided into two teams.

The order of passing the baton is determined and the first member of each team is given a toy rocket.

At the leader’s signal, the participant must loudly say “Congratulations!”, and then pass the rocket to the next one. He says “Happy anniversary!” (and the third “Happy Holidays”, and then these three options are repeated) and passes the baton to the next one.

The winner is the team that is the first to complete a full circle and hand over the rocket model to the very first participant.

Firstborn

A competition to celebrate an anniversary, to which many married couples are invited. The presenter asks the participants to imagine that the first child has been born in their family.

A wife from the maternity hospital tries to tell her husband about the child. To do this, for each pair of participants you need to prepare one card with information - gender, weight, number of children and some phrase about the child and the mother herself. For example: “Girl, 3 kg, green eyes. I want ice cream".

Information is conveyed only by gestures for 3 minutes, and then the “dads” must voice what they understood from the pantomime. The winner is the couple where the man most accurately conveyed in words what the wife showed.

Letter compliments

This game, which is best played at the beginning of the holiday, will make the process of congratulations not only enjoyable, but also interesting. And both for the birthday boy and for the guests themselves.

Each person in turn must say one word of compliment to the hero of the day. But the words cannot be any, but only those that begin with the first letter of the name of the birthday person.

If there are a lot of guests and there are not so many epithets for one letter, then you can name words for all the letters present in the name.

Taking turns changing clothes

The game can be played at an anniversary, where a large friendly company has gathered, in which everyone has a sufficient sense of humor.

To implement it, you will need an ordinary bag into which you put a variety of wardrobe items - headscarves, panties, bras, hats, knitted socks, etc.

At the signal from the host, which is the handing of the bag to the first player (the first at the table), the music is turned on. While she plays, the bag is passed from hand to hand one by one.

From time to time (after 15-30 seconds) the music suddenly stops. The one who has a bag in his hands must, without looking, take out one thing, put it on and wear it for half an hour.

Material wishes

The game is announced at the very beginning of the feast, so that all guests have time to complete the task. You will need a sheet of cardboard for each, a pen/pencil and scissors.

Before the end of the evening, each invitee must cut out a cardboard image of what he would like to give to the hero of the day . Gradually, all the “wishes” come together and are strung on a thread in random order.

When this unique garland is ready, it is stretched out in front of the hero of the day at head level, having previously blindfolded him.

He selects one gift at random and cuts it off the string - this item will definitely appear before the next birthday. Additionally, the hero of the day tries to guess whose gift he chose.

Facts, just facts

This game is suitable for those companies where not everyone present knows each other . Props include a perforated roll of toilet paper, as well as pencils and pens.

All guests, when passing the roll, must tear off several pieces from it. There can be from 1 to 10.

After everyone has a piece of paper, guests write on it as many facts about themselves as the number of pieces they tore off.

Then they should be read aloud, standing up so that everyone can see who is speaking. The speaker names his name separately, regardless of the required number of facts.

Alphabet

These are again congratulations for the hero of the day, which guests will have to come up with, following certain rules. The basis of phrases for congratulations is the alphabet.

You need to come up with a congratulation phrase that begins first with the first, then with the second letter of the alphabet, and so on until the very last.

The first person sitting at the table starts with the letter “A”, for example, “Harlequin congratulates the hero of the day!” and so on.

In this game, it is advisable to choose the winner - the one whose congratulations were the funniest or most inventive (the letters b, b, y and others that do not begin words).

Whose shoe?

All guests will be forced to participate in this entertainment, especially if they are sitting at one large table. The main condition for the game is a long tablecloth that reaches almost to the floor.

The first participant is selected by drawing lots.

He must crawl under the table and take off someone’s shoes – a shoe, a shoe – and show them to those gathered.

If guests guess whose shoes it is, the owner pays for it with something funny - a handkerchief, chewing gum, and so on. The next “driver” is the first victim. The duration of the game depends on the number of guests.

Interior items

Before the holiday, the birthday person himself makes a list of furniture and interior items that guests will fantasize with. So, at the holiday, each guest in turn pulls out a forfeit, which indicates any interior item (refrigerator, sofa, floor lamp, fireplace, washing machine, water tap, ottoman, and so on). When all the guests have become familiar with their subject, the presenter announces the conditions of the competition. Each guest must show their imagination and come up with a fun pose to get a great shot with this very piece of furniture. The guest fantasizes, poses, and the host takes photographs. The guests will have fun, and the birthday boy will have funny pictures with each of the guests as a keepsake.

Unique congratulations

Each guest in turn stands up and congratulates the birthday person on his birthday, inserting into his speech a certain word that will be awarded as a forfeit. The words should be interesting and complex, not used in everyday life, for example, transformer, collider, and so on. And if the company allows, then instead of words you can prepare forfeits not with one word, but with entire sentences, for example, Argentina beckons a black man, The boar fell and his paw fell on his side. It will be very funny and fun to listen to congratulations with a special accent.

General organization issues

The main tasks of the toastmaster are organizing guests and their leisure time. It is important not only to hold competitions according to a pre-written script, but also to properly organize the invitees and prevent “confusion and vacillation.” A professional host knows when it's time to raise another glass and when to send everyone to the dance floor. At the same time, he must be an improviser and be able to respond to any challenges, navigate emergency situations and prevent conflicts.

Expert advice! Before entrusting the functions of a leader to one of your friends, you should analyze their abilities and personal qualities. Not everyone can cope with this difficult task. It is also important that the potential presenter is eager and enthusiastic to help you.

When the right candidate has been identified, you need to think through the following organizational issues:

meeting of invitees before the arrival of the newlyweds;
meeting of newlyweds and their parents;
inviting guests to the table;
order of the feast: toasts, competitions, dancing;
organization of musical accompaniment: live music, DJ, selection of tracks;
algorithm of actions in the event of force majeure circumstances.

These are the key moments that are usually present at any wedding, no matter what style it is held in. Together with the person in charge, draw up a detailed script for the celebration, down to the minutes allocated for certain speeches and toasts. Please note that competitions for weddings without a toastmaster should be simple in execution, but at the same time interesting.

Interesting! Choose fun competitions for parents and guests to organize yourself.

If the celebration includes a performance by invited artists, the script should regulate the time of their appearance and performance. Everyone who participates in organizing a banquet must clearly know their functions.

Take care of props for competitions and symbolic gifts for guests. Count their number as accurately as possible - there is no point in overpaying for unnecessary attributes.

What to consider when writing a script

When choosing funny competitions for a wedding without a toastmaster, you should consider a number of factors.

Theme of the celebration

Now it is fashionable to hold weddings in certain styles: rustic, Provence, dudes, USSR, James Bond and so on. Each theme requires a special approach to organizing a wedding, including an entertainment program. So, while a boogie-woogie dance competition is relevant for a dudes wedding, it is not very appropriate for a celebration in a rustic style.

The program organizer should carefully study the style features of your holiday. In this case, the entertainment he has chosen at the wedding for guests without a toastmaster will definitely please everyone present.

Banquet location

The entertainment scenario may differ depending on where the celebration takes place: in an apartment, a country house, on a street area, in a restaurant, cafe or palace. Or maybe you don’t want a lavish feast at all, but are planning a picnic with close friends. Competitions for a small wedding without a toastmaster need to be selected according to the location and atmosphere of the holiday.

The target audience

The person responsible for organizing the entertainment program must have a clear understanding of the guests: their age, social status, field of activity, etc. If the guests are predominantly young people, then the program will be appropriate: active, fun competitions, active dancing, perhaps even extreme entertainment. An older and more respectable audience needs a different approach - calmer and simpler competitions for weddings without a toastmaster, live music, and intellectual quizzes are suitable.