Tips on games for midsummer
Since we at Teamfabriken are always closed on Midsummer, we are sharing different games you can do at home instead. Long live the activity!
Spice up your Midsummer party with fun games for young and old!
Guess the celebrity - Write the names of famous people on small pieces of paper and place a piece of paper on the forehead of each participant without letting them see the name. Participants then have to ask each other yes/no questions to guess which celebrity is on their forehead.
Finnish Music Quiz - Let the participants guess which song has been remade into a classic Finnish cover. Tips on good playlists with both covers and subsequent originals can be found here.
Disgusting Food Challenge - Given the popularity of the disgusting food trend, this challenge is bound to be a success. Mix "good with good" for example "Parma ham and whipped cream with jam" or "sausage with chocolate sauce". Why not take a trip to Malmö's most popular museum and buy a bag of crickets for an even more authentic experience. The team that tries the most wins.
Wheelbarrow race - one participant sits in the wheelbarrow with ear protection and the other competitor puts on a blindfold and drives. Now it's up to the person in the wheelbarrow to be the other person's eyes and navigate the cones back and forth.
Reverse hide-and-seek - One person hides and everyone else looks. When you find the person hiding, you stay in the hiding place. Eventually there is a clump of giggling people in the hiding place while only a few are looking.
Photo booth - Create a photo booth with fun props and accessories where participants can take pictures of themselves and their friends. Polaroid cameras are available fairly cheaply, but be prepared to pay a premium for the photo cassettes. It will be a fun and memorable activity that will give you pictures to look back on and laugh at.
Boot toss - who throws their boot the furthest? Participants should hold the boot shaft and the throw should be from the bottom up. To make it a bit more advanced, you can let the participants have their backs to the throwing direction and the throw can then be done between the legs. (Be careful not to fall on your neck and hurt yourself!)
Weighing in - For this extraordinary game, you need a household scale and two identical food items, for example two cucumbers of exactly the same weight.
Divide the group into teams and make sure they can discuss without the other teams hearing/seeing. The idea now is for each team to cut off a piece of their cucumber and hand it in to the game leader. Whoever leaves the heaviest piece wins this round. Then they compete for the best of five rounds. The more you bet, the more likely you are to win, but the less cucumber you have left for the later rounds. It is important to tell the teams WHO won the round you just weighed BUT not by how much weight. After you have weighed the pieces and presented to both teams WHO won the round, put the pieces aside. These can be fun to show after the competition is over to see how the rounds looked.
The sucker - the sickest activity? Take a drain cleaner and throw it at a scoreboard marked in three fields where the innermost corresponds to 3 points and the outermost to 1 point. Try your hand at it. It is important to find a distance to the board (about 3 meters) that is suitable for throwing the suction plug in a rotating motion against the board so that the suction cup itself gets stuck. Usually fun even in the small hours ...
Sugar Tower - Build the tallest tower possible using only sugar cubes
Water skis - make two pairs of skis out of planks and attach two to four straps over each plank to secure the feet. Then two to four participants stand on the planks with their feet tucked into the hooks. At the front, you can have a strap to hold on to, which also makes steering easier. The teams then have to navigate between cones to a water spreader and then turn home again. The team that keeps the best pace and dares to round the water spreader closest has the best chance of winning.
Number puzzle - draw a grid of 3×3 squares with chalk on the asphalt and write the numbers 1-8 in the squares. Leave the last corner square empty. Write two sets of notes with the numbers 1 to 8. Mix up the sets so that they are in the same order e.g. 5, 8, 2, 4, 1, 6, 3, 7 and give the notes to the teams so that the person on square 1 gets note 5, square 2 gets note 8 etc. Now the teams have to arrange themselves so that the person with ticket 1 ends up on square 1, the person with ticket 2 ends up on square 2, etc. They use the empty square to sort themselves and a person may never be on more than one square. The first correctly sorted team wins.
Frisbee Rock - The aim is to throw a frisbee through a rock ring at a suitable distance. Each participant gets one or two throws each and each hit scores one point.
Throw with random stuff - Find different things of varying weight and material e.g. a teddy bear, a ball, a fork, etc. Participants must then throw these and dot a bucket. The most things in the bucket wins.
Curious in a cone - Roll an A3 piece of paper into a large cone. Tie the cone around the faces of the contestants. The first person to find a small ball(s) on the lawn wins.
Cube relay - Place 5 cubes in a row in two rows. Place the teams behind the rows. Now the participants have to throw down the nearest cube, run and get the throwing stick and hand it to the next one. The team that gets all the cubes down wins. Lots of action promised!
Happy Midsummer everyone!