Games related to the year of the rooster. Competitions for the New Year of the Fire Rooster. "Princess on the Pea"

That's how you'll get through it. On a festive evening, you should definitely have fun from the heart so that 2017 does not turn out to be boring and dull! Add some funny games to your humorous toasts and jokes. They will be useful to you, even if the holiday is organized by professional presenters. Competitions will help lift the spirits of guests and diversify the scenario. After all, everyone is looking forward to the New Year for the opportunity to briefly return to childhood. Choose activities with a neutral theme that guests of all genders and ages can take part in. Vivid impressions are guaranteed!

Don't sit too long at the table - pass the time with fun competitions!

New Year's competitions for adults and teenagers

• Santa Claus bag. All party guests stand in a circle. The presenter dressed as Santa Claus is located in the middle. In his hands he has a bag with different clothes. These could be panama hats, mittens, underwear, and so on. The main thing is that all things are fun and of different sizes. Participants walk in a circle to the music. Santa Claus gives a bag of things to one of the contestants, and he must quickly give it to his neighbor. The one who has the bag at the moment of the musical pause must blindly pull out one thing and put it on himself. Continue until the bag is empty. There are no winners or losers here.
• Fanta. The entertainment is based on the good old game of spin the bottle. Guests are given small pieces of paper on which they must write a holiday assignment. For example: show how a snow woman melts, walk like a gorilla in a cage (or like a guy in front of an unfamiliar girl), etc. The pieces of paper are rolled into a tube and placed in an empty bottle. Participants sit in a circle and spin the bottle. Whoever the neck points to takes out one of the notes. The participant must fulfill the wish given to him. When drawing up orders you need to be careful, because any player can get caught by his own forfeit!
• New Year's song competition. Prepare small leaves on which one word will be written, advising the New Year's theme. It could be “Santa Claus”, “Christmas tree” and so on. Fold the pieces of paper in half or roll them into a tube so that no one can see the notes. Then put them in a hat or bag, mix them and invite the guests to pull out one leaf at a time. The point of the competition is for everyone to sing a verse of a song that contains the word written on their piece of paper. Anyone who cannot do this is eliminated from the game.
• Agility competition. Bottles with alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, as well as empty containers, are placed on the floor interspersed. Participants in the competition must place a ring on the bottle from a distance of three meters. The number of attempts for one player is limited to three. Whoever manages to put a ring on a full bottle takes it as a prize.
• Holiday menu. The participants' task is to come up with a menu for the party in 10 minutes. All dishes must begin with a certain letter: “N” (New Year), “P” (Gift) and so on. A more complicated version is “E” (Christmas tree) or “I” (Toys). The one who manages to create the largest menu in the allotted time becomes the winner of the competition.
• Competition for the best jelly eater. Prepare several servings of jelly or halva and toothpicks. The participants' task is to eat their share of the treat using these toothpicks. The winner is the one whose plate is empty first.
• New Year's attributes competition. When guests get tired of active entertainment and dancing, offer them a calm game. For this entertainment you don’t even need to get up from the table. The host asks guests to remember all the existing attributes of the New Year. Participants take turns calling Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, garlands, tangerines, and so on. Victory goes to the one whose attribute is the last.

Team New Year competitions

• Snow lady. If New Year's Eve turns out to be snowy and frosty, you can have a little fun outside. All players are divided into men's and women's teams. The guys must make a snow lady (namely a lady, not a woman). Girls, by analogy, sculpt a snow man. “Sculptures” can be decorated with items of clothing or accessories. The team that produces the most beautiful and original figure becomes the winner.
• Competition for the best Christmas tree. Participants are divided into two teams. Their task is to decorate the tree. To do this, the contestants are given small, unbreakable New Year's toys and crafts made from or, and then they are blindfolded with a scarf. Within a certain time, players must dress up the forest beauty. Those participants whose tree turns out to be the most beautiful become the winners.
• Melt the ice. Several couples participate. They are given the same piece of ice, which is prepared in advance in special molds. The task is to be the first to melt the ice. You can breathe on it, you can lick it, put it under your armpits - that is, do everything to make the piece melt as quickly as possible. It is only prohibited to use heating devices. The winner is the pair that can melt the ice the fastest.

New Year's auction

Lots that are sold at auction must be wrapped in paper so that no one can guess what is in the middle. The presenter jokingly talks about the characteristics of the item and offers to buy it. This competition uses real money, although the starting price of lots should be symbolic. According to the rules of auctions, the one who offers the highest price for an item becomes its owner.

Before delivery to the buyer, the item is unwrapped so that everyone knows what was hidden under the paper. Use not only funny, but also valuable lots - this way you will increase the excitement of participants. Make up your own comments about the products. For example: “tropical gift” - pineapple, “cold, green, long” - a bottle of champagne, “short-lived joy” - a box of chocolates. There is no official winner here. But those who make a bargain will probably be pleased with the competition.

How to conduct New Year's competitions?

To make games and competitions even more fun, figure out how to reward the winners. Prizes can include alcoholic drinks in small bottles, sweets, and chocolates. As a “bonus” you can use chocolate medals with ribbons attached to them. Champagne, small baskets of fruit, and paper crafts are also great rewards.

You need to think about awarding the winners in advance in order to prepare the necessary things in time. Will there be many competitions in the entertainment program of your party? Then use the following promotion technique. For winning each competition, award points and write them down on a paper snowflake.

Funny, amusing competitions will allow you to have a good rest and have fun at the New Year's party. For the presenters, who are tasked with organizing the entertainment part, we offer an original selection of games, competitions and quizzes for the scenario of a festive corporate party!

To make the New Year's holiday more successful, we have made for you a selection of the most interesting competitions and fun.

Table

To begin with, we propose to include cool competitions at the table in the program of the New Year's corporate party at work.

What will Santa Claus give?

Attributes: small pieces of paper, pens (or pencils).

Before sitting down to the festive table, guests receive a small piece of paper and write down what gift they would like to wish for themselves in the new year. This could be, for example, a new apartment, a car, a dog, a trip, money, a lover...

The leaves are rolled up into a tube and placed in a beautiful box, a hat... At some point in the evening, the host asks everyone to pull out a random piece of paper and find out what good Santa Claus has prepared for him for the next year. Everyone has different desires, so it will be fun! And your wish will come true if you save the piece of paper until the next holiday, and then tell about what came true.

You can attach the leaves with threads to a rope/fishing line and then, as you did in childhood, blindfolded and using scissors, cut off your wish. Another variation is to tie notes to balloons and hand them out to those present.

I want, I want, I want!... Branded want

Another game about wishes. But this time without attributes.

5-7 volunteers are called. They take turns naming their wish for next year. You need to speak quickly, without holding up the line! Stopping for more than 5 seconds means the player is eliminated. We play until we win - until the last player! (Small prize possible).

Let's raise a glass! New Year's toasts

When guests get bored in the midst of a feast, invite them not just to fill their glasses, but to make a toast or congratulations to everyone present.

There are two conditions - each speech must be one sentence long and begin with the letters of the alphabet in order!

For example:

• A - I am absolutely sure that the new year will be the best!
• B - Be healthy and happy!
• Q – In general, I’m glad to be with you today!
• G - Pride bursts at the sight of those gathered at this table!..

The most fun moment is when the letters e, e, yu, y, s come into play.

Game option: each next toast begins with the last letter of the previous congratulation. For example: “I’m very glad if you support me with applause! “And all the best to you...” To complicate things, you can prohibit starting a toast with prepositions, conjunctions and interjections.

“I’ll sing about Frost!” Compose a ditty

During the evening, those who wish must write and then present to the audience a ditty, which contains New Year’s words or themes pre-set by the presenter. It could be “New Year, Father Frost, Snow Maiden.”

You can compose awkward songs - with the last line unrhymed, but maintaining the given rhythm of the ditty. Example:

Hello, red Santa Claus
you brought us gifts!
The most important thing is ten days
Let's just relax.

Snow news

Attributes: Cards with word-nouns. There are 5 completely unrelated nouns written on the cards. It is advisable to include at least 1 winter word there.

The participant draws out a card, reads out loud the given words and within 30 seconds (although if those present at the party are already, well, very tired, then 1 minute is possible) comes up with a news story from one sentence. And all the words from the card should fit in it.

Nouns can be turned into other parts of speech (adjectives, verbs, adverbs...) and changed as you like, and the news must certainly be interesting and funny.

You can start the news with the words “Sensation!”

For example:

• 1 card – “road, chair, roof, bicycle, snowman.” Sentence - “Outside the city, a huge snowman with a broken roof was discovered on a road bike with a chair instead of a seat!”
• Card 2 – “fence, sound, ice floe, shop, Christmas tree.” Sentence - “Near the store, under the fence, someone left a Christmas tree with sounding pieces of ice.”

Try this: it will be even more interesting if you prepare a lot of cards, where one different word will be written, and the players themselves will draw out the 5 words they get.

Fun guaranteed!

I like/don't like my neighbor

The game does not require any improvised means! But requires a sufficient degree of emancipation or relaxed relationships in the team.

The presenter invites everyone present to name which part of the body (can be clothing) they like about the person sitting on the left, and which they don’t like. For example: “My neighbor on the right, I like his left ear and don’t like his bulging pocket.”

After everyone has named and remembered what was said, the presenter asks to kiss (or stroke) what they like and bite (or spank) what they don’t like.

Not everyone can play, but only 6-8 brave people are called into the circle.

Our friend is orange!

This game can be played at a New Year's party in the office only if all colleagues know each other well. Or at least everyone has a friend or girlfriend in the team.

The presenter thinks of a person from those present at the table. And the participants, with the help of leading questions, try to guess who it is.

But questions are not simple - they are associations! Whoever guesses first wins.

The questions are something like this:

• — What fruit/vegetable does it look like? - For an orange.
• — What food is it associated with? - With pies.
• - With what animal? - With a mole.
• — With what music? - With choral singing.
• - With what flower?
• - With what plant?
• - By car?
• - Color?
• — Part of the world?

Yin-yang cones

Attributes: 2 cones - one painted white, the other black. If you have nothing to dye with, you can wrap them with colored woolen threads of the desired color.

The course of the fun: a host is selected from among the guests, who will have these two cones. They are signals of his answers, because he is not allowed to speak at all. He thinks of a word, and the others, with the help of leading questions, try to guess what he has in mind.

The whole secret is that he can only silently show: YES - this is a white lump, NO - black. If neither this nor that, he can lift both at once.

The first one to guess correctly wins.

Instead of pine cones, you can take multi-colored Christmas balls. But you need to be careful with glass ones, especially if the presenter has already drunk a couple of glasses of champagne.

Associations on paper. Broken telephone associations

Attributes of the players: paper and pen.

The first person writes any noun word on his piece of paper and speaks it quietly into his neighbor’s ear. He comes up with his own association for this word, writes it down and whispers it to the next person.

This is how associations are transmitted along the chain... The last one speaks out loud the word given to him. It is compared with the original source and it is fun to find out at which link in the chain of associations the failure occurred: everyone reads out their nouns.

funny neighbor

Any number of guests can play.

We stand in a circle, and the driver begins: he performs an action with his neighbor that will make him laugh. He can take him by the ear, pat him on the shoulders, tap him on the nose, flick his arm, touch his knee... That's it, those standing in a circle must repeat the same movement with your neighbor/neighbor.

The one who laughs is eliminated.

Then the driver makes the next movement, everyone repeats. If no one laughed, new movement. And so on until the last “Nesmeyana”.

New Year's rhyme

The driver reads out little-known New Year/winter quatrains. But he only says the first 2 lines out loud.

The rest are invited to take part in a competition for the best rhymer.

Guests come up with and rhyme the last two lines. Then the funniest and most original poet is selected, and then the original poem is read out amid general laughter and joy.

Drawing competition “I see, I see the New Year!”

Those who wish are given A-4 sheets of free-form lines and felt-tip pens. Everyone has the same image (copier can help you).

The task is to complete a picture on a New Year's theme.

Of course, everyone knows who in the team is best versed in painting. So he or she will evaluate the results. Whoever is more interesting is the winner! There can be many winners - it’s a holiday!

Movable

Nimble bump

Attributes: pine or fir cones.

Progress of the game: guests can either sit at the table or stand in a circle (if they have been sitting too long by this time). The task is to pass the pine cone to each other. The condition is that you can transmit it only by holding it on the back of your two palms. Try it, it's quite difficult... But also fun!

You can also divide into equal teams, and whichever one hands over its cone faster wins.

My Frost is the most beautiful!

You will need various items such as: garlands, funny hats, scarves, beads, ribbons. socks, mittens, women's bags... Two or three ladies who want to be in the role of Snow Maidens for a few minutes each choose a man to turn him into Father Frost.

From items prepared in advance on the table, the Snow Maidens create a cheerful image of their hero. In principle, you can end here by choosing the most successful and funniest model...

The Snow Maiden can take snowflakes for herself, which will help with the “design” of Santa Claus and with advertising.

Snow paths

This is a very successful game to determine pairs for subsequent New Year competitions.

Attributes: colored ribbons in winter shades (blue, light blue, silver...). Length 4-5 meters. It is necessary to cut the ribbons in half in advance and sew them together, mixing up the halves.

3-4 pairs of players are called. The presenter holds a basket/box, to which lie multi-colored ribbons, the ends of which hang down.

Presenter: “On New Year’s Day, the paths were covered with snow... The blizzard mixed up the paths in Santa Claus’s house. We need to untangle them! In pairs, each grab the end of the tape that you like and pull the track towards you. The couple that draws their ribbon before the others will receive a prize!”

Players choose a pair and the color of the ribbon, expecting that there will be a single ribbon at the ends of the same color. But the fun is that the ribbons are sewn in different ways, and completely unexpected pairs are formed.

Happy people train

Everyone loves round dances: both small and large (and those who are embarrassed to admit it)!

Give your guests a round dance-train. It is clear that vacationers at a party may find it difficult to motivate themselves to participate in an active competition, so come up with something for them branded slogans.

- Now those who are attached to the train are
a) desires great wealth for himself,
b) wants to be loved,
c) who wants a lot of health,
d) who dreams of traveling to the sea, etc.

The host drives the train around the hall, it fills and fills with guests. And when it is clear that no one else can be pulled out from behind the tables, train dances are arranged (the host can show them) to daring music.

New Year's fixed deposit

Attributes: candy wrapper money.

Two pairs are selected, each with a man and a woman. It is advisable for the men to be dressed approximately the same (if one has a jacket, then the other should also wear a jacket).

— Dear women, the New Year is approaching, and you need to have time to make a fixed-term deposit in the bank. Here's some money for you (each of the women is given a pack of candy wrappers). These are initial payments. You will put them in the bank on a super fixed deposit. Your men are your banks. Only one condition - each “bill” is in a separate cell! Pockets, sleeves, collars, lapels and other secluded places can become cells. Contributions can be made while the music is playing. Just remember where you put your money. Let's start!

The task is given 1-2 minutes.

- Attention! Intermediate check: whoever managed to make a full investment (not a single candy wrapper left in their hands) receives an additional point. All the money is in business!

- And now, dear depositors, you must quickly withdraw cash - after all, we know that it was a super quick deposit. Each of you will be filming blindfolded, but you will always remember what you put and where. Music! Let's start!

The trick is that the men are swapped, and the women, blindfolded, “search” someone else’s partner without knowing it. Everyone has fun!

We are actors no matter what!

Those who wish to participate are given cards with tasks. None of them knows in advance what they will have to face.

The presenter announces that the participants need to take a walk in front of everyone, depicting what is written on the cards. Here is a sample list:

• tightrope walker over the abyss,
• duck in the yard,
• teenager with a stalled bike,
• shy girl,
• shy Japanese woman in a kimono in the rain,
• baby starting to walk,
• heron in the swamp,
• Joseph Kobzon at a performance
• policeman at the market,
• hare along the path,
• model on the catwalk,
• arab sheikh,
• cat on the roof, etc.

The tasks can be supplemented and expanded with any ideas.

Funny joke “Bear in a den or slow-witted spectators”

Attention: only played once!

The presenter invites someone who wants to perform a pantomime, takes him to a separate room and gives him a “secret” task - portray without words bear (hare or kangaroo).

Meanwhile, the presenter's assistant negotiates with the others NOT to understand his body movements.

The volunteer returns and begins to show the selected animal with movements and gestures. The guests pretend that they do not understand and call anything but the person they are shown.

- Does he waddle around? Yes, this is the platypus (lame fox, tired boar)!
- Licking his paw? The cat is probably washing itself.
Etc.

It happens that the person portraying is surprised by the guests’ lack of understanding and begins to get angry: “Are you so stupid? It's so simple! And if he shows hellish patience, shows it again and again - he has nerves of iron! But this also amuses the employees gathered at the party. There is no need to delay. When the player begins to run out of imagination and patience, you can guess the correct animal.

3. Music competitions

Can you imagine the New Year without music, songs and dances? That's right, no! For additional entertainment and fun, many music competition games have been invented for the New Year's corporate party.

Scene “Clip-song”

This is the most creative musical fun for a New Year's corporate evening.

Prepare musical accompaniment in advance: songs about Father Frost, the Christmas tree, the Snow Maiden... and simple attributes that will help the players dress up (beads, hats, felt boots, scarves...)

The task is to make a corporate video for the song “The Little Christmas Tree Is Cold in Winter.” We need an operator who will shoot a video clip on camera.

Participants, to the accompaniment of songs, begin to depict all the actions that are sung about: “the little gray bunny was jumping under the Christmas tree” - the hero is jumping, “they hung the beads” - the team hangs the beads on an improvised living “Christmas tree”.

You can divide into two teams (employees and female employees) and each will shoot their own video. It is advisable to display the results on a large screen and compare them. The winners will be awarded with branded souvenirs or applause.

Competition "Lazy Dancing"

The players sit in a circle on chairs and begin to dance to the cheerful New Year's music and song. But these are strange dances - no one gets up from their seats!

At the command of the leader, they dance with different parts of the body:

• First we dance with our elbows!
• Then shoulders
• legs,
• fingers,
• lips,
• eyes, etc.

The rest choose the coolest dance.

Upside down song

This is a comic game that you can play at any time during the holiday. The presenter recites lines from a New Year/winter song, but with the words in reverse. Everyone's task is who is faster guess the original and sing it. The person who guesses correctly is given a chip (candy wrapper, candy, cone...) so that later it will be easier to count the winner in the entire competition.

The lines might look something like this:

- The birch tree died in the steppe. - The Forest Raised a Christmas Tree.
- The old month is slow, nothing will happen for a long time. - The New Year is rushing towards us, everything will happen soon.
— White, white steam rose on the ground. — Blue-blue frost lay on the wires.
- One gray donkey, one gray donkey. - Three white horses, three white horses.
— A brave white wolf was sitting on a baobab tree. - The cowardly gray bunny was jumping under the Christmas tree.
- Keep quiet, Santa Claus, where are you going? - Tell me, Snow Maiden, where have you been?
- Read me a book about 1 hour. - I’ll sing you a song about five minutes.
— The huge palm tree is hot in the summer. – The little Christmas tree is cold in winter.
— The weights were removed and left the chain. “They hung the beads and began to dance in a round dance.”
“I was running away from you, Snow Maiden, and wiped away a few sweet smiles.” - I was running after you, Santa Claus. I shed a lot of bitter tears.
- Oh, it’s hot, it’s hot, warm you up! Warm you and your camel. - Oh, frost, frost, don’t freeze me! Don't freeze me, my horse.
- Your worst acquisition is me. - My best gift is you.

Song competition “Musical hat of Santa Claus”

Attributes: put words from New Year's songs in the hat.

The players pass it around in a circle to the accompaniment of music. When the music stops, the person who received the hat at that moment takes out a card with the word and must remember/sing the piece of the song where it appears.

You can play in teams. Then the hat is passed from representative to representative of each team. You can limit the time it takes to complete a task and reward the team for every guess they make.

If you’re not sure that your guests are so quick-thinking, write not just one word, but a short phrase. Then it will be easier to remember the song!

Dance by candlelight

A dynamic, but at the same time very calm and gentle dance competition.

Play slow music and encourage couples to light sparklers and dance. The couple whose fire burns longer wins and will receive a prize.

If you want to add spice to your dance, choose tango!

An old song in a new way

Print the lyrics of famous (not even New Year's) songs and prepare musical accompaniment without words (karaoke music).

This could be Karabas Barabas, the Snow Maiden, an evil policeman, a kind Baba Yaga, and even your boss.

Quietly loud

A well-known song is chosen, which all guests begin to sing in chorus.

On the command “Quiet!” sing a song to themselves. At the command “Loud!” out loud again.

And since everyone sang at their own pace, the loud choir begins with different words. And this is repeated several times, amusing everyone.

4. Team

Team games for the New Year's corporate party will once again strengthen team spirit and solidarity, serving as unscheduled team building.

Competition - relay race "Felt boots of Santa Claus"

Attributes: 2 pairs of extra-large felt boots (or one).

This game is played around the tree or around chairs in teams.

Those playing, at the driver’s signal or the sound of music, put on large felt boots and race around the tree (chairs). If you only have one pair of such winter shoes, then let the teams compete against the clock.

With felt boots you can also come up with many different relay races: divide into teams and run, passing them on to each other as a team; carry with outstretched arms so as not to drop; put on felt boots and run backwards (it’s difficult to do this in big ones), etc. Imagine!

Don't drop the lump

Attributes: “snow” balls made from crumpled paper; large spoons (wooden possible).

Progress of the relay competition: two teams of equal numbers gather. At the command of the driver (or the sound of music), the first participants must quickly run around the room back and forth, carrying a lump in a spoon and trying not to drop it. Don’t choose too long routes - just make a circle around the tree.

The difficulty is that the paper is light and tends to fall off to the floor all the time.

They play until the last person running in the team. Whoever is first wins!

The office wishes you a Happy New Year

Attributes: 2-3 sheets of whatman paper (depending on how many teams are playing), newspapers, magazines, glue and scissors.

In 10-15 minutes, teams must cut out words from the paper editions offered to them, paste them onto a piece of paper and compose an original New Year’s greeting to those present.

It should be a small, funny text. You can supplement the poster with clippings of pictures from the suggested magazines.

The most creative congratulation wins.

Beads for Christmas tree

Offer the teams paper clips in large quantities (it is advisable to choose multi-colored plastic ones). Task: in the allotted time (5 minutes, no more), long chains are assembled to the accompaniment of pleasant music.

Whoever ends up with beads longer than their opponents, that team wins.

Gather a team or “Friendly Mosaic”

The competition requires little preparation. You need to photograph the teams, print the photo on a printer and cut it into small pieces. The teams' task is to put together a photo of their team in the minimum amount of time.

Those who complete their puzzle faster win.

Preferably so that the photos are large.

The snowman turns...

Two teams. Each has 4 participants and 8 balls (blue and white are possible). Each one has the large letters S_N_E_G_O_V_I_K written on it. The snowman “melts” and turns... into other words.

The driver asks simple riddles, and the players build guessed words from balls with letters.

• Grows on the face. - Nose.
• Banned from work. - Dream.
• Candles are made from it. - Wax.
• Prepared for the winter. - Hay.
• Orange is preferred to tangerine. - Juice.
• Difficult to get up in the morning. - Eyelids.
• Where did the office romance happen? - Movie.
• Snow woman's colleague. - Snowman.

The fastest players get points, and those with the most points win.

5. Bonus – competitions for an all-female team!

These games are suitable for a New Year's corporate party for doctors, teachers, or for a kindergarten.

Rope for the brave

This is a competition exclusively for adults. The guests are divided into two equal teams.

At the driver’s signal and to the accompaniment of lively music, the players take off parts of their clothes in order to knit a long, very long rope from them.

When “Stop!” sounds, the visibly undressed participants begin to measure the length of their clothing chains.

The longest one wins!

Let's dress up for the New Year! or “Dark Outfit”

Two participants stand near their chest/box/basket, which contain different items of clothing. They are first blindfolded, and then they must put on everything from the chest as quickly as possible.

Speed ​​and accuracy are valued. Although everyone has more fun because things get mixed up between the players.

Reverse Snow Queen

Inventory: ice cubes from the freezer.

Several contenders are selected for the crown of the Snow Queen. They pick up an ice cube and, on command, must melt it as quickly as possible, turning it into water.

You can give one at a time, or several ice cubes, putting them in bowls.

The first one to complete the task wins. She is awarded the title of "The Hottest Snow Queen".

Will Cinderella go to the New Year's ball?

In front of the two participants, mixed beans, peppers, rose hips, and peas are placed in a heap on plates (you can use any ingredients). The number of grains is small so that the game does not flow for too long (can be checked experimentally before the holiday).

After the players are blindfolded, they begin to sort the fruits into piles by touch. Whoever manages it first will go to the ball!

The whole year has flown by unnoticed! The snow is swirling outside the windows, and the most joyful and wonderful holiday - . The Christmas tree is already shining with a thousand colorful lights, the tables are bursting with all kinds of goodies, and a new dress is waiting for its finest hour. Everyone at home is looking forward to holiday miracles and pleasant surprises, but the most impatient of them are our children. Every now and then they run to the tree and check if they have appeared under the tree, look out at the window and cannot sit still for a minute. Cartoons and computer games are not interesting for kids on such an evening.

Think through your children's New Year in advance and prepare a list of games for it!

What to do with fidgets on New Year's Eve? Try playing fun games with them! This will certainly interest the kids and distract them from their pranks. By the way, such entertainment can be arranged not only for the New Year, but also on any other holiday, be it a birthday or just friendly get-togethers.

Game No. 1: New Year's cap

Children form a circle and, to the music, begin to pass Santa's hat to each other. When the music stops, the child who has the cap in his hands must put it on his head and complete the leader’s task. As a rule, children prepare New Year's rhymes and songs in advance, which they happily perform in the presence of their proud parents.

Game No. 2: Guess the fairy tale hero

Participants sit in a circle. The presenter invites the children to take turns continuing the name of the fairy-tale character. For example: “Red...”, “Snow...”, “Baba...”. Anyone who cannot answer correctly is eliminated from the game. The rest continue to complete tasks until a winner is determined.

Game No. 3: Gift number

Gifts prepared for children are packaged in the same paper and numbered. Throughout the apartment, cardboard Christmas trees with numbers written on them are placed in prominent places. Children must choose a Christmas tree for themselves. When Santa Claus arrives, he will give the children a numbered gift from his bag. But don’t forget: in this case, the gifts should be approximately the same in cost and content, so as not to cause offense or upset the kids.

Game No. 4: Snowballs

To play you will need a lot of white balls - “snowballs”, as well as the largest available bags with the lower corners cut off. You need to cut it so that your legs fit into the hole. Players are divided into teams. One of the members of each team climbs into the bag, and everyone else, at the leader’s signal, puts “snowballs” into it. The team that collects the most snow globes becomes the winner.

Game No. 5: Song

An almost classic game that is suitable for both children and adults! They form a circle of chairs with their seats facing outward. The number of chairs should be one less than the number of participants. The kids stand around the chairs and walk in a circle to New Year's songs. When the music stops, they must sit on the chairs. For those who do not have enough space, Santa Claus takes them as assistants. Then another chair is removed and the competition continues.

Game No. 6: New Year's castle

Several people take part in the competition. They are asked to carefully examine the drawing of the festive palace. Then everyone is given a set of plastic cups and blindfolded. The "builders" begin work. Whoever reproduces the drawing more accurately and faster than others by placing the cups on the table becomes the winner of the competition.

Game No. 7: Best carnival costume

All the guys love to dress up in. The organizers of the holiday must warn children in advance that they will have a competition for the best dress. And in order for their costume to become a “prize winner”, it needs to be “protected” - to show artistic talents and act out a scene with the participation of your hero. For example, perform his signature song or some trick.

Game No. 8: Cook competition

In a limited time (for example, 5-7 minutes), participants create a New Year's menu. The names of dishes must begin with certain letters. The menu for Father Frost will consist of dishes starting with the letter “m”, and for the Snow Maiden, delicacies should begin only with the letter “s”. Since our treats are New Year’s, we can come up with a separate menu with names starting with the letter “n”. The one who writes the most dishes wins.

Game No. 9: Guessing game

Each player has a piece of paper attached to their back. The name of some animal or object is written on it (apple, chair, dog, plane). Participants do not know what they have written, but they can see the papers of their comrades. Therefore, children should ask each other leading questions. You can only answer “yes” or “no”. The one who guesses his inscription first wins.

Game #10: Prize on a string

Various gifts are wrapped in wrapping paper in the form of small bags. Then they attach them to a long rope. Participants take turns blindfolded, and they must cut off the present with scissors, which they will receive.

Game No. 11: Cinderella

Two people take part in the competition. Each player is blindfolded and asked to sort out a slide in which lollipops or other sweets of different shapes are mixed. The one who completes the task first will be the winner.

Game #12: Telephone

A fun activity for attentive children. Players name the numbers in order. The one who gets a “5” says: “Ding-ding.” Whoever gets a “7” says: “Ding-dilin.” The one who makes a mistake leaves the game.

Games No. 13: “Yes and No”

The presenter asks a series of questions, and the participants quickly, without much thinking, must answer: “yes” or “no.” Whoever makes a mistake is out of the game.

Is Santa Claus a cheerful old man?
- Yes.
- Do you like jokes and gags?
- Yes.
- Does he know songs and riddles?
- Yes.
- Will he eat all your chocolates?
- No!
- Will he light the children’s Christmas tree?
- Yes.
- Will he hide the threads and needles?
- No.
- Doesn’t his soul age?
- Yes.
- Will it warm us up outside?
- No.
- Is Joulupukki Frost’s brother?
- Yes.
- Did a rose bloom under the snow?
- No.
- Is the New Year getting closer?
- Yes.
- Does the Snow Maiden have skis?
- No.
- Is Santa Claus bringing gifts?
- Yes.
- Are all the masks bright on New Year’s Day?
- Yes.

There is another version of this game. Here, participants must also quickly answer whether the named items are suitable for decorating the Christmas tree.

Multi-colored firecrackers?
- Yes.
- Blankets and pillows?
- No.
- Folding beds and cribs?
- No.
- Marmalades, chocolates?
- Yes.
- Glass balls?
- Yes.
- Are the chairs wooden?
- No.
- Primers and books?
- No.
- Teddy bears?
- Yes.
- Are the beads multi-colored?
- Yes.
- And the garlands are light?
- Yes.
- Snow made of white wool?
- Yes.
- Good soldiers?
- No.
- Shoes and boots?
- No.
- Cups, forks, spoons?
- No.

Game #14: Desire

On a festive night, all dreams come true. For this entertainment, everyone is invited to write their own on a piece of paper. Then the piece of paper is attached to the string with which the balloon is tied. There should be as many balls as there are guests. Everyone goes out onto the street or onto the balcony. On command or after a magic spell, participants release the balls into the sky.

There are countless options for different games. Choose them according to your taste, as well as depending on the number and age of children. Undoubtedly, they will enjoy the entertainment, and you will have so much fun more than once. According to psychologists, games are one of the best types of children's leisure. They develop empathy, ingenuity and reaction speed in children.

New Year is a traditional holiday, which is usually celebrated with family, holding matinees at schools or kindergartens, and getting together with colleagues at a corporate party. It is quite difficult to organize a variety of events at home for people of all ages to make the holiday memorable for a long time. The New Year's games and entertainment presented below will make this task easier for you in the New Year 2017.

We organize children's entertainment

Throwing a good party is not an easy task, but for children this is the most important thing. New Year's games for children should be especially intriguing and exciting so that every child enjoys them.

Traditionally, on New Year's Day, comic competitions are held that will not leave children without a smile.

The children dance around the Christmas tree, and the leader begins to ask questions. He asks: “Do you have a nose?”, and the children shout: “Yes!” Again he asks the children: “Is your nose good?”, and they answer: “Good!” Again the question: “Is your neighbor better?”, and the children shout with a joyful cry: “Better!” and begin to pull the nose of their neighbor. Then they dance in a circle for a while and then the leader asks questions again. And so on until the neighbor’s supply of body parts runs out. Each other's funny actions will keep children in high spirits.

Guess the hero

This is a very entertaining New Year's game. The children sit around the Christmas tree, and the leader walks in a circle and gives everyone in turn the partial name of the fairy-tale hero. For example, Postman..., Red..., Gray..., Vinnie... and others. The examples can be very diverse, but often the presenter runs out of such phrases, so you need to prepare well, remembering children's cartoons and fairy tales.

Several children are called to participate and shown a drawing of a New Year's castle. They are given a certain time to roughly remember what it looks like. Then they are blindfolded and asked to reproduce a New Year's castle from plastic cups. The rest of the children watch the construction and cheer on their friends. You can diversify the game by allowing others to tell you where to put the glass. In such cases, the original castle can turn out to be fun, and the children will laugh heartily at their creation.

Another fun New Year's game that no child will get bored with. It will require a large number of pins and balls. Children are divided into teams and asked to knock down the maximum number of pins with one throw of the ball. The team that knocks down the most pins in total wins. Rubber balls are perfect for preschoolers, and basketballs for schoolchildren. You can arrange a personal competition for each participant, and the one who knocks down the most pins will receive a small prize.

Santa Claus chooses a Christmas tree

A fun competition, the main host of which will be Santa Claus. He needs a Christmas tree for the holiday, and he asks the children to help him find it. They stand in a circle holding hands. If Santa Claus says: “The tree is too high!”, then the children sit down and lower their hands, and if the tree turns out to be low, then the children stand up with their hands raised. To complicate the competition, Santa Claus can say: “The Christmas tree is too narrow!”, and then the children must expand the circle, and if the Christmas tree is wide, then, on the contrary, narrow it.

On New Year's Day, children crave some kind of magic, and therefore a balloon launching contest is perfect for the festive end of the holiday. For each little guest you will need to prepare in advance one helium balloon with a string. Children should write their deepest wish on a small piece of paper (if there are kids at the holiday, then parents should help them) and tie it to a string. Then everyone goes outside together and, after the words of Santa Claus or the presenter, the balls are released into the sky. Children will be delighted to watch this spectacle.

Youth competitions

New Year for young people is no longer the children's holiday that it once was. In order for the Year of the Rooster to be remembered for a long time, the organized events must be modern and unprimitive. The competitions presented below will make the New Year unforgettable and magical, just like it was in childhood.

Participants in the competition are given pre-prepared photographs of any fairy-tale characters or animals. The task of each participant is to walk along the catwalk, portraying a fairy-tale character that they came across. However, they should not use facial expressions or make sounds. The rest must guess who is depicted on the podium. The winner will be the most artistic participant whose fairy-tale character is guessed in the least number of passes.

Find your Snow Maiden

A romantic competition that can be arranged before a slow dance. The boys are asked to leave, and the girls go up to the tree and choose their own Christmas ball. The guys need to guess whose Christmas tree toy is on the tree. The one who guesses gets paired with his “other half” and after the end of the competition they are asked to dance a slow dance. Such an unexpected situation will not leave them without emotions!

The most desired gift bag

Various cool competitions are popular on New Year's Day. Here's one of them.

All participants are divided into two equal teams and each is given a hefty bag.

The main task of this game is to fill the bag with “gifts”, that is, with all the various items that come to hand. It could even be items of clothing! The team with the most “gifts” in the bag will win.

Snowball

Fun New Year's competitions will cheer everyone up, for example, the New Year's version of football. The main attributes of the game: a “snow ball” made of paper or cotton wool and a goal with bags of gifts in place of the bars. The guys will be happy to “play football”, and the girls will cheer for the chosen team. The team that scores the most goals in a certain time will win. To create a festive atmosphere, fans can explode firecrackers and throw small snowflakes or snowballs onto the field.

Bottle of snow

For this competition you need to prepare a large number of large snowflakes and empty bottles in advance.

Snowflakes are sprinkled on the floor, and participants are given the task of collecting the largest number of snowflakes in their bottle. The winner is the one who collects more than the rest within a certain time. The competition can also be made for elimination, leaving only those who managed to collect the “passing number” of snowflakes.

The snowman hurries to duty

All participants are divided into two teams. Each person is given a large bag, a plastic bucket and a carrot nose. The task of each participant is to quickly change into the “duty snowman outfit”, jump in a bag to a chair, sit on it and return to pass the baton to another participant. The team with all its participants running the fastest will win.

Adults have fun too

For many, New Year is boring gatherings at the table. The atmosphere of a magical holiday and the tradition of celebrating cheerfully and solemnly go further and further. To somehow avoid this in the Year of the Rooster, you need to properly plan your pastime for adults on New Year’s Eve, and the competitions below are suitable for this.

Oh, let's sing now!

Participants are divided into two musical teams. The first one’s task is to sing a line from a song, and the second one must continue with words from another composition. For example: “A million, a million, a million scarlet roses...”, and another one picks up: “At least for a day!” The winner will be the last team that can continue the first line. You can complicate the task if you take only winter and New Year's songs.

Siamese twins

The invited pair of participants is tied back to back. The essence of the game is for the observers to give a wide variety of instructions. For example, dance or try to sit at the table. If the group of people celebrating is not devoid of a sense of humor, then the competition will turn out to be hilarious and fun!

Let me hug you!

This competition is perfect for a couple in love or married people. Participants face each other. Several bottles of champagne or wine are placed between them. The man is blindfolded, and at this time the presenter quickly removes all the bottles. The main task is to reach your beloved and hug her. A blindfolded man does not suspect that there are no more bottles and will move carefully and carefully. This picture will cause fits of laughter until the very end of the holiday!

Bag right through

Invited participants stand in a circle with Santa Claus. When the music starts, the bag of gifts is passed from hand to hand until the song stops. The person who has the bag in his hands must perform some number at the request of Santa Claus. When he has the bag, he happily gives out gifts to everyone.

Svetlana Ermolaeva
New Year's corporate party 2017 “Year of the Fire Rooster”

Corporate Party 2017 – Year of the Fire Rooster

For all competitions you need to stock up on prizes in advance - lollipops in the shape of cockerels

Leading:

Good evening gentlemen.

How did you get here?

Happy New Year,

I wish you health and happiness!

It is impossible to imagine celebrating the New Year without its main attributes - Grandfather with a long white beard, a young girl - his assistant and a Christmas tree. In 2017, the Rooster will come into its legal rights - a symbol of the new, early, unknown. It's time to move away from the usual round dances around the Christmas tree, rhymes on a chair, etc. Very soon we will praise the rooster as a symbol of the New Year and cajole it in every possible way. In the meantime, his year has not yet arrived, I propose to joke with him a little and play with him.

Let's start with a toast:

One old man in the village had a rooster and chickens. One day an old man came out onto the porch and saw a rooster trampling one hen. The old man took and threw a handful of seeds onto the ground. The rooster saw this and abandoned the chicken and ran to peck the seeds. To which the old man said with disappointment: God forbid anyone should get hungry like that...

I propose to raise our glasses so that in the new year 2017 we live in abundance, so that we never go hungry and our tables are always full of treats for family and friends!

Presenter: How should you celebrate the New Year, whose patron is the noble bully Fire Rooster and the most warlike planet of the galaxy - Mars? So: (puts a cap on his head - the head of a rooster, more attributes of a rooster costume).We will organize “Cock Fights”!

Dear friends, now you need to split into two teams. The guests sitting on my right hand will be part of the first team called KOKE (rooster in Japanese), respectively, on my left hand the second team will be formed - QIQI (rooster in Chinese).

So, first competition task! Checking the proud position of the Rooster's head. I invite three participants from each team. Pairs of opponents stand opposite each other, straighten their shoulders, crane their necks and, looking into the opponent’s eyes, loudly pronounce the name of their team. Of the pair, the one who doesn't laugh first wins.

Reward "for persistence" - lollipop "cockerel"

So, test two. The rooster, as you know, is a vocal bird. Vocal abilities are not particularly important for her, the main thing is the strength of her voice, volume. We stand up, straighten our shoulders, tuck our bellies, stretch our necks. I say the initial lines of the chant, and you say the last phrase in chorus. Each participant tries to drown out their opponents. Go!

Glorious New Year holiday,

People are having a blast.

Let's see off the monkey

We meet the Fire Rooster! (together)

It’s a pity to part with Monkey,

But what can you do, it's time.

Today we, friends,

Meet the Fire Rooster!

Our team, no matter where,

We are always there for each other!

And together with the authorities

Meet the Fire Rooster!

Screamed from the heart

Look at your neighbor.

Smile - right across your face!

Meet the Fire Rooster!

I will award victory to him,

Who will sing “ku-ka-re-ku”!

And a sweet prize for him too.

Glory to the Fire Rooster!

Presenter: It's time to wet your necks! Fill your glasses!

Another competition, very demonstrative, for quick wits. Let's see which of you can guess the tricky riddles.

She herself is sonorous, her waist is thin,

The chest is wide,

And the bottom is thin. (Glass)

Hey, who knows, people?

Snow woman, where will she come from? (Zimbabwe).

Almost 40 million people do this at night. (“Sitting” on the Internet).

Big, red, with a mustache and hares. What is this? (Trolleybus).

What's on the lady's body?

Does the sly one have something on his mind?

Seen in hockey

And on the chessboard. (Combination)

Game - winter-cold...

There is such a folk sign - when a chicken sits on the roost early, what is this? That's right - this is for frosty weather! I invite girls on stage who don’t like frost and prefer to dress warmly in winter.

The girls go on stage. One of the team. In front of each of them there is a bag containing the same things: a hat with earflaps, a sweatshirt, felt boots, a scarf, mittens.

The task of the girls on the team is to put on all these things. Whoever manages it first wins.

But the competition would not have been particularly noticed this way. That's why it has a sequel and two at once. Which one to choose – decide for yourself.

Continuation of the first:

After the girls are dressed, they are invited to take off their clothes while listening to romantic music. That is, in other words, show a village striptease and again remain in your beautiful clothes.

Continuation two:

Three men are called onto the stage. They put mittens on their hands and, at the command of the presenter, take off the girls’ clothes that they wore in the competition. Whichever of the men did it faster wins a prize.

New Year's toast...

Song block.

Before making a music and song block, we will arrange small quizzes.

To begin, let the guests name New Year's songs. Whoever names the most wins a prize - a cockerel on a stick.

The year of the rooster is coming. Whoever remembers the most songs about birds will receive a prize - a sweet cockerel on a stick.

When you have sorted out the songs, invite the guests to perform a remake song.

1 team – verse and chorus

1 team verse and chorus

2 teams together chorus

Whose team performs the most interesting will receive a bottle of champagne.

song to the tune - the earth is visible through the porthole:

The game is chicken by grain...

We have all seen how chickens and other birds peck at food. And in this competition we will have to do something similar. To do this, one person at a time is called onto the stage. from the team. Each of them is placed on a plate with 10 chocolate M&M's. At the command of the presenter, they must lean towards their plate, stick out their tongue and take one dragee that sticks to the tongue. And thus they need to eat all their dragees.

The game is the name of the birds.

We have already recalled songs that are sung about birds. And in this competition, let's name the most unusual names of birds. Two participants (from different teams who named the most unusual names) go on stage.

You know, there is such a bird called alkonost. Yes, the name is interesting. But it is a mythical bird, and it has the hands and face of a maiden. Therefore, I ask two more girls to come up on stage to help the players.

And so, we got two pairs. In front of each couple there is a table on the table with a glass and bottles or decanters. They are filled with a clear liquid: plain water, sweet water, salt water, vodka, water with lemon. Only the presenter knows where and what is poured.

The players stand next to each other. The one standing behind him stretches his hands forward, pours from any bottle into a glass, the one standing in front drinks and must guess the drink. So, until he tries from all the bottles. Players can change places. The team that guesses the drinks faster and correctly wins.

Prize –

Brainstorming “Question and Answer”

An approximate list (question-answer) of riddles with humor:

What do you usually do when you see a little green man? They are crossing the road.

There is a head, but no brain. Cheese, garlic, onions.

A hunter was walking through the city square. I saw the clock on the tower, took off my gun and fired. Where did you end up? To the police station.

Who always sleeps with shoes on? Horse.

The goat is seven years old. What then? The eighth will go.

A word that contains seven identical letters. Family.

One hundred letters that stop traffic on the road. Stop.

Which peninsula “tells” about its area? Yamal.

Flying city? Eagle.

Can an ostrich call itself a bird? No, he can't talk.

The capital of which European state is located on dried grass? France, Paris stands on the Seine River

Leading: You guys surprised me, you guys are crazy. I admit, this was the first time I attended a New Year’s corporate party where, despite how much they drank, people thought so clearly. Okay, brains are stretched, now. First of all, I wonder what mood the guests are in? Combat? Lazy? Drunk? What thoughts come to them on such an evening? All this is very easy to check, so we’ll do a couple of sobriety tests.

Balance test.

Participants are asked to stand on one leg. The one who manages to hold out longer than the rest wins. (one per team)

Leading:

Agility test.

Plastic cups or glassware will not fit; they may break when pouring champagne or another drink. You need to drink it without using your hands; they are hidden behind your back.

Leading: Well done! They completed the task perfectly, and I personally present the winner with a gift (a lollipop in the shape of a cockerel).

Competition “Material well-being in the family”(prepared in advance (the day before the corporate event), employees are given sheets of paper with the question “what needs to be done so that the family always has prosperity?”, it is desirable that the answers are humorous)

Everyone knows that the Rooster is an inveterate family man and guardian of the family budget. Everyone present wrote down their recommendations on a piece of paper - what needs to be done so that the family always has prosperity. Then the Rooster reads out the list and gives gifts to the most original advisers.

Summing up the results of competitions

It's hard to single out anyone. And today in the hall there are those who were born in the Year of the Rooster. Here they are, ours won! The stars favor them. The horoscope also did not deprive other signs of attention, but they cannot compare with the smart, beautiful Roosters.

A win-win lottery is being held.

Well, friends, it's time to say goodbye,

But so that we can part beautifully

We'll light the lights on the Christmas tree,

And together, we repeat in unison:

So that happiness lasts long,

You light up the Christmas tree,

We cast a spell

May everyone's wishes come true:

One and two and three - the tree is burning fabulously! (together)

Dancing, toasts... The fun continues!