Family dinner games ideas

See if you can figure out who the secret dancer is in this hilarious family game! Little ones love this game and adults too! Find your silly side, but have the best time doing it!

Some of these fun family games to play will make you laugh so hard your insides will hurt — in a good way! The Flour Game. Our kids love the flour game, but so do I! Firstly, you take a cup, fill it with flour pack it in tight , then turn it over onto a plate, and carefully lift the cup.

After that, you will have an upside-down, flour-shaped cup on the plate. Now, go ahead and set a small candy carefully on top of the flour cup. Meanwhile, take turns using a butter knife to cut off some of the flour structure, but try not to knock off the candy.

The person who knocks off the candy has to retrieve it using only their mouth! The Cereal Box Game. See if you can pick up the cereal box in this funny game of flexibility. As the box or bag gets smaller, it also gets more difficult to reach! You can play this with a big brown paper bag ; however, the classic cereal box is always a great choice. Selfie Hot Potato. Even the name sounds fun! This game is similar to hot potato, but instead of a potato, you pass around a camera pointed at your face that has a timer set.

Sticky Face. Raise your hand if you love sticky notes, but are looking for a fun way to use them! These silly sticky note games will have you racing to see who sticks the fastest! Cotton Ball Glitz. In this crazy activity, players have to not only coat their noses with lotion but also have to see how many cotton balls they can get out of the bowl in a minute.

However, they can only use their nose. In other words, this game is pure hilarity. Bubble Game Race. The goal of the game is to eat your way through whipped cream to find the gum, but there are no hands allowed!

After that, you can celebrate by showing off your bubble gum blowing skills. Each player will need a pile of beans and a mouse. Meanwhile, the trapper rolls 2 dice and when they get doubles, they slam the lid down and try to catch the mice. If they catch none, they owe the other players one of their beans.

However, if a mouse gets caught, they will give the trapper one of their beans. As far as family games go, this is our cabin classic. Start by rolling up a dishtowel and taping it together. Outside players can run and move after the towel hits the ground.

However, if no one gets hit, the person with the towel is out. Now they get to choose the next thrower! This has got to be one of the most dangerously fun games to play.

Introduce your family to the madness of Spoons but in the speediest way possible! Iron Chef. Put your kitchen and maybe even those leftovers! Kick the Can.

Did you ever play this classic game growing up? We have so many fun memories of this one. Flashlight Tag. Bring on the night games! After that, have everyone stick their hands in and feel the objects. This game could also be great for an object lesson. Liars Dice. Crazy Face. Start by dividing into teams. After that, have one person on each team cover their face in shaving cream. Finally, at the end of 1 minute, stop and see who has the most cheese balls stuck to their face.

That team wins, but everyone will have had a blast! Minute to Win It. Can you complete these challenges in under a minute? Check out the link above for ideas, or browse all of our Win it in a Minute Ideas! For even more ideas for fun family games, check out:. I'm a friendly gal who's obsessed with all things marriage and Hubby-related :. When I'm not having adventures with my sweetheart and baby boy, you can find me in photographer mode, deep in a Netflix binge, or crafting!

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Then we all announce our items and collaboratively try to think up a dish that would be somewhat palatable featuring all of the ingredients we allow the addition of other minor ingredients. But we find the meals where we all happily engage in conversation to be some of the most memorable times for us as a family. Want another way to make family dinners more pleasant? What family dinner games keep your family happily seated and engaged at the table?

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We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. A few ideas to start:. Create a Story all ages One person starts a story with one sentence.

Go around the table, and have each person add a sentence to the story. If the kids are old enough, pass a piece of paper around, and have everyone write their sentence down. After dinner, you can illustrate the sentences, and then post your drawings on the fridge. Higglety Pigglety all ages One person thinks of a rhyming pair of words, and then gives clues about them, using synonyms. Where in the World? Where in the world would you go? Would you bring anyone with you? How long would you stay?