Party Games for Large Groups

Free Home Party Games for Stay at Home Mom Businesses

Party games for large groups can be challenging to find for direct sales home party representatives and stay at home mom businesses. These free home party games for consultants and hostess party games should help you make your next in home show fantastic.



Though these free home party games deal specifically with clothespin games, cotton ball games, and pass the gift games, there are hundreds more party games for consultants in the hostess party games index at the bottom of this page. Skip to Free Home Party Games Index

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Party Games for Large Groups: Fun With Clothespins

Clothespins are very inexpensive and can be found at any Walmart. They are great props for hostess party games, party games for large groups, simply because their appeal is universal and can match with any direct sales home parties companies.

Clothes Pin Buzzwords
The first of the party games for large groups is a game as well as an icebreaker. Choose a buzzword for your game. It can be anything, but here are some suggestions:

Your Company Name

Party

Sale

Free

The Hostess's Name

Container/Candle/Kitchen/etc

When guests arrive at the party, give each guest a clothespin to pin on their shirt and tell them the buzzword.

Instruct them NOT to mention the buzzword during the party.

If one guest catches another guest saying the buzzword, she may steal the offending guest's clothespin.

At the end of the party, the guest with the most pins is declared the winner, has bragging rights, and wins a prize.

Guests are sure to pay attention to your presentation this way! Fun party games for large groups.




Clothespin Frenzy Game
For this of the party games for consultants, you will need a couple dozen clothespins as well as a clothes hangar. Clip the pins onto the bottom, straight portion of the hangar.

On their turn, each guest will see how many pins she can remove with just one hand. She must not use her body or her other hand for assistance. As she removes a clothespin, she tells the group something about herself.

Once she drops a clothes pin, her turn is over and it is the next guest's turn. The guest who collected the most pins wins a prize. Party games for large groups may require teams to speed the game along.

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Hostess Party Games: Fun with Cotton Balls

The following party games for large groups may require you to section off contestants into teams, depending on how many people are at your party.

There are a few variations to this game.

The main object of the game is to transfer cotton balls from one spot to another using nothing but a spoon.

The contestant/team that transfers the most cotton balls wins a prize.

The antics of guests becomes hilarious and quite silly.

Option #1:
Blindfold each participant. Spread the cotton balls on the floor and give each team a large plastic spoon and bowl (Tupperware bowl if you are a Tupperware consultant). Have the party goer attempt to spoon cotton balls into their bowl while blindfolded. (Can go from one bowl to another instead of floor to bowl if preferred.)

Give each participant one minute, and then the next member of the team gets a try. The team who gathers the most cotton balls into the bowl wins.

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Option #2:
No need for blindfolds! Have the participant place a bowl in front of her and another on her head.

She must get the cotton balls from the bowl on her head into the bowl on the table in front of her, again using a spoon.

As an added level of fun, after 2 or 3 attempt this with a regular sized spoon, break into the game and state that there was a mistake, and the contestants should have been using a small baby spoon (hand a baby spoon to the next contestant for emphasis).

After guests get a good laugh at this, admit that you were making it up and allow the game to carry on.


Option #3:
Great party games for large groups! Split your group into two teams (play along with them if there are uneven numbers) and hand each team member a plastic spoon. This is a relay race with the cotton ball.

Each participant must walk to the end of the room, turn around, and transfer her cotton ball to the next team member without dropping it. If she drops it, you can allow her to keep going or make her start her leg of the relay again, your choice depending on time constraints.

First team to do it, wins! This sounds easy, but cotton balls are so lightweight that they fall off frequently, especially when speed is involved!

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Free Home Party Games: Pass the Gift

Party games for large groups: There is nothing more fun than a good “pass the gift” game. A lot of the time, the prizes for party games for large groups goes to the most outspoken, active, or quickest of the party goers. But a “Pass the Gift” game evens the score, allowing all guests an equal chance at the best prize.

Here are a few of my favorite free home party games:

10 LAYER GIFT
Wrap a nice party prize (or even a king size bar of chocolate) in wrapping paper. Now wrap it again, until you have wrapped it at least 10 times. You can wrap it in any type of paper, but be sure that the last layer is in pretty gift paper so it looks nice.

Have your guests sit in a circle and play some music. When the music stops (controlled by you at random intervals), the person holding the gift must unwrap ONE layer. Repeat the game until the last layer is unwrapped. The person holding the gift at the end wins.


HOT POTATO
Party games for large groups: Stand your guests in a circle and hand one a wrapped gift. Turn your back and have them start to pass the gift in a circle. At random, say your party plan company name to stop the gift passing. (or use music) Whomever is holding the gift at that point must sit down.

Repeat until only one guest is left standing. She wins the gift.


EXCLUSIVE GAME
This is a spin off from the first “buzzword” game on this page, and you can substitute any word you'd like.

You want your party games for large groups to really keep your guests listening. For each five guests, select one gift, and give the gifts out randomly. Tell your guests that whenever they hear you say the word “exclusive” (or another word you selected) they have to pass their gift to the person on the right.

Alternately (and much more fun), whenever they hear your buzzword, another guest may “steal” the gift from someone who is holding it.

Whomever “owns” the gift at the end of the show may keep it!

If using the word “exclusive” in your game, this might be a good time to explain what exclusive means. Tell your guests that even though they may see a similar item to the one you've shown in a local store or online, the other product is not the same. It is most likely an inferior piece, and may even be a copy.

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IT'S A SHAME
Party games for large groups. Get two decks of cards and give each guest 3-4 cards from the first deck. (use all 52 cards.) Have duplicate gifts wrapped and on display.

Shuffle the second deck, and call the cards out one by one. As a guest's card is called, they go to the display and choose a wrapped gift, bringing it to their seat. Once all the gifts have been taken from the display, when a guest's card is called she may steal a gift from another contestant by saying, “It's a shame, but I want the gift that (name of participant) has.”

Once all the cards have been called, the guests who have the gifts last win. Note: on rare occasions, one person may come last and end up with more than one gift. Instead of letting them keep multiple gifts, the last person they stole from will keep the extra.


MYSTERY PACKAGE GAME
Pass out a notecard and pen to each of your party goers. Wrap an unusually shaped gift in a pretty package, making sure that you accentuate its strange shape the best that you can. Pass the gift around to the guests, and instruct them that they may shake the package if they want to. The guest then needs to write down what they think the gift is on their notecard, and be specific (mentioning color, etc to prevent ties).

Once all notecards are received, read them aloud. If anyone has guest the exact item, give it to them (since these are party games for large groups, have several items available) . Also give out a winning prize to the contestant that came up with the most hysterical, most outlandish, most creative answer.


PASS THE GIFT RHYME
Party games for large groups. This game is great to play in a group, but you will need participation from everyone to find the guests who qualify to be given the item.

Use a nicer party gift, and start by giving it to the hostess. Then read this rhyme to determine who gets it next:

Take this gift-now don't be shy!
Give it to the guest with blue eyes
Yes, you are the lucky one
But the fun is far from done!
Look around with eyes discreet
And give it to the one with smallest feet
Your feet are tiny and very small
Now hand it to the one most tall!
Please take your time and don't be harried
Give it to the one who's most recently married
You must be proud of your new life
Now give it to the one who's the longest wife (longest married)
Of this gift you must bereft
Give it to the person on your left
The largest earrings will win it now
If you are wearing them, step up and bow
The one with the most buttons of any kind
Will get passed the gift right now, this time
Now don't be upset and please don't fight
But give it to the person third on your right
We should stop now, don't you agree?
The gift is yours to keep with glee

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TIP: Remember to showcase your products in any way you can while playing games. If a game requires a bowl and you sell Tupperware, make sure you use a Tupperware bowl. Incorporate your business as often as you can!

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I hope you have enjoyed reading these party games for large groups, and I hope that you will alter them to fit your needs as a direct sales distributor. These free home party games are in the public domain, which means that they have been around for decades, passed from one direct sales distributor to another, altered to fit all stay at home mom businesses, and no one is quite sure who originally invented any of them. Enjoy!

More Free Home Party Games:

Reader's Party Contributions (read or add your own!)
Dating Games
The Rose Game
The Straw Game
The Theme Book
Theme Book Ideas
Recruiting Games
Hostess Games
Party Icebreakers
Action Games
Thinking Games
Food & Candy Themed Games
Animal Games
Tic-Tac-Toe & Bingos
Holiday Games
Silly Drawing Games
Left/Right Games
Listening Games and Raffles
Geography Games
Nursery Rhyme Games
Bible Themed Games
TV Games
Slogans, Jingles, & Advertisement Games
Common Word Games

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