You decided to celebrate the New Year in a big or not very big, but very friendly company.

But you don’t know what to do when all toasts have been said, all meals has been eaten up, all presents have been given. Of course it’s time for the funniest thing – games and competitions.  You don’t know what to play? Then this article is written specially for you.

1. Some couples are chosen among guests, boys and girls preferably. Their eyes are closed or bound. They stand opposite each other and, holding an apple in every hand, try to feed each other. The winners will be those who have eaten the apples faster. During the game you should not let the participants eat the apples they hold in their hands.
2. If you don’t know the company well, it’s funny to play “crocodile” game. Participants are divided into two groups. One group goes to another room where proposes an idea or a thing and calls one of the members of another team. He is told this word they guessed and he must explain it to his own team with the help of mime. Members of his team can put questions which the leading person must answer also with the help of gestures and mime.
3. Choose 3-5 men and ask them to choose women for the game. The women bind their eyes with a scarf or a ribbon. Then someone fixes 15 pins telling the women about that. The winner is that woman who first finds all the pins and takes them off with closed eyes.
4. Another game is “I’ve got in my pants…”. You need to make paper pants with a big pocket and put different notes with various words in the pocket. The leading person comes to the guests and offers to pull a note. The one who pulls the note says “I’ve got in my pants…” and then reads what is written in the note he has pulled out. For example “culinary conferences”. The words combinations can be very ridiculous.
5. Play “words” game. Think and say words with “ir” in them. The words mustn’t be repeated.

Words for example:

Fir

Stir

Girl

Pir

Hire

Tire

1. Hang a decoration on the Christmas tree. All participants come in the middle of the room with fir-tree decorations. Their eyes are closed or bound with something, they turn around several times and go to the direction they think must be the fir-tree, they do it with their eyes closed. If a participant chooses wrong direction he must hang the decoration on the thing he comes to. To make the task more difficult other people can stand on the participants’ way. The winner is that one who hangs the decoration on the fir-tree and that one who hangs the decoration on the most original place.
2. Everybody stands in a circle and holds hands. It’s better to take all beating and sharp things away. The leading person tells every participant names of two animals in their ears and then explains the point of the game: when an animal told in advance is called out, the person who was told the animal should sit down and the people around him mustn’t let him sit holding him under arms. The point is the second animal – whale – is told to every person and when it is called out everybody tries to sit down and simultaneously hold the neighbor, thus all fall down.
3. Some more advice for an interesting New Year celebration:

1. Write some sages’ statements on long papers of different colors. Make spirals of them, fix to toothpicks and put into fruits. Your guests will have something to think about in the coming year.
2. Put a pea in the New Year’s cake, that one who takes a piece with this pea will be a queen/king of the party.