Kathy Danner

7 Family Friendly Super Bowl Party Games



Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2008

by
PB and JAHM

Afraid of accepting an invitation to a Super Bowl Party this year because it might not be a family friendly atmosphere? Here are some "simple, fun, frugal, and wholesome" party ideas to have at your own party or to bring along with you to use at another party. Also included are some links to get more ideas.

1) Football tossing contest.

If you can play outdoors, the person who can toss a football the farthest wins. If it needs to be an indoor contest, use a foam football and have your guests toss it through a hula hoop or into a basket. The winner is the guest who can make the target the most times out of five attempts.

2) Football Charades.

Divide your guests into teams and give each team five word cards that you've prepared in advance. Everyone takes turns trying to get their team to guess the football related word that they're acting out. The team that guesses the most words wins. Use a timer to keep the game from running into the next quarter. Here are several possible words for your game:

1. cheerleader

2. helmet

3. football

4. touchdown

5. referree

6. coach

7. team

8. field goal

9. beer

10. buffalo wings

3) Don't say "football" game.

At the beginning of halftime, give your guests small paper footballs to stick onto their chests with double-sided tape. Tell everyone they're not allowed to say the word "football" while in conversation during halftime. If a guest hears someone use the word, they can take the football from the offending party. The person who collects the most footballs is the winner.

4) Balloons!

This one is easy and is played at the start and after the game is over. You pick team colors for balloons and in one set of each team colors, you place a slip of paper in each balloon. (Hint: mix up the teams inside the balloons, so people don't know which team is in the balloons.) At the end of the game, each person pops a balloon. The person who pops the balloon with the slip of paper that has the total score or winning team gets the good prizes, and the losing one gets to clean the kitchen, or what ever you deem as the booby prize. You write things like "Holding, personal foul, penalty take out the garbage." Of course the penalty is declined if it is the winning team.

This one acts as decorations, a game, and helps you clean up.

5) Super Bowl History Trivia

Type up multiple choice questions and give out prizes based on the most correct answer sheets.

See http://www.nfl.com/superbowl/history for some Super Bowl History Facts.

6) Foot Ball Hot Potato during ad breaks

During one or more advertisements; pass a foot ball around the room and the one holding the ball when the ad ends loses and has to help clean up or has to re-fill the snack bowls… what ever you decide.

7) Family friendly Super Bowl Word find and word scramble

http://partysupplieshut.com/super-bowl/super-bowl-word-find.htm

http://partysupplieshut.com//super-bowl/super-bowl-word-scramble.htm

Here are some more links for ideas.

http://entertaining.about.com/od/superbowl/a/superbowlgames.htm

http://superbowl.about.com/cs/winterholidays/a/blsuperbowl_4.htm

enJOY! - Kathy Kline Danner

www.PBandJAHM.com

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» left by Anonymous
 1 year 27 days ago.
Great article! We also played iPropFootball online game at a Super Bowl Party and it was fun for the whole family - even those who know very little about football. That kept us busy while the football game was on, and then at halftime we all went outside and had a mini-football game in the backyard.
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