Hosting an All Weekend Scrapbook Party

Hi C.,

Wow! A weekend scrap! It sounds like fun and it's the perfect time of year.

Here are a few websites that have fun games...hope you find something that you can use.

http://adulted.about.com/od/icebreakers/tp/toptenicebreak...
http://www.icebreakers.ws/
http://wilderdom.com/games/Icebreakers.html
http://www.free-party-games.com/
http://businessmajors.about.com/od/icebreakers/Icebreaker...

Happy Thanksgiving!

W. Q

I love crops, and in fact there is a "January Jammies" crop coming up that I am so excited to go to. Usually, I find that you don't need many games - the ladies will get to know each other while they crop. Sometimes they will have games like "longest tape runner" or "most pages complete" or "most number of tools used on a page" and then there is a small prize from a prize bucket to pick from. We also have a grab bag - a box where everybody puts in something they aren't using (a sticker pack, a set of borders, patterned paper, etc) and you can take something out of the box in exchange. Those are wonderful because as the saying goes, one woman's trash is DEFINITELY another woman's treasure!

Have fun and good luck!

Hey C. -
There was a post a long time ago about fun games to play at women's gatherings at church that I copied and pasted and thought you might enjoy the ideas for your scarp book weekend: so here they are : ) Be blessed and have fun!
Grami
ICE BREAKER GAMES

1) give out bingo cards with say six sections to check off, or more if you like, the areas all require the ladies to gather info from the others until they have someone who allows them to fill all sections. For example, the areas might be -has a pet- so they have to find someone who has a pet, another might be -was born in a foreign country- and so on. Typically you allow about five mintues for the ladies to mingle and come up with a different person for each section on their cards.

2) get the ladies to line up according to their birth month and birth date (that is everyone in July together but in order of the dates 1-31) until the whole room is in a line from the earliest birthday in January to the last birthday in December. You can do it in two stages, getting everyone together in months first, then looking at re-ordering the group according to dates. It's less of a mixer but usually in a large enough group, people will discover they have a birthday in common.

3) have a theme like animals, TV moms, Bible Women or whatever on slips of paper and pin it on their backs. They have to go around and ask 20 questions to see if they can figure out who they are by asking the other ladies in the room questions.
4) everyone has to tell one thing about themselves, but before they do they have to repeat what the one just said about themselves then add a new one. So the 3rd lady will have to say what # 1 and #2 said about themselves then add her comment. By the time it gets around the room, they remember something about someone, and you see who will remember the longest.
5) get rolls of toilet paper. Make each person get off how much they use when the pee. For each square of the toilet paper they pulled off, they have to tell one thing about themselves. It's a great way to get to know people especially when people pull off a bunch!

6) make a list of things or items with a space out to the side for a name to be written on that you give out to the ladies when you're ready. They will have to mix and mingle to find someone who can validate that item on the list. (i.e.)
1) Someone who has a pair of scissors in their purse
2) Someone who has a pair of sunglasses in their purse
3) Someone who filled up with gas on today
4) Someone who has 6+ grandchildren
5) Someone who has a new baby
6) Someone whose middle initial is "R"
7) Someone who has been married for 20+ years
The list could go on and on, but you get the idea. The person preparing the list will probably know some little facts like that about the people coming. Try to include some fun fact about all those who might be coming so that they'll have to get around and find out something about all the people. The first one to fill their list could win some small token or prize.
7) have the ladies to break into maybe two groups and give them a 100 piece puzzle to put together as a group or team. You'd have to have two card tables or spaces and then just give them the puzzles and let them go at it. You can find all types of fun puzzles that are very inexpensive at the dollar store. It's fun and the winning team can be first to be in line for food or the other team can bring them beverages or something.
8) Break up the ladies into small groups if you have 20 then 4 froups of five. Give them all paper with room for the five names in there group. You will time them for one min. One person from each group will be talking about themselve sharing who they are anything they like from favorite color to were they want to retire. You will do this untill all the ladies have spoken. 5min total for your 20 ladies.
When this is done then they have to write down everything they remember about the other 4 in there group. which you have also only given them 1 min to write down. once this is done they pass the sheet around to the ladies on there list for grading 1 point for every correct answer we usually give a small gift to the one who remembered the most. (i.e if someone remembered the names of the children and there are 3 then this would be 1 point each. etc. You learn how much in common you have with others.)
9) Each person is given a piece of paper and pencil. They are to write on the front a major problem in the world or their family that needs to be solved. And then the papers are passed around so that no on has their paper. And on the back each person writes down what they think is the answer to their original questions. Then these are read. question or need on the front and answer on the back and of course they don't match. You can also, take up the original papers and give everyone a new paper for the answer and put them in a hat and then, read one question and draw out an answer from the hat.
10) Everyone gets a questionnaire to fill out - about 10-15 general questions and then 3-5 specific questions. Each person fills it out and (here's the fun part) it gets handed off to someone else! Then we sit in a circle and you have to 'introduce' your new friend by describing them off the questionnaire. You can't introduce someone you're already close to, but that's the only rule. As an added bonus, we play Memory as we go. You repeat back each person's name and the the one before them.... continuing to the last. The first person to remember everyone's name in order gets a cheesy door prize.
11) asked husbands or good friends of all the ladies attending to disclose an embarrassing experience about the attendee. When we got to the retreat there were name tags out on a table labeling everyone by their embarrassment (e-harmony honey or sleepwalker) We all tried to guess which name tag belonged to who and later we all talked about our experience. I think it was great because we all were talking about embarrassing moments and we laughed and got to know a little more about each other.
12) "2 Truths and 1 Lie". You would have to request these responses in advance but the gist is that each person writes 3 "facts" about themselves--2 of which are true and 1 that is not true and the others try to guess which one is the lie. It is just a show of hands vote as to which one is the lie. You wouldn't have to do everyone if you want to keep it short, just randomly pick some people ahead of time and get their responses prior to the event.
13) everyone got a little cup with a few m&ms (different amounts in each cup) and had to tell one thing about themself for each M & M in the cup. Of course no one can know what the m & m's are for before you begin, then they grab one with 6 instead of, say, 2.

That really sounds fun! Because I have no ideas, LOL, I'm going to make a suggestion just in case you haven't considered it. How about teaming up with a local scrapbook store or an independent scrapbooking person (like Creative Memories), who probably already have a lot of ideas for something like this? That way you won't have as much work on your hands!

One game we did at work one time was to write down one little known or unusual fact about yourself, toss them in a bowl, then guess who it belongs to. Hope you get some good ideas!