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Anniversary party games work best when you get everyone involved, you want to get everyone involved and chatting. Here are some great games that will get the party started.
Our first suggestion is to ask everyone invited to provide a photo of themselves when they were a baby or child, you will need these sent to you before the day. Mount them or photocopy them onto card so that you can display them at the party and then number each photo. Have paper and pens ready for your guests and then ask them to guess who is who. Everyone enjoys looking at old photos and it gets everyone chatting. You could have a child prize and an adult prize. If there are lots of guests you may want to split the photos onto the guests tables, otherwise it could take all night!
Another quiz type idea is to have questions about the anniversary couple on each table, a table could be a team if your guests want to be competitive. It helps to have the questions from all eras of the anniversary years so that everyone is involved. Ideas to start you off; Where did they meet? Where was their first date? Where did they live when they were first married? What was their first car? How many children/ grandchildren are there? Having the questions span many years will mean that the younger guests will need to be talking to the older ones.
A real teaser is to draw an outline map of the country that the anniversary couple live in and ask your guests to pinpoint important towns. The town where they were married, where they first lived. You get the idea, it is almost like an adult pin the tail on the donkey.
A treasure hunt gets everyone involved, try and find someone who is good at writing the clues or have them find certain things; 2 oak leaves, a small book, a football scarf. You could have everyone meet at a start point with the end point at the anniversary party. Make sure you don't lose anyone!
These type of games will keep everyone together but if you have a number of children at the party you may want to volunteer some older cousins to come up with some fun games for them. If you have young children then balloons to play with and some music works well, add an anniversary touch to traditional children's party games. Pin the cake topper on the cake (aka pin the tail on the donkey) or pass the parcel are easy ones to supervise.
Suzanne Daykin is the editor of http://www.anniversary-gifts-by-year.com the online guide to anniversary gifts and parties.
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