Teen Chatting Games
Finding forms of entertainment for a teenager's party can be a challenge in that choosing a game that meets the teen's "cool" standards and is still appropriate by a parent's standards could result in a new world war. However, by capitalizing on a favorite teenager activity -- chatting -- as a theme, you can establish some fun, humorous and appropriate games to entertain your teen guests. Does this Spark an idea?
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Letter Taboo
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Choose a letter at the beginning of the party to be the taboo letter. Inform all of the guests at the start of the party of the game and the taboo letter. Throughout the party, the guests must attempt to avoid using words that start with that letter throughout all conversation at the party. All the party guests can act as police in monitoring the word usage. Each time a player uses a word that starts with the taboo letter she receives a sticker that she must wear throughout the remainder of the party. The player with the least amount of stickers at the end of the party wins a prize.
Letter Lingo
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Have all the teenagers sit in a circle to play a game that tests their letter lingo abilities. Choose a player in the circle to begin the game and assign her the letter "A." She must form a sentence with a noun, a verb and a location that all begin with the letter A. For example, she could say, "Apes ate in Africa." The person to her right would then have the same challenge, but with the letter "B" and so on. Use a buzzer during the game and if participants cannot come up with a sentence in five seconds they are disqualified. Continue rotating through the alphabet until all but one player is eliminated. Reward the winner with a prize.
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Quick Thinking Sentences
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Assemble all the players into one room and give each a turn calling out a random letter. Keep tabs of all the letters that are volunteered, in order, and once everyone has had a turn instruct them to write down all the letters as you read them aloud. The players must then form a sentence or sentences using words that start with the suggested letter in the same order that was given. The first person to complete the challenge wins.
Guess Who
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Use a tape recorder to record sound bites from characters speaking in a variety of teenager-friendly television shows and movies. Play the clips for the group of teenagers one at a time. Ask the students to try and identify the character or actor speaking. The first person to identify each voice wins a prize. Keep a tally of who correctly guesses each answer and award the person who correctly guesses the most answers with an additional prize.
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