My friend Holly has once again planned a party that is amazing! She let me show you her Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Party and now she’s here to show you the details of her husband’s 30th birthday party. The “Minute to Win It” theme is such a fun idea and the games that they did were hilarious. I know you’ll laugh at the pictures/videos as much as I did.
Now on to Holly:
I wanted to do a fun birthday party for Curt – after all, 30 years is a big deal! I finally decided on a “Minute to Win it” theme (have you seen that show?), except I made it HALF Minute to Win it to make it fit better with Curt being 30 years old. 🙂
The Participants:
The Games:*All but the last game came from NBC’s Minute to Win it game site
Hanky Panky
Chocolate Unicorn
Junk in the Trunk
Stack Attack
Face the Cookie
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Great post with some really interesting list of games. I must say all these games sounds so much fun to play. There is a birthday of my best friend in next month & we were confused of what to do plan for his day. But your blog has made things little easy for us to incorporate these ideas on his birthday. I am pretty sure we all are going to have a memorable birthday this time. Thanks for sharing this!
Hi Melissa!
I’m wondering how you did the Minute to Win It games with teams. Did each team decide ahead of time who would do which activity? Once a person finished the first challenge, does the next challenge start right away? I haven’t seen the show and my family loves these kinds of games!
Thank you!
Riley
When we’ve done this with groups we normally just decide groups when everyone gets there. And for the “rounds” we just have two people go head to head and the person to do the most/fastest/whatever in the minutes, gets one point for the team. Then the next two (one from each time) go against each other for whatever the next activity is.
So sorry about the carpet. What a bummer. 🙁 Thanks for letting me “guest post”! 🙂
That sounds like such a fun party idea! I laughed so hard at the ‘how’s it hangin’ Haha!
Looks like an awesome time! Happy Birthday to Curt
We had a minute to win it party outside at our townhouse complex when my hubby was in law school. It was a hoot!
Oh, and weirdness, we currently have carpet on order at Home Depot too!!! But your first paragraph about Home Depot and dates is kinda freaking me out…they told us ours was backordered until June 15. A month later than that wouldn’t be cool. Hmmm. What date are they telling you? Maybe we are fighting for the same carpet ;). Ha ha, small world.
Bahahaha what an awesome party!!! I will totally have to steal some of those games for a party one day!