Sleepover games pack
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How to use it
- Print one copy and keep it in the kitchen, not in the room with the children.
- Announce the lights-off time when everyone arrives, then again at pyjama time.
- Skip anything running around after 9pm, however much they beg.
Timeline
- 4pm arrivals and one loud game while everyone lands.
- 6pm food.
- 7pm two middle games at the table.
- 8pm pyjamas, then torch games with the lights off.
- 9.30-10pm lights off and one wind-down activity lying down.
Loud games
- Sock wrestling - pull off everyone else's socks. Two minutes maximum.
- Balloon keepy-uppy against the clock.
- Freeze dance with one adult on the music.
- Minute-to-win-it: cup stacking, biscuit face, straw and sweets.
Middle games
- Charades from a printed list.
- Would you rather - ten daft dilemmas read out.
- Consequences drawings - fold the paper and pass it on.
- Blindfold taste test with allergy-checked snacks.
Torch games and wind-down
- Torch tag or hide and seek indoors, lights off.
- Shadow puppet competition against a plain wall.
- Sardines - one hides, finders join them.
- Two truths and a lie, lying down in the dark.
- Sleeping lions, then an audiobook or a familiar film.