So it's been a
couple of months since Matthew's birthday, but I wanted to share the fun we had with some friends for his birthday. We had a couples game night competition with some games from the TV show "Minute to Win It". If you haven't seen the show it's basically a competition where the contestants have a series of tasks to do, but each task must be completed in under 1 minute. The games we played were:~Keep it Up: Each couple had to keep up 3 feathers using the breath of their mouth (no hands) for 1 minute. This was impossible with the feathers I used, so nobody was successful. Sorry no pictures of this one either.
~Face the Cookie: Each couple has 1 minute to move a cookie from their forehead and into their mouth without using their hands. Some couples were successful with this one and watching the facial muscles work gave everyone quite a laugh.
~Noodling Around: Each couple held one spaghetti noodle in their mouth while trying to string 6 penne pasta noodles on to the spaghetti noodle. No hands of course.
~Office Tennis: Each couple used clipboards to volley a ball of paper from one end of the room to another and eventually land the paper ball in a trashcan at the opposite end of the room.
~Junk in the Trunk: Each couple strapped an empty Kleenex box to their backside and attempted to get 6 tennis balls out of the box without using their hands. This challenge was by far the most entertaining. Some of the techniques are a bit inappropriate, so I will spare you :-) However, it provided many laughs!!
~Ka-broom: In this final challenge the couple had to work together to drop a broom handle on to a plate hanging off the end of a table and launch a marshmallow on the plate into a cup.
We had so much fun with these little challenges! I got the idea for the party from The Dating Divas if any of you want to have some fun of your own! They have lots of other ideas on their site as well. I'll leave you with a few more pictures from the evening.