Tea Party Games

Remember your childhood hosting tea parties for your friends? How fun and great it was to be with girls your age, being able to be yourself and have a great time? Now it is our daughters turn to have there own tea cup set and host their own tea party with some great games!
Now when it does come down to Tea Party Games, there is so many to list. There are games from many country's, such as Russia, Japan, and Mexico. To list a few of them here are some samples:
Russian Tea Party Game:
Russian Bear:
- Cut out pear paw shapes out of colorful construction paper, so that every guest has a different color.
- Cut out bear claws as well in different colors and pass them out so that each player doesn't know who has which color.
- Have the guest sit In a circle and have them guess who has which bear claw color.
- The player with the least amount of correct guesses is eliminated.
- Keep the game going until there are two players.
- The first one to guess the correct bear paw color wins.

Japanese Tea Party Game:
Tokyo Doodles: (this game is like the drawing version of the game Telephone)
-Tape a piece of paper on to each guest's back.
- All the guest form a line (each person facing someone's back)
- They each have a marker (even the first person in line)
- Have the 2nd guest draw something on the piece of paper on the guest in front of them.
- Have the 3rd player try and copy the drawing of the second guests drawing.
- Continue to have each guest try and copy the picture from the guest in front of them until you reach the last guest in line.
- Have the first person in line have a turn as well on a separate paper.
- Have everyone view the results. You should have a lot of amazing results.

Japanese Dancing Teddy Bears: (this game is the dancing version of Musical chairs)
- Place a hula hoop in the middle of a room (make sure that it is an empty cleared place)
- Place the number of guest -1 of teddy bears inside the hula hoop. (10 guest = 9 bears)
- Have some music handy.
- Start the music and have everyone start to dance in a circle around the hula hoop. (make sure that all the guests are dancing)
- After a few moments stop the music and have all the guest rush to get a teddy bear from the hula hoop.
- The guest that did not get a teddy bear is eliminated.
- Continue until there is the last teddy bear in the hula hoop, the last person to get the last teddy bear is the winner.

Mexican Tea Party Games:
Jumping Bean (this game is like the red light, green light game)
- You can start by plying some Spanish music like the mariachi.
- Start the music and have everyone start to dance or wiggle around.
- After a few moments or so, stop the music and have the guest stand as still as possible.
- The ones who stop moving the quickest advance to the next level.
- The ones who fail to stop moving as soon as the music stops are eliminated.

English Tea Party Games:
Pass The Parcel
- Put a small gift inside a box Such as a candy bar.
- Wrap the box with 1 layer of gift wrap, and write some type of silly instruction such as hoping on one leg onto the paper.
- Wrap the box again and add another silly instruction to the paper.
- Keep adding a layer of paper and some silly instruction, about 2 layers for each guest. (so if you have 6 guest, there will be 12 layers or more)
- Have the guest sit in a circle and start randomly with a guest to start following the instructions.
- After they succeed doing the instructions, have them take a layer of paper of the box.
- Have them pass the box until there are no more layers of paper to take off.
- The person who takes off the last layer of paper wins the prize.

Gaze-N-Relic
- Give each guest a pencil and paper to write with.
- Assemble 10-12 items on a tray. (such as a spoon, teacup, napkin, ribbon, crayon, etc)
- Let the guest stare at the tray for about 20 seconds.
- After the 20 seconds hide the tray with a large cloth.
- Have the guest write down as many as items as they remember seeing on the tray.
- The guest who has written the most correct items on the tray wins.

Knot of Fun (this game is similar to the game twister, only your trying to Untie from a knot, not get into one)
- Divide the guest into two groups. (there should be about 4-5 people in each group) The more the people the more the fun.
- Have each group stand in a circle and grab a hand to someone on the opposite side of them, and so on until everyone has holding someone else's hand (like making a knot)
- while holding on tight, with out letting go of the persons hands the group tries to "untie" the knot they are in and try and get back into a circle again.
- No guest can let go of the persons hand or they have to start over. (this means that people have to jump over each other, and try and fit though tight spaces)
- The first group to untie the knot wins.
-This game is also fine as one big group. But the more the people the harder it is to untie the knot.

Now that you have an Idea of some great games for tea parties, it is time to get ready to host a tea cup party of a lifetime!