Senior Night & Minute To Win It Games

Tonight for YM/YW we had “Senior Night.” In years past, this has been a big deal for our Seniors and something they’ve looked forward to. For some reason this year, our 4 Seniors weren’t very excited about it and we only had 2 of them participate. I am really glad I wasn’t in charge of the activity (the YM were), b/c I would have allowed it to frustrate me. I did offer to help by bringing some decorations that I found at the $1 Store.

After the 2 Seniors told us about themselves and we asked them some questions we had a lot of time left over, so the YM came prepared w/ some Minute To Win It type games. This one was fun. The kids held hands under the table and if a coin toss showed heads, the person at the head of the table would squeeze the person’s hand next to them. Then that person would squeeze the next person’s hand, etc. When it got to the last person at the table they would have to grab the tennis ball. Whichever side of the table grabbed it first got a point. That was a fun game.

Then we had a cup stacking relay game and it was boys vs. girls. The girls won by about 10 seconds.

Then we did boys vs. girls again w/ the Oreo on the face game. You put an Oreo on your forehead & have to move & wiggle your face muscles to get the cookie to your mouth without dropping it or using your hands. It’s so fun to watch the crazy faces people make while trying to do this game.

Plus, when they’re done they have little black specs of cookie all over their face. It ended up being a really fun activity, even if the Seniors were less than enthusiastic this year.