Tag: Family Minute-to-Win-it

We visited some family for Thanksgiving. We played a few Minute-to-Win-it challenges together. Our family has a large age difference, so we tried to choose games that would be equally challenging for each of all.

Corn Cob Roll

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Indian Corn Cob
• Wooden Spoons
• Masking Tape

Directions:

1. Make straight lines with your masking tape that are at least 12 feet long and 1 foot apart.
2. In less than 1 minute…
3. Players should slowly roll the corn cob down the lane
4. If the corn cob rolls out of the lane, players have to roll it back to where it left the line and keep going
5. No sliding the corn cob with the spoon

Pumpkin Seed Suck It Up

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 10 Pumpkin Seeds
• Straws
• Plates or Napkins

Directions:

1. Player needs 2 plates with 10 Pumpkin Seeds on one plate.
2. In less than 1 minute…
3. Use the straw to suck up the seeds, one at a time and place them on the second plate.
4. Try to get all of the seeds to the second plate in less than a minute.
5. You can adjust the difficulty of this challenge by adding or taking seeds.

Thankful Plate Stack

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 6 Plastic Cups
• 3 Large Paper Plates

Directions:

1. In less than 1 minute…
2. have players stack the cups starting with 1, then a plate, 2 more cups, plate, 1 cup, plate, 2 cups!

Match Maker

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 9 mini Pumpkins
• 9 Acorns
• 18 Plastic Cups
• 2 Empty Cups (across the room)

Directions:

1. Place a pumpkin under each cup and an acorn under each cup… and spread them out on the table.
2. Place an empty cup several feet away.
3. You have just 1 minute to…
4. uncover 1 pumpkin and acorn at a time and run it to the empty cups across the room
5. Sort the pumpkins and acorns into the appropriate cups.

Candy Corn Shake!

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 5 Plastic Cups
• 15 pieces of candy corn
• card stock
• glue

Directions:

1. place candy corn into cups with 1 in a cup, 2 in the next cup, 3 in the next cup, 4, then 5
2. Cover the opening with card stock and glue – write a little number of how many candy corns are inside for your eyes only
3. In under a minute…
4. Players should shake the cups and order them in order 1-5 candy corns.

 Shake Your Tail Feather

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• an empty tissue box – the rectangle kind
• pantyhose
• 1 bag of feathers
• scissors and tape

Directions:

1. Tie the hose through the tissue box with the legs for the hose extending out of the backside
2. Fill the tissue box with feathers
3. In under a minute…
4. players should shake their tail feathers – emptying feathers out of the box

Inertia Yank

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 3 Plastic Cups
• 2 pieces of card stock

Directions:

1. Place a cup with a piece of card stock on top of it.  Then a cup on top of that with another piece of card stock on top. Place 1 more cup on top.
2. In under a minute…

3. Players should yank the card stock out from between the cups
4. If they are quick enough the cups should stack up without toppling over.

Pumpkin Bop

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Orange Balloons

Directions:

1. Players keep one hand in their pocket and try to keep two orange balloons up in the air for one minute.
2. You can adjust the difficulty of this challenge by adding or taking away a balloon.

Leaf Blower

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• leaves, they can be real leaves that are dried out or fake leaves
• straws (or turkey basters)

Instructions:

1. In less that 1 minute…
2. Player will use a new straw (or turkey baster) to blow/race the leaf to the other end of the table.

Turkey Trot

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Wooden Spoons
• candy pumpkins or candy corn

Instructions:

1. Place one candy pumpkin on a spoon and stand at the beginning of the obstacle course.
2. In less than a minute…
3. Have players race holding onto their spoon with one hand (you can allow younger kids to use both hands).
4. If their candy drops off, they have to start back at the beginning.
5. To make this game more challenging for adults, you can create a bit of an obstacle course.

Acorn/ Pumpkin Toss

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 10 Acorns or Candy Pumpkins
• Halloween Pumpkin Bucket

Instructions:

1. Place the bucket on the floor 10 feet from where the player will be standing.
2. In under a minute…
3. The person with the acorns needs to throw all of the acorns into the bucket.   

Turkeys of a Feather

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 2 feathers
• Turkey basters

Directions:

1. The object of the game is to keep your feather in the air without touching the ground or any other surface by blowing on them.
2. players need to attempt to keep their feather in the air for a full minute by blowing it up.

Buckets of Acorns

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• 2 bowls
• Jumbos kids tweezers or chopsticks
• 10 acorn

Instructions:

1. 2 bowls side by side.  All of the acorns in 1 of the bowls.
2. In under a minute…
3. Players will try and get all of the acorns into the empty bowl using only the tweezers.

Pumpkin Head

Materials:

• 1 minute Timer
• Mini pumpkins

Directions:

1. Give each player a mini pumpkin to balance on their head.
2. In under a minute…
3. The players must run from one end of the yard to the other without the pumpkin falling off their heads. If you want to make it more difficult, you can set up an obstacle course.
4. (our pumpkins were too small and light for this one… I suggest an actual tiny pumpkin)

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