When a family celebration approaches, parents talk about how to spend the holiday in an interesting way. A child's birthday or an adult anniversary is an important event about which you want to leave the best memories. Of course, the organizer of festive events can take wonderful care of organizing the holiday. But this is not at all necessary.
This article describes how to have a fun birthday without a toastmaster at home in a small company. Stock up on ideas and enthusiasm. Prepare in advance for the holiday, think through the details. The holiday will be bright and wonderful!
Open air
You can create sketches and birthday scenarios that will be held outdoors. These can be active games with a ball and plates, hide and seek or catch up. It is important to create appropriate entertainment for children and adults.
Several options for outdoor games:
- Edible and inedible. Several players stand in a circle. One takes the ball and, naming the product or object, throws it to the participant. In this case, you need to make a decision quickly. If the name is edible, you need to catch the ball; if it is not edible, throw it away. Whoever makes a mistake is out.
- Showing off. To do this, you should choose a presenter and the first one to show. Any object, animal, profession is a mystery. It is important, without uttering a word, to show the hidden meaning to the audience with signs. Whoever guesses shows the next one.
Gratin
Preparation:
- Place an onion cut into half rings at the bottom of special molds.
- On top - 250 g of salted minced meat with spices.
- For meat - 2 grated potatoes.
- Pour all this over with kefir-egg sauce (1 glass of kefir and 1 egg) and bake for 20 minutes at 180°C.
- Sprinkle with 100 g of grated cheese and bake in the oven until a melted golden brown crust appears.
Game of Mafia
If you have ideas for a birthday party at home, then you can create a script yourself, choose a theme and surprise your guests. But if you don’t have such plans, then you can use popular games.
How to play Mafia:
- You need to prepare pieces of paper in advance with inscriptions on them: cop, civilian, mafia, doctor, prostitute, maniac. It is important that the number of inscriptions matches the number of players. There should be one of each character, except for the mafia - 3. The rest can become civilians.
- When the pieces of paper have been distributed to the players, you can start playing. To do this, the presenter says: “everyone falls asleep, the prostitute wakes up.” She can infect someone with a dangerous disease. A maniac can do the same.
- When everyone falls asleep (closes their eyes), the mafia wakes up, then they can recognize their comrades-in-arms and, without saying a word, use gestures to decide who to kill.
- The cop must conduct an investigation and figure out who the mafia is. If he guesses correctly before he is killed, then the criminal is eliminated from the game.
- Each round ends with voting. During it, one of the players is eliminated. The last one left wins. If it is a mafioso, then victory will be on the side of crime, if it is a civilian, then good will win.
Unusual desserts for the holiday
Finnish berry pie
There's no wrong time for berry pie. In summer you can use fresh berries, in winter - frozen. Blueberries, cranberries, currants and other berries that you like will do. In case your friends decide to take you by surprise, the necessary ingredients can easily be found in your refrigerator. The pie is especially good hot, combined with black coffee or tea. But if it suddenly lingers in your refrigerator, feel free to serve it to your guests with a scoop of ice cream on top.
Ingredients
- Flour - 300 g.
- Sugar - 200 g.
- Butter - 150 g.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Vanilla sugar - one sachet
- Baking powder for dough - one sachet
- Sour cream - 100 g.
- Heavy cream - 100 g.
- Berries - to taste
Preparation
Grate the hard butter. Mix flour, egg, a little baking powder and 100 g of sugar. Add butter and vanilla sugar to the mixture for flavor. Stir until smooth and place in a round pan. Form a “plate” with sides.
For the filling, mix 100 g of sugar (don't forget about a teaspoon of vanilla), an egg, 100 g of cream and 100 g of sour cream. Beat the mixture with a mixer or fork until smooth.
Sprinkle fresh or thawed berries onto the pastry base. Pour the prepared mixture on top and place in the oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 40 minutes.
French Creme Brulee Recipe
Most French desserts are deliciously simple. Traditional creme brulee requires only eggs, vanilla, sugar and cream. Perhaps the most wonderful thing about it is its caramelized sugar crust, which easily breaks with the blow of a teaspoon.
Ingredients
- Cream 33% - 450 g.
- Yolks - 120 g.
- Sugar - 70 g.
- Vanilla - 2 pods
Preparation
Preheat oven to 110 degrees. Pour heavy cream into a saucepan and set to heat. Cut the vanilla beans (available at candy stores) and scrape out the seeds with a knife. Add the seeds and pods to the cream and bring to a boil.
Beat the yolks with sugar. Remove the boiling cream from the heat and slowly pour it into the yolks, remembering to stir with a whisk so that they do not curdle. Strain the mixture through a sieve and pour into any heat-resistant molds. At this stage, the future dessert should occupy ¾ of the form.
Place the creme brulee in the preheated oven for 40-60 minutes. The mass should shake a little when moving, like vanilla jelly. When ready, remove the dessert and leave to cool. When it reaches room temperature, sprinkle sugar on top and heat with a gas burner until the sugar forms a caramel crust.
Games and competitions in the style of Question and Answer
This is quite an interesting pastime and an opportunity to celebrate a birthday. It requires preparation in advance. To do this, take sheets of paper and cut them into rectangles of equal size.
After this, the leaves are divided into two identical piles. Questions will be written on some of them, answers on others.
When those present are ready to play, then the presenter invites them to take out one piece of paper from each pile and read the questions and answers out loud. Unusual combinations can create a cheerful atmosphere and help you understand how to have a fun birthday without a toastmaster. This way you need to pass the stacks around and entertain each guest.
Possible questions:
- Do you like to walk naked?
- Are you macho?
- Did the newspapers talk about you yesterday as a hero-lover?
- Are you acting like a pig?
- Are you a cute creature?
- Do you shower once a year?
It is advisable to select questions in such a way that they can be answered unambiguously. If it is an adult's birthday, then question phrases can be made more provocative.
For children - you should make humorous sentences that correspond to their hobbies.
Possible answers:
- Yes.
- I do not know what to answer.
- I love doing this and recommend it to you.
- No, this is not about me.
Outdoors
How about a birthday party in the fresh air, in the cheerful company of family, friends or colleagues?
Rent a motor ship
Go on a journey along rivers and lakes on board a boat. Depending on the size of the company and the budget of the holiday, rent a boat, a motor ship or join a cruise. Renting a boat or small motor ship costs from 4,000 rubles per hour.
Fishing
Fishing is a pleasant relaxation and a great opportunity to enjoy fresh fish. Just find out where you can fish for it (for a fee or for free), take provisions for an outdoor picnic and go fishing. The good idea is that all interested relatives and friends can join the birthday celebration, regardless of gender, age and fishing ability. It would be great if they have gear, but if not, you can always rent it. Renting will cost 200–300 rubles per day.
Horse ride
A horseback ride will allow you to enjoy nature and give you peace of mind. The program includes training in the basics of animal care and horse riding, so everyone can ride. Bring apples, sugar or carrots with you to treat the horses after the walk. The cost of the walk starts from 1000 rubles per person.
Picnic
Have a picnic in the park or outside the city. Bring light snacks, drinks, and equipment for outdoor games. In the warm season, a picnic on the shore of a reservoir, where you can swim, is especially good.
Hike
A more extreme version of the previous idea is a hike. Arrange with your friends a transition between settlements, a hike in the mountains, through the forest. Find a company that organizes such tours if you don't have the equipment or experience.
Rafting
If time permits, organize a tour for several days with river rafting or kayaking, overnight stays in tents and songs around the fire. Otherwise, limit yourself to a short one-day rafting trip. Prices for a professional organization of a one-day tour for 10 people start from 10,000 rubles.
ATV ride
Quad biking will allow you to combine the pleasure of being in nature with the drive of a technical sport. If you want extreme sports, choose riding on special tracks with obstacles, otherwise, choose a calm walk through forests and fields, suitable even for parents with children and those who got behind the wheel of an ATV for the first time. The cost of renting one car is from 3,000 rubles per hour. Snowmobiling is also popular during the winter season.
Recreation center
To relax in nature in comfort, rent a house at a recreation center. In addition to nature, holiday homes often offer a large selection of entertainment, such as a sauna, billiards, fishing, horseback riding and ATV rides and much more, so your guests will not get bored. The cost of accommodation and entertainment starts from 1000 rubles per day.
Ecofarms
allow city residents to try rural life, communicate with animals, enjoy organic products and even, if desired, work in the fresh air. A birthday party on such a farm will be enjoyable for adults and educational for children.
Live the day like the characters in the book
If you want to know how to spend your birthday in an unusual way, then you can arrange an impromptu theatrical performance. Everyone has favorite films or books in which interesting characters fight for their love or survival. You can reproduce this in reality.
For such a birthday party, it is worth creating a script in advance and assigning roles. During the entire celebration, everyone present must behave in the same way as their movie or book character. This will allow you to try on an unusual role and have a lot of fun, making your birthday in the style of vulgar eras.
Sport - is life
Your friends will never forget this day if they spend it kayaking down a mountain river, cycling, hot air ballooning, skiing or sledding, roller skating, playing paintball, etc.
All you have to do is choose the type of activity in which all guests can participate. Immerse yourself in sports, hold competitions, and at the end of the day have a small buffet right in nature. And we assure you, you will remember this day forever.
Fulfillment of desires
How to celebrate a birthday in a fun way? To do this, you can write wishes on pieces of paper and distribute them to the guests at the table. Everyone must fulfill the condition described on paper. It could be the following:
- The person in charge of toasting;
- Come up with an interesting subject for photography;
- If they are making a toast, you need to constantly make certain sounds or clap.
Letter to the Future
How to entertain guests at a birthday party, what can you do unusual? To do this, you can gather guests at the table at a certain moment and let everyone write themselves a letter about their desires and dreams. After this, such papers are collected in a box and solemnly hidden or buried in the garden.
In a few years, you can open this message and have fun at your next birthday party.
14On a yacht
An option for summer birthday people is to spend their holiday on a boat. The river walk will appeal to all guests, and will be unforgettable for the hero of the occasion. A pleasant evening on board a luxury ship or even a yacht - what could be better for such an event? By the way, you can also check the weather for spring and autumn birthdays, but in winter this method is definitely impossible.
Plant a tree
When you want to come up with something unusual and surprise guests for a birthday, then it’s worth organizing the simultaneous planting of a tree. It is important to provide for the possibility of getting dirty and protect the participant from this. You should prepare protection from dirt in advance and say solemn words at the end of the entire event. In this way, you can plant a tree every year and turn your backyard into a garden.
Snack "Peacock tail"
To prepare you need:
- Chop 2 eggplants, mix with salt and leave for 0.5 hour. Rinse with water.
- Fry the vegetables in vegetable oil on both sides for 3-4 minutes, then remove excess oil.
- Mix halves of 2 tomatoes, slices of 2 cucumbers, grated cheese, chopped garlic with mayonnaise.
- Arrange the eggplants in the shape of a peacock's tail. Top the pieces with tomato, cheese mixture, cucumber and half an olive.
- Refrigerate for an hour before using.
Quest
Funny scenes and children's birthday scenarios can include logical tasks. It will be interesting for children and adults. It is required to come up with possible events in as much detail as possible and encrypt answers to logical tasks. This is how thinking develops. All guests will be intrigued and will be able to try to solve the charades on their own.
Instructions:
- What needs to be done is to determine the age of the players and how many people will take part. If there are more than 8 players, then it is better to divide the participants into 2 teams. For children you need to do simple tasks, for adults - more difficult ones.
- Choose a room to play. If the quest will be held indoors, then it is worth removing fragile objects; outdoors, mark the boundaries of the territory with a rope and flags.
- Choose places for tips. It’s worth coming up with everything in such a way that it’s not easy to figure everything out, but you have to be smart. It is important to take into account the player’s height and hide everything so that he can reach it.
- Chain of tasks. When the first clue is given to the team personally, they must find the others on their own. To do this, the note should correctly describe the following cache.
- Final destination. It is important to leave a gift or a pleasant surprise at the last point. For children it can be sweets, a cake, for adults it can be souvenirs.
Tasting
An interesting plot is a cocktail party. Adult guests will enjoy tasting unusual and exquisite cocktails. For men you can prepare strong drinks, for women you can use liqueurs, juices, etc.
It is important to buy everything you need for mixing equipment, glasses and drinks in advance.
