Information from Chris Cockerham/Western Wake
Great Kid Skits
A few guidelines: always keep the skit moving, always have some music playing while the game is going on in the background, keep the crowd engaged and look to make sure no kid is feeling stupid or humiliated.
1. Roxanne: here you will need four kids while you play the song Roxanne by the Police, each time it says “Roxanne” they eat a marshmallow and each time the song say Red Light they take a drink of coke. Items needed: Coke per kid, ½ bag of marshmallows per kid, Song Roxanne by the Police, plastic tarp, towels. also make sure that the kids know they can eat the marshmallows and should not be stuffing them in there mouths. 2. Math is for Winners: here you will have two groups, guys vs. girls, each person in the group gets a sheet of paper with a number (1,2,3,4, 5, 6, 7). Each group lines up shoulder to shoulder and you call out a number like 2,341 and they have to arrange themselves to make that number and the first group to do so get awarded a point. Items needed: Sheets of paper with a number on them 3. Coke and a Sock: in this one your will give each kid a coke and tell them that it is a competition to drink the coke the fastest. Then you say ready set….. whoa whoa wait a minute.. that is to easy. Tell them to take off their sock and put it over the can… then act like you are going to start the competition over again and then stop it again saying… wait this is still to easy. Then tell them to pass the can to the person to the right so each person will be drinking threw someone else‟s sock. (it‟s funny to line them up boy/girl/boy/girl) Then start the competition for real and let the race begin. Items needed: Coke, plastic tarp, towels 4. Eat that Cracker: in this game you concoct 3 to 4 different levels of crackers for the group of kids to eat. With each level getting grosser and grosser they can choose to eat that cracker to sit down while the others continue. Items needed: whatever you want to put on the cracker, ex. Cheese wiz, candy, ketchup, mustards, relish, honey, spam, mayo, jelly, vegetables, or anything you can think of. Plastic tarp and towels. ** make sure that you ask each kid before you begin if they are allergic to any foods and what not so nothing bad happens. 5. Fill HIM up‟: in this one you will need to have the two small guys put on a big pair of sweatpants and a big sweatshirt, then you will have a girl try to put as many blown up balloons in the shirt and pants as she can in a minute. After this you will count how many balloons are in him by popping them with a pin threw the clothes.
Items needed: two pairs of sweatpants and shirts, a lot of balloons (it is really easy to run out of balloons so have a bunch of „em) * also make sure the guys is the one wearing the sweat suit. 6. Clothes Pins on the Face: here you will see how many clothes pins you can put on someone‟s face Items needed: a lot of clothes pins 7. The “Um” Game: in this one you will line up kids shoulder to should, then you tell them a category like colors in which they have to go down the line naming a color without repeating one or saying um, either of which will result in busting a balloon over there head. You repeat this till one person is left. Items needed: balloons, plastic tarp, towels, ex. categories: colors, presidents, sodas, animals, fast food places, car companies. 8. Panty Hose your Face off: here you will take panty hose putting it all the way over their head and then have someone right behind them pulling it off of their head slowly pausing every few moments to see what they persons face looks like. Items needed: knee high panty hose 9.”Name that tune”: here you will have two teams lined up behind their leader kneeling down with a pot over their head. The kid in the front of the line will have a spoon to buzz in with when they know the name of the song by hitting the pot with the spoon. You can go till the first team scores the desired amount of points. Items needed: 2 pots, 2 spoons, and a cd of songs for them to name. * make sure that the person with the pot over their head is always a leader and never a kid. Variation: Name that Movie Freeze Frame…choose 12-15 movie clip scenes and just show a still picture and have people buzz in and name the movie. 10. Shaving Cream with Cheese Balls: here you will put shaving cream all over a guys face and then girls will throw cheese balls at his face and the team with the most cheese balls that are sticking at the end of one minute wins. Items needed: shaving cream (make sure that it‟s regular, no menthol) , cheese balls, plastic tarp and towels. 11. Womens Arm Wrestling: here you will have a group of girls arm wrestle each other starting with four matches down to one. Items needed: stool
12. Pick up lines: here you will need to take two/three guys out of the room and tell them they are going to go into the room sit down between to ladies and use his best pick up on line on them and see how it goes over. In the room you will need to set up two chairs beside each other with space for another chair between them. Then you will put a sheet over the two chairs and have two girls sit on the outside chairs holding up the sheet so it looks like there is a chair there, so when the guy comes in he will think there is a chair there and fall threw as he sits down. * make sure to look around before hand so there are no corners or things the guy could fall on and get hurt. Items needed: 2 chairs, 1 Sheet 13. Shoes in the middle: here all the guys in the room will take off their shoes and thrown them in the middle and then pair up with a girl. Then you start the music and the girl will go in looking for the shoes of the guy she is with. You can have it be a competition between classes or what not. Items needed: bunch of shoes 14. Blow a glove up on your head: here you give a kid a plastic glove and they pull them over their head just over there nose and start to blow it up. Items needed: plastic glove 15. Hot Potato with an Onion: need I say more we all know how to play hot potato just do it with an onion. Then when it lands on someone they have to take a bite out of it. 16. Egg Smash, or Egg Roulette (this game is for five people) here you will need six eggs, (you will have one extra at the end) three of them raw and three of them hard boiled. Have all six eggs in a bowl and pass them around musical chair style stopping on someone who then chooses and egg and smashes it on their forehead. Then sits down and you do it again till you get down to two people. Then each of them chooses one egg and smashes it on their forehead. Items needed: six eggs, plastic tarp, towels, bowl 17. Fill „em Up VERSION 2: in this one you will get 3 folks to come to the front and put on XXL sweat pants. Make sure to duct tape the bottom of the sweatpants tightly. Assign each of them a partner who will scoop ice down into their pants as fast as possible. Weigh each of the contestants before the game and have several rounds, weighing each of them in between each round. Items needed: 3 pairs of XL sweatpants, a scale (non-digital if possible) , and 40+ pounds of ice.