Gift Ball

Hello!

Want a fun game for a party?

Here is what we did with my greats at our family

Christmas party

(greats is what I call my great nieces and nephews)

These are some of the things I got together for the 

gift ball.

If you know how to shop, you can get off pretty cheap

for this game.  I am a couponer, so I got the candy

for free in the end.  I bought little things

at the Dollar Tree, packages with multiples work great. 

I also had things around the house that I added to the 

gifts, microwave popcorn, a box of crayons, a box

of markers.

I bought 3 rolls of plastic wrap at the Dollar Tree to

use as wrap for the ball.

With a sharp knife I cut one roll in half, to

give me narrower rolls to wrap with at the beginning.

For the center I had a clear plastic ornament,

the kind in 2 pieces, that I put a couple dollar

bills into.  I started wrapping the plastic wrap around

the ornament and as I went I put in different "prizes"

I wrapped and wrapped and wrapped adding things all

along the way.

You can wrap things close together or as sparingly as you

like.  I ended up using 2 whole rolls of plastic wrap for my 

gift ball.

Here is how it looked when I finished wrapping.

Here's another shot, you can see that I wrapped a box of markers

into the ball.  You can add whatever sized items that you have,

just keep going around the ball until it's covered.

At the party, we only had 5 of my greats there and they

ranged in age from 5 to 14.

They sat in a circle on the floor and as one person 

unwrapped as fast as they could, the person to their right 

rolled a die until they got a 6.

Then the ball and the die were passed to the right and

it went on until it was unwrapped.

The kids were great and had a ball playing this game.

After they were finished, they had fun trading

gifts.  The boys traded the nail polish with 

the girls for candy etc.

We'll be doing it again next year,

I'll be looking for little things all year that

I can find on sale or clearance to put into the ball.

A friend of my son's brought a gift ball to their 

Christmas party, they played that you had to get doubles

on a pair of dice and they had wrapped it tighter with pieces of 

plastic wrap, so a new end would have to be found when one

ran out.  He said they had a lot of fun with it too.

All in all, this made for a very fun party, everyone loved it.

The greats had a blast playing it and the adults loved watching 

and cheering them on.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll try this gift ball idea at a party some time.

I only spent about $10 on the items for mine,

you can spend whatever you like, it's fun no matter what's in 

the ball.

Hope to see you soon!