Could you balance 6 dice on a popsicle stick in your mouth for 1 minute? How about taking all the tissues out of a tissue box with one hand?
Do you watch NBC’s Minute To Win It every week and wish you could try these crazy challenges? If so, it might be time to throw a Minute To Win It party!
How to Throw a Minute To Win It Party
- This party is ideal for tweens, teens, a girls’ night out, or adult couples.
- Invitations: Buy inexpensive timers and attach party details to the timer. The stopwatch also makes a great party favor!
- Choose your challenges based on the age of the guests and the supplies you have on hand … this will keep it affordable!
- All challenges are done by teams of 2, so when guests arrive, ask them to look at a hat to find out which team they are on. Add to the fun by making up silly names for the teams!
- Keep it simple, no complicated rules, after all … we are playing for prizes, not a million dollars!
- Each team that completes the challenge in 1 minute or less will receive 1 point.
- All teams will start the challenge at the same time. Make sure you have lots of family members to help keep time and monitor challenges to be completed correctly. There are some challenges that will be easier to do on one team at a time, like Kick Shot.
- Buy a variety of prizes and the team with the most points will have the first choice! Second place gets second choice, third place gets third choice, and so on.
Minute To Win It Challenges
NBC offers a full list of Minute to Win It Challenges, but I have found a few that are suitable for teenage girls. Remember to start that timer because all challenges must be completed in a minute or less!
- Pyramid power – Starting with 8 dixie cups at the bottom, build a 36-cup pyramid.
- Double bubble – Choose a team member to pop a bubble within a bubble.
- Dressing a statue – One team member dresses the other using all the items in the bag. The person who is dressed cannot lift his arms or legs, hence the name Dressing a Statue!
- Chaos cupcake – Using all the ingredients in the bag, decorate your cupcake. Note: These cupcakes can be used later for the birthday cake!
- String thing – Working together, cut this piece of string into 30 equal pieces! Tape measures and rulers are not allowed.
- Three stage race – Before the timer starts, we will tie one of his legs. Can you and your partner travel 100 meters in 1 minute?
- Paint my toenails – Choose a team member to paint the other people’s toenails. It must be clean!
- Braid! – Choose a team member to braid the other person’s hair into 2 braids. All hair must be worn (except bangs) and hair brushes are not allowed!
- Tennis ball toss – Throw tennis balls into a bucket. You must enter 5!
- Roll It, Roll It, Roll It – Choose a team member to hold the toilet paper roll, the other person should unroll the toilet paper without breaking it.
- Chopsticks Challenge – Choose a team member to use one-handed toothpicks to move 30 miniature marshmallows from one bowl to another bowl.
- Dirty game – Choose a team member to make 10 free throws! The other team member can help retrieve the ball.
- Book balance – Choose a team member to walk 20 feet balancing 3 books on their head!
- Say cheese – Throw a piece of American cheese on your partner’s forehead and make it stick!
- Threading the needle – Thread 10 needles.
- Chocolate unicorn – Stack 4 ding dongs on your partner’s forehead while they are standing, lying down.
The possibilities are endless for the Minute To Win It challenges! Remember to test the challenges and adjust them to your age group and party length.
The countdown is on for another fun and frugal party from the girl from The Budget Diet!