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19 Dinner and Dance Games for Company Annual Dinner Events
Dinner and Dance Games for Annual Dinner Events
#1. Play Kahoot
Create a company trivia quiz on Kahoot for guests to answer using their phones. Questions can be shown on a large screen while guests submit their answers through their phones. You can increase excitement and engagement by including diagrams, images and videos.
An event Emcee can host the game and use questions about the company, colleagues or annual dinner theme.
#2. Run Table Trivia
Teams of up to eight players can answer table trivia questions while seated and work together to find the correct answers. The questions can be based on the company, annual dinner theme or colleagues, while each table can choose its own team name.
Players will be disqualified if they use outside sources such as mobiles to find the answers!
#3. Stage Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs is a stage game that gets guests out of their seats and involved in the annual dinner programme. An Emcee can ramp up the excitement with music that ties in with the annual dinner theme. Set up chairs in a circle, guests move around when the music plays before grabbing a seat when it stops. After each round, one chair is removed, making the game more competitive as players rush to find a seat!
#4. Mime Charades
Charades lets teams compete by guessing phrases or titles through silent gestures. Each team has a bowl that includes phrases or titles for players to pull out. They can only use hand gestures or body motions without speaking while other guests in the team try to guess the phrase or title. Hand out attractive prizes to the winning teams.
#5. Guess “Who Am I?”
Write a famous name on a sticky note; the player asks yes/no questions until they identify it. Write the name of a famous character on a sticky note and place it on the back of a player. To guess who they are, the player can only ask yes/no questions to the rest of the team. You can poke fun by using the names of well-known colleagues who work for the company!
#6. Dress Up at a Photo Booth Props
Provide hats, wigs and glasses at the photo booth so guests can take themed photos during the dinner and dance. This is a surefire way of getting your dinner and dance party guests laughing and capturing memories to remember years down the line.
#7. Pop Balloons
Insert pieces of paper with the name of a prize or temporary tattoos inside balloons before inflating them. Attach each balloon to a guest’s chair and ask them to pop them to reveal their prize or tattoo. Tie a prize-filled balloon to each chair and cue guests to pop them simultaneously.
#8. Call Bingo
Customise bingo cards with words or icons related to the company or annual dinner theme. Your professional Emcee can call out the items for guests to mark off on their boards. Include themed food items, such as heart-shaped chocolates for a Valentine’s corporate dinner, as bingo markers.
#9. Host a Dance-Off
Invite guests onto the stage for a dance-off and let the audience vote for the winner. The audience can vote for their favourite dancers and a winner is declared in the final round. Make a post-event video for colleagues to keep as a memento of great dance performances put on by their talented workmates!
#10. Sing Tabletop Karaoke
Tabletop karaoke lets teams compete after dinner while the audience chooses their favourite singer. Set up a tabletop karaoke machine or use an app for your audience to sing along and watch your guests lighten up as participants entertain them with their favourite song. Turn it into a competition and let the audience decide who’s the best singer.
#11. Book Carnival Acts
Hire the services of roving talents to move between guests, playing carnival games. Roving acts such as fire twirlers or LED lion dancers circulate between tables. Encourage the audience to engage with the performers and dress appropriately for a carnival-themed dinner and dance.
#12. Solve a Tabletop Word Search
A tabletop word search keeps guests occupied while waiting for the annual dinner programme to start. Prepare a word search using company facts, staff names or words related to the annual dinner theme for each table to solve together. The first table to find the winning word gets a prize!
#13. “Guess an Emoji”
Use a large screen to display emojis representing movie titles, phrases or songs for each team to guess. Divide the audience into teams and allow each one to guess the emoji. If they don’t get it right, move on to the next team until a group gets it right. Display emoji strings on screen and have teams decode movie titles or songs.
#14. Name That Tune
Play short song clips and let teams compete to name the tune first.. You can select a genre with interesting themes to align with the occasion whether the party is happening in a hotel ballroom or a funky nightclub. Organise a music-related prize for the winning team!
#15. Fly Paper Airplane
Give participants paper to make an airplane before competing on stage to see whose airplane flies the farthest. When the airplanes have been constructed, players are invited onto the stage to compete against each other to see whose plane flies the furthest. Award the winner with a themed prize!
#16. Guess the Celebrity
Display partly hidden photos of celebrities, managers or colleagues and let teams guess who they are. The event Emcee can display partially concealed images of famous celebrities on a large screen and give each team an opportunity to guess the star. Include some images of management to get the participants fully engaged as they try to figure out who the “celebrity” is!
#17. Guess the Movie Quote
Still on the movie theme, ask guests to pull out a famous quote from a bowl and guess which film it came from. Guests can draw movie quotes from a bowl and guess the film as an icebreaker with colleagues at the table. Use this as an icebreaker for colleagues seated with employees from different departments whom they’re not familiar with.
#18. Guess the Sound
Play short audio clips such as animal calls, songs or film effects and award a point to the first team that identifies the sound. Allocate participants into teams – those seated at tables for a dinner and dance event can work together as a group. The first team to put their hands up can take a guess!
#19. Race Straw
Give each table straws and ping-pong balls and let teams race the ball across the table without using their hands. All you need are enough straws for participants at each table and lightweight objects such as a ping pong ball. Guests need to blow the objects across the table to each other or you can opt for a race format for more competition between the participants.
Choosing Games for Your Dinner and Dance Event
Our event team at That’s Innovative can plan and organise dinner and dance games based on your audience, annual dinner theme and event programme. We can also coordinate the game host, equipment, prizes and other requirements needed for the activities.
Use these dinner and dance game ideas when planning your next company annual dinner.
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