How and what to entertain guests at the table at home

Gone are the days when guests were received at home. But how wonderful it is to meet friends and treat them to their own culinary masterpieces. Restaurant cuisine and an entertainment program led by a professional toastmaster can be annoying. Why not make a difference and come up with the perfect evening, which will be attended only by close, kindred people and the entertainment arranged by the members of your company will be arranged. And you can come up with something new, because the master is the master!

Where to begin

Depending on what event the upcoming dinner party will be dedicated to, you should carefully consider the list of guests invited to it. If these are colleagues, you should not get carried away with too frank conversations and games, especially if your immediate boss or other management will be present at the evening.

For a company consisting of colleagues, themed entertainment with a professional bias is suitable. Such a scenario will be close to everyone and will cheer up.

If the company will consist only of close friends, then you can completely relax and come up with a variety of games, even with a sexual bias.

In those cases when a company is going to be made up of people of different ages, you need to take into account the interests of all and draw up a program that will unite. The organization will be successful if, having thought through the scenario of the holiday and contests, everything is prepared in advance. Then the evening will be a success and will be remembered for a long time by all the guests.

You can ask for help in organizing the holiday to the most active and creative personalities. Writing a script alone is not only a very difficult task, important details can be missed during this process.

If you give the task to come up with a competition for all guests, you can summarize at the end of the evening whose contest is the most interesting.

If colleagues are invited

In those cases when colleagues at the table gather for work to organize the holiday, the following facts should be taken into account:

1. The number of women and men in the team. If the team is same-sex, then paired contests will not succeed.
2. How close are the relationships in the team. Usually, many people know about each other only their name and position, completely unaware of their marital status and even age. In this case, you need to choose business games that do not affect the personal qualities of colleagues.
3. The age of colleagues. If everyone is about the same age, you can come up with more frank contests. When a company consists of colleagues aged 25-50, the task is more complicated.

The main rule for organizing an evening among colleagues is the absence of flat jokes and overly frank conversations. Also, do not organize such contests in which someone feels at a disadvantage.

Paired Competitions
Paired contests are very popular. Among colleagues, everyone is divided into 2 camps: men and women, between which competitions are held.

Who is more beautiful
Women choose a man for themselves and begin to fasten bows on his hair in high-speed mode. The more bows will be tied on the man’s head during the contest, the better. The winner is the couple who not only cope quickly with the task, but also get an advantage in the number of bows in comparison with others.

Together
Embracing with one hand, the second man and woman hold a balloon, which should be inflated in turn. Whoever copes with this task faster wins.

Stickers
Stickers are put on the woman’s clothes in different places. A man blindfolded. He must remove all the stickers from her. The winner is the one who completed the task the fastest.

Fun with friends

If you are going to a company of close friends, consisting of single men and women, you can come up with an evening where everyone will find their soul mate.

Halves
Make beautiful hearts and cut them in half with zigzags. Distribute these halves to all single people. In order for the halves of one heart not to fall into the hands of two men or two women, you can paint them in different colors. For example, the heart will be pink on one side and purple on the other; therefore, the female half will be pink.

On the newspaper
Friends like to dance, and do not miss the opportunity to demonstrate their talent? So this competition is for them. Spread old newspapers on the floor. Each pair should stand so close together to fit on one newspaper.

Not only that, they should dance on the newspaper, so that it doesn’t burst! As players drop out, the task becomes more complicated: the newspaper is folded in half and you need to stand on this small piece. This happens until one pair is left. The most clever wins!

Quick lettuce
Men usually take part in this game, as women do not want to demonstrate their ability to quickly eat salad. Men choose their favorite salad and put on plates, after which they blindfold. Until a command is given to start, they change plates, putting broth in front of them. When the team sounds about the start of the competition, men, without suspecting grabbing forks and trying to grab something off the plate, but nothing comes of it!

Haute couture
For this contest you will need old clothes. Guests are split in pairs. A man should dress a woman in women's clothing, then they change, and a man dresses a woman in a man’s outfit. The game is more fun than semantic. Friendship wins this contest.

Family celebration

Not always a feast is accompanied by rampant fun, sexual games and jokes. Sometimes relatives gather at the table, usually people of different generations. We must pay tribute to them and invite them to their festival. Usually a family gathers for someone's birthday or for a traditional family dinner.

Such meetings are accompanied by pleasant memories that took place in the life of the older generation. Sometimes a relaxed atmosphere can be replaced by tough polemics about politics and political figures. In this case, the owner will need to defuse the situation and entertain the guests with games, feast songs and contests.

Do not be surprised, people of the older generation are very fond of entertainment of this nature, they are not boring old people, as you until recently considered them, but very cheerful and cheerful people. This will help to verify:

• Board games;
• Card tricks;
• Song contests;
• Memories of famous films;
• Word games or cities.

Cleverness and speed of decision-making of the older generation will surprise you. Everyone will get a good impression from the meeting and get closer even more.

Beautiful words
The game consists in the following: one of the names of those present is selected, and everyone should characterize it with words that begin with letters from this name. For example: Maria: sweet, adventurer, playful, playful, bright.

If there are many guests, and the selected name is too short, you can add letters from the middle name and last name. At the same time, it is not always necessary to pronounce an adjective, you can also come up with something original.

Sing it?
In the family circle, when several generations gather at once, it rarely does without songs. Most have their own family songs, which are usually sung during all meetings. Why not do competitive singing? Ideas for the song contest:

• Recall the songs in which the plants are present (“apple and pear blossomed”, “oh, viburnum is blooming”);
• Colors ("green-eyed taxi");
• Names, etc.

Movie memories

Family dinner will be remembered for a long time. Laughing heartily and youth, and elderly relatives will long remember this evening.

Any meeting can be arranged so that it is remembered for a long time, and it is not necessary to invite a professional host. By organizing such an evening on your own, you will demonstrate your care and attention to relatives, friends or colleagues. And this is much more important than professionally organized meetings.

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