Entertainment and games to liven up a class reunion
A class reunion mixes two feelings: the joy of seeing familiar faces again and a bit of nervousness about meeting people you haven’t seen in a long time.
If you’re from a younger generation and only graduated a few years ago, you might feel less nervous about your reunion.
In this article, we’ll introduce entertainment ideas to ease that unique tension and help you enjoy the reunion.
From easy games that large groups can enjoy to activities that bring back nostalgic memories from those days, we’ve got plenty of suggestions.
Feel free to use them to help plan and run your reunion!
Entertaining Activities and Games to Liven Up a Reunion (1–10)
Quiz tournament
A quiz competition is perfect as entertainment that everyone can get excited about together! It would be great to include questions related to memories from your school days or some fun trivia.
Making it a team competition would likely amp up the excitement even more.
If you prepare a lavish prize for the winning team, it’s sure to boost everyone’s motivation.
A quiz event that brings back nostalgia and puts smiles on everyone’s faces—easy for the organizer to prepare and something all participants can enjoy together.
Why not incorporate it into your next reunion?
Who am I?
The “Who am I?” game is one where participants ask questions about the characteristics of a person or thing and, in the end, work together to figure out what it is.
If it’s difficult, you can get hints to help you find the correct answer, and the first person to guess correctly wins.
You can adjust the game’s difficulty to match the ages and number of participants, or add a time limit to make it even more exciting.
It’s a game you can play while engaging your thinking skills, so it’s also great as a mental workout.
Opening the time capsule
The grand event of the reunion: opening the time capsule.
The topic of a time capsule buried decades ago is the kind that gets everyone excited, even after all these years.
Treasured memories like Mini 4WD cars and Barbie dolls, a class group photo, the roster from back then—whatever you pick up is sure to be filled with nostalgia.
Letters to our future selves are a real highlight, too.
Lines like “I’ll be the president of a company in the future” or “I’ll be married to a wonderful man” make us blush, but that’s part of the charm.
The time spent laughing and cringing over our ‘cringe-worthy past’ is honestly the most fun.
Sweets Challenge
https://www.tiktok.com/@ichinotsubo/video/7262546066208328962This is a game where players sit in a row and pass snacks to the person behind them.
However, instead of passing them normally, you place the snacks on a paper plate, hold it with both hands, and drop them backward over your head.
The person behind should try to catch as many snacks as possible that flow off the plate from the person in front, and then pass them on to the next person.
The team with the most snacks remaining at the end wins.
If you have enough space, have all teams play at once; otherwise, it’s best to have them go one team at a time.
Cup Blowing Challenge
https://www.tiktok.com/@kyoushin_inc/video/7302746250942631170This is a game where you place a paper cup upside down on a table and blow on it with a straw to see how far you can make it go.
To make it more exciting, instead of just competing for distance, you can place snacks, prize money, or papers with prizes and penalties on the table, and whatever the cup stops on is the prize you get—or the penalty you must take.
If you’re competing on distance, you can also make it a team competition.
There are lots of ways to adapt the game.
Ping-pong ball carrying game
https://www.tiktok.com/@koutokugiht/video/7228172600621452552When you hear “ping-pong ball carry,” you might picture a game where you balance a ping-pong ball on a ladle and walk it to the goal.
But you can’t do that in places like izakayas where there’s no room to walk around.
Here’s a recommended ping-pong ball game for those situations: squeeze the air out of a plastic bottle, use the suction at the mouth to pick up a ping-pong ball, and transfer it to another box.
You can play this even without space to move around.
Once you get the hang of it, it’s easy—but until then it’s surprisingly tricky.
Make it a team competition and it’s guaranteed to be a hit!
Saying one thing, doing the opposite game
https://www.tiktok.com/@sun.yosakoi/video/7352441766928321799The “Say One Thing, Do the Opposite” game is a brain-teasing activity where everyone reads the prompt aloud in unison while doing the opposite action.
For example, if the prompt is “right,” everyone says “right” while moving to the left.
The game is played with participants standing side by side with arms linked, so if even one person makes a mistake, everything turns into a jumble.
Because it’s both mentally confusing and requires everyone to act as one, it’s a great way to quickly rekindle the old excitement with friends you haven’t seen in a while.