Every year we go to holiday parties and play the same old games. Don’t get me wrong the games are fun, but this year we are ready for a new game. This year there is a new sheriff in town and it goes by the game of “Saran Wrap Party Game”. Let me tell you a little about this game and you too can be having a blast with your family and friends in no time flat.
MATERIALS:
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Plastic Wrap
Cash (various amounts)
Candy
Lottery Tickets
Gift Cards
Small Prizes
Dice – (one set)
HOW TO PLAY:
Start by getting all of your prizes together. I prefer to fold the cash money so it wraps easier.
Pick a few prizes bundle them together and start wrapping. 
Wrap until you are satisfied and cut the plastic. 
Once all of the plastic is wrapped add another layer. 
Wrap for a little bit and cut the plastic.
Repeat this process as many times as it takes to get all of your prizes wrapped up.
Make sure to cut the plastic after wrapping each layer of prizes. Make it challenge. (see bottom of post of minor adaptation for to this).
When you finish wrapping the last set of prizes you are ready to PLAY!
Saran Wrap Party Game – HOW TO PLAY:
- Decide who is going first – Youngest person, oldest person, whoever rolls doubles first. It’s up to you to decide.
- The person who wins the coveted first person to go starts unwrapping the ball. While they are unwrapping the person to their right rolls the dice until they roll doubles.
- When doubles are rolled, the person with the ball stops unwrapping and the ball passes to the right. While they are unwrapping the person to THEIR right rolls the dice until they get doubles.
- Continue the wrapping and rolling until the ball is completely gone. (Make sure to keep unwrapping until doubles are rolled. Don’t short change yourself on this one.)
- What ever prizes fall out while you are unwrapping are yours for the keeping!
- No ripping or tearing the wrap it has to roll off on its own. Find an end and go with it, no cheating!
GAME ADAPTATION:
There are a few adaptations I have seen to this game. For younger kids or to make the game easier you can use one continuous piece of saran wrap. Want to keep it more challenging, use sections!
Add oven mitts to the mix. I have no idea why anyone would want to make this more challenging but they do and oven mitts seem to be a top contender. A close runner up was adding a blind fold. Can you imagine??
Want an adults only version – add airplane liquor bottles!
Thank you. Such a fun idea. Will totally try it on our Holiday parties!
It really is fun! so glad you are going to try it out.
Thank you for sharing this fun idea. I will definitely try this on our family Christmas party.
Great, I hope you guys love it as much as we do.
We play this at our Christmas party. Everyone rolls the dice at the same time and the first to get doubles gets a turn. We go with snake eyes, double 2, double 3, etc.
Oh great idea!!!
Awesome idea going to try at thanksgiving
So fun! I hope you guys love playing!
I added some lotto tickets too! Can’t wait to play at our yearly family feast!
So cool, I hope you all have a blast!
OMG, I am doing this for our Yankee Swap this year! So fun.
It’s so fun! Like high stakes hot potato 😉
To make it even more challenging, heat your ends with a blowdryer.
Holy cow you are ruthless! I like it!
Ahhh! I like that challenge! I’m going to do that the next time I make the ball, which will be this weekend for my family’s gathering!!
wish our family was cool enough to play games like this ..
OMG!!! We played this at our church Christmas gathering last night! It was so much fun. To see people from 7-67 playing this game was hilarious. It brought the kid out in EVERYONE!!. I don’t know who the originator of this game is but thank you!!
We will have 18 adults for a New Year’s Day Party. Do you suggest two Saran Wrap balls?
Probably two or three would be best that way no one gets super board waiting for their turn to come back around!
Played last night December birthday party. Ages 90 89 74 55 honored. There were 10 played everyone had a blast.