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Dollar Store Minute to Win It

By Sharla Kostelyk

(This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, see my disclosure policy.)

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Our Minute to Win It Family Fun Night was so memorable that I planned another one. This time, I chose to use items from the dollar store to keep within a tight budget. I spent less than $15 for all the supplies.

Dollar Store Minute to Win It Party - so much fun for a family fun night, party, holiday gathering, New Year's Eve, or youth group event.For the decorations, I used our printable Minute to Win It kit which has full instructions for all of the games as well as all the games we played in our original Minute to Win It family fun night. Minute to Win It Printable Decoration Pack in multiple colours

 

The supplies I bought from the dollar store:

  • 2 boxes of Kleenex
  • 1 pack of plastic cups
  • 1 pack of ping pong balls
  • 2 pairs of panty hose
  • 1 box of chocolate cookies
  • cereal box
  • 1 pack of tennis balls

Minute to Win It Games:

Puddle Jumper.

Supplies needed:

  • 3 plastic cups (the Red Solo ones work well)
  • ping pong ball
  • water

To set up for this game, fill three cups with water and line them up, setting a ping pong ball into the first one. The goal of this game is to blow the ping pong ball from one water-filled cup to the next.

Minute to Win It Puddle Jumper

Chocolate Unicorn.

Supplied needed:

  • chocolate cookies or Oreo cookies

All that’s needed for this game are chocolate cookies. Each player gets 10 cookies with the goal of stacking them on their forehead. The resulting stack must remain in place for 3 seconds.

Minute to Win It Chocolate Unicorn

Ponginator.

Supplies needed:

  • empty egg carton
  • ping pong balls

For this game, you will need an empty egg carton and ping pong balls. The goal is to bounce ping pong balls so that 8 of them land in the egg carton within one minute.

Minute to Win It Ponginator

Hanky Panky.

Supplies needed:

  • one tissue box for each player participating

This was hilarious to watch! It is more fun as a head-to-head challenge. Each person must sit with one hand behind their back. They must empty all the tissues out of the Kleenex box using only one hand as quickly as they can (if head to head) or within one minute.

Minute to Win It Hanky Panky

Ball Drop.

Supplies needed:

  • 3 ping pong balls
  • plastic cup
  • chair to stand on

Land three ping pong balls in a single cup while standing on a chair. The trick is to not have the balls bounce out or knock the cup over.

Minute to Win It Ball Drop

Breakfast Scramble.

Supplies needed:

  • cereal box cut into pieces

To set up for this game, you will need to cut the front of a cereal box into pieces. Depending on the size of the cereal box and the age of the people participating in your Minute to Win It challenge, you can either cut the box in 8 or 16 pieces. The goal of the game is to reassemble the puzzle within a minute.

Minute to Win It Breakfast ScrambleElephant March.

Supplies needed:

  • pantyhose
  • one or two tennis balls
  • 8 plastic cups

To prepare for this game, put a tennis ball in the end of a pair of panty hose or put a tennis ball in each leg of a pair of panty hose. Set 8 cups up on the floor to create a walkway. To play, the player must put the panty hose on their head and knock over all the cups by swinging their head from side to side. This is a pretty funny one!

Minute to Win It Elephant March

A note to all the moms out there: maybe you saw this and it just made you feel guilty because it’s one more thing you aren’t doing with your kids. I see you because often, I am you. I don’t want to have the parties or plan crafts or activities to do with the kids unless I have everything I need and can do it nearly perfectly. So years go by while I have the intention of planning a certain activity with my kids and it just doesn’t happen because I’m not organized enough.

This particular Minute to Win It night is a prime example. After our last one was such a success with the kids, I wrote out a plan for this one, every game written out. And my plan sat there for more than a year. One time, I even got a list for the dollar store written out, but then I realized I didn’t have time to bake and decorate a cake and make special food, so again, it didn’t happen. My kids got older, a full year older as my plan got dusty and my guilt grew.

The other day, I decided that we were going to do this but not perfectly. I wasn’t going to wait until my adult kids could get time off work and join us. I wasn’t going to plan any special food or decorate a cake. We were just going to have fun together and build memories.

Your kids get one childhood. You don’t have to make it magical, but you can make it memorable.

Sign up for a free copy of our Minute to Win It Build Edition challenge cards. These are fun, easy games to play as a family or group. All you need is the printed cards and building blocks such as LEGO.

You can read more about our printable Minute to Win It party kit here. The supplies you purchased at the dollar store for these Dollar Store Minute to Win It games can be used to recreate almost all of the games from our Family Fun Night Minute to Win It Challenge.

minute-to-win-it-squareThe Flour Game is also tons of fun for the family!

The Flour Game square

For the holidays, try the Minute to Win It Christmas Edition games. So much fun!

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  1. Tonya says

    May 11, 2017 at 10:09 am

    “Your kids get one childhood. You don’t have to make it magical, but you can make it memorable”.
    BEST. QUOTE. EVER. !!!

    • Amy says

      December 31, 2018 at 1:22 pm

      Yes, I agree. I am planning some of these for tonight and was starting to wonder if I should print off the instructions and do more…you made me feel better about just having fun and going with the flow!

  2. Lisa says

    June 8, 2017 at 2:41 pm

    Hi! I bought the party pack to use on the last day of school with my sixth grade class today. We played in teams of six, with each team picking one person to come up and play each game. We played twelve of the games, so everyone got to play twice. I just used the score sheets and direction cards, but it was certainly worth the $5 to have cute ones already made for me! We had a great time, and I’ll definitely use it again next year. Thanks!

    • Sharla Kostelyk says

      June 8, 2017 at 2:43 pm

      I’m so glad to hear that! Thanks for letting me know!

  3. Sue says

    July 7, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    THANK YOU!!! I’m helping out w/ a camp his week & I needed a bunch of quick games and these look perfect for the 100-ish K – 8th graders I’ll be working with. Fantastic! 😀

    • Phil says

      August 7, 2017 at 10:35 am

      Sue you are a rockstar! You inspire these children every day and you are truly making a difference in the world, children are the future after all.

    • vivian says

      March 25, 2018 at 9:34 am

      So cute! thank you for the party ideas! I am turning 12 next week and we are having an indoor party. I thought, minute to win it games! And your website gave me tons of light bulbs. 🙂

  4. Emily says

    August 9, 2017 at 3:57 pm

    This looks so much fun, but the best part of this entire post is your message at the end! I skip out on stuff ALL THE TIME because it’s too much work, or it won’t be perfect. Thank you for the reminder to do it anyway!

  5. Kayla says

    September 21, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    Thank you for this. I was actually reading this to set up for a family game night at work, but what you said at the end rang true for my family situation as well! I am a full time working mom with 2 kids. My youngest’s 1st birthday was last month, and I spent so much time making sure everything was perfect that I barely spent any time with her at the actual party, and the rest of the time I had was spent working. My kids only get one childhood, and sometimes I spend so much unnecessary time making things ‘perfect’ that I forget… THANK YOU <3

  6. gada says

    October 16, 2017 at 4:20 pm

    These games are great!!! Very creative, and funny to watch!!!

  7. ImI says

    November 3, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    As I was reading your blog, i felt as i was reading about myself….that’s it!! Ill just do it without worrying if I have thrings perfectly done or not. Thank you for sharing your ideas and thoughts. I think I’ll do ok on my son’s 10th birthday:)

  8. D.Williams says

    December 18, 2017 at 11:27 am

    Thank you for these ideas ! I plan to use them at our church Christmas program

  9. Chrissy says

    December 30, 2017 at 7:03 pm

    Ditto and thank you for the reminder from one unorganized perfectionist… seems like an oximoron but I am living proof and I know EXACTLY the feelings you described. Again THANK YOU

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