JELLY-CHOP-TER
East meets West – Chinese eating implements and the West’s greatest pudding invention.
All you need for this one is a heap of jelly, something to put the jelly in, some small objects and some chopsticks. Put small objects, such as Lego pieces, popcorn kernels, coins or paper clips in jelly. (You need to put them in the jelly before you put the jelly in the fridge to set.) Either in teams or individually the young people should use chopsticks to get the items out. The team who removes the most objects from their jelly in the allotted time wins.
Some variations for this game: you could assign points to certain types of objects. Use taller containers, making it harder to get to the objects. Use jelly containers that aren’t see-through, so it’s harder to see what’s in there. Increase the difficulty by making them do it in pairs with one chopstick each.
STAPLER IN THE JELLY
I don’t trust the way it moves…
This game takes inspiration from The Office. Set some unusual objects that may be obscure shapes (staplers, flossing harps, false teeth, a pet hamster) into some jelly. Then put this jelly in a cardboard box with a hand-shaped hole and invite people to take it in turns to reach in and guess what is in the jelly.
SUCK THAT JELLY
That jelly isn’t going to eat itself.
Set jelly in cups or glasses of equal size. Each person gets a cup and a straw and simply the first person to finish the cup by sucking it up the straw is the winner. Don’t use cheap plastic cups that can be squeezed to break up the jelly.
JELLY BOBBING
I don’t think you’re ready for this amount of jelly.
This game involves a large amount of jelly. In essence, take the concept of bobbing for apples, but replace the water with… yes, you’ve guessed it… jelly. Fill the large amount of jelly with sweets, split the groups into as many teams as you have large containers of jelly, and the first team to remove all the sweets wins!
JELLY RUN
This game is, quite literally, a handful.
You’ll need some gelatine sheets or leafs from the baking section of supermarkets, as these make a firmer jelly. You may need to use more gelatine than is recommended but the jelly needs to be firm enough to carry, though weak jelly may make the game funnier. Simply supply each team with an amount of jelly and tell them they have to carry it, out of containers, to the other side of the room. The team which gets the most amount of jelly to the other side quickest (relay style) wins.
