Games to Play at BBQs

BBQ’s are great for summer get-to-gathers with super food and wonderful friends. Once you are all there, what are you going to do to pass time? Most generally someone starts dragging out the games. This time try out some new ones or perhaps ones you haven’t done in a while.

Good old summertime and the living is easy. A BBQ with family, friends and neighbors with some old fashioned games will make for a memorable day. If the kids are there too, make them play with you!

• Sack Races. Use burlap sacks or old pillowcases. Local feed stores have burlap sacks cheap.  Each person puts both feet in a sack and hops or jumps from start to finish. Define the course before starting. Give everyone a heads up and maybe let everyone practice a little first.


• Bean Bag Toss. You need a set of four beanbags per team of two players. (Eight beanbags will do.) You will need two wide boards with holes in the end the bean bags will fit into easily or attach baskets to catch the beanbags. (You can use a table as the playing field with a basket or sack taped to the end as well.) Beanbag on the board or table, one point. Beanbag in the basket, two points. Beanbag off the table, zero points.


• Water Balloon Toss. Pair off teams of two and fill balloons with water and tie them off. Form two lines and start close together. As partners successfully toss the balloons to one another, begin moving lines further apart. Winners are last to tossers left with an intact balloon.


• Three-Legged Race. Using old stockings or ropes. Tie one partners left and the others right legs together. Using their outside legs and the one ‘joint’ middle leg have them race to a finish line. First team there, wins. Then have playoffs.