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Condiment Twister

29th June 2009 by Shandri Brown

Works Best:

Whole group involvement. This game is great when young people know they have turned up for a messy night. Either advertise a Messy Games night beforehand, provide garbage bags to cover clothes or make sure you have a barrel-load of second hand clothes for them to wear for this game.

What You Need:

2 x Twister Game Pads OR a large white sheet of plastic.
Easy to clean floor (ie. not carpet) OR tarps covering carpeted area.
Twister Game Spinner.
Condiments in 4 colours.

The Game:

Exactly like Twister, only you spread a condiment over each of the color circles. Lay a big tarp down under the Twister mat.

Use Grape Jam and blue jelly crystals for blue, mustard / custard for yellow, tomato sauce for red, and mint sauce / mushy peas on the green circles. Make sure all shoes and socks are off, so their feet are exposed. Then change the places on the spinning board to right/left cheek, right/left ear, nose, right/left hand, right/left foot. When you spin, you call out which body part goes where. i.e right cheek to blue, left leg to green, right hand to yellow. It is a mess and a riot. It does get slippery, so make sure you have leaders there to help when people start flying around. Have a place for students to clean up after.

Other Notes:

You can make yourself a giant twister mat so that everyone can play. Get a white sheet of plastic and add as many condiment circles as you need.
Make sure you have some background music going.
Be creative with what you use for the colours. Food dye is your friend for this one, use it to create coloured circles out of something cheap like porridge.
Make the game more fun as you go along by adding body parts ie. Nose on yellow, forehead on blue.
Bring a camera!