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Among the best-value St. Patrick's Day party ideas, printable party games are well worth checking out. Whether you are organizing an event for your school, a family celebration or the local community hall or church group, the perfect printable product is available.
What are important points for you to consider when planning a St. Patrick's Day party?
Who's coming?
Is the crowd mainly children? Seniors? Young couples? It's wise to select games suitable for your mix of guests. Typically, a single game consists of a gift exchange game, printable trivia quizzes, a word search, or word game like a "mad libs" word substitution game. Your game supplier should make it clear who the game is suitable for and how many players you'll need to get the most out of it.
Your entertainment budget
Individual printable games start at $6.95. This cost is fixed, so no matter how many people play the game, the expense is the same, yet the more guests you have, the less the pro-rata cost. So if, for example, there's seven people at your party, a game is going to cost $1 per person; but if you have 35 people, the cost falls to just 20c per person. If you're selling tickets to an organized event, this cost per guest is an important factor when you're making up an event budget.
Multi-game packs might be a good solution if you have a mixed crowd and will need more than one game to entertain them, but are on a tight budget. Typically consisting of ten or more games for around $20, the bundle will be more than enough action for any St. Patrick's Day party.
Ideas for hosting the games
You should make sure you familiarize yourself with each game before the St. Patrick's Day party begins. Some games require a copy of one or more pages to be printed per guest (such as trivia games); but even these can be adapted if the circumstances require it.
What if your printer is short of ink? You could print just one copy and assign somebody the role of Quiz Master. They will read out the questions and each player will record their answers on a blank sheet of paper. If you have a laptop available, you don't even need to print one copy: your Quiz Master could read the answers straight from the screen.
Be sure to break up the party. Don't clump all the games together at once; spread them out. Allow guests time to arrive and mingle before starting a game, then perhaps move onto the food. Give people time for each game to sink in; their enjoyment of the next may be as much about anticipation as anything.
One of the most interesting St. Patrick's Day party ideas is to include themed prizes. Gift exchange games need at least one parcel to unwrap, though one per ten people playing is usually a good number, so everybody gets their hands on a gift more often. Trivia games are always more competitive if there's a prize up for grabs! Something Irish, green, or beer-related (for older crowds) would be appropriate.
I hope these St. Patrick's Day party ideas have whetted your appetite for printable games this year! Have a wonderful party.
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