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21 Things to Do at a Sleepover That Are Actually Fun

The snacks are open. Everyone has talked for an hour. Somebody is lying upside down on the couch.

And then it happens:

"What should we do?"

If you're looking for sleepover games, fun things to do with friends or just one good idea to get everyone moving, start here.

You could scroll around looking for ideas for the next 45 minutes.

Or you could start here.

Let's play

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1. See If You Can Beat 100

This one is already made for you.

Grab your friends, press play and see if your group can score 100 points before the game is over.

There are five challenges. You'll need memory, creativity, teamwork and some very fast thinking.

No supplies list. No complicated rules.

Just play.

Five challenges. One shared score.

Play Beat the Game

2.Play Would You Rather

This gets better when you make one rule:

You have to pick.

No "it depends." No "both." No changing your answer because everyone else chose something different.

Start easy and let the questions get progressively more impossible.

Watch Would You Rather

3.Guess What Your Friend Will Say

Pick one person.

Ask a question, but before they answer, everybody else has to write down what they think that person is going to say.

Try:

  • What is her dream vacation?
  • What food could she eat every day?
  • What is one thing she would never wear?

Whoever knows her best gets the point.

4.Make Everyone Draw the Same Ridiculous Thing

Everyone gets the same prompt and two minutes to draw it.

Try:

  • A giraffe at a drive thru.
  • A hamster at the Met Gala.
  • A chicken going to middle school.

Nobody gets to see anyone else's drawing until time is up.

Then reveal them all at once.

5.Play Two Truths and a Lie

You probably know this one.

But it gets much harder when you play with people who already know you really well.

Think of three things about yourself.

Two are true.

One is completely made up.

See who you can fool.

6.Create Secret Missions

Everyone gets one secret mission to complete sometime during the night.

Something harmless, but weird enough to be funny.

  • Get someone to say the word "banana."
  • Convince everyone to switch seats.
  • Make someone ask why you are staring at the ceiling.

If someone figures out your mission before you finish it, you lose.

7.Have a One Minute Challenge

Pick something that sounds easy.

Then give yourself only 60 seconds to do it.

  • Stack cups.
  • Move cotton balls using a spoon.
  • Balance as many objects as possible.
  • Get ten socks into a laundry basket from across the room.

One minute suddenly feels VERY short.

8.Find Out Who Knows Who Best

One person answers a question secretly.

Everyone else guesses her answer.

  • Favorite snack.
  • Dream job.
  • Most used emoji.
  • Celebrity she would want to meet.
  • Thing she would buy immediately if someone handed her $1,000.

Keep score or don't.

Arguing about the answers is half the game.

9.Do a Blind Snack Test

Pick a few snacks.

One person closes her eyes and tries them one at a time.

Can she tell what she is eating?

Easy version: completely different foods.

Hard version: different flavors of the same thing.

Very hard version: somebody starts making extremely questionable snack combinations.

10.Play MASH

Some games refuse to disappear.

MASH is one of them.

House. Job. City. Car. Pet.

Add whatever categories you want and let a piece of paper decide your entire future.

Obviously very scientific.

11.Make the Worst Commercial Ever

Grab a completely normal object.

  • A pillow.
  • A spoon.
  • A hairbrush.
  • A sock.

You now have two minutes to create an advertisement that makes it sound like the greatest invention in human history.

Bonus points for dramatic acting.

12.Try a Memory Challenge

Put a bunch of random objects on a table.

Everyone gets 20 seconds to look.

Cover everything.

Now write down as many objects as you can remember.

Think you're good?

Try it again with more objects.

13.Have a Completely Useless Talent Show

Important: Your talent does not need to be impressive.

Actually, that is sort of the point.

  • Can you make a weird noise?
  • Balance something on your head?
  • Move one eyebrow?
  • Say the alphabet strangely fast?

This is your moment.

14.Make a Scavenger Hunt

One person creates a list.

Everyone else races to find everything.

  • Something purple.
  • Something older than you.
  • Something tiny.
  • Something that makes noise.
  • Something you would definitely not bring to school.

You can play individually or in teams.

15.Play Pick One

Ask two choices.

Everyone has to answer immediately.

  • Beach or pool?
  • Sweet or salty?
  • Stay up late or wake up early?
  • Sneakers or boots?
  • Movies or YouTube?

Then make the choices harder.

The fun part usually starts when somebody gives an answer nobody expected.

16.Invent Your Own Game

Give yourselves:

  • Three random objects.
  • Five minutes.
  • One goal.

Now create a game.

You have to explain the rules to everyone else and actually play it.

If the rules make absolutely no sense, even better.

17.Make a Group Playlist

Everyone gets to add songs.

But there's a rule:

You add them one at a time.

Nobody gets to put 27 songs on the playlist before everyone else gets a turn.

At the end of the night, you have the official soundtrack of the sleepover.

18.Play Midnight Questions

They do not actually have to happen at midnight.

Everyone gets to ask one question.

Funny questions work.

Weird questions work.

Surprisingly serious questions work too.

Try:

  • What is something you wish you were really good at?
  • What is the weirdest thing you believed when you were little?
  • If you could relive one day, which one would you pick?
  • What is something almost nobody knows about you?

19.Make a Photo Challenge

Instead of just taking 400 random pictures, make a list.

  • Funniest group photo.
  • Most dramatic photo.
  • Photo that looks like an album cover.
  • Photo where nobody is allowed to smile.
  • Photo that makes absolutely no sense.

At the end, everyone votes for the best one.

20.Tell a Story One Sentence at a Time

One person starts the story with one sentence.

The next person adds another.

Keep going around the room.

Nobody gets to plan ahead.

Somewhere around sentence six, the story will probably become completely ridiculous.

That is exactly what you want.

21.Let Everyone Pick One Thing

If you have a big group, put everybody's name in a bowl.

Pick names one at a time.

When your name comes up, you get to choose the next thing everyone does.

One rule:

You have to pick something everyone can join.

No spending 20 minutes deciding.

Your turn. Your choice. Go.

Still Saying "What Should We Do?"

We have you.

And next time someone at the sleepover asks what everyone should do, you can officially say:"I have something."