Bar Mitzvah Party Games

Celebrate your Bar Mitzvah with some great games. Here are a couple of our own suggestions.

This first game is called, ‘pan-tapping’ but you can also do a variation with ‘hand-clapping’ for the Bar Mitzvah. The point is to get the player to perform an action the rest of the group has decided on by just indicating it with slower or faster clapping sounds.

Choose someone to be it. Send this person out of the room or the Bar Mitzvah party area. When this person is gone, get the rest of the party group together and you should all decide on something for the ‘it’ person to do. The task can be anything from eating an apple to kissing someone on the cheek. Then have the person return to the party. Here’s the key; no one can talk to the person in order to give them a clue about what they need to do. Everyone must either clap their hands in unison to indicate how close the ‘it’ person is to completing their task. Start by clapping slowly then speed up your rhythm as the person gets closer to their required task. If they start to get off track just slow down your clapping. Then you can really break out into applause the ‘it’ person figures out what they are supposed to do and completes the task.

The next Bar Mitzvah game is a contest of balance and skill called ‘Tip the Orange’. You’ll need plenty of oranges, and spoons. Have two guests pair up to face off in this contest. You’ll need a little room for the two to move around in. Each contestant gets one orange and one spoon. They start off facing each other and balancing their orange on their spoon. They can hold their spoon with either hand or foot or other appendage, but they can’t let the orange fall to the ground. The object of the game is to try and tip your opponent’s orange off their spoon without losing your own orange.

First person to lose their orange is out and another match is held with different players. If both happen to lose their oranges at the same time then the match is restaged. There will be a lot of competition to win this Bar Mitzvah game.