Off Topic: Bee Club Party Ideas Anyone?

**MDenver** · 11-10-2010, 09:10 AM

Our club holiday party is coming up and wondering is anyone has any bee related fun games/entertainment suggestions from their past bee club parties.

Thanks and let's keep it clean people.

**Bee Bliss** · 11-10-2010, 11:04 AM

Pin the stinger on the bee game?

**Andrew Dewey** · 11-10-2010, 11:20 AM

We have a potluck dinner (usually very good) and get the state apiarist, Tony Jadczak to speak. Always a good turn out.

No ideas on games - pin the stinger on the bee?

**MDenver** · 11-10-2010, 11:40 AM

Not sure the logistics of pin the singer would work and a speaker is a great idea, I was just looking for something a little more interactive.

We're having a sit down dinner and I was looking for a game that maybe we could play at the tables. Bee trivia contest?

Thanks, I know this is such an off topic question but I've taken on the job...

**bigbearomaha** · 11-10-2010, 01:16 PM

well, let's see, one notorious bee club party game is "queens and drones". it is usually more for clubs whose members are very , uh, 'familiar' with each other.

honey punch for the drinks or maybe honey iced tea. (add your own 'mixer' to said drinks for extra "kick" if you choose).

raffles of various honey and bee equipment, etc are good.

"robbing frenzy" is a different game. You have a few "bees" take the contents of one small jar of honey and have to transfer it to another with a very small spoon or straw and whoever fills the second jar first, wins.

you might try another game, "beek and the inspector" (played like freeze tag) where the one who is the "inspector" is "it" and has to try to 'stop' all the beeks from doing what they love. (the 'inspector' can totally eliminate a 'beek' from the game if they holler "CCD!" at the same time they tag the beek).

I'll think of more.

**Cedar Hill** · 11-10-2010, 01:44 PM

Here's one game that seems to interest everyone quite a bit. It's called "Yankee Swap". Each member brings a gift, bee related or not, 5 to 10 dollar range, wrapped so no one has any idea of its content. They are all deposited upon entry. After the pot luck dinner, the various gifts are distributed one to each member. To participate, you must have brought a gift. A number is chosen from a bowl (the exact number of members who brought gifts) by each member. Starting with #1 the member opens the gift which is in front of him. #1 must wait until the end when he can choose from all of the other gifts in exchange for his gift, if he/she so wishes. #2 opens the gift, if he wants #1's gift, he exchanges it. #3 opens his, exchanges it for whichever gift he wishes that was unwrapped before his. This goes on very quickly, members must stand and display their particular gift. You cannot hide your favored gift under your chairs, or anything similar. This continues until the last number has swapped or kept his/her gift. Then # 1 can choose whichever gift he/she wants. This causes quite a stir. Have used this game every year in our club during the 80's. A lot of fun. OMTCW

**MARBIS** · 11-10-2010, 02:15 PM

BEE QUIZ
compose questions from bee biology/queen rearing/technical questions about honey extracting & proccesing equipment/ definitions of different terms in beekeeping - shortly safe types of questions where you can't accept more than two answers, because we know us very well

Order some T-shirts and caps from Barry for winners, or ask local supplier to offer discount on their goods. Not bad promo for supplier, it's tax wright off anyway. Good luck

**dehavik** · 11-10-2010, 03:41 PM

Have a long word at the top of a page, such as BEEKEEPING or APICULTURALIST and have everyone write down as many words as they can using only those letters. Give them a time limit (five minutes or so) and then the person with the most words receives a prize. They also have to read their list.

**MDenver** · 11-11-2010, 07:39 AM

Thanks for the ideas. Another one is a Bee Trivia challenge. Four rounds of four questions, then a basket full of little prizes for the winning table.

**BigDaddyDS** · 11-12-2010, 10:33 AM

A game that I'm planning on trying this year is called "DS' Weighted Hive".

Everyone knows that a hive should go into winter with ample stores. Here in Michigan, a typical winter requires 70 lbs. of honey, for instance.

The game is to take a bottom board, two hive bodies, an inner cover and top telescoping cover, and weight it with about 75 lbs. of weight, and strap them all together.

Participants take turns lifting and estimating the weight of the colony (minus the equipment), and writing down the guessed weight on a slip of paper. The person who's guess is the closest wins.

The take-home lesson from this is that simply lifting a corner of a hive isn't really an accurate way to measure how much honey a hive has as it goes into winter. Some people will guess too low, which shows that their arm may not be "properly calibrated" for weight. Others will guess WAY too high, which means that their hives may be starving over the winter months.

I love games that teach!

DS

**Countryboy** · 11-12-2010, 07:36 PM

Put a bunch of drones in a package cage. Don't bother with a syrup can and don't nail the lid down. Come in the room like you are all mad about something and throw the package on the table.

The lid come open and drones will start pouring out.

You'll quickly find out who the real beekeepers are, and who hides under tables to get away from harmless drones.

**MDenver** · 11-14-2010, 05:49 AM

Here's another one someone shared:

One year we had a box that had 5-6 things in it and a hole where you put your hand in to only feel the items. The one who guessed the most things right, won. Some of the things were very odd and hard to guess. It was fun in the end to show everyone while at their tables, what was in the box.