Among Us Party
Two weeks ago, we finally had the Among Us Party. I had promised them this theme about 8 months ago. I was a little worried they wouldn’t find it fun since it’s been 8 months and they haven’t been playing Among Us as much lately. I had nothing to worry about. They had a blast. I didn’t invite many kids. My 5 kids and their three brothers by milk, plus one cousin. 9 kids were more than enough. As soon as my daughter finished finals she started helping me plan. I had already ordered little Among Us figures as Gifts at the end of the party. I ordered inexpensive colored t shirts for all the kids. I found some fun Among Us stickers that I used to make a garland, decorate the snack bowls and water bottles. Decorations and food were simple because I needed to focus on the tasks. Like I’ve mentioned before; games are the most important part of a party.
Free Printable from originalMOM
I found this great post by originalMOM about how to throw an Among Us Party with free printables. It was honestly so much help! I also found a website that explains the game and helped me come up with more tasks. This website also helped me locate the tasks so I could place them in the correct room. I have played Among Us with my kids in the past but I’m no pro. I had 7 kids playing , each one needed at least 4 tasks. My daughter preferred to plan with me and not play. My youngest is four so, we gave him a list of tasks but let him do whatever he wanted. He had a blast playing with the big kids!
I admit that there were a few things that I didn’t have time to do the way I wanted. I ended up writing the tasks by hand on note cards. I also wrote the name of the tasks on note cards. The kids didn’t mind. I don’t think they even noticed.
I had signs for each room. A note card for each task. I used a red paper as a background for the black signs for a pop of color and make the signs more visible. We had three floor and the front yard for them to play in. we made a WhatsApp group (some of the older kids had phones) that made it easier to call an emergency meeting if they found a body. We would give each kid a task card. We wrote the kids names on paper and would pick two random papers to choose the Imposters. After playing a couple of times they decided they wanted to add a Jester. The Jester acts suspicious so they vote him out. If he gets voted out he wins the game. If the Imposters kill everyone, they win. If the Crewmates complete all their tasks they win.
Playing it in real life requires some creativity. You can’t play it exactly the way they do in the video game. I had to make more tasks because I had a lot of kids playing. Honestly, if they wanted to play it again i would try to add more tasks. they had so much fun plating it but four tasks each ended up being super easy.
These are the tasks we had:
Most of them were from OriginalMOM. (It made planning this party so much easier!)
Submit Scan (Med Bay) We used a hula hoop. The stood in the middle of the hula hoop and lifted it up over them to scan themselves.
Garbage disposal: (Cafteria) I have a recycling bin in my kitchen fo plastic. I threw a bunch of bottles on the floor and they had to pick them up.
Clear astroids. (Weapons)
I printed two sets of asteroids and taped them to plastic cups. They used a toy gun that shoots foam balls to “clear the astroids”.
4. Clean the O2 Filter: (O2)
They needed to pick up all the fuzzy balls off the “O2 Filter” with chopsticks. I told them if you don’t know how to use chopsticks you can use the however you like. Its a game have fun!
5. Start the Reactor: (Reactor)
Play the matching game.
6. Enter ID Code: (Admin)
I used the decoders for this task. I made three different codes for them to deciipher. I had a small pad of sticky notes and had them give me th secret code so the others wouldn’t see it. I laminated the decoders and the “computers” so we could reuse them.
7. Fix Wiring: (Electrical)
They need to crisscross the wires. (rope) I didn’t have enough brads but it worked.
8. Fuel Engines: (Storage)
I had an empty water jug with a funnel in it and a water bottle filled with water. They had to pour the water (fuel) into the funnel to fill the jug. (engine tank)
9. Chart Course: (Navigation) Complete the maze. I laminate it and had them use an erasable board marker.
10. Unlock Manifolds: (Reactor)
Match the keys to the locks and unlock them. I had 4 locks.
11. Align Engine Output: (Engines)
I had three different tasks for this without realizing . i numbered them 1,2,43. Later my kids told me They are actually upper engine and lower engine.
I tied them together so they had to untie them first just to make it a little more challenging.
I cut a transparent folder and drew on it. They had to move the top layer to align it with the drawing under it.
12. Stabilise Steering: ((Navigation)
Cover the red tiles with the white tiles.
13. Calibrate the Distributer:
I cut out circles and wrote the fractions: 1/4, 1/2, 1, 1/4- 3/4, 1/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/4 on the circles. They had two make the two sides of the scale even.
14. Assemble Artifact: (Security)
Put together a giant puzzle.
15. Divert Power:
I had three different tasks for this one. Two were outside where they hadto either turn on th front yard lights without turning on the street lights. They had to start over if they opened the wrong lift.
The third one was upstairs. They had tun on the spotlights only without turning on the rest of the lights.
16. Fix Weather Node: (Admin)
My daughter had the genius idea using magnets t mimic the task in the video game. We gave them a time limit (ten seconds to make it harder)
I taped the paper to the inside of the plastic container. The magnet was attached to another magnet inside the container.
There is another magnet inside the container, if the agent drops they have to start again.
Food:
For food we had colorful fruit, colorful candy and a pull-apart cupcake Among Us character made by my vey talented 13 year old daughter.
Party Favors:
I bought these super cute figures. You can take off the hats and switch them around. They had too much candy so I decided goody bags were unnecessary.
I hope you enjoyed this post. If you have any questions please leave me a comment. I’ll come back and add links soon.