17 ways to turn on the fun factor at your event
Incorporating fun elements into any event instantly allows guests to interact, network and become more involved. Although fun may not be the overall purpose of your event, there’s no getting away from the fact that it creates an impact, makes an occasion far more exciting and vibrant and could even promote brand loyalty.So, encouraging your guests to turn on the fun factor, let their hair down and get to know each other better will go a long way towards making your event successful. Events by Knight are experts in event management. We understand that planning innovative and inspirational events does takes a lot of creativity, dedication and preparation, so we’ve put together 17 ways to turn on the fun factor at your event.
1. Life Sized Mascots
Energetic life sized mascots turn on the fun factor by interacting and entertaining your audience, making an event memorable. Think sporting events, such as athletics and football, where life sized mascots mingle with crowds and create a personal experience.
2. Fancy Dress
Either announce a theme or holding a general fancy dress event encourages creativity and could even provide a mystery element to the fun. Do you really know who’s behind that Darth Vader mask? You could hold a competition and give prizes for originality.
3. Fire Eaters and Street Entertainers
Give your event the wow factor with street entertainers, jugglers or fire eaters.
4. Photography with Animals
Bringing animals to an event is a popular way of introducing memorable photographic opportunities. Let your guests pose with a parrot, monkey, snake or lizard and take home a unique souvenir.
5. Giant Board Games
Giant games invite participation and enable you to create teams and competitions. Well known games such as Jenga, dominoes, noughts and crosses and Connect 4 are all suitable for this.
6. Giant Lego
Similar to Giant Board Games, giant Lego easily lends itself to team building activities and competitions.
7. Retro Video Games
Retro video games, such as Super Mario played with giant controllers, are sure to entertain and bring enjoyment. Reliving your youth with video games is a nostalgic way to encourage participation.
8. Ball Pits
Ball pits are fun and popular for both adults and children. They can be adapted to suit any size of venue and you could even brand balls with logos for sponsorship opportunities.
9. Karaoke
Encourage your guests to break out of their comfort zone with a karaoke performance or a contest for best group or individual.
10. Fairground Rides
One or two rides, appropriate to your given space, add fun and vibrancy to an event. For indoor spaces include a coconut shy, tombola or card games. Outdoor events perhaps dodgem cars, and small rides.
11. Gamified QR Codes
Combine technology with fun while adding a new twist to raffles and competitions Create a QR code scavenger hunt or turn it into a tombola with each code representing a prize.
12. Tarot Reading
Popular at events as people always enjoy the unexplained, add a supernatural element with either palm, tarot or tea leaf reading. As with magicians and stunt entertainers, mystical features can create a real impact.
13. Caricatures
Having a caricaturist on hand to sketch and capture expressions and features adds extra fun and gives your guests a souvenir of their evening.
14. Creation Stations
Give creativity a chance to turn on the fun factor and blossom by providing creation stations where guests can make things. These could either tie in with the purpose of the event or act as take home souvenirs. You could also organise a competition and display the creative efforts of your guests.
15. Green Screen
Green screens enable people to be transported to faraway places, be movie stars, filmed in front of funky backgrounds. Versatile and easily adaptable to suit your audience, green screens bring a bit of movie magic to any event.
16. DIY Photobooths
Everyone loves a selfie! Add extra fun to your event by setting up a DIY photobooth with a range of everyday props and a Polaroid camera.
17. Challenges
Who can drop an egg from a height without breaking it? Who can make a paper aeroplane and throw it the furthest? Simple fun ideas to bring out the competitive spirit among your guests.Possibilities to turn on the fun factor for events are endless, but must always be appropriate and relevant to the age range of your guests and space available.
Get In Contact
Still short of ideas or would like us to help in providing props, entertainers or setting up any of the ideas mentioned above? Not sure where to start? Get in touch with our dedicated team who will be able to chat things over with you.
Email: info@eventsbyknight.co.uk or call +44(0)20 3130 4040