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Theme Scrabble
Scrabble is often wrongfully condemned as a nerdy,boring game,but you can make sure it appeals to everyone by setting a theme challenge for it. For instance,if the theme is movies,all the words on the board have to be movie titles and ditto for a food theme or book theme. For more risqué fun,have a board full of rude words,or even Strip Scrabble. All the other usual rules of the game apply.

Scrapbook
What better way to bring in the New Year than by looking back at the year gone by. Save and share your memories with your loved ones by looking back at your best and worst moments from 2009 and putting them all together in a scrapbook—these could include photographs,airplane tickets from your vacation,cinema ticket stubs or even quotes from your favourite books and movies of the year. And if reams of paper and bottles of glue don’t appeal to you,you can even create online scrapbooks on websites like scrapblog.com and scrapbookeronline.com.

Newspaper dance
High on the party mood,but low on space? There’s always the newspaper dance. A sure-fire mood lightener,this is a fairly simple activity—just make sure you have enough newspaper sheets lying around the house. Pair off in couples,lay out a sheet per couple and let the music blast. The rule—each pair is only allowed to dance on their sheet. As the next track begins,fold the sheet into half and carry on. As the party goes on,the sheets get smaller but the fun only increases.

Top movies of the decade marathon
Order in some snacks and drinks and just push play. The top 10 films of the decade shouldn’t be hard to find given that enough websites have listed them out. But if you want to narrow down your choices,set yourself a theme. You could play the Best of SRK or the best horror flicks of the decade. You could make it even more challenging by setting obscure themes like,Top Ten Movies of the Decade Set in Japan.