First, you should decide what kind of family party you’d like to host. Is this a casual family gathering or is this a big holiday celebration?
Next, figure out who you will invite. Your family size and which family members are local will help you narrow down your invite list. If you have an exceptionally large extended family, decide on what your maximum hosting capacity is and narrow it down that way.
A good rule of thumb is 10 square feet of entertaining space for every guest. So, if your dining or common area is smaller than 200 square feet, you should keep your guest list to 20 people or less. Decide if your party will be mostly adults or a mix of all ages.
If everyone is local, be sure to give guests a month’s notice. If this is your first time hosting a big holiday and people will need to make a longer trek, give a few months’ notice.
Sending invitations:
Decide how to send your invitations. Especially for family, it’s a nice gesture to give everyone a quick call to invite them and catch up before the party. If you want to be more formal, send an email out to everyone with the details of when the celebration is and what you’d like them to bring. A couple of invitation creation sites we really like are Paperless Post and Canva.
Always specify a start and end time, even with family. While it may seem rude to have an end time, signaling when to arrive and when to wrap it up is the secret sauce to less stressful entertaining for you and your guests. Not only will your event end on a high note, but you’ll most likely get a little help with cleaning up, too. Providing an end time on the invitation also keeps people from showing up late if the gathering only lasts two or three hours. As the host, keeping to a schedule gives you time to decompress and clean before bed so you don’t have to wake up the following day to a mess.
Here are a few options:
Family gatherings can be stressful, so this is why it is important to set a relaxed and congenial mood right as everyone arrives. Happy cocktail hours lead to relaxed and festive dinner parties.
Decide ahead of time which music would work best for your celebration and have it playing when your guests arrive. If you are making your own playlist, challenge yourself to include a few songs that you know will encourage guests to perk up and crack a smile.
For a 20-person gathering, serve four to five appetizers, assorted finger foods (marinated olives or nuts), and plenty of wine during the cocktail hour.
If your guests don’t drink alcohol, you can find many suggestions for non-alcoholic spritzers that correspond to your theme. Make sure to have several bottles of plain bubbly water on hand.
When selecting your wines, be sure to take your entrée into consideration. Poultry and fish lend themselves to whites while red meat and heavier vegetarian dishes (like lasagna) work well with reds.
Dinner should consist of a main dish and five side dishes: two vegetables, two starches, and one bright salad.
Do your guests have any dietary restrictions? If so, what are they and can you channel those restrictions into building an interesting menu with a featured or seasonal entrée?
Major holidays have dishes that people closely associate with them (Turkey, Pumpkin Pie, Ham, Large Seafood Dinner). Embrace these traditions or go a completely different direction based on your own personal tastes and the preferences of your guests.
Dessert and coffee/tea or after-dinner aperitifs should follow the big meal. Outsourcing dessert takes some of the stress off you. Cupcakes, pies, and cakes can be ordered from your local bakery and are always popular.
One of the keys to successful party hosting is staying relaxed. Spending time with family can be overwhelming, so be kind to yourself and plan ahead. Don’t be afraid to ask for help from family members you know you can count on.
Make a planning checklist to ensure all the details are covered. Your checklist should include grocery items (once you’ve settled on your dinner party menu), items to purchase for decorations, and tasks you need to complete around the house like cleaning and setting the table.
Timing tips:
Depending on how many kids you’ve invited to your big party, you should decide whether you will have everyone seated together in the main seating area, or if you will seat the kids separately.
If you will have a kids’ table, decide if one or two adults should join them or if they will be okay on their own. If the kids are very young (ages 5 or younger), set the kids’ table up with glassware and flatware that is not too fragile. Younger kids have a hard time entertaining themselves for long periods of time, so equip the table with small activities that can keep them busy while the adults enjoy their meals.
Ideas for kids’ table activities:
Nothing sets the mood of a party more than eye-catching decorations. Tablescapes not only tie the food to your dinner party theme but they can also become a topic of conversation.
Are you hosting a holiday party? Place a centerpiece that corresponds to your holiday theme. Tablecloths, table linens, and a beautiful centerpiece can reflect the typical colors and mood of your holiday.
To encourage engaging conversations at your dinner, put a TableTopics card at each place setting. The conversation starter sets that are best for these types of gatherings are: Family Gathering, Holiday Conversation Pack, Grandparents and Grandkids, and Best Things Ever.
Other ideas for brightening your table:
Prep your cooking spaces ahead of time so that you aren’t washing dishes before you even start cooking.
Tidy up as you go. While you’re cooking, wash dishes and wipe down the counters so nothing accumulates where it shouldn’t before your dinner party.
As soon as you’ve eaten, consider bringing some of the dishes to the kitchen. Designate a separate container where utensils can soak in the sink. Dishes can be neatly stacked on the counters to deal with later or left to soak in the sink until the guests depart.
Set up a load of laundry for your dinner party linens. Big family gatherings can get very messy, especially if there are young children attending!
First, pat yourself on the back for hosting your family! One of the best ways to host future successful gatherings is to draw on your past experience. Take a moment to think about which dishes were hits, which drinks people enjoyed the most, and what set the mood well. Now, put your feet up and enjoy your quiet time.
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First, you should decide which type of cocktail party you want to host. Maybe you’d like to feature a trendy cocktail. Perhaps you’d like to throw a tapas and sangria party. Or, maybe you just want an excuse to get fancy. See our suggestions below to help you choose.
Next, nail down your guest list. An ideal cocktail party size is about 15 guests. That way, guests can mingle with multiple people.
Mixing familiar faces with new ones keeps the conversation lively. If you want a couple-oriented vibe, invite your friends and their partners.
To make sure that everyone’s schedule lines up, give guests at least a month’s notice. Guests with children have calendars that book up especially quickly.
Decide on how you’d like to send your invitations. If you’d like to keep it relaxed, it’s as easy as texting all of your friends with the date and time. If you’d like some help tracking your guest list, consider using Paperless Post or Evite. A simple email to your guests with your party details also works.
Here are different types of cocktail parties:
To plan how much alcohol to buy, we recommend Love to Know’s comprehensive article Calculate Enough Alcohol for a Party of Any Size.
If some of your guests don’t drink, be sure to get ingredients for a mocktail or a selection of sparkly non-alcoholic drinks.
Get the mixers needed for your planned drinks. If you aren’t serving pre-planned drinks, the best mixers to have on hand are grapefruit juice, orange juice, and tonic water.
Garnishes can be lemons and limes, olives, cocktail cherries, cinnamon sticks, sugar and salt, or fresh herbs, like mint, rosemary, and lavender.
You should keep at least three bags of ice on hand. Have one bag ready to access in an ice bucket near your drinks area and one or two ready to go in your nearest freezer.
Make sure that you have the right kind of glasses for your theme.
If you don’t want to buy all of the tools, see if you can borrow them from a friend.
Don’t forget to pick out some fun cocktail napkins!
Think of your cocktail party in two acts: “Arrival” and “Mingling.”
When your guests arrive, you should have finger foods (olives, nuts, crudites) available for them to help themselves to as they sip their first drinks.
Be sure to include many snacks and appetizers to nibble on throughout the evening, particularly if you’re serving hard liquor. Tasty party food keeps your guests happy.
Serve at least 12 appetizer pieces per guest.
Appetizers could be:
One of the keys to successful party hosting is staying relaxed. Prepare as much as you can ahead of time so that you can join the party when your guests arrive. If you have a mixologist friend, ask them ahead of time if they could work their magic at your bar.
Make a planning checklist to ensure that you’ve got everything covered. Your checklist should include your grocery or liquor store items, decorations, and tasks you need to finish around the house, like cleaning and setting up food or drinks stations.
Timing tips:
For a fancier party, create a cocktail menu that lists all available drinks.
While some people like to stand for the whole evening, make sure to have several different areas where guests can also sit down. Scatter the appetizers in a few locations surrounding different seating arrangements to encourage guests to move around your space.
Setting up a good bar area sets the mood for your party. The bar should include glassware, cocktail-making accessories, ice, liquor, mixers, garnishes, and cocktail napkins.
Bar setup options:
If the guests will be mixing their drinks, set up TableTopics Cocktail cards near the drinks station and let guests browse the recipes, which are located on card backs.
Be sure to include at least one “hydration station” where guests can serve themselves water to stay hydrated.
Mingling is vital to a good cocktail party. Encourage guests to get to know each other better by placing TableTopics cards throughout your event space.
Lay some TableTopics cards out next to the bar. Or, every time you hand a guest a cocktail, give them a TableTopics card, too. Encourage each guest to take their card, find a person they haven’t met before, and share their answers.
If you want one group activity, host a mid-party game of TableTopics to bring everyone together.
Ideal TableTopics decks for cocktail parties are:
Decorate your space to set your party’s mood. Hang something festive on your front door or place a lovely potted plant at your entrance. Outdoor spaces can be lit with party lights. Indoor spaces should also feature ambient lighting.
Guests will see you first, so lean into outfits that match the party theme. For a fancy cocktail party, put on your best dress. For a holiday-themed drinks party, wear an eye-catching apron or jewelry that corresponds to your theme.
Your theme could also be color-oriented. For example, if you are hosting a Spanish Sangria and tapas party, decorate your event space with colors from Spain’s flag (yellow and red). Table runners, light bulbs, candles, napkins, and napkin holders can all be customized to reflect your theme.
If guests will be standing for most of the party, make sure that your decorations are at or above eye level.
How did your night go? Take a minute to ponder which appetizers worked best, which drinks were the biggest hits, and what helped the conversations flow. Now, put your feet up for a while and start planning your next party!
]]>Choose a date more than a month away and at least a month before or after the holidays. This will help guests add it to their calendars before they are booked up.
An ideal wine and cheese party size is about 15 guests. That way, guests can mingle with multiple people. Mixing familiar faces with new ones keeps the conversation lively. If you want a couple-oriented vibe, invite your friends and their partners. If you want an intimate wine night, invite only four to five of your closest friends.
Decide on how you’d like to send your invitations. If you’d like to keep it relaxed, it’s as easy as texting all of your friends with the date and time. If you’d like some help tracking your guest list, consider using Paperless Post or Evite. A simple email to your guests with your party details also works.
Are you looking for an excuse to showcase your knowledge of local wineries? Do you know a lot about wines from the French, South African, or New Zealand areas that you’d like to highlight? Or would you like to feature some of the wines that you know you and your friends all enjoy?
Here are a few ideas to get you started:
To explore other theme ideas, try searching for the keywords below:
Plan to set out some easy finger foods (olives, nuts, crudités) before guests arrive for them to help themselves and nibble on as they sip their first glasses.
Be sure to serve many snacks and appetizers in addition to cheese, especially if people are serving themselves generous pours. At the very least, serve sliced baguettes or crackers near your seating area. More filling appetizers could be charcuterie boards, grazing tables, passed appetizers, or a self-serve build-an-appetizer station.
One bottle of wine serves 2 to 4 people for the night, depending on how much wine everyone wants to drink. So, if you have 15 guests make sure you have a minimum of 8 bottles of wine. If you know your guests are enthusiastic drinkers, buy anywhere from 12–15 bottles of wine for the night.
Here are some wine ideas:
For a classic wine and cheese party, try some of these traditional pairings when making your cheese selections:
One of the keys to successful party hosting is staying relaxed. Prepare as much as you can ahead of time so that you can join the party when your guests arrive.
Make a planning checklist to guarantee that nothing is forgotten. Your checklist should include your grocery and liquor store items, decorations, and tasks you need to finish around the house. Make sure to set up trash cans in your entertaining area.
Timing tips:
Must haves:
Decorate your space to set your party’s mood. Hang something festive on your front door or place a nice potted plant at your entrance.
If your wine theme is region-based, decorate with décor from places around the world that correspond to your wine’s origin. For visual interest, lay bunches of grapes around your wine bottles and on your serving area. Purchase some cork coasters to set your wine bottles on.
Before your guests arrive, it’s important to set the mood with good music. Spotify and Apple Music both have many options for party playlists. If you’re feeling creative, build your own.
When your guests arrive at the front door, take their coats, and show them around the party space. Show them where the restroom is, where they can find their personal items, and where the main event is.
If guests brought you a hosting gift, graciously accept and, if it’s wine, decide if you will serve it. It is okay not to open it the night of the party if you have carefully built your menu around the wines you chose.
Mingling makes a good wine night. Encourage guests to get to know each other better by placing TableTopics cards throughout your event space.
Lay some conversation starter cards out next to the wine. Or, every time you hand a guest a drink, hand them a TableTopics card too. Encourage each guest to take their card, find a person they haven’t met before, and share their answers with each other.
If you want one group activity, host a mid-party game of TableTopics to bring everyone together.
Ideal TableTopics sets for a wine party are:
How did your night go? Which wine was the biggest hit? Which cheese was almost gone by the end of the evening and what helped the conversations flow? Now, put your feet up for a while and start planning your next party!
]]>Now, before the holiday season starts, is the very best time to try your hand at hosting. Casual or fancy, it’s up to you. But it will be a lot smoother without the added pressure of a holiday.
To make your life easier, keep your first-time sit-down dinner party guest list small—ideally six people or less.
Choose a small group of people who already enjoy each other’s company. Invite your closest friends and their partners, your parents and siblings, or invite coworkers who you’ve been wanting to hang out with.
To make sure that everyone’s schedule aligns, give your guests plenty of notice when you invite them. Remember that guests with children have calendars that book up especially quickly.
Friday and Saturday nights are the best nights for a party. Hosting on these nights gives everyone the excuse to stay out late and allows for rest the next day.
If you’d like to be extra formal with your invitations, pick up some party invites at your local stationery store or Target and mail them to your guests through “snail mail.” If you’re feeling slightly less formal, send your invite using Paperless Post or Evite. You can also send a generic “save-the-date” email.
Here are four serving styles to choose from:
Buffet: Line up your food on a sideboard or the kitchen island and let your guests serve themselves. Pro tip: Be sure to place the dinnerware at the beginning of the assembly line so that guests aren’t bumping into each other trying to get food. This type of serving style is helpful for a larger number of guests because it eliminates the need to set a formal table for so many people.
Potluck: Ask everyone who is joining to bring a dish to share. This can be especially fun for themed parties, and you can offer guests ideas and suggestions. Depending on the number of guests, this style can cover every phase of the meal from wine to appetizers and dessert, which means less preparation and cooking for you to do!
Potluck Cook-off: Choose a food theme and challenge guests to put their cooking skills to the test! Depending on the size of your party, you can assign guests in groups of 2–4 to cook a main course (such as chili or lasagna); a dessert (who makes the best peach cobbler?); or an appetizer or dip. Prepare rating cards for guests to use to vote for their favorite dish. Consider giving prizes to the winner, like a candle, a bottle of wine, or a small kitchen gadget.
Family-style: Family-style dinners eliminate the need to plate everything ahead of time and give you more time to spend actively participating in your party. Set all of the main dishes on your serving table and let everyone help themselves. This style of serving lends itself to a casual and relaxed sit-down dinner.
Think of your dinner party menu as three acts: Before dinner (also known as “Cocktail Hour”), Dinner, and Dessert.
For a 6-person gathering, a good rule of thumb is to serve three appetizers, assorted finger foods (marinated olives or nuts), and an interesting cocktail. If your guests don’t drink alcohol, you can find many suggestions for non-alcoholic spritzers that correspond to your theme. Dinner should consist of a main dish and three side dishes: one vegetable, one starch, and one bright salad. Dinner may be followed with a dessert and coffee/tea or after-dinner aperitifs.
Generally, guests will eat five appetizer pieces in the first hour and three appetizer pieces in the subsequent hour—until dinner is served. Keep this in mind as you plan out your mingling time and your seated dinner time.
Do your guests have any dietary restrictions? If so, what are they and can you channel those restrictions into building an interesting menu with a featured or seasonal entrée?
Remember that one of the keys to successful party hosting is staying relaxed. A Zen host makes for happy guests. Do as much as you can to prepare ahead of time so that you can mingle when your guests arrive.
Make a planning checklist to ensure all the details are covered. Your checklist should include grocery items (once you’ve settled on your dinner party menu), items to purchase for decorations, and tasks you need to complete around the house like cleaning and setting the table.
Timing tips:
Nothing sets the mood of a party more than festive decorations. Tablescapes are so much more than just beautiful silverware. Tablescapes not only tie the food to your dinner party theme but they can also become a topic of conversation.
Are you hosting a Fall party? Consider an autumnal centerpiece for the dinner table. Use a vase filled with orange, yellow, and red flowers. Line up cinnamon sticks next to each place setting.
To encourage engaging conversations, put a TableTopics card at each place setting. We offer Conversation Starter card sets for many dinner party themes: Dinner Party, Not Your Mom’s Dinner Party, What Would You Do, and Best Things Ever, among many others!
Other ideas for brightening your table:
Prep your cooking spaces ahead of time so that you aren’t washing dishes before you even start cooking.
Tidy up as you go. While you’re cooking, wash dishes and wipe down the counters so nothing accumulates where it shouldn’t before your dinner party.
Keep your dinner party centralized in one or two rooms, so you only need to tidy the spaces where people will be gathering.
As soon as you’ve eaten, consider bringing some of the dishes to the kitchen. Designate a separate container where utensils can soak in the sink. Dishes can be neatly stacked on the counters to deal with later or left to soak in the sink until the guests depart. If you feel like taking a guest’s offer to help with the dishes, now is the time to take them up on it!
Set up a load of laundry for your dinner party linens. Gather all of the dirty napkins, your apron (if you used one), and the tablecloth, and get the washer running when you have the energy for it.
Remember: You don’t need to do everything on your own. Guests often like to contribute before or during the party. If they offer to help, ask them to bring a bottle of wine, a side dish, or a dessert. After dinner, accept their offers to clear the plates or help with the dishes.
One of the best ways to host future successful sit-down dinners is to draw on past experience. Take a moment to think about which dishes were popular, which guests got on with each other, and what set the mood well. Now, take a moment to bask in the glow of your successful gathering!
]]>Prepare as much as you can for the school day the night before. Lay out clothes, pack lunches, and gather all the necessary school supplies. You can add some of these tasks to your kids’ bedtime routines if they are old enough. This saves you time in the morning, reduces stress, and avoids last-minute scrambles.
Take time to make sure your morning routine is working smoothly for you and your kids. Consider whether it is the right time to have the kids take on more responsibility as the whole family prepares for the day ahead. If they do more, it will save you precious minutes in the morning.
Spend a couple of hours over the weekend preparing meals for the week. Make a large batch of a favorite recipe, freeze it in meal-sized portions, and then simply defrost and heat when needed. Prep your kids’ lunches too! This strategy will save you time during the week.
Create designated spots for frequently used items. If your child knows where to find their shoes, backpack, homework, and school supplies, it will get you out of the door faster. They will get into the habit of organizing that will extend to their school desks and impress your child’s teacher.
Designate a specific area in your home where your child can do their homework without distractions. This will help them focus and finish their tasks more quickly, freeing up time for family activities.
After a long day, take time to reconnect with your family. Ask thought-provoking TableTopics questions to inspire great conversations. Keeping the connection you had with your kids over summer break when things were more relaxed can be tough once the school year starts. Talking with each other is one of the best ways to turn ordinarily busy days into days with quality time spent together. TableTopics is here to make it easier for you to get those conversations started.
Need some inspiration for making school lunches? Creating a meal that’s not just nutritious but also engaging is key to a great lunchtime experience. Here are some ideas to make school lunches fun for kids of all ages.
Kids eat with their eyes first. For preschoolers or elementary school students, use cookie cutters to shape sandwiches, fruits, and cheeses into fun designs that’ll delight your little ones. For older kids, switch up the sandwich routine by preparing wraps or sushi-style roll-ups.
Create themed lunches that will have your child excited to open their lunchbox. Consider a rainbow lunch, with foods of different colors. This not only adds excitement to lunchtime but also ensures a balanced meal. Older kids could have world cuisine themes, giving them a taste of different cultures. Another fun idea is to ask your kids what foods they imagine their favorite characters would eat and use that as a basis for their lunch.
Kids love choice so allow them to be part of the meal planning and prep process. They’ll appreciate the responsibility and will be excited to tell their new teachers that they helped. For younger kids, it can be as simple as offering them two options for snacks or sides and letting them choose.
Add a personal touch to your child’s lunch by including a note. For an even bigger surprise, add a TableTopics card from sets like Kids, Best Things Ever, and Teen. The questions can spark engaging conversations and make lunchtime way more interesting. They can use it as an icebreaker to help them make new friends or to start great conversations with their new classmates.
Remember, the goal is to make lunchtime enjoyable, and what’s more fun than a lunch packed with tasty goodness, love, and a dash of conversation inspiration? Start incorporating these tips today and transform your child’s school lunch into an experience they’ll love.
]]>As you set the table, place one question card on each guest’s plate or at their place setting. Once everyone is seated, start off the conversation by reading your question aloud and giving an answer. Then let your guests “chime in” with their answer to your question. Encourage another guest to read their question aloud and give an answer and away you go!
You might want to try our Dinner Party Conversation Starters set especially if your guests are just getting to know one another. If you’re looking for a party game for friends that know each other well, you might want to try Not Your Mom’s Dinner Party. This conversation starter deck has some spicy conversation topics that may be the perfect conversation starter questions for your group of close friends. Both the Dinner Party conversation starter set and Not Your Mom’s Dinner Party conversation starters are excellent dinner party games for adults.
Another fun way to use TableTopics is to place one of our table topic decks in the center of the table, right next to the salt and pepper shakers. You can start the conversation off by pulling a random conversation starter question card, reading the question out loud, and answering it yourself. Others at the table will naturally join in by giving their own answer or commenting on yours.
Or if you’re busy in the kitchen, encourage your guests to grab one of the question cards and start playing. You can say “talk amongst yourselves” and really mean it! It’s a great way for them to entertain themselves while you’re putting the finishing touches on the meal. Our Original Conversation Starter Question set is the perfect ice-breaker to get your guests talking.
Use place cards to strategically seat your guests at the table. Place each person next to someone they will enjoy talking with. Select a question that you think fits each guest best and is sure to engage them. Put each guest’s handpicked question card next to their place card on the table. This will give them a fun conversation topic to share with other guests and encourage the kind of table talk that all great dinner parties need.
The place cards make it easy for the everyone to find their place at the table. The conversation starter question cards will encourage all to join in on the fun. You’ll be creating a welcoming atmosphere and make sure the conversation, and your dinner party are a huge success!
Are you the guest and not the host? Our conversation starters are a gift that will surprise and delight both your host and your fellow dinner party guests. Bring a set to your next event and you’ll be the most favorite guest of all! TableTopics are a great gift and will be most appreciated by any host.
While all of our conversation starter sets make great gifts, there are a few sets that would be especially appropriate for a dinner party. Original, Dinner Party, Savor, and Cocktail are all fantastic for sparking great dinner party conversation.
]]>We have a number of conversation starter sets that make it easy to engage younger kids and older kids in conversations at the dinner table, bedtime, family game night, in the car, you name it. Children love these questions and grown-ups love them too. You’ll be amazed at the thoughtful answers children come up with to our funny conversation starters and how using this unique family game can bring the whole family closer. Plus, our award-winning conversation starter question sets for kids and families have received extraordinary reviews.
Try sets like Family (great for elementary school-age kids or older kids) and Kids (a perfect game for conversations with younger kids 3+). Our Family Conversation Pack and Kids Conversation Pack are terrific family game night ideas because they contain some of the same conversation topics that we wrote for our partnership with Chick-fil-A, which has gotten rave reviews. Can You Imagine and What Do You Think are fantastic for tapping into your child’s boundless imagination and hearing their big ideas. The open-ended questions in all of these sets will help you add delightful conversations for the whole family to your mealtime (or anytime) menu.
Idea #1 – Put one question card in your child’s lunchbox each day and encourage them to share the conversation starter question with their friends at lunchtime. They can use it as an icebreaker to help them make new friends or to start great conversations with their good friends and keep the conversation going. It’s lots of fun for back-to-school time or any time. It is also a way for younger kids to practice reading.
Idea #2 – A grandmother wrote to tell us that she keeps our Kids set handy, right by the phone for her weekly calls with her grandchildren. She’s thrilled with how much the children enjoy answering the conversation starter questions and how it’s helped her get to know each of her grandchildren better. She says that they laugh together and talk about so many different things. She feels that they are as close as if they lived next door. The Kids set is the perfect game to give as a gift to the grandparents in your children’s life. It’s a fun family game that they’ll love and your children will too whether it is on the phone, on screen, or in person!
Idea #3 – A simple way to keep the conversation topics positive and inclusive at a young girls’ sleepover is to provide the girls with a party game that gives them enjoyable things to talk about. You can steer the conversation without even being present by sending the Slumber Party set along with your daughter to the sleepover. It’s the perfect game to pair with charades or Pictionary. Or, you can give our educational Inspiring Women for Girls set as a “thank you” gift to the parents hosting the party. They’ll be sure to thank YOU for it.
TableTopics is not your typical card game, it’s more of a cooperative game because there are no rules. It’s a simple game to start conversations at family gatherings and can be used as a family tradition at Christmas or other holidays. Conversation starters are especially good for introverts to have their chance to talk and get practice having interesting conversations. TableTopics has a dedicated following because it’s a classic game that is lots of fun for the whole family. The conversation topics are endless and the result is meaningful conversations, which is so much better than small talk. Try it out—it may be your kids’ new favorite thing!
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