Saran Wrap Ball Tutorial!!!

In this video I show you guys how to make a huge saran wrap ball filled with goodies for a game we played at our Company Christmas Party! It's a super fun game and you guys will enjoy it just as much as we did!

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[foechicken]

We play this every at our family gathering. We don't use oven Mitts for ours. We also only wrap things that can handle the pressure of being wrapped. For all the other gifts we wrap them and add numbered tags in the ball. After we are done unwrapping we call numbers, pick a gift from the 200+ goodies and treats, then we have a barter session to trade for the things we want. Everyone buys for the game and the a few days before Christmas we get together wrap the gifts and make the ball.
We also play bingo, candy cane pickup, reindeer ring toss, and snow ball toss. We have prizes for each of the other games.
We have been doing this since 2016. It had always been a hit.

[mycrazycreativelife]

MayMay, you will probably never read this, but this was the very first video of yours I seen, and I've been a fan ever since. Maybe one day I'll make it to your shop, as Im a Ky girl, its a little piece away. Thanks for being you, and never apologizing for showing the world who God is!, With love from a stranger to you, but to me you feel like a friend, April

[debbiedoebley]

We been playing this game for a few years and it never fails to have everyone, including those who are not playing in stitches the whole time the game is being played. We have a ball ready now for when my nephew brings his 3 wee ones as it will be the 1st time for them. Can't wait to watch them playing the game.

[erikab.rodriguez]

I add bigger gifts but instead of placing them inside the ball, we add a folded envelope that tells them what they won in order to claim it at the end!

[ruthsills]

Saw this last week and decided to make one for my son's get-together with family and inlaws. It seemed too benign with just candy and money so I got nifty little things from Dollar Tree to pack into it along with some dud prizes. There was a piece of bread wrapped up in there; a sandwich bag with tissue and no prize; an old spool of thread... things like that. We laughed so hard and had the best time ever. Thanks for this video.

[katiewhiston]

I have seen this before, but, whenI saw your Vedic, I decided to do it with my husbands family. This was the first time getting together in person since the pandemic. What was great is everyone, even the kids could do it. It was a bit hit! My brother-in-law said he had a bigger roll of plastic wrap. So, next year I told him we could do it together. Thank you so much for sharing. Merry Christmas!

[lauraann]

I like to watch and see what other people put in their saran wrap balls. I am now famous for having them at my parties. I did my first kid ball this year at my annual Easter Egg Hunt. The older kids did that while the 7 and under crowd actually hunted for eggs. My boyfriend and I have everything opened and ready to go. He does the rolling and I do the placement of the goodies. That's as much fun as playing it. I put a ticket in first for the grand prize and they can turn it in for a bigger prize like a big tin of popcorn. I put hand sanitizer, pocket packs of tissues, lighters, and chap stick in as well as candy. Guys even get excited!

[sandramika]

This is so fun to do, we do it on Christmas Eve, we put scratch off lottery tickets, gift cards, gloves, hats, cards, candy, chapstick, car air fresheners, cough drops, mini bottles of alcohol, gum, our ball was huge. Everyone needs to do this at least once, it is so much fun. We did adult ball and we did kid ball. I think it would be fun for kids birthday parties.

[allysonpowell]

Love your video and your name, my late aunt and favorite one too was called “ MayMay”. My family discovered the Saran Wrap game a couple of years ago and now it is a thanksgiving and Christmas must! Thanks for posting. PS Sometimes we add the little bottles of liquor, scratch off tickets, miniature flashlights, and small change purses from the dollar store and secretly add $2 to $5 dollars, people think they just won a change purse, and are thrilled when we tell them to look inside, and we also tell everyone ( newcomers) NO OPENING PRIZES UNTIL GAME IS OVER. Thanks for sharing 😊❤️

[ann-mariecox]

We play a similar game at childrens parties in the Uk and Ireland but we use newspaper, so as the only person who knows whats in there is the person who wrapped it. Usually the children sit in a circle on the floor and some one is in charge of the music and when the music stops the person who is holding the parcel gets to open a layer, we call it "Pass The Parcel" and kids love it. It's great fun. It's worth playing it just to see the excitement on the kids faces A great game :) :)

[alaniinez]

We play this every year at our annual Christmas ornament exchange with oven mitts makes it more challenging and last longer 🤣 plus it’s funny watching everyone scramble to put the mitts on quickly 😂

[bittersweet]

I made one of these balls last Christmas for my 4 grandkids to play. It was a blast! The adults had just as much fun cheering them on. My granddaughter wrote about it in her holiday tradition essay at school - it made that big of an impression on her. So of course, a tradition was born that we call The Christmas Cash & Candy Ball. The tutorial is great. 🎄🎅🏼🎄 - Susan in Maryland

[kathyfoss]

My family does this, too; we love it! We have two balls, one for the guys and one for the girls. Everyone contributes items and one person (me, lol) assembles the balls. We sometimes have large items, so the balls can be quite large. Socks are a great item to include. We also wear oven mitts to unwrap to add to the fun/frustration.

[LetsProblemSolve]

You can also put in Nickles, quarters and dimes and dollar coins. We do individual pods as well, if they get a pod they must unwrap the pod before continuing to unwrap the big ball (not everyone has luck with dice). We also stick either bits of paper intermittently, the person with the most gets to pick from the bigger prize table then the second most and so on. I think this year we are just going to number them. It also helps to grab bits and baubls throughout the year to help with cost.
Hot coco mix, drink mixes, gift cards too!
Buy gift sets and parcel them out. Especially keep an eye out for dudely stuff. While there are plenty of things for women smallish stuff for men is harder to find.

[YRJR]

We we able to add larger gifts by putting in numbered tickets to match gifts that couldn't be wrapped in the ball. For instance, we had a coffee mug with ticket 123456 taped on it so whoever unwrapped the matching ticket got the mug.

[brendastarnes]

My family plays every year and everyone looks forward to it!!! We add gift cards in ours.
Thanks for sharing.

[sandragoodall]

We played this Saran Ball game this year...this was the first ball I ever made....but, I found something so helpful...I took the saran wrap out of the box (leaving it on the tube...then I ran a small rope through the tube and tied it onto the back of a kitchen chair...with a table in front of it....this way I could just keep pulling it as I laid stuff on it and wrap it...this process worked well...I used about one whole 200 foot roll and half of another...the ball can be square sometimes but as you add stuff to it all the way around it gets more round...I added tootsie roll pops, tea bags, hot choc packets, small individual Kleenex packages, small flashlights, magnets, decorated clothespins, lots of scratch offs, quarters, dollars, gift cards and tons of candy, gum, mints baggies for everyone to put their loot in. I saw where some people did a all girly girl ball and a male one as well...it is fun no matter the size or contents...thanks for sharing MayMay….hope everyone tries this at least once.

[susiecausey]

My daughter and I made one of these a couple of days ago. By the time we got finished putting all the goodies in it, it was as big as a basket ball. Another good game that you do the same way is the ovenmitt game. Wrap all the small goodies in wrapping paper and tape it all over, then the players have to unwrap with oven mitts on their hands. So much fun! Tfs! Merry christmas

[barbp]

This is such a fun idea! I see how you could stuff it with whatever little gifts suit the crowd. You could also upcycle by reusing it as packing for fragile and breakable items.

[ShaiMyst]

For those concerned re environment, you can do this same thing with bio-cling or other brand of recyclable/biodegradable cling wrap