The fun and the festive days of the Mid-Autumn Festival have come again this year! It is time to gather with your family, create great memories together and celebrate The Mid-Autumn Festival 2024 !

The Mid Autumn Festival which is also known as the Moon Festival is a harvest festival that is celebrated by many Asian cultures, where family and family would gather and enjoy delicious mouth-watering foods as well as admire the beautiful moonlight in the night.

During the Mid Night Festival, there are some traditional Mid-Autumn activities that people usually do, including savouring delicious mooncakes which often referred to as a symbol of reunion and harmony, and lighting up lanterns and parading through the streets in the hope for a bright future. But that’s not all of the Mid-Autumn traditions, because there are still many other Mid-Autumn Festival Activities, including games.

There are so many family games for Mid-Autumn Festivals that can be done with your friends and family alike including the Mooncake Eating Contest, Lantern Riddles, Moonkcake Stacking Challenge, Lantern Making Contest and even Mooncake Bingo, where rather than numbers, the bingo cards usually feature pictures of different mooncakes, and there still many others.

It is another way to spend quality time with friends and family and deepen your connection with each other as well as a way to enhance the festive atmosphere.

Deng Mi, also known as Lantern Riddles is one of the traditional Mid-Autumn games often played during the Lantern Festival. The lantern is usually written in poetic form and usually tells about objects or people. The riddles can be easy or challenging, with clues that usually refer to Chinese culture, proverbs, and everyday objects.

Deng Mi Mid-Autumn game is a lantern riddle game that is a combination of fun and educational purposes blended into one. The riddles are written in rhyming couplets, where the riddle itself contains clues that will lead to the answer, but the meaning is often disguised or indirect.

How to Play Deng Mi (Lattern Riddles):

1. Challenge your friends and family to play this fun yet challenging game of Lantern Riddles.

2. Hang the lanterns with the riddle written in paper strips so everyone can see.

3. Try to Solve the riddle by taking turns. Everyone takes turns trying to guess the answer based on the clues from the riddle and the knowledge of Chinese culture and language.

4. Once someone guesses the correct answer, reveal it to the group. The winner would be able to take the small price provided.

5. Then repeat.

Playing Deng Mi, truly encourages the player’s creativity, critical thinking and cultural learning, where the player is required to think outside the box and come up with unique solutions, analyse the clues and think about the possibilities, making logical deductions from learning the references from Chinese culture allowing visitors to expand their knowledge of the world.

Another fun Mid-Autumn Festival game that you need to play with your loved one, the Mooncake Stacking challenge as the name implies involves the delicious traditional Chinese pastry, Mooncakes that are put on top of each other, which made up the name Mooncake Stacking Game.

How to Play Mooncake Stacking Challenge :

1. First of all, you’re going to need to gather all kinds of mooncakes in different shapes, sizes and patterns. Each player will be given a set of mooncakes.

2. Once everyone gets their set of mooncakes, it is time for the challenge! Get the tallest stack within a limited amount of time, the one who gets the tallest is the winner.

This food-related Mid-Autumn game is particularly liked by the children because once the game ends, the little ones can get to fill by eating the delicious mooncakes as much as they want. The same goes for adults, the adults can surely enjoy the challenge and win against each other, just to have fun and make memories with friends and family.

Rabbit Latern Race is a fun and festive Mid-Autumn children’s games, especially for children who are looking for active and fun things to do during the Lantern Festival.

One of the most popular Mid-Autumn festival games for children, The Rabbit Lantern Race is originally held to celebrate the jade rabbit which is believed to be the key figure of the Mid-Autumn mythology, which is believed to bring good fortune and ward off spirit.

How to Play Rabbit Lantern Race :

1. Each participant would design and construct lanterns in the shape of rabbits that often use materials like paper, bamboo and silk and decorated with colourful designs, patterns or messages. If it is too bother to make one by yourself, you can also buy them in the nearest store that sells them.

2. The lanterns are then fitted with candles, to illuminate them. Then the lanterns would be hooked into a stick or string to act as the grip for the children when they run.

3. Once the lanterns are all in place, then the participant would be taken to the starting line where the race would begin.

4. The participant then would race through an obstacle course or designated path. The first child to complete the race without their letter going out is the winner.

Rabbit Latern Race is a fun kids' game Mid-Autumn festival that you should prepare because it adds to the festive atmosphere and excitement, it also helps the children to get engaged with the other children and stay active during family gatherings or community celebrations.

A traditional Chinese game that often being played during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Rug-of-War is a classic outdoor game that firs perfect to do during the Festival gathering, especially if your gathering is held in an open space like parks or courtyards.

How to Play Mid-Autumn Tug-of-War :

1. Make two different teams of equal sides, and let each team take hold of the same amount of ropes, and be positioned on the opposite sides, facing each other.

2. Decide on the centre point that must not be crossed by any party.

3. Once each team is ready, it is time to pull! The one who can pull the other team across a designated line is the winner.

This kind of outdoor Mid-Autumn games will give a sense of teamwork and friendly competition where each team would be able to learn about the importance of cooperating and coordination. It surely will help you to deepen your bond with each other, which is especially suitable to hold during festive moments like the Mid-Autumn festival.

You can also combine the tug-and-war with the other decorations or lanterns to enhance the festive atmosphere and give out that fun and exciting atmosphere authentic to Mid-Autumn festivals. For example, the rope can be decorated with colourful lanterns and the playing area decorated with festive lights and banners, allowing everyone to make unforgettable memories together.

The favourite of all ages, the Mid Autumn memory game!

Mooncake Matching game which as the name implies, is a fun and educational game where the players need to memorise the location as well as the picture shown on many cards at a glimpse. This memory game is a family game for the Mid-Autumn Festival that especially being loved by the younger participants where it can be enjoyed whether the party is done indoors or outdoors.

How to Play Mooncake Matching Game :

1. Print out or draw a grid of squares and put the picture of a pair of mooncakes on every two cards. Make a lot!

2. Place them facing downwards so people won't be able to see the picture and shuffle them randomly.

3. Once it is equally shuffled, it is time to start the game! Players would take turns flipping over two cards at a time. If the two cards march, the payer would keep the pair and take another turn, if the cards come out different, then flip it back and continue to the next person’s turn.

4. The first player to collect the most matching pairs would be the winner and get a small price like mini mooncakes.

This kind of game would offer the player a chance to learn about different types of mooncakes and their filling, as well as to help them develop memory and concentration in a fun and intriguing way.

Besides, it also helps in improving the visual skills where players are needed to visually identify and remember the location of the matching card.

Another game that will bring joy to your family gathering, the Mooncake Rolling Contest encourages players to roll out mooncakes, which is a traditional Chinese pastry into a long course without breaking them.

How to Play Mooncake Rolling Contest :

1. Get the mooncakes to roll ready on the starting line along with the participant.

2. Once all the participants are ready, it is time to carefully roll the mooncakes without breaking them.

3. The first person who gets to the finish line without breaking the mooncakes is the winner!

There are several ways to roll the mooncakes, it is whether to use hands or sticks, but if you would like to have a more challenging experience, it is recommended to use the sticks over your hands.

Mooncake Rolling Contest is a light-hearted game that can be enjoyed by children, to even adults. The same goes for the other games mentioned above, The mooncake rolling game is one Mid-Autumn fun activities that you must not miss. It is one of the interactive festival games that allow you to get closer to each other and make memories together.

Last but definitely not least activity that you should do with your friends and family during the Mid Autumn Festival is the Latern=making Contest. It is a creative Mid-Autumn game, that showcases each member's creativity and brings fun to any of them.

Because lanterns an essential goods in the Mid-Autumn Festival, then why not make them into a contest?

How to Play Lantern-Making Contest :

1. Prepare all the essential items including paper, silk, bamboo and plastic if you would like to, you can also prepare LED lights, glitter and any other extra decorative elements.

2. Express your creativity through the lantern motifes you made in various shapes and sizes within the designated time limit. The best one, based on the voting of the group would be the winner!

Pretty easy right? It brings the arts and crafts mId-Autumn festival into the essence of the festival itself, giving a fun yet meaningful act towards the events.

Here are all the popular Mid-Autumn Festival games that you should add to your list during your meet-up with friends and beloved family. There are so many games that you can enjoy to deepen your bond with each other while celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festivals from challenging them on Lantern Riddles, the classical fun of Rabbit Lantern Race, to creating a beautiful lantern based on your creativity and showing them to each other.

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