NOTE: There have been many changes in CM policies and products since I stopped being a CMC. If you have question about any of these ideas please consult your upline.

Many of the games were compiled by FCS. The more elaborate ones you could use at Croptoberfest or NSD. See also Workshops.

Auction Game

This is written for Tupperware but can be adapted to CM.

This is an Auction game. I use play dollar bills. Everyone gets $1 for coming, and $1 if the arrived on time. The host gets $5, and I give $1 to anyone that brought a friend, brought a paid order, or dated a party before the party.

I explain that if they catch me saying "Tupperware" the first one to notice gets $1.
I also award $1 to anyone that can give me a tip or testimonial about a product I demo.

Then, I do my "Tupper-Monial". I offer $2 or anyone that takes a post-it from my Dates board or a smile face from the board agreeing to a job interview. I offer $10 to the first person that can ask a question about my job that I don't have an answer for. I give $1 to everyone who asks a question.

At the end of the demo, after they have their orders to me, I auction off 2 products, letting the guests decide how much the first bid will be.

Cropper's Tic Tac Toe

I made a 9 square board and put different things in each ("try the personal trimmer", "use a die-cut", "journal a page"). When they had 3 in a row, they got to choose a Design Line; everyone could win up to twice. Whenever anyone marked out a square on the board, their name went into a drawing at the end.

Cropping Bingo

Make several different Bingo sheets - 5 or six columns across and down. Middle is a free square...if it is 6 squares across and down, they get 2 free. Pick 2 squares together somewhere and make those "scheduled a class". A few are things like "looked through someone else's album". The rest are things like used a die-cut, used a die-cut negative, used the Victorian Borderline, used the circle cutter, used a red Micron, used a Callipen in a border, put 5 photos on a page, used an idea from idea book, etc. Usually 1 bingo gets a double regular sticker mod, 2 that plus a die-cut, 3 that plus a sheet of paper, 4 that plus a set of ABC letters...etc. A blackout is a set of page protectors. I think 3 bingos is the most I've ever had. I use 5 square for 4-hour crops and 6 square for 6 hour crops. If they use a circle cutter and a red micron on one page, they both count. They love this because not only do they usually win something, it inspires them to try different things!

Ring the Bell or Pass the Hat

Place a timer where nobody can see it. Set it for random time periods. When the bell goes off, the last person to have finished a page gets a small prize...passing a hat that ties in with the workshop theme facilitates keeping track of who was the last person to finish a page.

Variation: When a customer finishes a page, they get a funny hat to wear until the next person finishes a page. Set a timer and when it goes off the person with the hat gets a prize. You could use a stuffed animal and set it at their place when they finish a page.

Collecting Patches (or whatever fits your theme)

Have on hand several items. Have a list of things they have to do to earn patches, similar to the bingo list. Tailor it to your Croptalkä and/or theme (for instance, if you are doing camp Wannacropalot and make patches, they earn a swimming patch for using the ocean wave or wavy Borderlineä, an archery patch for using the circle cutter, etc. I used clip art and hand drawings to make patches...made color copies and then put them on construction paper circles...very time consuming. You could cut colored circles and write "archery" or "swimming" when they earn one. They can only earn a patch once. Have them tape it to their shirt with tape runner or splits. I gave a surprise prize to the lady with the most patches when we took a dinner break. At the end of the night, they trade in patches for prizes...3 for a die-cut...6 for a die-cut and sticker strip...9 for that plus paper...etc. You can control what stickers, die-cut, etc. they choose by having them draw from a bag for each item...this helps you either keep the theme or give away stuff you have extra of. This could work for ornaments or hearts or whatever. For hearts, I would tie it to something like using the pink fine tip and bold pens, using the red pens, using the scallop heart template, using the regular heart template, using a heart die-cut, using the Victorian borderline, using Mrs. G rose stickers, etc. You could use cheap children's valentines instead of cutting out a bunch of hearts.

At camp Wannacropalot, I also had them fishing out of a cooler with a child's fishing game. They were wary at first, but soon they were excitedly lining up to do it after they finished each page. I had a little stool they sat on so they couldn't see in the cooler. A yellow fish meant 1/2 sheet of paper and they drew out of a bag with snips of paper in it to see what they got...for stickers, they drew from a selection of bug and camping stickers.

Let's Make a Deal

Put slips of paper in a bag with commonly photographed (but not too common) items written on them. Periodically pull one out and call it out. The first person to produce a picture of that item wins a prize...say, one die-cut...they then take a chance...if they can produce a picture of the next item drawn within 5 minutes, they get a bigger prize (5 die-cuts or something like that).
A modification of this is to ask for a page where they used a particular product or tool.

I do a grand prize drawing with an entry for every page completed...at my next 12 hour CTYD, I will have an in-your-seat drawing where you win if you are sitting in a chair with a sticker under it.

May also do one sometime where when you finish your first page, you pick a balloon and pop it and get the prize written on the slip of paper inside.

Let's Make a Deal...another version

Before the crop put slips of paper with items on them like star template, ocean borderline or purple ABC's into a bag. Every hour you draw one. The first person who shows you a page with that item wins a prize. You can have another bag with one lesser prize and two slightly higher prizes in it. They can take a chance and draw from the bag and try for a bigger prize. For instance, their first prize is a die-cut. In the deal bag are slips of paper for 2 sticker mods, 2 sheets of paper, or 1 triangle.

Fill the Stocking

Each person got a zip-lock bag; this was their "stocking" (for other months, change it to "backpack" or "candy box" or "handbag" or whatever.)

For each page completed, the participant gets a small prize to add to their "stocking".
Examples:
1st page: choose a sticker strip
2nd page: choose a die-cut
3rd page: packet of M and M's
4th page: a jiffy border
5th page: choose a sheet of workshop paper
6th page: choose a design line
7th page: mini kit for a page decoration ("make and take")

Make the prizes whatever you like but not so much you can't afford it if they win all of them!
You could do this at Easter with Easter baskets - tell them they get something if they bring their own but have a few on hand! Or for the penny pincher crop - fill the piggy bank!

In Your Pictures

At unexpected times during your workshop, announce that anyone with a certain item in their photos currently in front of them receives a prize. The ideas are endless: a bald man, a dog, a baby boy, a party, food, baby, etc.

The First Person to Show Me

The first person to show you the item you ask for wins a prize.
Ideas include:

A circle cutter only page
A page from the layout idea book
A photo mounting sleeve
A ruled page used
A photo cut with the heart template
A personal trimmer and corner rounder page

Combine two things together for more difficult ones (scalloped ruler and scissors used).

The Most

This is a competition based purely on luck, so it's a great one to reward customers who may not work as quickly. Award a prize to the person with the most:

People in one photo
Years in one album
Photos on one page
Journaling on one page

Teacher's Pet

After teaching your ShopTalk, the person who completes a page using that technique wins a prize.

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby

The customers bring a photo of themselves as an infant or young child.

Put up each photo with a number above it on a bulletin board. Take care not to damage the photo. Give everyone a piece of paper with as many numbers as there are pictures. Customers try to guess which photo corresponds to each guest. The winner will be the one who has matched the most pictures with the right people at the workshop wins.

All of the customers will need to be told ahead of time to bring a picture. This is best played when everyone is wearing a name tag. Have players cut one out using the circle cutter and attach it with photo splits or tape runner.

Yours For Keeps

Supplies: Tape player and tape. CM product wrapped many times.

This works best when your customers are sitting in groups. Have a package for each grouping of 4 to 6 people. Bring out the package(s) and announce that it is to be handed from person to person around the group for as long as the music is played. As soon as the music stops, the one who is holding the package takes off one of the wrappings. The package will have several wrappings, each separately tied. The customer who takes off the last wrapping will come to the CM product, and a note saying "This is yours for keeps".

Creative Memories Vocabulary Test

At your workshop instruct your guests to see how many words of four letters or more each one can make using only the letters in Creative Memories. No letter may be used more often than it appears in those words. The customers with the most words wins. You could also use the words Crop Til You Drop.

Creative Memories Memory Test

Select a number of CM objects, and place them on a tray.
Allow your customers a minute or two to look at these objects, then remove the tray and give each customer a pencil and paper and instructions to write down as many as he can remember. The customer who remembers the most correctly wins.

Creative Memories Guessing Game

Give each of your guests a pencil and paper. Then display a number of CM objects, asking a question concerning each. The following questions are examples of what you could use:

• The number of photo splits in a box.
• The maximum number of pages a CM album can hold.
• How many pieces of paper are in the Contemporary Paper Pack?
• The measurements of the Reflections album.
• Name all six colors in a pen pack.
• Name all the colors the CM albums come in.
• How much is an individual die cut?
• How many feet of tape runner come in a refill?
• How much does it cost to become a Creative Memories Consultant?

Picture Hunt

The consultant asks for a general picture (a picture of a baby, a picture with a Christmas tree in it, a group photo, etc.)
Customers hunt through the photos they brought for that picture. The first one to reach a set number of pictures wins.

How Many, How Much?

In addition to the prize, the following items are on the table:
1. A pile of photo split peelings
2. A bowl of small paper scraps
3. A jar of sticker modules
4. A jar of Borderline rulers
5. A bowl of circles cut out of dud pictures
The items can be other things as well - straight pins stuck in a cushion, a dish of navy beans, a box of toothpicks, etc.

Guests look at the items spread out on the table, but do not touch. They write down their guess of quantities numbered 1 through 5 or whatever. When the number or quantity of the items is called out, players must note the extent to which they are off. For example, if someone guessed 290 photo-split peelings and there were 298, they write down 8. The person with the lowest total is the winner.

* PRIZES *

Prizes are a wonderful touch to a workshop. By using Creative Memories consumable products as prizes, we increase our profitability, and introduce new products!

CM Celebration kit
Free workshop certificate
Sheet of patterned paper
Specialty paper (holiday, ruled, baby)
Die cuts
Stabilo pencil
LE pack of stickers
ABC or 123 stickers
Sticker strips
Photo mounting sleeve
Pick up square
CM logo pen or pencil

How I work my prize drawings is: everyone gets 1 ticket for coming (the door prize is a completed page, usually the one I am doing the CropTalkä about), 1 for making a page, 2 for journaling a page, 1 for using (CM) ABC stickers, 1 for using deckle cutter, 1 for buying set of Boderlinesä, 4 for scheduling a class, 3 for completing 10 pages since the last crop, 2 for buying an album, etc. I change it every couple of months. One thing I am thinking about doing is charging $7 at the door and my regular charge of $5 if they pay in advance. They will have 1 month to make up the crop if they call in advance to cancel, if they don't show up they lose their $5. (Amy)

Crop 'Til You Drop Scavenger Hunt

The first person to find all the items (or the most items) during the crop is the winner! When you find an item have the person sign beside the item. (if it says "someone who can show you a page..." you need to actually see the page). Here are some suggestions.

• Someone who has given a CM album as a gift to their mother or father.
• Find someone who has done a mother's or father's day album.
• Find a page with a quote from an outside source ­ poem, scripture, etc.
• Find 8 pages using no scissors (can be in several albums)
• Find 3 pages with who, what, when, where type labeling.
• Someone who is a 4-year CM album alumnus.
• Someone who can show you 4 pages in an album labeled with orange pen.
• Someone who can show you 5 idea book pages in one album.
• Someone who has done more than one baby album.
• Someone two people who have completed heritage albums.
• Someone who owns a Masterpiece or CM Wedding album.
• Someone who has done pages of photos from 2 different countries besides the USA.
• Someone who can show you more than 3 pages of men or men's events.
• Someone who has been doing Creative Memories albums less than one month.
• Someone who can show you 2 pages that include bullet journaling.
• Someone who can show you 4 pages using sticker borders.
• Someone who has done at least 3 pages of photos of their pets.
• Someone who can show you a page layout using the circle cutter.
• Someone who has completed a Christmas album.
• Someone who can show you a page using 2 different die-cuts.
• Someone who can show you a layout using a ruled page.
• Someone who owns a Big Book (12x15) album.
• Someone who can show you one album in which they used 3 different Borderline rulers.
• Someone who can show you a page using photo mounting corners.
• Find 5 sticker border pages
• Find the names of the bride and groom in a wedding album.
• Find who has done the least pages (the newest student)
• Find album pages from 4 different countries.
• Someone who has used Calligraphy pens on 6 pages in one album.

52 Chances to Win an Album

Be the 1st to:

1. Arrive at the Crop on time
2. Demonstrate how to use the circle cutter to the group.
3. Create a page using only the circle cutter for all your pictures.
4. Use a printed heart die-cut
5. Create a page using the design lines
6. Use the deckle cutter for background paper.
7. Create a page using only the deckle cutter for photos.
8. Crop a picture as a silhouette
9. Use a borderline in two different ways on a page
10. Use two borderlines to create a border
11. Use different strips of stickers to create a new and unique design
12. Combine 2 ABC stickers colors for a shadow effect.
13. Trim the corners of photos with decorative scissors on one page
14. Use the red gingham paper for hearts on a page
15. Use 3 ideas from the short cut pack
16. Create a page using only the "You're the Heart of My Business Short Cuts".
17. Complete 10 pages
18. Purchase $25 in product
19. Share an album page
20. Ask me about becoming a consultant
21. Every time you find the word one on any of your pages.
22. Use the arabesque scissors.
23. Make a pocket page with die-cuts
24. Try sponge painting on your page.
25. Use a die-cut template for the front of a photo.
26. Combine a die-cut with stickers for a new look.
27. Make a quilt page.
28. Do a double page layout.
29. Sign up and prepay for another workshop
30. Bring your photos pre-sorted.
31. Use one of the heart templates for a photo.
32. Use your Callipens to create a Title Page
33. Create a page from the Printed Paper brochure
34. Incorporate an animal or flower idea from the CC brochure on a page
35. Use one of the borderline ideas from the back of the brochure on a page
36. Use die-cut letters or number on a page
37. Use the die-cut letter or number negatives combined with printed paper
38. Locate one of my business cards
39. Create a page from the Idea Book Volume II
40. Create a page from the Idea Book Volume III
41. Use a photo-mounting sleeve for memorabilia on a page.
42. Use a yellow sumi brush on your page create a page using only pens and borderlines
43. Make a first Birthday/Anniversary page
44. Book a class and hold it(prize given at class)
45. Sign up as a Consultant
46. Sign up and prepay for National Scrapbook Day
47. To tell me what you liked most in my newsletter
48. To create a page layout using the scheduling template

Add 4 ideas that have to do with newly introduced products.

Workshop Bingo

Make a 5x5 square grid. The center square being the 'free' space.

Here are some examples:

1. You've completed five 12x12 CM Pages (figure out an equivalent for other album sizes)
2. You've used a new border on your page
3. You've tried the Classic or Neutral Paper
4. You've photo journaled one page (not to be confused with labeled)
5. You labeled 15 photos
6. You've been working for four hours
7. Include memorabilia on your page using a photo mounting sleeve
8. You've talked to your CMC about having a home class and how to get a free album
9. You've used the CalliPen
10. You tried the Circle Cutter
11. You used the new Corner Rounder
12. You used Paper to mat 3 photos
13. You completed one page in 5 minutes
14. You used a page layout from CM's new "Idea Book"
15. You added refill pages to your CM album
16. You used a die-cut
17. You completed a page using only decorative Scissors
18. You used die-cut ABC's or 123's
19. You used stickers to make a Corner Border
20. You've cropped 6 ovals
21. You created a 15-minute 12x12 page
22. You bullet journaled a photo or event

Put 'easy' and 'hard' tasks on any given line. You can give prizes for the first to get a Bingo and for the first to Blackout! I've given a free workshop certificate to the person who completes the fewest pages "because you need some more time to work on your album"! Give consumables as prizes. At a CTYD you might want to give play money to the bingo winners and have an auction at the end.

Other Bingo Card Ideas:

1. Set a class date
2. Use the tape runner
3. Use a new product (you could use this in a couple of spaces by naming each new product)
4. Complete 5 pages
5. Complete 10 pages
6. Make one page using only the paper trimmer and corner rounder
7. Use a die cut
8. Make one page using only circles and ovals
9. Use the circle cutter
10. Use the borderlines (you could be more specific if you wish)
11. Add a 8x10 page to your 12x12 album
12. Sign up (and pay for) the next workshop
13. Use 3 feet (or whatever you want the length to be) of tape runner
14. Mat 5 photos
15. Double mat 3 photos
16. Use pretty paper
17. Make a pocket page
18. Ask about a CM career
19. Make a border out of stickers
20. Make a page out of an Idea Book
21. Use a ruled page to photo-journal (a long narrative, not a quick bullet journal)
22. Use the alphabet stickers

Decide if one page can only count towards one thing, or multiples. Like if they journal on an 8x10...you can let them fill in the journaling square AND the 8x10 square. Or you can have them choose. If you have more than 10 people you may want to make the choice. Of course you can change the amounts and make it 10 pages or 10 feet of runner.

Have a basket with names of tools written on slips of paper, and periodically draw one out and call it out...and if anybody is using that particular tool at that moment, then they get a prize...if no one is using it, then you can give a prize to whoever has used it on their current page.

Poker

Every time you do a page you get a card. One with the best poker hand wins a prize

"Fill Your Stocking" Christmas Crop game

(1999 version, by Jean Gifford)

Everyone gets a zip lock bag for their "stocking". Every time they finish a page, they get a treat from Santa to "fill the stocking". They will also have a computer printed page showing each decorative design, and how many pages are required to earn it.

Start with one "gift" in the stocking for "zero pages done"...a CM "Merry Christmas" sticker strip.

One page completed: Mrs. G "Reflections" Christmas tree sticker

Two pages completed: Jiffy corner: White triangle, evergreen gingham triangle, 1/2 mod cinnamon hearts, 1 mod Mrs. G holly

Three pages completed: Border design, red line drawn with callipen, 1 mod silver/gold confetti, one mod Mrs. G holly, 1/2 mod Mrs. G "Reflections" pine cones.

Four pages completed: Santa/sleigh border. Deep blue paper cut to 11 x 2 3/4 inches, sleigh sticker, one mod reindeer, 1/2 mod small Santas.

Five pages completed: Carolers die cut, 1/2 mod multi music notes

Six pages completed: Jiffy border, deep clue paper cut to 2 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches, one each of the 4 trees in the Millennium congrats kit.

Seven pages completed: Mrs. G "Merry Christmas, 1 mod Mrs. G holly, one mod jingle bells

8 pages completed: Ornate "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men". Paper Whispers letters, one each of P and G. 2 squares deep blue paper, cut to 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 inch. 1/2 strip of CM holly.

Retail value if all 8 pages are completed: $6.20
Consultant cost $4.34, plus a Ziploc bag.

It is my experience that most customers will not claim all prizes in a four-hour crop. If you wish, you could offer the "unclaimed gifts" for sale as make and takes at the end of the evening.

Approximate individual values (retail)
1st page: 60 cents; 2nd page: 55 cents; 3rd page: 90 cents; 4th page: 1.00;
5th page: 45 cents; 6th page: 50 cents; 7th page: 90 cents; 8th page: 90 cents

Name tag Roulette

(Michell)

 On the back of each tag in light pencil, write some aspect of creating a page...like used a die cut, used borderline ruler, used pattern paper so something. At the appropriate time, ask each person to put the last completed page in front of them, and then read the back of their name tag. The ones with matches win.

The Random Page Contest

(Laurie)

Have a jar with cards that name different aspects of page creation. Have them pull out the last completed page, and pull a card out of the jar. Anyone with a match wins. You could have one drawing per hour or at random times. If no one matches the first card you can draw another one.

Suggestions for Cards:
Made a border from stickers
Used printed paper
Used a die cut
Journaled the page with a paragraph
Page contains three W's: Who, Where, When
Used borderline ruler
mounted one photo on a slant
Matted a picture
Used the corner rounder
Left all pictures square