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How to Play Among Us in Real Life with printable headbands, imposter cards, ghost cards, buzzer, simple tasks, and more for an EPIC Among Us kids birthday party or youth activity.

Here it is, how to play Among Us in Real Life with printable instructions, headbands and character cards plus a list of 20 simple task ideas to help you get started right away. This is fun to play as a family, with friends, as a youth activity for church groups or at a birthday party. If you are planning an Among Us birthday party, you’ll definitely want to check out this post. We have an entire Among Us birthday party setup with TONS of PRINTABLE decor, games and crafts to throw an amazing birthday bash!

*UPDATE: In order to maintain this little blog and offer more printables in the future, we had to make the tough decision to start charging a small fee for some of our printables. We no longer offer the Among Us party pack and game as a free printable, but you can find them for a really low cost in our Etsy shop. If you are looking for just the game, that is also available individually in our Etsy shop. We appreciate your understanding and hope we can continue creating printables to help families and individuals celebrate all of life’s seasons.

Printable Instructions + Game Pieces


How to Play Among Us in Real Life with printable headbands, imposter cards, ghost cards, buzzer, simple tasks, and more for an EPIC Among Us kids birthday party or youth activity.

First things first, print off all the directions and game pieces in order to play Among Us in real life. You will need to print off the ghost page a few times to cover all the backs of the crewmates/characters cards. And you’ll need to print off as many headband pages as there are players. The headbands are super simple to make. Just cut out, staple or tape, and cut along dotted line to insert the character card. When we first played the game with the youth group it was hard to tell who was dead and who was still alive. I kept trying to “kill” players that were ghosts. So these headbands not only make the game more fun because of the aesthetics, but they also help everyone know who’s still alive and who’s not.

How to Play Among Us in Real Life with printable headbands, imposter cards, ghost cards, buzzer, simple tasks, and more for an EPIC Among Us kids birthday party or youth activity.

Decide on Tasks and Write Them on the Task Cards


How to Play Among Us in Real Life with printable headbands, imposter cards, ghost cards, buzzer, simple tasks, and more for an EPIC Among Us kids birthday party or youth activity.

The tasks can be as easy or as tough as you’d like. We noticed that mixing up super simple tasks that take a minute with some harder tasks that take a few minutes is the best combo. If they’re too hard and take too long then you get a bunch of players bunched together around one task. We put together a list of 20 SIMPLE TASKS with everyday items that can be found in most homes:

  • Roll dice until you get doubles.
  • Finish the puzzle (the wooden ones for toddlers are perfect).
  • Build a tower (using blocks, Magnatiles or Legos).
  • Make a paper airplane.
  • Throw the balls into the bucket.
  • Play “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the piano.
  • Color one of the Among Us crewmates (use our printable backdrop or any coloring page you can find like these ones).
  • Finish the Perfection game.
  • Stack the cups into a triangle tower.
  • Put the markers in the color order of the rainbow.
  • Do 20 sit-ups (or any exercise).
  • Read a book (a little toddler’s picture book would work best).
  • Write down the abc’s (if playing with older kids, have them write it down backwards).
  • Draw your favorite Among Us character and hat.
  • Fold and put away 5 pieces of laundry (this one is for us moms…why not make the kids be a little productive while they’re playing). 🙂
  • Blow up a balloon until it pops.
  • Mold an Among Us character out of Play-Doh.
  • Drink a full glass of water.
  • Put the beans in the bowl using the straw only (5-10 beans will be plenty).
  • Roll the car into the cup (tape a cup to the ground on its side and then put a line of tape about 3 feet or so away; the player needs to roll the toy car from the line into the cup).
How to Play Among Us in Real Life with printable headbands, imposter cards, ghost cards, buzzer, simple tasks, and more for an EPIC Among Us kids birthday party or youth activity.

PLAY!!


Two last tips to make your game as fun as possible. We like to play when it’s dark. We turn off the lights and only have nightlights in the rooms and hallways. In the emergency meeting room we used a fun ring light that has a flashing red/blue light option. It really set the mood and made it feel like we were in the game. We also played some fun music that helped so we couldn’t hear as much making it harder to discover the imposter.

Hope you enjoy the Among Us in Real Life printables and have a blast playing this epic game! Don’t forget to check out our Among Us birthday party pack post where we put together everything you need to turn this into an entire birthday party with printable decor, more printable Among Us games, printable kids activities and crafts, and so much more! (see pictures below for a small glimpse of just a few of the printables we’ve got in the party bundle for super cheap).

Among Us Party Ideas - photo booth props, crew hats

Much love and aloha,

Stacey + Niki

*UPDATE: In order to maintain this little blog and offer more printables in the future, we had to make the tough decision to start charging a small fee for some of our printables. We no longer offer the Among Us party pack as a free printable, but you can find them for a really low cost in our Etsy shop. We appreciate your understanding and hope we can continue creating printables to help families and individuals celebrate all of life’s seasons.


7 responses to “How to Play Among Us in Real Life”

  1. Stephanie says:

    Hi there – I can’t seem to figure out how to download the printable game parts. Can you please help? Thank you!

    • thealohahut says:

      Hi Stephanie,

      We have been doing a major overhaul on our blog so some of our posts have broken links. We just fixed the Among Us post so go ahead and take a look again to download. Hope your kid(s) enjoy the playing the game as much as ours did!

  2. cana says:

    I do not even know how I ended up here, but I thought this post was good. 😉 Cheers!

  3. Alejandro Rodas says:

    great article

  4. Kate Nevard says:

    Thanks for the materials.

  5. Joey says:

    Wow, this blog post is incredible! I’ve always wanted to play Among Us in real life, and now I have some ideas on how to do it. Can’t wait to try it out with my friends. Thanks for sharing! 😃

  6. Carly says:

    Wow, this is amazing! I’ve always wanted to play Among Us in real life, and now I have a whole guide to follow! Thank you so much for sharing this. I can’t wait to try it out with my friends and see who can be the best detective 😂

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