Next Sunday evening, there will be a Fireside about Family Home Evening in my Branch, they asked me to be charge of the games. So I thought who could help me more than my friends in the forum! Do you have any great ideas of games for around 40 people in attendance? could be a bit more or a bit less.
40 people is a whole lot. That's rough, most of the games I've played stop being fun and start being chaotic after around 20 people.
One game that's really fun, is you have everyone write down an event in their life, along with their name. Then you pull one out, and select 3 or 4 or 5, or however many people you want, and call them up. You read the situation to them, and each person must come up with a convincing story as to how they were in that situation. With 40 people it could take a while to get through all of the story telling, so maybe you could divide everyone into groups and have each group nominate a person to go forward.