This party games ideas kit can also be customized for your Birthday girl or Birthday boy. You will need a few gifts that will be used as part of the game, and the players who end up with the gifts get to keep them.
Game duration: 5 minutes, number of players: unlimited, number of winners: 1 — 3. Game description: This is a good old classic and still just as popular with the young children. This kids birthday party game involves the children trying to pin the tail on the donkey whilst blindfolded! This printable pin the tail on the donkey game comes in 2 sizes: Poster Size this fits on 4 pages or Regular fits on 1 page. Game time: 5 — 10 minutes, number of kids can play: unlimited, winners: 1.
Included in this printable party games kit are paper cake cut-outs that you have to secretly place around the party area for the kids to find!
We bet this is one of those party games you remember from childhood. The last person left is the winner. Musical chairs is a fun way to get your guests moving and expend some energy. Add a disco ball, gold fringe curtains, and plenty of showstopping tunes for the perfect musical game.
Before the party starts, find a small gift and wrap it in layers of paper, with pieces of candy hidden in the layers between. Gather your party guests and ask them to sit in one big circle.
Starting with one person, pass the parcel around the circle until the music stops. Whoever is holding the parcel at that moment gets to unwrap a layer and keep the candy. Keep passing the parcel until there are no more layers left, and the winner ends up with a prize to keep.
For a more eco-friendly take on this classic game, swap the paper layers with reusable fabric instead. Guests can then enjoy the sweet treat and take home the fabric that they can use as a cape for a small toy figurine or a flag for a castle. Simon Says is the ultimate copycat party game for kids.
Have some fun with this and use it as an easy way to get your youngest guests moving and enjoying themselves. Make the tug of war easy for a younger crowd, or ramp up the difficulty for older kids. You could even invite grown-ups to join in, or make it a family versus family team game. Keep it simple or theme your tug of war to match your party decor by dyeing the rope or asking your guests to wear funny hats.
Get everyone lined up to play a few rounds of ring toss in this easy outdoor party game for kids. Challenge your guests to throw hoops onto stakes to win points. At the end of the game, the player or team with the most points wins. Ring toss is one of those games that is super easy to fit into your party theme.
Swap the usual stakes for flamingos, or style them up as mountains, swords, or the masts of a boat. Bring back a classic party game with a sweet and simple egg and spoon race.
Gather a crowd and ask your guests to team up or go it solo to see who can make it to the finish line with their egg intact. There are two ways of running this game. Firstly, you can use an actual baking potato raw not cooked!! Or, you can buy an actual Hot Potato game that has a potato with a face. Squeeze the potato to start the music and when the music stops, the person holding the potato wins a small prize and leaves the game.
This is a great game to use to calm over-excited or tired children down before they have their party food or sing happy birthday and watch the birthday cake being cut. Ask all the toddlers to lie on the floor as still as they can possibly be. You can either give a small prize to every child who stays super still or a child is out if they move, at which point they can have a small prize for trying hard!!! All this said, three, four and five year olds are capable of increasing amounts of cooperative play, so they are capable of enjoying a wider range of games than toddlers.
All these games work equally well for indoor parties at home, parties at a venue or summer outdoor parties. Get all the kids to sit in a circle. If not, then the original child goes again. Check out this video to see a game of Duck Duck Goose in action. The kids dance to fun music. When the music stops everyone has to sit down as quickly as possible.
The last child to sit down each time is given a small prize stickers or a single sweet work well and then the game continues, until there is either one winner left, or a handful of winners, depending on how many kids are playing remember, attention spans are short!!
The winner or winners each receive a small gift and a round of applause. Any kids that get it wrong get given a sticker or small prize and are asked to watch from the sidelines. Continue until you have either a single winner or a handful of winners. Kids aged three to five are just about at an age where the classic party game of Pass The Parcel works.
The key to a successful game with preschoolers is to adapt the game to the number of children playing and to have a small prize within each layer. This is a great game for getting a couple of parents involved in the activities. Play some fun music and shout encouragement. Pop some little sweets into balloons before blowing them up and tying them. Free the balloons and challenge the kids to pop them all to find the hidden treasure inside.
I did a version of this game for a pirate themed party using black balloons and filling them with gold chocolate coins as treasure. Watch this video for a run-through of how to play Mother May I? Set up a line of chairs back to back with enough chairs for every child. Play some music as the children dance and move around the chairs. When the music stops each child must sit down on a chair. From the second round either one or two chairs, so that either one or two children are out each time.
Give the kids who are out a small prize. The last child left is the overall winner. Line all the children up with the birthday child as the leader. The kids have to follow the leader around the room. You can create an obstacle course for them to go round or you can have different things that the leader has to do at certain points — like blow a raspberry or wiggle their bottom — that everyone following must also do.
Change the leader at various points during the game. Once kids get to six years old they can start to really enjoy team games and more competitive games. They also have more of an attention span for taking part in fun party games with different elements to them. Kids age six, seven, eight and ten are also capable of waiting for their turn during a game and enjoying watching the child who is having their turn.
You can either play just for the fun of it, or keep track of who is winning and then give out prizes. Here is a selection of Minute To Win It games that six, seven and eight year olds will love. You will of course need to use your phone or a stop-watch to time the minutes!!
Challenge the kids to keep a balloon in the air for a minute. Add interesting rules to the challenge, like keeping one hand behind the back or using no hands or only feet. Partner the kids up into twos. Give one child a paper cup and the other child a cup filled with regular sized marshmallows. The pair with the most marshmallows thrown into the paper cup wins. Play this game two at a time. Fill two empty tissue boxes with ping-pong balls, the same amount in each box.
Tie the boxes around the waist of each player. The kids must shake out the ping pong balls without using their hands. The first to empty their box wins or the child with the fewest balls left in their box after a minute wins.
This is such an easy party game! Challenge the kids to move the cookie from their forehead to their mouth without using their hands.
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