Birthday party kids games for home party

If the birthday kid is a Lego fan, combine this with a mini engineering challenge to see who can build the best spoon from building blocks. Fill the dancefloor and challenge your party guests to a game of musical statues. Play some music and ask your guests to freeze when the music stops.

Anyone left dancing or giggling! All you need is a music player and space for people to dance. Just make sure you have adult supervision at all times. Break out your music player and treat your party guests to a game of hot potato. For summer parties , swap the beanbag or ball for a water balloon and add an extra layer of fun to the mix. This is an activity that works best in a circle, so consider pairing it with a game of pass the parcel or duck duck goose while your guests are seated.

Recreate the field day experience by bringing the three-legged race to your next outdoor get-together. Pair up your party guests and use a rope or material to bind two of their legs together.

The first pair over the finish line is crowned the winner. Keep up the encouragement with a lively and supportive crowd, and a fun prize for the winning team. Engage all your party guests with a fun, themed scavenger hunt. Create a checklist of items guests need to find or locations to visit before collecting a prize. Challenge your guests to find acorns, flowers, and garlands at a fairy-themed kids birthday party.

Hide toy animals around your backyard and get your guests to round them up for a zoo- or safari-themed celebration. 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 just need a picture or drawing of a donkey, and then tail shaped flags with double sided tape for each child. The children are then blindfolded one by one or asked to shut their eyes and spun around and then try to see who can get the closest to the actual spot the tail should be.

Keep it as the classic version, which is tons of fun for the kids, or you can make it a little bit more specific or catered. A game of hot potato can be fun for adults and kids alike. Rather than using an actual potato, incorporate an element or accessory of the theme. The parachute is one of those childhood games that brings back the best memories, even for adults!

You can easily buy a parachute off of Amazon, or create your own using a flat sheet or blanket. Try adding beach balls or stuffed animals to the parachute for some real fun! You can play with a raw egg for a squishy good time, or hard boiled eggs that still break but with less mess.

Alternatively, you could change up the egg and spoon race and forgo the egg altogether to creat your own version. Use different objects to make it become a ball and cone race, beach ball and pizza platter race, or anything else you can try to balance!

Have two kids stand back to back with a balloon between them. Note: Young children might be afraid of the popping sound, so warn parents before you start! Line the kids up for a relay or all at once along a line. Give each child a balloon to place between their knees, telling them to squeeze their legs together to hold it in place.

Next, instruct all of the players to waddle across the yard to the finish line or around a cone and back for a relay , without popping or dropping their balloon. You can make them go back to the start, or just pick up and continue going if they do drop it. This is a team challenge, and you can have everyone either on one time racing against the music or clock, or place teams against each other.

This is a perfect birthday party game for a large crowd, and multiple people can get prizes along the way. The basic idea is to wrap several presents in plastic wrap and pass the ball around the table. Each person can have a try at unwrapping an object from the ball until the next person rolls doubles on their dice. This is one of the easiest birthday party games to start because it just requires the participants—no props or money involved. However, it gets hard quickly.

To play this game, instruct the guests to do something, but they have to do the opposite in order to stay in the game. For example, if you say raise your right hand, they have to raise their left hand; if you say to jump, they need to squat. You can even combine this game with a Simon Says type of game by having them watch you act something out but they have to do the opposite.

Minute to Win It games are short games that are both fun and challenging. These are perfect for birthday parties because everyone or just a few can play during the party. They also only take a few supplies and most of them you'll already find in your home. There are a whopping 35 Minute to Win It games here that will keep everyone at the party busy and having fun. These are great for kids, tweens, teens, and even grown-ups. There are also some ideas here on how to play the games in various ways - against the clock, as a small team, or as a large group.

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