We all dread organising a child's party, the headache of who to invite, what to make, what games to play etc etc, do we send out invitations or make the call.
So lets make a start,
What games to play
Every game deserves a prize, and we all know how children love prizes, Gather prizes from cheaper shopping places like chain stores or cheap emporiums where for $3.00 you can get 10 items, the more games you choose to play the more prizes you will need to give out, so plan carefully.
Pass the Parcel
What you will need:
Gift wrap, newspaper and music
What to Buy:
Small prize such as train whistle, bubbles, or book
Rules:
Before the party, parent wraps a small prize as many times as there will be guests, but the layer that holds the present gets wrapped in party paper, the rest of the layers are wrapped in newspaper, add a lollipop to every wrapped layer, so that everyone receives a gift.
Children sit in a circle, Music plays, When it stops, child holding parcel unwraps a layer, finds out they haven't won, takes the lollipop and play continues until all layers are all gone.
Child to reveal the prize wins.
Clothespin Drop
What you will need:
Clothespins, chair, and jar
What to Buy: Nothing
Rules:
A large mouth jar is placed at the base of a stable chair. One by one, children stand or kneel on the chair (facing the back) and try to drop clothespins into the jar. Clothespin must be held at chin level before dropped. Children may have five tries with an extra turn for every clothespin that goes into the jar.
Suitcase Relay
What you will need:
Suitcases, dress-up clothes
What to Buy: Nothing
Rules:
Fill two suitcases or overnight bags with silly outfits (sunglasses, wigs, large pants, suspenders, etc.). Divide guests in two teams. One at a time, have each player run to a designated spot with the suitcase, put on all the items, return to the line with the suitcase, undress and put items back in suitcase. Continue until all guests have had a turn.
Peanut/Chocolate Bar Hunt
What you will need:
Brown paper bags
What to Buy:
Bag of peanuts or small chocolate bars
Rules:
Hide lots of peanuts or chocolate bars in a specified area (making some obvious and others more difficult). Give children small paper bags and when you say “go,” the hunt begins. Allow five minutes for children to seek. Then have kids count their finds.
Have extras on hand to even out the stash.
Steady Eddy Egg Relay
What you will need:
Eggs and spoons
What to Buy:
Nothing
Rules:
Place plastic spoons of two colors in a bowl times the number of guests. Have each child choose a utensil. This determines which team he’ll be on (or you can just use conventional silverware). Give each team an egg and have kids race one by one to a marked location and back with the egg on the spoon. (If you're indoors, use a hard boiled egg.) Have a bowl of extra eggs on hand so players can grab an extra one if necessary. First team to finish wins.
Balloon Bust
What you will need:
Hot air
What to Buy:
Balloons and small prizes such as mini erasers, small wrapped lollies, etc.
Rules:
Possibly the simplest game on earth but it guarantees laughs. Place a small prize in each balloon before inflating. Blow up balloons an hour or so before the party and place in a laundry basket. Let kids pick a balloon and on your count, let kids sit on the balloons to pop it. They can use the floor, chairs, or even the couch, but no hands, just their bottoms!
Smell it, Hear it
What you will need:
Jars, spices, potions
What to Buy:
Nothing
Rules:
Wrap small jars with paper to block contents’ view. Fill with items such as cinnamon, vanilla, paperclips, and pennies. Seat kids in a circle and pass the jars around to smell or shake and guess contents. (If you're worried about spillage, you can hold open jars under each child’s nose.) After each jar is passed around the circle, let each child guess what it is. Then reveal the contents.
Musical Chairs
What you will need:
Chairs and music
What to Buy:
Nothing
Rules:
Set up chairs in two rows back to back or in a circle facing outward. Have every child stand in front of a chair. Start your child’s favorite music. Children walk around the chairs. Remove a chair. Stop music and have everyone take a seat. The child/ren without a seat can help you remove two chairs the next round and so on. Last man seated wins.
Memory Tray
What you will need:
Household items, tray, scarf
What to Buy:
Nothing
Rules:
Collect recognizable objects (shell, block, toothbrush, etc.) and place 7-10 on a tray (less objects for younger kids). Have children view the tray. Place a scarf over the tray and remove an object. Have children name the missing object. Child who names the object can remove the next item. Repeat until all kids have had a turn.
Sock ‘Em
What you will need:
Socks
What to Buy:
Fun Music
Rules:
Place at least six times as many socks as guests in a basket. Have children sit in a circle. When music starts have kids try to put on as many sock as possible (one over the other). When the music stops, the one with the most socks on wins
Button, Button
What you will need:
Button
What to Buy:
Nothing
Rules:
Children sit on the floor of a room. The birthday child leaves. A parent hides the button in the room. When the child re-enters, he tries to find the button. The onlookers tell the child whether he’s hot or cold (near or far from the button). After he finds it, he chooses another child to leave and hides the button. Continue until everyone has a turn.
Bucket Toss
What you will need:
Buckets
What to Buy:
Ping-pong balls, small prizes
Rules:
Bozo circus anyone? An all-time favorite, line six buckets up in a row, filled partially with small prizes. Mark a line that kids’ feet must not cross. One at a time give children a ping-pong ball to toss. If a child makes the bucket, she receives the prize. After three misses, it’s the next child’s turn.
Pin the tail on donkey:
What you will need:
Donkey print out, plus tails and a drawing pin
What to buy:
Prizes
Rules
This is a classic party game that is great for indoors and can be adapted for any party theme (age 4+). You can buy ready prepared kits for this game or if you would rather make your own all you need is a picture of a tailless animal along with enough tails for each child, a blindfold and some pins to attach the tails. Each child takes it in turns to pin the tail as close to the point where the tail should be, whilst blindfolded. Alternative themes include pin the jewel on the tiara for a princess party, pin the turtle for an underwater party game and pin the patch on the pirate for a pirate party.
The Chocolate Game:
What you will need:
Bar of chocolate, knife, fork, dress up clothes
What to buy:
Chocolate
Rules
This game is great fun and a chance for children to eat as much chocolate as they possibly can with a knife and fork! Get the children to sit in a circle and in the middle place a board with a large unwrapped bar of chocolate, a knife, fork, hat, scarf, pair of gloves and a dice. The dice is passed around the circle and whoever rolls a six has to quickly put on the hat, scarf and gloves and try to eat the bar of chocolate with a knife and fork. Meanwhile, the rest of the circle continue rolling the dice until another six is thrown and the next child then takes over. Adapt this game for younger children by using chocolate buttons instead
Doughnut Game:
What you will need
Doughnut's, string
What to buy:
Chocolate
Rules
Another messy challenge is the doughnut eating game where children have to eat a suspended doughnut without using their hands or licking their lips! You can hang a doughnut for each child by creating washing line out of string. The child who uses their hands or licks their lips is out of the game. This game also works well with apples
Apple Bobbing:
What you will need:
Apples, tub
What to buy:
An apple per player
Rules:
Apples are also essential for the ‘bobbing’ game where children take it in turns to try and retrieve a floating apple with their teeth, with their hands tied behind their back. Fill a large tub with cold water and place enough apples for each player. Children can then either bob for the apples together or individually, but the player to get the apple first or quickest is the winner.
The Flour Game:
What you will need:
Flour, Chocolate bar
What to buy:
Chocolate
Rules
Definitely one of those games that will bring inevitable chaos but it is a simple game that children aged 5 or older will love. Firstly you need to make the ‘flour cake’ by tightly compacting flour into a medium sized mixing bowl. Then turn this out on to a board and top with a large chunk of Mars bar. Each child takes it in turns to slice away sections of the flour cake ensuring the chunk of chocolate remains at the top. The child who eventually topples the chocolate from the top has to find it with their teeth.
Musical Statues:
What you will need:
Music
What to buy:
Nothing
Rules
To play these games you need a fun CD as children will love dancing to their favourite songs. For musical statues, get the children to dance about and when the music stops they have to keep as still as possible. The one that moves the most is out and keep playing until you have a winner.
Simon Says:
What you will need:
Nothing
What to buy
Nothing
Rules
A perfect game for younger children and can be adapted to fit with any party theme. Firstly choose a leader (this can be yourself or another adult) to act as ‘Simon’ who will call out a series of commands that the children have to follow such as ‘Simon say’s put your hands in the air’. The children must do any commandment that begins with ‘Simon says . . .’ However the leader will put in some trick commands without beginning with ‘Simon says’ such as ‘turn around’ and the children who do this task by mistake are out.
Sleeping Lions:
What you will need:
Nothing
Rules
After lots of activity this is a great game to quieten things down. Choose a large open room and get all the children to lie down and pretend to be sleepy lions. If you are doing a particular theme you can get them to pretend to be fairies, pirates, dinosaurs or whatever fits your theme instead. Explain that whoever moves after the game begins will be out. During this time you can walk around the room, talking to them and trying to make them laugh. Each child who is out can help you try and make the others laugh. The last person left sleeping is the winner.
Clothing
Rules
Choose 5 types of clothing or prop, and make sure there’s enough for each child to have one: a hat, a badge, a top, a skirt, etc. Then the children dance around. When the music stops, you call out ‘scarf!’ and they all have to grab one, put it on, then dance with it till the music stops and then they go for the next item. And so on until they’re all dressed.
Nothing
Rules
et the children to follow a leader (maybe start with an adult to get the ball rolling). The children have to follow whatever the leader does as they move around. Suggestions: hopping, hands on head, jumping, running, skipping, silly walks, turning round, waving arms, being an animal, being a posh person, etc
Nothing
Rules
One person is Grandmother and they stand with their backs to everyone else who stands well back from them – between 15 and 20 feet. Everyone has to move closer to Grandmother when her head is turned. When she turns around, anyone who she sees still moving has to go back to the beginning. The person who catches up with Grandmother and taps her on the shoulder is the winner. They then become Grandmother and the game begins again.
Nothing
Rules
All but one of the children stand in a circle, hold hands, and then lift them up into arches. The remaining child weaves in and out of the arches to the tune of In and out the dusty bluebells, In and out the dusty bluebells, In and out the dusty bluebells, Who shall be my partner?
The child then stops and stands behind one of the other children in the circle. While they all sing the chorus, the child behind taps on the child’s shoulder in front. Tippy tippy tappy on your shoulder, Tippy tippy tappy on your shoulder. Tippy Tippy tappy on your shoulder, You shall be my partner. The child behind then gets hold of the second child’s waist, and they weave through the arches together. They then pick a third child at the chorus, and so on, with the line getting longer and longer and hopefully more unmanageable.
Nothing
Rules
Get all the children bar one to sit in a circle. The child left out walks around the outside of the circle, tapping on the head of each child as they pass them, and with each tap, calling out the name of an animal, - say cat. Then after a while, and without warning, they change the name of the animal (usually it’s connected – in this case dog), and start running round the circle to get back round to the vacated spot. The ‘dog’ child has to get up as quickly as possible and try and catch the other child. If the first child can get back round the circle before being caught, they sit down, and the other child does the walking around (saying a different pair of animals). If not, the same child has to go again.
Cushions
Rules
One for the garden or a very large room or hall. Clear the space as much as possible. Then put some ‘islands’ on the floor, so that they follow some kind of natural course (or number them). You can use cushions, mats, duvets, air beds, chairs and rows of chairs, sofas – anything like that. The children have to go around the room, without touching the floor (or falling in the river), by jumping from island to island. You’ll obviously need to test this one out beforehand, and may need to tweak things according to the size of the child each time. Whoever falls into the river the least number of times is the winner.
Obstacles
Rules
One for the garden. Set up a pony jumping course, using anything obvious to hand, boxes or flower pots with planks or bamboo poles suspended across them. Get the children to pretend to be horses, give them a badge with a number, they have to pick a name. Then get each child to run the course with knocking the poles over. One thing that they love (but you need a willing adult) is someone being a commentator as they do it – it really spurs them on.
Nothing
Rules
You need a big space. Line all the children up on one side. Get an adult (or maybe two) to pretend to be monsters in the middle of a forest. The children have to run across the forest, without being caught by the monster. If they're caught, they become a monster too. The children then have to run back across the forest the other way and any that are caught then become monsters, and so on, until the last child remains.
Small containers of jelly, plastic animals
Rules
Make individual bowls of jelly with an animal inside. Then make each child put their hands behind their backs, and get the animal out of the jelly. The first one to produce their animal is the winner. Best left to the end of the party.
Tray and objects
Rules
Put some disparate and obvious items on a tray. Give each child a pen and piece of paper. Let them look at the tray for a minute, then take the tray away. The children have to write down what was on the tray. The one with the most right answers is the winner. Variations: simply take one thing away at a time, show the tray to the group, and let them call out what's missing.
Boxes, objects
Rules
Take a box, and put a different item in it each time. Ask the children to put their hand in the box and guess what it is. Suggestions; an orange; cotton wool; shoelace; piece of duplo; a hairbrush; etc.
Nothing
Rules
Put all but one of the children in a circle and get them to hold hands. (Tell the remaining child to shut their eyes). The children have to tie themselves into the most complicated knot possible without breaking hands (that bit’s important –you’ll need to keep an eye on it). They can turn round, step over each other’s arms, go under arms etc. When they’re ready, the remaining child has to come back and unknot them (and again, make sure the children don’t let go of each other, because that will break the puzzle, and also spoil the game because the fun comes when the children start falling over each other (yes, of course, health and safety permitting…).
Chocolate bars, Sand, Small flags ( you could make them with toothpicks and paper glued to the sticks )
Rules
Put some little pieces of ‘treasure’ (sweets, chocolate coins, little presents) on a tray, evenly spaced out. Pour sand all over the treasure, so that it’s completely concealed. Then make little flags, one for each child, with their name on. Get each child in turn to place a flag gently in the tray. When they’re all done, uncover each flag at a time to see who’s closest to the treasure, or if they've found any treasure within a small radius of their flag.
Paper and pens and treasure
Rules
This really only works with a small group of children, otherwise it’ll be chaos and the clues will only last two minutes. Hide treasure in easy, safe places and draw pictures of the places (or very obvious clues which you can supplement with questions. Ie., a tap. Could be garden tap, or bathroom or kitchen sink).
Stiff paper
Rules
Make some large animal shapes out of stiff coloured paper (make each animal out of a different colour, and make two versions, as identical as possible). Cut one of the versions into four pieces and hide the pieces all over the garden/house. Put the children into pairs, and give them one animal to find (showing them the complete example so that they know exactly what they're looking for). The first pair to complete their animal is the winner.
What you will need:
Donkey print out, plus tails and a drawing pin
What to buy:
Prizes
Rules
This is a classic party game that is great for indoors and can be adapted for any party theme (age 4+). You can buy ready prepared kits for this game or if you would rather make your own all you need is a picture of a tailless animal along with enough tails for each child, a blindfold and some pins to attach the tails. Each child takes it in turns to pin the tail as close to the point where the tail should be, whilst blindfolded. Alternative themes include pin the jewel on the tiara for a princess party, pin the turtle for an underwater party game and pin the patch on the pirate for a pirate party.
The Chocolate Game:
What you will need:
Bar of chocolate, knife, fork, dress up clothes
What to buy:
Chocolate
Rules
This game is great fun and a chance for children to eat as much chocolate as they possibly can with a knife and fork! Get the children to sit in a circle and in the middle place a board with a large unwrapped bar of chocolate, a knife, fork, hat, scarf, pair of gloves and a dice. The dice is passed around the circle and whoever rolls a six has to quickly put on the hat, scarf and gloves and try to eat the bar of chocolate with a knife and fork. Meanwhile, the rest of the circle continue rolling the dice until another six is thrown and the next child then takes over. Adapt this game for younger children by using chocolate buttons instead
Doughnut Game:
What you will need
Doughnut's, string
What to buy:
Chocolate
Rules
Another messy challenge is the doughnut eating game where children have to eat a suspended doughnut without using their hands or licking their lips! You can hang a doughnut for each child by creating washing line out of string. The child who uses their hands or licks their lips is out of the game. This game also works well with apples
Apple Bobbing:
What you will need:
Apples, tub
What to buy:
An apple per player
Rules:
Apples are also essential for the ‘bobbing’ game where children take it in turns to try and retrieve a floating apple with their teeth, with their hands tied behind their back. Fill a large tub with cold water and place enough apples for each player. Children can then either bob for the apples together or individually, but the player to get the apple first or quickest is the winner.
The Flour Game:
What you will need:
Flour, Chocolate bar
What to buy:
Chocolate
Rules
Definitely one of those games that will bring inevitable chaos but it is a simple game that children aged 5 or older will love. Firstly you need to make the ‘flour cake’ by tightly compacting flour into a medium sized mixing bowl. Then turn this out on to a board and top with a large chunk of Mars bar. Each child takes it in turns to slice away sections of the flour cake ensuring the chunk of chocolate remains at the top. The child who eventually topples the chocolate from the top has to find it with their teeth.
Musical Statues:
What you will need:
Music
What to buy:
Nothing
Rules
To play these games you need a fun CD as children will love dancing to their favourite songs. For musical statues, get the children to dance about and when the music stops they have to keep as still as possible. The one that moves the most is out and keep playing until you have a winner.
Simon Says:
What you will need:
Nothing
What to buy
Nothing
Rules
A perfect game for younger children and can be adapted to fit with any party theme. Firstly choose a leader (this can be yourself or another adult) to act as ‘Simon’ who will call out a series of commands that the children have to follow such as ‘Simon say’s put your hands in the air’. The children must do any commandment that begins with ‘Simon says . . .’ However the leader will put in some trick commands without beginning with ‘Simon says’ such as ‘turn around’ and the children who do this task by mistake are out.
Sleeping Lions:
What you will need:
Nothing
Rules
After lots of activity this is a great game to quieten things down. Choose a large open room and get all the children to lie down and pretend to be sleepy lions. If you are doing a particular theme you can get them to pretend to be fairies, pirates, dinosaurs or whatever fits your theme instead. Explain that whoever moves after the game begins will be out. During this time you can walk around the room, talking to them and trying to make them laugh. Each child who is out can help you try and make the others laugh. The last person left sleeping is the winner.
Dressing up dancing
What you will need:Clothing
Rules
Choose 5 types of clothing or prop, and make sure there’s enough for each child to have one: a hat, a badge, a top, a skirt, etc. Then the children dance around. When the music stops, you call out ‘scarf!’ and they all have to grab one, put it on, then dance with it till the music stops and then they go for the next item. And so on until they’re all dressed.
Follow My leader
What you will need:Nothing
Rules
et the children to follow a leader (maybe start with an adult to get the ball rolling). The children have to follow whatever the leader does as they move around. Suggestions: hopping, hands on head, jumping, running, skipping, silly walks, turning round, waving arms, being an animal, being a posh person, etc
Grandmother’s footsteps
What you will need:Nothing
Rules
One person is Grandmother and they stand with their backs to everyone else who stands well back from them – between 15 and 20 feet. Everyone has to move closer to Grandmother when her head is turned. When she turns around, anyone who she sees still moving has to go back to the beginning. The person who catches up with Grandmother and taps her on the shoulder is the winner. They then become Grandmother and the game begins again.
In and out the dusty bluebells
What you will need:Nothing
Rules
All but one of the children stand in a circle, hold hands, and then lift them up into arches. The remaining child weaves in and out of the arches to the tune of In and out the dusty bluebells, In and out the dusty bluebells, In and out the dusty bluebells, Who shall be my partner?
The child then stops and stands behind one of the other children in the circle. While they all sing the chorus, the child behind taps on the child’s shoulder in front. Tippy tippy tappy on your shoulder, Tippy tippy tappy on your shoulder. Tippy Tippy tappy on your shoulder, You shall be my partner. The child behind then gets hold of the second child’s waist, and they weave through the arches together. They then pick a third child at the chorus, and so on, with the line getting longer and longer and hopefully more unmanageable.
Duck Duck Goose
What you will need:Nothing
Rules
Get all the children bar one to sit in a circle. The child left out walks around the outside of the circle, tapping on the head of each child as they pass them, and with each tap, calling out the name of an animal, - say cat. Then after a while, and without warning, they change the name of the animal (usually it’s connected – in this case dog), and start running round the circle to get back round to the vacated spot. The ‘dog’ child has to get up as quickly as possible and try and catch the other child. If the first child can get back round the circle before being caught, they sit down, and the other child does the walking around (saying a different pair of animals). If not, the same child has to go again.
Pirates obstacle course
What you will need:Cushions
Rules
One for the garden or a very large room or hall. Clear the space as much as possible. Then put some ‘islands’ on the floor, so that they follow some kind of natural course (or number them). You can use cushions, mats, duvets, air beds, chairs and rows of chairs, sofas – anything like that. The children have to go around the room, without touching the floor (or falling in the river), by jumping from island to island. You’ll obviously need to test this one out beforehand, and may need to tweak things according to the size of the child each time. Whoever falls into the river the least number of times is the winner.
Show jumping
What you will need:Obstacles
Rules
One for the garden. Set up a pony jumping course, using anything obvious to hand, boxes or flower pots with planks or bamboo poles suspended across them. Get the children to pretend to be horses, give them a badge with a number, they have to pick a name. Then get each child to run the course with knocking the poles over. One thing that they love (but you need a willing adult) is someone being a commentator as they do it – it really spurs them on.
Escape the monster
What you will need:Nothing
Rules
You need a big space. Line all the children up on one side. Get an adult (or maybe two) to pretend to be monsters in the middle of a forest. The children have to run across the forest, without being caught by the monster. If they're caught, they become a monster too. The children then have to run back across the forest the other way and any that are caught then become monsters, and so on, until the last child remains.
Eat the jelly
What you will need:Small containers of jelly, plastic animals
Rules
Make individual bowls of jelly with an animal inside. Then make each child put their hands behind their backs, and get the animal out of the jelly. The first one to produce their animal is the winner. Best left to the end of the party.
What’s On the Tray
What you will need:Tray and objects
Rules
Put some disparate and obvious items on a tray. Give each child a pen and piece of paper. Let them look at the tray for a minute, then take the tray away. The children have to write down what was on the tray. The one with the most right answers is the winner. Variations: simply take one thing away at a time, show the tray to the group, and let them call out what's missing.
Touch and Feel
What you will need:Boxes, objects
Rules
Take a box, and put a different item in it each time. Ask the children to put their hand in the box and guess what it is. Suggestions; an orange; cotton wool; shoelace; piece of duplo; a hairbrush; etc.
Chinese Puzzle
What you will need:Nothing
Rules
Put all but one of the children in a circle and get them to hold hands. (Tell the remaining child to shut their eyes). The children have to tie themselves into the most complicated knot possible without breaking hands (that bit’s important –you’ll need to keep an eye on it). They can turn round, step over each other’s arms, go under arms etc. When they’re ready, the remaining child has to come back and unknot them (and again, make sure the children don’t let go of each other, because that will break the puzzle, and also spoil the game because the fun comes when the children start falling over each other (yes, of course, health and safety permitting…).
Sand Treasure Hunt
What you will need:Chocolate bars, Sand, Small flags ( you could make them with toothpicks and paper glued to the sticks )
Rules
Put some little pieces of ‘treasure’ (sweets, chocolate coins, little presents) on a tray, evenly spaced out. Pour sand all over the treasure, so that it’s completely concealed. Then make little flags, one for each child, with their name on. Get each child in turn to place a flag gently in the tray. When they’re all done, uncover each flag at a time to see who’s closest to the treasure, or if they've found any treasure within a small radius of their flag.
Picture Treasure Hunt
What you will need:Paper and pens and treasure
Rules
This really only works with a small group of children, otherwise it’ll be chaos and the clues will only last two minutes. Hide treasure in easy, safe places and draw pictures of the places (or very obvious clues which you can supplement with questions. Ie., a tap. Could be garden tap, or bathroom or kitchen sink).
Animal Treasure Hunt
What you will need:Stiff paper
Rules
Make some large animal shapes out of stiff coloured paper (make each animal out of a different colour, and make two versions, as identical as possible). Cut one of the versions into four pieces and hide the pieces all over the garden/house. Put the children into pairs, and give them one animal to find (showing them the complete example so that they know exactly what they're looking for). The first pair to complete their animal is the winner.
Chopsticks
What you will need:
Raisins, chopsticks, handy towel
Rules
Get the children to sit at the table, or if there are too many, on the floor. Give them a piece of kitchen towel on which you place a little container about 10 raisins, and a pair of chopsticks each. They have to transfer all the raisins into the container by using the chopsticks. The first one to do it is the winner.
Walking with binoculars
What you will need:
Binoculars, string
Rules
Mark a straight line on the floor. (with string, or tape). Then get each child, one at a time, to walk along the string, looking through the wrong end of a pair binoculars. See who can stay on the line for longest.
Happy birthday animals
What you will need:
Nothing
Rules
Divide the children into groups of animals. Then sing Happy Birthday. When it comes to the last line, pick an animal (Happy Birthday Dear Cats) and all the cats have to meow and purr and generally be cats. Give each group of animals their go.
Scavenger hunt
What you will need:
Objects to find, paper, pens
Rules:
Following the theme of your kid's birthday party (whether it's fairies or dinosaurs), hide small themed trinkets or non-melting, wrapped candies in the backyard. Depending on your party and childs' ages, either give them a list of clues to reveal the hidden treasures or hide them in places they can spot without clues.
Treat time
What you will need:
Cookie Dough, Cutters
Rules
If you have a budding baker, don't just serve treats at your party — let the party guests have a hand in making them! Little kids love to roll dough, cut shapes with cookie cutters (metal ones are not recommended for little partygoers) and — of course once the cooking is done by an adult— decorate.
Let each child bag up a few to take home.
Station Station
What you will need:
Activities
Rules
Set up small "stations" that partygoers can rotate through as the party rocks on. Some ideas are, art table, small puzzle, Lego table and bracelet or necklace making (supply large beads, pre-cut lanyards and some examples). Encourage kids to split up into small groups and make the rounds. Parents can work the room and supervise.
Treat time
What you will need:
Cookie Dough, Cutters
Rules
If you have a budding baker, don't just serve treats at your party — let the party guests have a hand in making them! Little kids love to roll dough, cut shapes with cookie cutters (metal ones are not recommended for little partygoers) and — of course once the cooking is done by an adult— decorate.
Let each child bag up a few to take home.
Station Station
What you will need:
Activities
Rules
Set up small "stations" that partygoers can rotate through as the party rocks on. Some ideas are, art table, small puzzle, Lego table and bracelet or necklace making (supply large beads, pre-cut lanyards and some examples). Encourage kids to split up into small groups and make the rounds. Parents can work the room and supervise.
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