I love these ideas for our ongoing and never-ending SNOW days! I am planning 2 birthday parties in the next 2 months which are statistically the snowiest months! Amazon Associate Disclosure: My Teen Guide is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. Preparing a few indoor party games for the kids to play is not as difficult as it may seem.
There are so many different options to choose from! Hosting a party for a 6-year-old? View this post on Instagram. Comments That mummy wrap game sounds like so much fun! Hula hoops sound fun.
I would get the giggles just trying to remember how to use one. So many fun games here! The mummy wrap one would be a hoot with little kids! Definitely some fun games for that age group! I think my kids would love that mummy wrap one! That person then becomes the child in the middle, and the game starts again. By this age children are starting to develop a reasonable concentration span, and most will enjoy the chance to solve a puzzle. Put approximately 6 — 12 everyday items onto a breakfast tray, depending on the ages of your guests , and make sure the children all know what they are.
If you have a theme for your party, you could make sure all the items fit in with your theme. Show the breakfast tray to the party guests, and ask them to try to remember everything in their head. Once they have had a few minutes to take a mental picture, take the tray out of the room and remove one or two items. When you bring the tray back into the room, the children can take turns trying to guess what is missing.
The child who guesses correctly gets to put the items back on the tray, and remove something different for everyone to figure out. Gather together small, light prizes such as stickers, small notepads, and pencils. A fish pond could be a paddling pool, a big box, or simply a rug on the floor.
Give each child a fishing rod with a magnet at the end of the line, and let them go fishing for their prize. Charades for this age group is about acting out an action or a thing, rather than trying to depict an entire movie title word for word. Depending on your guests, this game will be an instant hit or a complete failure, so the key is to keep it simple and get involved yourself.
If you have a theme, then choosing what the guests act out is easy, but if there is no theme to follow think of things that everybody will know and relate to. If you really want to have prizes for this game, you could make up certificates for different categories such as funniest performance, most reluctant star, and of course — drama queen, or king, as the case may be. This is a true classic. But like all classics, it never gets old, and actually gets better each time you play it!
It goes like this:. All the kids sit around in a circle. In the centre of the circle is a bar of chocolate, a knife and fork, a pair of rubber gloves, a really silly hat and a kitchen apron. If a child does roll a double, they leap into the centre of the circle, put on the gloves, hat and apron, and start to unwrap and eat the bar of chocolate — of course, they can only use the knife and fork. These game is heaps of fun, and often gets a little crazy.
If you find the doubles get rolled too often, and no one is actually eating any chocolate, try making it just double 1s, double 3s and double 6s that get the child in the middle. The last half hour of a birthday party can be quite chaotic. Any game that is planned will be interrupted by parents coming to pick up their children. As you try and say hello to the parent and give their child a treat bag, other kids are running around looking for one more game.
Have everyone sit on the floor. One child is selected to leave the room while another child hides a treat bag — in plain sight for younger children or completely hidden for older children.
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. The first child to get the cookie to their mouth wins! Draw a donkey on a large piece of paper and make a tail from a separate piece of card. Boil some eggs until they are very hard. The children race to the finish line. Each time they drop the egg they have to go back to the start and start again.
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