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Kid party games and Tips to select kid party games
Scratching on your head thinking of kid party games to entertain your little guests?
Don’t be stress ! You have come to the right place.
We have list of kid party game ideas with useful guidelines and tips to help you to choose the most suitable kid birthday party games for your kid birthday party Most of the popular child party games have already been played in different kid parties but with your little creativeness you will be able to make it differtent. "I don’t have any creative idea to make each popular kid party game an unique one!!!" Before we choose any kid party game, let take a look at things to consider when choosing kids party games
Kid party game guidelines and tips 1. Always keep in mind the age and ability of your invited guests when selecting kid party games. For instance a three year old child won’t be capable of playing charades but should have no problem to play some balloon game. 2. Where are you going to hold your kid party games? Are you going to have an indoor party or outdoor party? The space of the floor area where the games will be conducted? If you have a small floor area, you should not select game like musical chair which require lot of movement.
3. If you intended to choose group games. Must consider the number of guests invited, are they enough to divide into group evenly? 4. Is advisable to enlist adult helper so that game can run smooth and stress free. Thus you have to also take into consideration of the number of the helpers you have. Are there enough helpers to guide the game that you have selected? 5. Make sure that all your helpers know the rules of the game. 6. Don’t make too much distinction between winners and losers. Make sure that you have enough presents for everyone for each game. Better price to reward winner, small price to encourage others for the effort of involvement and avoid jealous and tear so that everyone will feel like a winner.
Remember as a rule, children are very competitive and feel miserable if they don’t win anything! 7. Gather material that you need before hands and place kept it at a safe place so that you are always ready for the next game and not to let your little guests to wait for too long. 8. Don’t need to have too complex game as often the simplest games are more well received.
With the above tips in mind now we are ready to pick from the list of kids party games. Remember with a bit of your creative twist each game can be bland in to your kid party themes.
Ice Breaking Kid Party Games Guest who is that. Each child is given a list of five or six questions. All kids will be given about 20 minutes to go around and ask as many guests as they can on the questions and record down on the paper. When the game stop, the host is to secretly select one guest for the rest to guess who is that. The host will read out the answers of the questions and the first one who got it right will be the winner. You can come out with your own questions, below are some example: Name Game You will need stickers for this kid party game. If you want you can buy some cute stickers with cartoon and have space to write the kid name on it. Write each kid name on the sticker and get the children to sit in a circle and count 1 to four and clap, the host will blow a whistle or something that will make a funny sound and point to all the children in turn and ask them their name. Than give the sticker with the name and stick on their dress. The objective of the game is to get very body know each other.
Picture drawing and colouring Put big paper on the floor and crayon or colour pencil beside and let them draw picture on paper. If you have a theme party, you might want to print out some graphic and let them colour. You will be able to get some print out from this site
kid party games-coloring book
for some theme picture.
Play Dough
This is a great activity to play either end of the party to entertain the children while they are waiting for their parents to come and fetch them or at the beginning of the party when the children are waiting for other to arrive. You can either make your own dough or buy from toy shop from internet. If you would like to make your own dough below is the recipe. Mix all the ingredients together. Add water, a drop at a time, until the dough is workable. Buy mould of your themes like dinosaur mould if you are having a dinosaur kid party theme. You would also check this site for more play dough recipe and children craft and activities
http://www.educational-toy-guide.com/recipeplaydough.html
Guess the Sounds A week before the party, you would like to record about 10 to 20 sounds in cassette tape or you would down load some from the internet play it from a PC or laptop on that day for your guest to guess. If you are having zoo kid party theme, you would download animal sound from this site kid party games –animal sound download
child birthday party games-download animal sound
and play them one by one and let the children to guess. The first one who got it right will be the winner.
Pass the parcel Wrap up a small box with different layers of paper and sticky tape.
Between each layer put sweet or small price related to your theme (e.g. small
Plastic dinosaur if you are having dinosaur kid party theme). Get all the children to sit in a circle, play the music and the parcel is passed around and when music stopped, the child who hold the parcel will remove a layer of the parcel make sure that you have enough price for everyone.
Musical Island
Musical status When the music start everyone will dance and the music stop everyone have to stand as still as a statue. The one who move will be the next judge.
Simon says
Balloon toss This is a simple game for young children. Gather in a circle, the birthday child will start first. The birthday child will toss a balloon in the air at the middle of the circle and shout for a child name. The name of the child who was called will have to try to catch the balloon before it drops to the floor. If he succeed, he gets to toss the ballon and call out another child’s name. Telephone Arrange the child in straight line, begin the kid party game by whispers a message like “Spider man increase his power by drinking a potion make by spider juice” some thing related to your kid party theme. The first person whispers a message and so forth until finally the last person says it out loud. The fun of the game is that the final version be different from the original.
Puppets show Puppets show is good for all kids that are below 5 years old. Especially for toddler, they very fascinated by puppets. You don’t really need to have a stage to do puppet show, you just hide behind a sofa or a table and hold up some cuddly toys and sing nursery rhymes with the children.
Here is a good web site for instruction on puppet making idea
legendsandlore-puppet making
Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Wheelbarrow Race Pair off your guests into group of two. One member of each team walk on his hand while the other hold his leg. At the signal to start, they will race to the finished line. The first pair who reached the finished line will be the winner.
Tug of war This is one of the popular game for both kid and adult party. Divide your guests into two teams, placed each team at the one end of the rope and tight a ribbon at the middle of the rope. At the signal, the team begin to pull, the team that managed to pull the oppose team to it is the winner.
Limbo competition Place a broomstick between two chairs. All the children will have to queue out in a straight line. One by one they will have to pass under the stick without using hands. Each round the stick will be made lower. If they fall or touch the stick they will be out of the game. Treasure haunt This game can either play in door or out door and can be use in different party themes.
Hide the presents behind around the room if indoor or behind the plant or around the garden if is out door. Give the children some clue and let them find the present.
Water bomb
Balloon battle Each child tight a balloon at their leg below the knee when the whistle is brow, all the children will try to step and burst each others’ balloons. The last person with the balloon not being burst will be the winner. Egg and Spoon race Egg and spoon race Divide the guests into two teams, line up the two teams and give everyone a spoon to hold in their mouths. The first player will have an egg or pin pong ball on the spoon and must past it to the next player’s spoon without touching it. The first team who pass it down the line is the winner. You might want to visit our kid party idea and theme for specific kid party games to fix the kid party theme |