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Exhausted and trying to come up with easy party games

March 9th, 2015 at 01:48 am

Phew! Got through the most intense week of the birthday month. Even though it's fun, by the end it starts to feel like an endurance test.

Monday was my bday, Wednesday was AS's and Thursday was AA's. Saturday was AA's birthday party, and today one of her daycare friends had her 5th bday party as well.

Now we get to rest for a bit. Just in time, because this is promising to be a busy week at work for me.

The following weekend (21st) is NT's birthday, and the week after that (29th) is SL's birthday (her party will be on the same day).

AA's party was really really great for all the kids, I think, but super noisy and messy and hyper. I felt practically bruised afterward. I'm thinking that for SL's party I'll have a bunch of structured games and activities and basically play coach. Hopefully that'll keep them from spiralling into the heights of excitement they did at AA's.

So, pin the tail on the donkey, some kind of cake walk thing with little prizes maybe. Statues or Simon Says perhaps. Musical chairs? Possibly, though there are all sizes and ages of kids. No balloon popping games; AA spent half of today's bday party with her hands clamped over her ears because kids kept popping balloons.

Any other ideas? Kids' ages range from 2 to 10, with most of them falling in the 4-6 range.

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5 Responses to “Exhausted and trying to come up with easy party games”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
    March 9th, 2015 at 01:52 am 1425865945
    1425865945

    Some of our parties included 'decorating' the treat, could have been a cookie or a cupcake. Offer different frosting colors and sprinkles. It still goes fast, but does eat up some time.

  2. TarWalker Says:
    March 9th, 2015 at 03:31 am 1425871913
    1425871913

    Red light green light always worked when I babysat groups of kids. Don't need lots if space and you could goof it up with "orange light" or "slooooow light".

  3. wowitsawonderfullife Says:
    March 9th, 2015 at 05:10 am 1425877840
    1425877840

    My boys needed active games. I bought a small nerf gun with foam bullets and had all they boys shoot at targets and play various games. Then I sent them home with these inexpensive toys as their loot bag. They loved it.

  4. chloe Says:
    March 9th, 2015 at 05:40 pm 1425922804
    1425922804

    How about a "you find it" game. It's kind of like an Easter egg hunt. Print out a bunch of copies of the same image 3x5 size or smaller. (We use something related to the birthday theme, if there is one.) Cut them out and use painters tape on the back to stick them all around the party area. Backs of chairs, walls, etc. Make some hard to find (for the older kids) and some easy to find (for the younger ones). Then, when you say go, everyone looks for them at once and brings them to a central location to stick on a wall.

    You can re-hide them multiple times, too, if you need to fill more time.

  5. Petunia 100 Says:
    March 11th, 2015 at 06:00 pm 1426096843
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    One game we played at birthday parties was to take some yarn and cut it into various lengths. Hide the yarn and have the children find it. When time is up, each child's yarn is lined up end to end to see who's line is longest.

    I've also done a piņata. Before the piņata, we would do a craft time where the children decorate a small brown paper bag with markers, stickers, glitter, etc. The bag is then used for the piņata loot.

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