need game ideas for b'day party?

[luvmyfam444]

What are some you've played as kids where you were blindfolded?

What about the ones where someone else is your hands?

I know I've played all these but can't remember any of them

 

[ontariomonkey]

the only blind-folded one I can think of is pin the tail on the donkey type (can be adapted to different ages ie pin the stubbleon mcSteamy).

As far as someone else being your hands? You could make them wear smocks and put thier hands behind their backs then someone else sits behind them and feeds them pudding or other messy food.

My favourite party game as a child was pass the parcel. Wrap a small gift in LOTS of layers of paper. Play music and pass the gift around, then when the music stops, whoever is holding the gift unwraps a layer (or as many as they can in that time) and the person who undoes the last layer keeps the present.

 

[Jill in Chicago]

I am big on games played just for fun, not with a winner getting a prize at the end. (Even if you make sure that everyone gets a prize.)

That said, I like pictionary. You do not need the actual game. In fact it is better to gear this to the age of the child. If the kids can't read yet just pick a category like animals.

Kids love, and I mean love, charades. Not like we used to play with all the complicated gestures for "one word, two syllables." Just give them a category like "t.v. shows," and watch them act them out, hysterically funny and you'll get great photos too!

One year my son, he was about 8 had an "alien" themed party. We cut out a cross shape of paper. The sides of the cross were the arms, the top the head, and the bottom (just that one long strip, not two) was where the legs would go. We folded in the parts. First everyone drew the head, then folded it over so you couldn't see it. (It was folded down.) Then someone drew the arm (or arms it is an alien) on the right side and folded it in. (My son had drawn the tummy part in the middle.)

I didn't think this would go over well at all, as some of the kids were very artsy, and some were not artsy at all. Well, 30 minutes later they finished! Then they were passed so that everyone got the head they drew, and all the parts were unfolded. Oh my goodness the boys loved this!

I always do this yarn thing. There is one color of yarn for each person. You take that yarn, one color at a time, and twist it all over the yard (or inside). Everyone has to follow their yarn, round and round, everywhere. The end was always the outside (garage) fridge where the cake went. (Again no prize just cake time.)

We always did a scavenger hunt, but at each place they first had to answer a question about the birthday child ie. what is his favorite dinner, or book or whatever, and then the birthday child reads the next clue.

Pyramid building. Who can blow the biggest bubbles. Hope this helps!!!

Remember when you are playing to have at least 2 more activities then you think you will have time for. Sometimes the games move quicker than you thought they would.

Oh and skip the whole goodie bag thing. No one needs "little junkers" as my friend always called them. A nice big candy bar with a bow, a little Lego set.... are much better received. One year we gave each of the children a helium balloon. Truly, little things are appreciated.

 

[luvmyfam444]

Thanks for the replies....yes - that's right you need to feed them something messy to make it funny - I can remember watching it on that show with Drew Carey & it wasn't the way we did it as kids - it looked stagedor something - never did figure out why it wasn't as funny as I thought...

Love some of these ideas - so I'm adding to my list.....

 

[ferrytale]

Check out the website (sorry I haven't been on it yet, or I'd post a link) to Guy Fieri's new show - Minute to Win It. The games they play on the show to win a million dollars, are all games you can do with stuff around the house. You think some of them are easy, but they are harder than they seem but fun - the trick is you only have a minute to complete each level.
DS(5) has been watching with us and wants to play a bunch at his next bday - too bad it's in December so we gotta wait until then, but DH wants to start having a Minute To Win It game night once a month or so. The games are easy enough for kids but hard enough for adults!
You could add blindfolds if you want, but some seem like fun just as they are!

 

[janey99]

I don't know how old your child is, but this game worked all the up until DS and his friends were 9 - tie air filled balloons to four foot long strings (as many as there are kids). Tie the other end of the string around the ankle - one per kid. Have them run around and try to stomp each other's ballons while preventing their own balloon from being stomped. Last balloon intact wins. Great yard game!

Jane

 

[happygirl]

Doggie Doggie where your bone.

 

[luvmyfam444]

Doggie Doggie where your bone.

I vaguley remember that - we hid something while the person was out of the room - right?

 

[kimblebee]

One of my favorite games at birthday parties was pop the balloon. There would be a bunch of blown up balloons and everyone would take turns popping them without using hands. Inside the balloon was a piece of paper with something to do written on it. This could be sing a song, bark like a dog or do a somersault. Not hard or overly embarassing things but fun stuff. This was a standard when I was going to birthday parties in the early 80s.

 

[luvmyfam444]

One of my favorite games at birthday parties was pop the balloon. There would be a bunch of blown up balloons and everyone would take turns popping them without using hands. Inside the balloon was a piece of paper with something to do written on it. This could be sing a song, bark like a dog or do a somersault. Not hard or overly embarassing things but fun stuff. This was a standard when I was going to birthday parties in the early 80s.

I remember playing this by plopping on the ballons on a chair to pop 'em - I can't remember their being paper in them...may have been.

 

[luvmyfam444]

Check out the website (sorry I haven't been on it yet, or I'd post a link) to Guy Fieri's new show - Minute to Win It. The games they play on the show to win a million dollars, are all games you can do with stuff around the house. You think some of them are easy, but they are harder than they seem but fun - the trick is you only have a minute to complete each level.
DS(5) has been watching with us and wants to play a bunch at his next bday - too bad it's in December so we gotta wait until then, but DH wants to start having a Minute To Win It game night once a month or so. The games are easy enough for kids but hard enough for adults!
You could add blindfolds if you want, but some seem like fun just as they are!

Checking it out - THANKS...

think I may have next years theme in that show...

 

[luvmyfam444]

Do you remember doing a relay of dressup - where you raced another team to put on layers? I can't remember - it seems like 1 person ran down & put on 1 item & ran back & the next person went & added something to themselves

I was trying to figure out how to get the girls dressed up - was thinking of having them put on too small princess dresses -but I don't have enough for all of them to wear at one time (was thinking it would make for a GREAT pic)

still brainstorming....

 

[luvmyfam444]

BTW - I didn't mention it on this thread - but its an Amazing Race themed party - so they are doing tasks/games (they are 12)

I've gotta fgure out how long these games/tasks will take the girls - so that I have enough of them line up! UGH!

 

[luvmyfam444]

bumping up

 

[happygirl]

I vaguley remember that - we hid something while the person was out of the room - right?

We play it a child sit in a chair blindfolded facing away from the group. We put a small object under the chair, one child is choosing to try to take the object from under the chair, If the child that is blindfold can hear the person about to take the object the say something.If they don't hear the other child goes back and try to pick which one has the object.

 

[krucook]

I'm looking for games, too, for my son's 5th bd party. We're doing Mickey Mouse/Disney theme this year. We do a family/adult party and then the next day a children's party with his friends and their parents.
A few of the games I've played at past parties that were hits that I'd like to share, last year we did 4th of July theme and we did TOP SPINNING game. I had a table set up where each group of 5 guests took turns spinning the patriotic tops to see whose spun the longest and then we had a final spin down. I also did the stomp rockets. I had one and borrowed a few other stomp rockets and had the guests 5 at a time stomp the rockets to see whose rocket went the highest. I used 4th of July bubble gum and one game was to see who could blow the biggest bubble. Another game was I bought the styrofoam airplanes that you put together from Oriental Trading. I gave one to each guest to put together and then we had a contest to see whose airplane flew the farthest.
Another party was fresh market themed and we raced in groups little mice from Halloween to see whose mouse went the fastest down the driveway. We also did who could husk a corn cob the quickest. I hard boiled some eggs and gave each guest a plastic spoon and we had a little course set up on the grass up and down our yard. They had to carry their farm fresh egg through the course the quickest.
At our Hawaiian party we did a Hula hoop contest and we did bowling coconuts into pineapples - I covered water bottles with pineapple garland decoration.
At our western party we did dropping snakes into a cowboy boot. We did tossing rings onto a set of horns of a bull. We did a horseshoe contest. When it was each of my child's first bd we did a photo game where I blew up close up photos of the birthday child one for each month and had the guests put them in order.
That's all I'm thinking of at the moment without looking at photos to refresh my memory. Just some ideas to pass around.

 

[Dizneydaz]

Check out the website (sorry I haven't been on it yet, or I'd post a link) to Guy Fieri's new show - Minute to Win It. The games they play on the show to win a million dollars, are all games you can do with stuff around the house. You think some of them are easy, but they are harder than they seem but fun - the trick is you only have a minute to complete each level.
DS(5) has been watching with us and wants to play a bunch at his next bday - too bad it's in December so we gotta wait until then, but DH wants to start having a Minute To Win It game night once a month or so. The games are easy enough for kids but hard enough for adults!
You could add blindfolds if you want, but some seem like fun just as they are!

I was just googling Minute to Win and this popped up. I am in the middle of planning a "Minute to Win It" birthday for DD's 11th birthday. She's wanting to do it every since we watched our first MTWI. There are so many games we can play, most with items from home so the cost is minimal. Now I'm looking for ideas for an unique invitation-something like a stopwatch.

 

[tiggger1]

we like doing the donuts on a string...