Before the party, purchase a small, inexpensive prize related to the party theme or just something that you know your child and her friends will love and then wrap it in lots of layers of paper — recycled wrapping paper or newspaper are great.
To play, have the children sit in a circle, passing the wrapped parcel around the circle while you play some fun music. When the music stops, the child holding the parcel removes the outer layer of paper.
Start the music again and continue until one child unwraps the final layer of paper to reveal their prize. Pair players up and have them toss an egg back and forth to each other. Each time the children both catch it, they must take a step backward and continue. The team that can catch their egg with the furthest distance between them, wins! Egg and Spoon Race Line players up, each with an egg balanced on a tablespoon.
The first player to cross the finish line or first team to have all members jump is the winner. Treasure Hunt Treasure hunts or scavenger hunts can be super simple to set up, or as involved and detailed as you wish. The tokens can be anything — small coloured gemstones, printed tokens like the ones we used here for a goblin hunt, painted rocks, etc. Finally, at the much more involved end of the scale is a treasure hunt with a series of pre-written clues that guests must read and solve as a group in a trail around the party space to find a hidden treasure.
All three games that I mention are great non-competitive games, which will foster a sense of inclusivity for even the most shy of toddlers. Pop a few items of treasure soft toys, wooden blocks or small prizes like gold chocolate coins into a box and put it in the centre under the parachute. Everyone — parents and kids — hold the edge of the parachute and make waves like the sea. Everyone one takes hold of the edge of the parachute and lifts it up high.
Call each child by their name and have them run, crawl or shuffle on their bottom under the parachute from one side to the other before the parachute comes down and tags them.
Ask all the toddlers to take hold of the edge of the parachute with one hand, facing the same way as each other. Ask all the toddlers to sit on the floor at one end of the room and set a finish line at the other end of the room. Make sure to cheer for every child crossing the line and then give out celebratory little gifts to everyone.
Play some music, then when you stop the music, shout out an animal. Everyone has to pretend to be that animal. You can give a small prize for the best animal, as long as everyone gets a prize by the end of the game!! So, a great alternative for toddlers is to use a balloon or ball to pass round. This is a challenge game. Ask each child to try walking the plank without falling off.
Everyone else can stand around the plank clapping in encouragement or pulling faces and making distractions, depending on the vibe of the party guests. Every successful participant gets a small prize.
This is a complete giggle-inducer and an absolute classic kids party game! Get the toddlers to line up at the other end of the room to the wolf. Mr Wolf calls out a time… e. The toddlers move forwards the number of steps that relate to the time. Then the game starts over. Sit all the toddlers in a circle on the floor. There are two ways of running this game. Firstly, you can use an actual baking potato raw not cooked!! Or, you can buy an actual Hot Potato game that has a potato with a face.
Squeeze the potato to start the music and when the music stops, the person holding the potato wins a small prize and leaves the game. This is a great game to use to calm over-excited or tired children down before they have their party food or sing happy birthday and watch the birthday cake being cut. 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 first player rolls the die. Depending on the number that comes up, from , he will take that many coins.
If he rolls a six, for example, he can take six pennies, but then he has to exchange 5 pennies for a nickel. After a few exchanges, the student will learn to pick a nickel and one penny. The next player will do the same and take the allotted amount. On the player's next turn, she takes the allotted coins, but if she ends up with five pennies, she should exchange them for a nickel. If she has two nickels, she has to exchange them for one dime. When all the dimes are gone, the game is over and all players count out their change.
The person with the highest number wins. For the next level of learning money combinations add 10 quarters and then add dollar bills. Write the alphabet on the blackboard in scrambled form, low enough that the students can reach. Divide the class into 2 teams and have the teams line up.
Call out a letter. Have the first person in each team try to find the letter on the board and circle it. The first person done is the winner, and that team gets a point. To make things harder mix capitol and small letters.
For an even harder game, break the class into four teams and have them all looking for the same letter. This game can be played with letters also! See our additional page of Math Games.
Have the children sit in a circle and give each a card with a town name. Have one child be the "station master". The station master then calls out town names at random.
For example, she might say, "Springfield, Holbrook". The two children holding cards that say Springfield and Holbrook then have to get up and exchange seats. In the meantime, the station master has to try to jump into one of these seats. More than two destinations can be called out and the ultimate "All Change" when everyone has to change seats is a great laugh. The child left standing then takes over the roll as station master. You need a nerf ball or very soft ball. Have students sit on desks and toss the ball around.
If any students talk, they are "out" and must sit down. If any students drop the ball, throw it so it is uncatchable, or interfere with a throw or a catch, they are out and must sit down.
If any students drop a catchable ball, they are also out. Soon, all but 1 student is left as the winner. Pick one student to be "it. You need a closet, cabinet, or wall that a student can "hide" behind and not be seen by the person in the chair. You quietly point to a student to "hide. The rest of the students change desks. At 10, all must sit down.
Ask the person who is "it" to turn around and guess who is missing. If he guesses right, he can continue to be the "guesser". The person who was hidden picks the next hider. If he guesses wrong, he picks the next student to hide then sits down. You can decide on a maximum number of right guesses allowed so a good guesser does not remain guesser for too long.
Toilet Tag: it is the plumber in this fun chasey game. If tagged by the plumber the other player must kneel on one knee with one arm held out to the side. Tagged players must stay frozen in this position as a toilet until another free player comes and sits on his knee and pushes down on his arm to flush the loo!
The flushing unfreezes the toilet player to rejoin the game. Play until all players are frozen or until time is called and then a new plumber can be nominated. Very large groups may wish to start each round with two or even three plumbers. Paper, Scissors, Rock, Run! Line the two teams up facing each other a good distance apart. For each round, each team must secretly decide whether they will be Paper, Scissors or Rocks the entire team must choose just one. The losing team paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper must race back to their home base line with the team members from the winning team trying to catch them.
Anyone caught must join the opposition team for the next round. Everyone who is tagged must join hands on one end of The Blob! Eventually you will end up with a big group of kids chasing down just a few. They can become unstuck and re-joing the game when another free player scoots under their legs. The free player cannot be tagged while they are under a stuck player.
Play until all players are stuck in the mud or until time is called and a new It can be chosen. Very large groups may wish to start each round with two or even three nominated to start as It. Scarecrow Tag: The instructions for this classic tagging game that works well with larger groups can be found here — How to Play Scarecrow Tag.
Tails: Another fun tagging game, find the instructions for play here — How to Play Tails. Balloon Dare: Pre-prepare a collection of inflated balloons, each with a small piece of paper with a dare written on it. Players take turns to choose a balloon, pop it and complete the dare. In or Out? All team members stand inside the hoop, holding the hoop at waist level without using their hands. Should the hoop touch the ground, the team must start again from the starting position.
First team to successfully complete the challenge are the winners. Divide players into two teams. Players assume the crab position 0n all fours with stomachs facing upwards. Spread players out across the playing area. Place a ball in the middle of playing area with a member of each team facing off against each other.
Team members must stay in the crab position and work together to try to score a goal for their team — no hands allowed! Once a goal is scored the ball returns to the centre kick off position. Bubblegum Bubble Blowing Competition: Give each participant a piece of your favourite bubblegum and award prizes for the biggest bubbles blown within a given time limit.
Each team will need three scarves, t-shirts or pieces of fabric of the same colour, with a different colour for each team e. Line teams up a short distance away from the Tic Tac Toe board. This continues with the third player. As with regular Tic Tac Toe, the aim is to claim three squares in a row — horizontally, vertically or diagonally. First team to do so wins the round.
Wink Assassin: Everybody sits in a circle. When someone has been winked at, they pretend to die dramatically! Heads or Tails: Everyone stands up and put their hands on either their head or their backside. Flip a coin. If it lands on heads, everyone with their hands on their head is out.
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