Need Some Birthday Party Games! For Boys And Girls Age 6
Lounge By springlakecake Updated 8 Apr 2007 , 5:51pm by springlakecake
My son is turning 6 and having a boy/girl birthday party. The theme is Disney's Cars. I need a couple of games! Last year all of the kids were super good, but whenever there wasnt a planned activity they all started getting a little wild. So I wanted to plan extra activities to keep them really busy! Anybody have any simple game ideas? I am already planning for lunch, cake (of course!) and a pinata and that is about all I have! I am totally procrastinating! Help!
easy game to kill time: However many kids you have, make pieces of paper with one letter of the alphabet on it (one letter per kid).
Gather all the kids and have them stand on a 2 by 4 long piece of wood, or you can tape out a section using tape to create a barrier in which they are to stand in. Once all the kids are standing on this line, tape a letter to each one of their shirts. (NOT in alphabetical order)
Once a letter is on each kid, it is up to them to work together to get themselves in ABC order WITHOUT stepping outside of the taped barrier that you created (or the 2 by 4).
It makes them think AND gets them to work as a team. And it's fun.
ALl I can think of for now!
We always do games that are related to the theme. We played redrover but the kids all had masks on so they were animals from over the hedge and they called "all the skunks come over" We also did a scavenger hunt based on the movie where they are looking for the stuff on the list for the bear.
If you cant have the party outside it really limits things.
I fall back on the classics...I tried to plan games for my son's 5th birthday, but the kids took over and spent the whole time playing duck,duck,goose, red light/green light and simon says. Pin the tail on the donkey is always fun, but I worry about musical chairs, it seems like I always remember fights and tears with that one...
My 5 yr old had a Cars party and one game that I did that I thought was so cute was the Race Car Driver Trainers.
You need two large sweatshirts (like a small adult size) and some rubber bands. And lots of blown up water balloons (filled with air not water).
Form 2 teams. Each team has a "driver" who needs to put on a sweatshirt. A race car driver needs big muscles to handle those fast cars - so dump out all of the balloons and give a minute time frame (more or less) for each team of trainers to shove "muscles" in thier drivers sweatshirt (the rubberbands are to adjust the fit of the shirt so the balloons don't fall out). When time is up, count the balloons and annouce the winning team.
And of course take pictures of the drivers with all their new muscles - it is too cute!!
I am trying to think of the other games we played, but nothing else is coming to mind.... Oh, we did play "Hot Wheel" (hot potato with a plastic steering wheel).... ooo, I thought of another... let me know if you need it, I feel like I am typing too much! 
The chocolate game:
You need a dice, a bar of chocolate (still in wrapper), a knofe and fork, some adult gloves, scarf and hat.
The children sit in a circle with all the equipment in the centre. They take it in turns to roll the dice. When someone gets asix they run to the centre, put on the clothes and attempt to eat the chocolate using the knife and fork. Meanwhile the other children are still taking it in turns to roll the dice so that when someone else gets a six they come to the centre and take over. Lots of fun.
The marshmallow game.
You need: marshmallows, drinking straws and four plastic bowls.
Space the bowls apart about 3 metres. Put marshmallows in one bowl and leave the other empty.
Split the children into two teams. Their job is to see how many marshmallows they can get from one bowl to the other by sucking them up with their drinking straw and running to the next bowl while keeping sucking. They take it in turns to have a go. At the end of a given time the winning team is the one who've moved the most marshmallows. And of course everyone gets to eat some so no=one's really lost.
I could go on forever. I'm a primary school teacher. If you need any more ideas please PM me.
Pin the Lightning Bolt on McQueen.
Have a pit stop scavenger hunt. Cut out two or three cars out of car board. Cut each car in to pieces; ie two wheels, a wind shield and front and back of the car. Also cut out a gas nozzle and wrench for each car. Colour code everything so one car can be red with red lug nuts for wheel and a red wrench and gas nozzle ect. Hide the pieces around the yard or room. The kids get divided into teams and each teams has to send out one person at a time from the "pit". Once that child has found a piece of their car they come back and a different one goes out. Once they have all the pieces they can put their car together working as a team. The first "pit crew" that finishes wins.
You could do a very simple Cars trivia game. Ask questions like:
What kind of car was tow-mater
how many piston cups did Doc win
What did Lightning McQueen have to do as punishment for wrecking the road?
ect....
This game is always a winner here! We use paper plates, maybe you could spray paint them black to look like wheels??? Have the same number as there are children, and numbered 1 - ???. Have the children walk around the room to music, and when the music stops they have to stand on one plate. When all the children are on a plate, pick a number from the hat (which you have previously organised) and the person standing on that number is out.
He would love the marshmallow game but I think he would eat them all before he got them to the second bowl. Boy I wish I had checked back. One of those threads I didnt get notified of replies, so I didnt think there were any! Oh well! Thank you everyone! I will definitely have to use these games for future parties! I loved the cars games idea! Boy I am sad I didnt check back! YOu guys are so smart and creative!
We ended up doing a 'cake walk" but with prizes instead of cake...obviously they had cake later! I just got some sticky foam piece and they came in different colors and stuck them in a circle and had numbers on each one. They walked around to the music and when it stopped we drew a number.
The sticky foam numbers came in handy again because I had them all stand on a number and we drew numbers randomly for the pinata. It really helped the children to know where to stand also.
Then we did a game were we put a pack of lifesavers in a balloon (that was blown up) and they had a relay race. EAch kid had to run to the end and pop the balloon and bet their prize and run back, then the next kid went. A couple of kids were afraid, so the adults just popped them for them!
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