It is your child’s birthday. She is all fired up and bushy tailed and her eyes are pools of excitement. Her friends have had swell birthday parties. She wants hers to be just as good. You don’t want this flower to wilt. So you talk to friends, surf the net, rake old memories and draw up a decent plan. You could still be jittery, for you are not the party host kind. You could use some of these birthday party games to give your darling’s party that extra dash of color that will make her heart really soar.
If you have brothers and sisters, or grown up children, or friends close enough to give you a hand, you can have four or five birthday party games going simultaneously to have all the children feel important. Very small kids can play a really kiddy game. You can have some small, plastic buckets filled with small, colored balls placed a meter away from each other, neatly, in a line. Around ten steps away, you could place the same number of empty buckets facing the full buckets, again in a neat line. These really small kids can be allured to the game with brightly colored balloons around the stall. So, each kid stands next to a bucket and is asked to pick up one ball from the bucket, run the ten steps to the empty bucket and drop it in. When the empty buckets fill up, they start shifting the balls to the now empty buckets. There is no competition, just a happy running around; all play and all win, and they take home the colored balls in the buckets.
Children who are somewhat older can be given ladles to carry the balls into to drop into the empty buckets. And you could have competition there. They could be given a prize for winning in addition to the balls in the buckets. You could have all kinds of versions of the musical chair race. Just make sure there is nothing that would make them trip and fall. You could even have the age old Duck Duck Goose game with innovative changes. You could have more complex birthday party games for children who are older and can observe, analyze and plan. If the party has a theme like your child’s favorite story character, you can make masks and small articles of recognizable clothing and implements, and have them enact the story. The prize here is the chance to act, and the applause. Their performance could be rated too.
There is never a dull moment in organizing birthday party games for your precious little baby. There is excitement, there is fear, there is losing confidence and there is hope again, but you never plod along, bored, weary. The effort is worth it.
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