Silly Race Games
Divide the kids into 2 groups for these games and have them race by:
Holding balloons between their knees
Jumping rope singing happy birthday
Balancing an object on head
Holding a balloon between two of the team members heads
Balancing a small ball on their feet
Skipping backwards
Bouncing a ball
Once they master the forward races, have them do them backwards!
Guess and Win Game
Fill a see through jar with lots of small candy, jellybeans, skittles, marbles or small toys. Count them before you put them into the jar. As the children arrive for the birthday party have them guess how many toys or candies they think are in the jar. Write down each birthday party guest's guess. At the end of the birthday party reveal who guessed closest to the right number. The winner takes home a small prize, or the whole jar with its contents! Tip; Use items related to your birthday party theme. Plastic bugs for an insect party, pink jelly beans for a pink or princess birthday party, rings for a glamour party etc.
Limbo Game
Two older kids or adults hold a pole or broomstick at child's height. Start the music and have the children bend backwards and walk under the pole without touching it. After each round lower the pole an inch or two. If a player touches the pole, they are out. Game Variation: Instead of a pole use something from your birthday party theme: Pirate Limbo - hold a play sword; Fairy Party - hold a magic wand.
Spin the Bottle Game (birthday gift opening game)
This birthday party game is fun when it is time to open the birthday presents. Have kids hold the birthday present that they brought and sit in a circle. Place the spinner (bottle or other item) in the middle of the circle and have the birthday child spin the bottle. They will then open the gift of the child the bottle is pointing to when it stops. Tip: Use an item from your birthday party’s theme instead of the bottle - magic wand for a princess party, sword for a pirate party etc.
Telephone Game
Have children sit in a circle for this birthday game. The birthday child goes first and whispers a sentence to the person on their right. That person then whispers what they heard to the next person … and so on. When the message has gone around the circle, the person next to the birthday child tells the message out loud. Then the birthday child tells the original message. Very funny to see how things repeated change! Start game again with the next person.
Pin the tail on the Donkey Games
Place a poster on the wall and put a piece of tape on the back of each object the children will be pinning on the poster. Blindfold children, spin them around, and point them toward the poster. The child who pins their object closest to the designated spot, is the winner! Tip: Use a poster from your birthday party theme for this game. Examples: Pin the spider on the web, tutu on the ballerina, nose on the clown, X on a treasure map etc.
Prize Auction Birthday Game
On the birthday party invitation ask each birthday guest to bring an inexpensive item or a "white elephant" (something that is in good shape but they don't want anymore) wrapped in paper or a sealed in a paper bag. Give the guests $20 in play money and start an auction for the unwrapped gifts. For fun you can add food and gag gifts to the auction items. Keep the gifts wrapped and don't let anyone know what is inside until the high bidder opens the item. At the end let the kids trade or buy each other's presents from each other.
Oversize Birthday Party Game
This birthday party game let's the kids really get involved! On a very large patio or driveway draw a large (VERY large!) gameboard with chalk. Make every square at least 18". Make it in the shape of a circle or oval (or a figure 8). Write "start" at the first square and then on each square write a command or action. Example: Square 2 = move ahead 3 spaces, Square 3 - jump up and down until your next turn, Square 4 = sing the national anthem until your next turn, Square 5 = go back 2 spaces ... and so on until every square is filled.
Make 2 large oversize dice from boxes at least 12 x 12 (the bigger the better!). The pieces being moved around the board are the kids themselves. They roll the dice and then move themselves along the game board. The winner is the one to reach the end space first by landing on it with an exact roll. Kids LOVE this game!
Nail Polish Song
This is a new twist on the game "Hot Potato". Sit in a circle and give a bottle of nail polish to the birthday girl. While singing the song pass the bottle around the circle. When verse is over the girl holding the bottle of nail polish opens it and paints one of her nails. Then start the song again and keep going until someone has all of their fingernails painted. You can give out prizes or just have fun singing along. Here is one version of the song ... you can easily make it to fit your daughters nameWhat are some fun games to play at a 12 year old girls birthday party?
Definitely Rockband or Guitar Hero. It's not violent at all and everyone can enjoy it at the same time. One person can sing, one person can do the drums, and two others do guitar, and then take turns playing. :) It's for all ages - really easy to learn.What are some fun games to play at a 12 year old girls birthday party?
play dance dance revolution or guitar hero or rock band
Body Part
This game is fun to play at a "scary" sleepover and can be accompanied by other ghost stories and games such as "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" (see description below).
Ingredients
Paper Bags
Plastic Bags
Peeled Grapes
Canned Apricots
Popcorn Kernels
Cooked Spaghetti
Tomato
Macaroni Noodles
Jello
To Play
Have the kids sit in a circle in a dimly lit (or dark) room while you make up a story about a mean old witch who falls apart piece by piece. As you talk about each body part, pass around a paper bag lined with a plastic bag, and have the kids feel inside without looking.
Each bag should hold a different "body part" that has fallen off of the witch. For example, use peeled grapes for the eyeballs, a canned apricot for the tongue, popcorn kernels for teeth, cooked spaghetti for brain, a large peeled tomato for the heart, cooked macaroni noodles for intestines, a slab of jello for the liver, and so on.
Have the kids guess what food you used for each body part, and the person who guesses the most right wins.
Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board
Ingredients
Just Add Guests! ?
To Play
The basic premise of this game is to have one person lie on the floor while everyone else sits on his or her knees around her with both hands slightly under her.
There is one "Storyteller" who sits by the head and tells a made up story about the person on the floor's life and her "untimely demise."
At the end of the story, everyone chants "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board" repeatedly as they lift her off of the ground.
The idea is to have everyone believing that "spirits" are helping to lift her off the ground (in reality, she is probably being lifted because of all the people helping to lift her). Take turns, and tell a story about everyone!
Junk Food Frenzy
This is a great game that will keep your tummy full and keep you laughing.
Ingredients
Index Cards
Dessert Recipes
Ingredients to Make the Desserts
Measuring Cups %26amp; Spoons
Baking Dishes
Bowls
To Play
Dig out some of your favorite dessert recipes and copy the instructions on index cards.
Buy ingredients for all the desserts and place them on the kitchen counter.
Shuffle the cards and divide the guests into two teams.
Have players take turns drawing cards.
Each player reads the card and takes the listed ingredient.
When all the ingredients have been distributed, give the teams thirty minutes to prepare a dish using the ingredients accumulated by the individual players.
When the dishes are complete, have each player taste and eat the results, then vote on the best tasting dessert! For a fun variation, give both teams the same ingredients and see what different desserts they come up with (without using recipes).
Do-It! Dice
Ingredients
2 Square Cardboard Boxes
White Paint
Markers
Dice
To Play
Buy or find two square cardboard boxes and paint them both white. On each side of the square, write a command or a stunt, such as "Sing our National Anthem," "Hop up and down," "Spin around in circles," and so on.
Have the kids gather in a circle with the "Do-It! Dice" in the middle.
Have one player roll BOTH dice to determine his/her stunts, then have the player perform both stunts AT THE SAME TIME. This should provide lots of laughs.
Grabbit
Ingredients
Bag of Candy
Book
CD
Stuffed Animal
Nail Polish
Other Small Gifts
To Play
Place the objects above on a table, enough for each player.
Let each player name a favorite card game, such as fish, rummy, spoons, hearts, war, etc.
Gather the players around the table and remove all but one prize, setting the others aside.
Play one of the card games; the winner gets the prize.
Replace the prize, and start a new game.
Panic Word
Ingredients
Index Cards
To Play
Write down 100 words on index cards (one word per index card), such as blink, stare, lint, thread, plate, bra, and shoelace -- any words you like.
Stack the cards and put them in the center of the room.
Divide the players into 2 teams and seat them opposite each other.
Set the timer or stopwatch for one minute.
Have the first player from Team One draw a card from the pile and give clues to the word to his or her teammates before the timer ends the play.
If the word is "blink", the team member might say, "What you do if dust gets in your eyes?" Players from Team One try to guess the word; if they are successful before the time is up, they get a point.
If the timer runs out and the word is not guessed, the other team gets a point. Take turns until all the cards are gone. Then add up points to see who wins.
Who Am I?
Ingredients
Index Cards
Double Sided Tape
To Play
Write the names of famous people on index cards and tape one card to the back of each guest.
Have everyone walk around
This game is fun to play at a "scary" sleepover and can be accompanied by other ghost stories and games.
Ingredients
Paper Bags
Plastic Bags
Peeled Grapes
Canned Apricots
Popcorn Kernels
Cooked Spaghetti
Tomato
Macaroni Noodles
Jello
To Play
Have the kids sit in a circle in a dimly lit (or dark) room while you make up a story about a mean old witch who falls apart piece by piece. As you talk about each body part, pass around a paper bag lined with a plastic bag, and have the kids feel inside without looking.
Each bag should hold a different "body part" that has fallen off of the witch. For example, use peeled grapes for the eyeballs, a canned apricot for the tongue, popcorn kernels for teeth, cooked spaghetti for brain, a large peeled tomato for the heart, cooked macaroni noodles for intestines, a slab of jello for the liver, and so on.
Have the kids guess what food you used for each body part, and the person who guesses the most right wins.
Panic Word
Ingredients
Index Cards
To Play
Write down 100 words on index cards (one word per index card), such as blink, stare, lint, thread, plate, bra, and shoelace -- any words you like.
Stack the cards and put them in the center of the room.
Divide the players into 2 teams and seat them opposite each other.
Set the timer or stopwatch for one minute.
Have the first player from Team One draw a card from the pile and give clues to the word to his or her teammates before the timer ends the play.
If the word is "blink", the team member might say, "What you do if dust gets in your eyes?" Players from Team One try to guess the word; if they are successful before the time is up, they get a point.
If the timer runs out and the word is not guessed, the other team gets a point. Take turns until all the cards are gone. Then add up points to see who wins.
No-Mirror Make-Over
One of the best themes for a sleepover party for preteen girls is a Makeover theme. Host a beauty contest in which the contestants have to apply all of their make-up without a mirror. This is a game in which the most hideous contestant wins the prize. Make sure to take some nice blackmail photos of all the contestants!
Ingredients
Makeup
To Play
On the invitation tell the girls to bring their makeup...all of it!
Have everyone set it out.
Then, set a five-minute timer. Everyone has five minutes to put her makeup on without a mirror.
The girl with the most hideous makeup on wins.
flashlight tag: How to Play:
1. Play this game in a dark house at night or in a safe place outdoors when it’s dark.
2. Find a place to be base.
3. Choose one player to be “IT”.
4. The person who is “IT” waits at the base and counts while everyone else hides. Hiders can move around during the game.
5. “IT” searches for the hidden players with the flashlight. The flashlight must stay on at all time and cannot be covered.
6. Meanwhile, players try to run to the base without getting caught.
7. Players are tagged if “IT” spots them with the flashlight and calls out a player’s name.
8. Each tagged player is sent to the base to wait until the very last player is caught.
9. The last person tagged is “IT” for the next game.
10. Set a time limit for the game, if no one is tagged during that time frame, switch the person who is “IT”.
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