Ideas For Birthday Party Games

The birthday party games are described with rules and prizes below and grouped into individual and team games. For prizes in individual games just give one person the prize. For prizes in team birthday party games every person on the team wins a prize. Inexpensive prizes to be used in all games include things that can be gotten at the Dollar Store or Online catalogs like Oriental Trading Company. Some ideas are little jars of bubbles, gum, sunglasses, tattoos, stickers, beach balls, pencils, erasers, books, toy jewelry, little cars, crayons, sidewalk chalk. Some big prizes could be a shovel and pail set and toy set, wiffle ball and bat, set of sports orange cones, butterfly nets. All of those too can be found in the dollar store.

Team Birthday Party Games:
1. Egg on Spoon Relay.
Say there are 12 kids, Divide the kids into two teams 6 on A six on B. Each team gets 6 eggs. Split each team in half and put half from A at one end of a land and the other half at the opposite end. Do same for team B. Give each player on the team a disposable spoon. Each team starts at same time. Players walk or run as fast as they can to other end with an egg on their spoon and the spoon in their hand when player reaches opposite teammate ,teammate puts their spoon handle in their mouth and their teammate with the eggs puts her own spoon handle is his mouth and transfers the egg to teammates spoon without dropping it. IF the egg drops they have to go back and start again. (Please no running or walking with spoons in your mouth). Each team continues with A person going to B, B to C, C to D, D to E , E to F, F to A. First team to transfer the egg through all player without it dropping wins.

2. Balloon to the Moon:
Divide birthday party game players into two teams. Give each team a different colored balloon. The team to keep their balloon up the longest wins.

3. Fitness Maze Craze:
Dive kids into tow teams or more. Set up an obstacle course with things you have at home such as
Set up shoe boxes to leap over, then 3 hula hoops in a row to jump in, then a jump rope for 15 jumps and then do 5 pushups. If you mess up or skip something you start again. First team to have all players finish with no mistakes wins.

4. Balloon Rockets:
Divide kids into two teams or more. Everyone on team gets a balloon of the same color to blow up (if there are young children please have adults blow up and supervise at all times). Set up a marker on the ground as a target. Everyone blows up their balloon and lets them go at the same time. The team to get the most balloons closest to the target wins or the team that hit's the target wins.

5. Remember me tray birthday party games:
Divide the kids into team #1 and team #2. Make an A tray and a B tray. Put 15 different things on each tray. Give team #1 tray A for two minutes tell them to memorize what is on the tray. Give Team #2 tray B for 2 minutes. Tell them to memorize what is on it.
Give teams a piece of paper and have them go around in a circle saying 1 item at a time for 5 minutes. Then switch trays and play again. The team that remembers the most from the two trays wins.

6. Sneaky Sack birthday party Game:
Divide guests into two teams. Take two sacks and fill them with identical items. (Safe items only please i.e. no scissors or push pins etc ) Give each team a sack. Have them go around in a circle and guess what they feel. The team to guess the most items correctly wins.

7. Bottoms Birthday Burst Game:
Divide into two teams. Everyone gets a water balloon. Everyone sits on their balloon. 1st team to have all players burst their balloons wins.

8. Toilet Tissue Toga:
Divide into two or more teams (helps to have 3 per team; one to be the model two to be designers). Each team gets a roll of toilet paper. They have 5 minutes to dress their model. The team with the best toga wins.

Individual Birthday Party Games:
1. Make a poster size picture of the birthday person.
Make noses and give to each player with their initials on it. Player to get the nose on correct or closest person to the nose wins.

2. Hula hoop contest:
Player who hula hoops the longest without it falling wins.

3. Musical Chairs:
Use appropriate but new songs you here on the radio so that kids will get into it. Set up chairs in opposite direction in a line. Play the music and stop it. Kids race to a chair. Start with a chair for everyone. Then each time take away a chair. To move the game along faster take away 2 chairs each time. Last one seated wins.

4. Memory Dance Game:
Every player forms a circle. 1 player at a time moves into the circle and add one dance step at a time. 1st player to miss a step is out. Next person ahs to try and players are out until someone can correctly complete the dance. Once that person completes the dance they add a step and the game goes on until they have only one player left who can complete the dance.

5. "Birthday Person Name here" Says:
Basically Simon says just personalizing the name. The Birthday person gets to be simon and tells people what to do. Last person left wins.

6. Freeze dance.
Play music . All players dance. Stop the music anyone who doesn't stop quick enough is out. Continue until last player is left and that player wins.

7. Whip Cream; Whip Cream; Sour Milk:
Based on Duck Duck goose birthday party game. All players sit in circle except one. That person goes around and says Whip Cream, Whip Cream, Sour Milk. Then the sour milk person tries to catch them. Continue on just like Duck Duck goose but change duck for whip cream and goose for sour milk.

8. Alphabet Vacation:
All players sit in a circle. 1 player starts with A and says where they will go " we are going on vacation to Alaska. 2nd player says We are going on vacation to Alaska and getting there by boat. 3rd person says we are going on vacation to Alaska and getting their by boat. We are leaving from Carmen's house. The 4th says we are going on vacation to Alaska and getting there by boat. We are leaving from Carmen's house and Donna will bring Extra towels, 5th person says we are going on vacation to Alaska and getting there by boat. We are leaving from Carmen's house and Donna will bring Extra towels, frank will bring Gatorade. When someone messes up they are out. Keep going around until someone gets it then add in the next letters. Last player left that can complete it wins.

9. Birthday Suit Box:
All players pretend they aren't dressed and hide when cars, people walking by, bicycles etc pass. Every time you hide you have to have a new spot and no one else can be there already. There is one base. Only one person at a time can be on base. Once on base next time have to chose a spot not base. If you get "caught'" by a passer by then you have to sit in the "birthday Suit box" Continues until only one player is not in the birthday suit box.