Kids Party Games ( Archived) (16)

My sons 6th birthday is a few weeks away and I am trying to plan his party. I cant think of any party games!! Anyone out there have ideas for indoor games that will hold the attention of young children???

Thanks

Hiya...this seems to be my specialty. My kids had theme parties every year. The neighborhood kids had so much fun that some asked their parents to let me plan their parties.......I'd love to help. What theme is your sons party and how old are the children?

The children that are going to be at the party range in ages from 2 to 12 years....majority of them being about 5,6 and 7 years old. The theme is going to be dinosaurs. I have no clue what to do with these kids to keep them entertained so any ideas will be helpful. Thanks.

I'd love to help you...but my birthday parties were always outdoors.

One fun game I do remember though...is you tie a balloon to each kid's ankle...they have to pop each other's balloons...last one with a balloon wins...that's tons of fun

Let me get my brain rolling with that theme and I will get back to you in a bit if I come up with anything decent.....

When my girls were younger..I had a lot of "theme" parties for their birthdays...

But my sister had a dinosaur party for her son...and part of the "theme" was to ask everyone to dress the part...(paleontologists)

You could have "sandbox" digs...or even a cardboard box with sand in it that the children could look for "dinosaur bones" or "dinosaur eggs"...We have party stores here that carry "rocks" that kids can chip away at to find "bones" as well...

Get the older kids to head a "group" of dinosaur hunters, so that they can move from station to station with some semblance of "order"

At one of the parties i had for my girls i needed a "forest"..so i just took loosely bunched up green tissue and stuck it close to the ceiling (for the tree tops) and just hung brown streamers down from that to represent the tree trunks...gave the atmosphere...

another fun one I remember...but the kids may be too young still...

take a chocolate bar, and wrap it with newspaper...10 layers or so.

put out gloves, a hat, and silverware and a dice.

whoever rolls a 6 has to put on gloves and the hat, and has to use the silverware to unwrap/eat the chocolate...the whole time you keep passing the dice, so if the next person gets it...then they put on the gloves etc. I remember this as always being a TON of fun too.

That sounds like it could be somehow made into a drinking game....

add shots and drunks.

You beat me to it. Was just about to suggest a similar idea!! Great one!