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  • Please suggest simple games to play with children (ages 5 to 11) at a birthday party.

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    10.28.09, 03:15 PM [ Flag ]

    • in or out doors?

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      10.28.09, 03:28 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • A bunch of moms and I were all surprised how much a hit a modern version of pin the tail on the donkey was recently. Won't take up the whole party, but will kill some time and cause some laughs.

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      10.28.09, 06:20 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • A simple cakewalk is fun; our school does it at the carnival every year. Like musical chairs but you can use big colored dots that you arrange in a circle. The kids walk the circle while music plays and then they stop on a dot when the music stops. You have a bowl of plastic chips (or whatever) in corresponding colors and have an adult pull a color out and the child on that color wins a prize - usually a cupcake or some treat. The nice thing is whoever is pulling out the colors can easily make sure every child gets something at some point in the game. Really, really fun.

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      10.28.09, 06:29 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • any other suggestions please?

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      11.01.09, 06:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • we just did eating doughnuts off a string at a Halloween party and it was a huge hit with all ages. tie the doughnuts to a long string and hang off some sort of coat rack/curtain rod. kids race to see who can eat their doughnut first with no hands.

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      11.01.09, 06:13 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Or eating fruit roll ups that are hanging on a string - with hands behind back.

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        11.01.09, 06:16 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • That is such a good idea! Did you put down a tarp/newspaper or something or was it ok to clean up afterwards?

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        11.02.09, 07:33 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • we did it outside. but it's really not that messy. The doughnuts might fall on the floor, but more often the kid eats it all. I liked the mini powered sugar Entenmann's ones, but they can be a little hard to get the string through. The kids get powdered sugar all over their faces.

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          11.02.09, 08:34 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Freeze dance, limbo, musical chairs, pass the potato, some version of the make a brides dress out of toilet paper contest, simon says

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      11.01.09, 06:19 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Name the mystery food.

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      11.01.09, 06:39 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • np: that would be funny. what sort of foods would you include?

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        11.01.09, 06:47 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Definitely something from a baby food jar, lime yogurt, slice of cucumber, raw cookie dough, grapefruit? Maybe all baby food. And serve it on little spoons. You could do all the easy ones and then throw in some lentils. Or chicken. Yuck. (another nice idea could be cake batter?)

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          11.01.09, 06:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Pass the parcel is always fun.

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      11.02.09, 06:44 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Hot potato works for this age. As long as you have fun prizes you can have a blast with old-fashioned games. We love musical chairs when the kids end up in each other's laps. The kids find it hysterical

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        11.02.09, 07:30 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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