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

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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

      • indoors please

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        10.28.09, 03:29 PM Flag

        • pinatas are HUGE hits. huge. if you have uptight parents who are anti-candy, you can always put plastic rings or something.

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          10.28.09, 06:18 PM Flag

          • Hate, hate, hate pinatas. I have never been to a party where at least one child wasn't in tears by the end of it.

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            11.02.09, 07:55 AM Flag

    • 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

    • 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

    • any other suggestions please?

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      11.01.09, 06:07 PM Flag

    • 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

      • 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

      • 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

        • 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

    • 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

    • Name the mystery food.

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      11.01.09, 06:39 PM Flag

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

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        11.01.09, 06:47 PM Flag

        • 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

          • you are definitely my type of mother.

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            11.01.09, 06:54 PM Flag

            • Because you know I always have food and alcohol for the grownups!

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              11.01.09, 07:05 PM Flag

    • Pass the parcel is always fun.

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      11.02.09, 06:44 AM Flag

      • 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
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