Party Games for an eight year old girls party

[teag1rl]

Hi, I'm sure you'll all have tons of ideas for my mate. I've suggested pass the parcel, pin the tail etc but anyone got any more inspiring ideas? Party is on Saturday so not too much time for preparation!

[silverdaler]

hi teagi1rl, mine are all grown up now but they used to love playing musical corners. put some of their fave music on to dance to , put something red in one corner, blue in another etc then have four cards with corresponding colours behind your back. when the music stops they choose a corner to stand in , you choose a card without looking, whoever is standing in that corner is out. this carries on til one person is left and they win a prize.

if you want to modernise it, you could replace colours with pictures of current favourite singers and have their names written on cards instead.

girls usually love dancing and its easier to organise than musical statues. my girl used to want it played several times

[yinyang]

I used to love this one - not very healthy but ok for a one off. All you need is a big bar of chocolate still in it's wrapper, a tray , a knife and fork and a dice. basically everybody sits in a big circle around the chocolate on the tray and takes turns throwing the dice. if they throw a six they get to go at the chocolate using only the knife and fork - no hands. The object being obviously to get some chocolate! as soon as someone else throws a six they swap places with the child in the middle and so it goes on.

[Bohne]

At that age I'd go for a treasure hunt.

Draw up a map and hide a box full of sweets somewhere in the house or garden for all to enjoy when it's being found.

[leandrews]

Another idea is to get them sitting in a circle, and then go round giving them a colour, for example red green yellow red green yellow and so on until all children have a colour. Then start to tell a story using the colours. When the children who are yellow hear the word "yellow", they have to run all the way around the outside of circle and then sit back in their place as quickly as possible.

It gets them active, but they also have to listen to make sure they hear their colour. An extra thing i used to do was say the colour purple, this meant that all the children could run around and then had to sit down.

This game can also work with giving pairs of children colours, and sitting them opposite each other in the circle. When their colour gets called, they have to swap places. It's nice because it gets children sitting next to people they may not have met before.

I also used to do these games with a parachute, they all had to scramble underneath trying to find an empty space!

Setting up a mini obstacle course with teams competing is nice too. Also What's The Time Mr Wolf.

The Pirate Game is successful if you want to use the garden, or have a large space. Name one end of the room/garden Port and the other Starboard. You can tell them to run to each end, also giving them other comands like scrub the decks (on the floor on all fours pretending to scrub), climb the riggings (running on the spot using arms, pretending to climb), submarines (lay down on the floor and stick one arm/leg up in the air, like a periscope), captain's coming (salute) and captains daughter (make Ooooh sounds). It sounds confusing if you don't know it, but it gets them nice and worn out quickly, and is a good one to play before tea.

[leandrews]

Ran out of space!

For after tea, or just a nice calm game is wink murder. A child gets sent out of the room, as a detective. then you choose a child to be the murderer. The detective gets called back in and sits in the centre of the circle. The murderer has to wink or blink at others, who then have to fall over and play dead. It is the job of the detective to find out who the murderer is. This game works best when you tell the children not to all stare at the murderer as it can give them away! Also the children can make their 'death' as elaborate and overacted as possible, which can be hilarous!

That's just a few, I hope they help.

[vee009]

you could try a harry potter themed kids party game: http://kids-detective...as-for-kids-8-to.html