The internet is ripe with free birthday games ideas for those harried parents who are just looking for something to entertain the children. Well, a lot of ideas available are just the regular old school yard games like Red Rover, Red Rover and you may be looking for something a little different.

Question Those Balloons

For this game you’ll need to fill up lots of balloons. This game is like your basic trivia game but with funny consequences if the player doesn’t get the answer right. This game consists of two piles of balloons. Pile A will contain only balloons with strips paper with questions on them. Pile B contains balloons with strips of paper with funny instructions on them. As you are blowing up the balloons you’ll slide a strip of paper into them and tie them shut. Just don’t forget which balloons contain which strips of paper. To make this process easier you might want to color code your balloons, like red for question balloons and green for instruction balloons.

Players will take turns popping a question balloon and attempting to answer the question on the inside correctly. If the player answers the question correctly then they pass and can sit back down. If the player answers incorrectly then they must pop one of the instruction balloons and do what it says. You could have instructions like, ‘hop on one foot while quacking like a duck.’

Pass the Present

In pass the present you’ll need several small gift items, boxes and lots of wrapping paper. Take each item and wrap it in its own box. Make sure to put several layers of wrapping paper on each box. To vary the game a little you can have a different number of layers of wrapping paper on each of the different gifts.

When the game starts have the kids sit in a circle and hand out the gifts, but don’t let them open them yet. You’ll start up music and the kids must pass the presents they are holding to the person next to them. When you stop the music they stop passing presents and each child takes a layer of wrapping paper off of the present they are holding. This continues until the last layer is taken off and the kid holding the opened present gets to have the gift inside.

These two games will help add some fun to your child’s next birthday party and certainly will keep the kid’s occupied.

Gail Leino
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