Best old school party games

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Most Popular 1. Customers Are Worse Than Ever 4. Why I Relapsed On Heroin 9. Best Newsletter Ever! Watch this video for a run-through of how to play Mother May I? Set up a line of chairs back to back with enough chairs for every child. Play some music as the children dance and move around the chairs. When the music stops each child must sit down on a chair. From the second round either one or two chairs, so that either one or two children are out each time.

Give the kids who are out a small prize. The last child left is the overall winner. Line all the children up with the birthday child as the leader. The kids have to follow the leader around the room. You can create an obstacle course for them to go round or you can have different things that the leader has to do at certain points — like blow a raspberry or wiggle their bottom — that everyone following must also do.

Change the leader at various points during the game. Once kids get to six years old they can start to really enjoy team games and more competitive games. They also have more of an attention span for taking part in fun party games with different elements to them. Kids age six, seven, eight and ten are also capable of waiting for their turn during a game and enjoying watching the child who is having their turn.

You can either play just for the fun of it, or keep track of who is winning and then give out prizes. Here is a selection of Minute To Win It games that six, seven and eight year olds will love. You will of course need to use your phone or a stop-watch to time the minutes!! Challenge the kids to keep a balloon in the air for a minute. Add interesting rules to the challenge, like keeping one hand behind the back or using no hands or only feet.

Partner the kids up into twos. Give one child a paper cup and the other child a cup filled with regular sized marshmallows. The pair with the most marshmallows thrown into the paper cup wins.

Play this game two at a time. Fill two empty tissue boxes with ping-pong balls, the same amount in each box. Tie the boxes around the waist of each player.

The kids must shake out the ping pong balls without using their hands. The first to empty their box wins or the child with the fewest balls left in their box after a minute wins. This is such an easy party game! Challenge the kids to move the cookie from their forehead to their mouth without using their hands.

The first child to get the cookie to their mouth wins! Draw a donkey on a large piece of paper and make a tail from a separate piece of card. Boil some eggs until they are very hard.

The children race to the finish line. Each time they drop the egg they have to go back to the start and start again. This is an absolute classic kids party game and it is a great game for six, seven and eight-year-olds to play as they can employ an element of strategy to try to win. Any child caught moving or wobbling when she turns around has to go back to the start line and start again. This game is great for kids from six years old upwards.

You will need a large bar of chocolate, a knife and fork, a scarf, hat and gloves. Oversized hats and gloves work super well for extra laughs. Get the children to sit around a plate with the large bar of chocolate on it.

Each child takes their turn to roll a die until someone rolls a six. The child who rolls a six then has to put on the hat, scarf and gloves and start to cut and eat the chocolate using the knife and fork. The other children continue rolling the die until another six is rolled. At that point, the child-eating the chocolate must stop eating. The game ends when the whole bar of chocolate has been eaten. You will need to have two or enough for however many teams you plan to have baskets or containers to put an equal number of blown up balloons in.

They then have to sit on the balloon until it pops, at which point they run back to their team and the next child sets off. The first team to pop all their balloons wins. You will need doughnuts, string and a washing line for this game. Buy enough doughnuts for every party guest and tie string round them. Attach all the doughnut strings to a washing line and then hang the washing line across the room — you can always ask a couple of willing parents to hold the line if need be.

You will need to have a small selection of random items, a kitchen tray and a tea towel. Plus a pen and paper for each party guest. Put the items on the tray and let the kids look at the tray for 30 seconds, then cover the items with the tea towel. Each kid who power-slings a ball into a bucket is the proud owner of the goodie waiting to be plucked up. Opt for three turns each, otherwise, there could be a lot of standing or wiggling happening!

A total blast, even for young kids, this is a must-try at your next kiddie-bash. Want to know how to play? We love the simple instructions offered up by Childhood Photo: Mike Gifford via flickr creative commons. Cold water, slippery fruit and no hands allowed…bring on the giggle-fest! Photo: Rob Swyston via flickr creative commons. Photo: Eden, Janine, and Jim via flickr creative commons. Spread out enough peanuts so each kid will be able to fill a cup.

Got kiddos dealing with allergies? Swap out the nuts for tootsie rolls, instead. Photo: Rebecca Siegel via flickr creative commons. Getting hotter, hotter, boiling hot! The seeker gets hints from those sitting around as to the top-secret location of the button.