Birthday Party Games for Kids Ages 4 to 13

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  1. Red Light, Green LightOne caller stands at the far end and turns away on green light while everyone creeps forward. On red light the caller spins around, and anyone caught moving goes back to the start. Whoever tags the caller first takes over. Players: 4 to 20. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  2. Pass the Parcel With Forfeit SlipsTuck a slip of paper under each layer with a quick forfeit, such as hop around the circle or name five fruits in ten seconds. Whoever unwraps the layer does the forfeit. Record short bursts of music in advance so the stops are fair. Players: 6 to 15. Time: 12 min. Props: a layered parcel, forfeit slips and music.
  3. Pass the Parcel, a Treat in Every LayerWrap a prize in one layer of paper per guest, with a sticker or small treat under every layer. Kids pass the parcel around the circle to music, and whoever holds it when the music stops peels off one layer. Stop the music so that every child gets a turn. Players: 5 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: a layered parcel and music.

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Ages 4, 5 and 6 25

  • Animal Freeze Dance Kids dance while the music plays. When it stops, call out an animal and everyone freezes in that animal's shape until the music starts again. Nobody is out, so the four-year-olds stay in the game to the end. Players: 3 to 20. Time: 8 min. Props: music.
  • Balloon Keep-Up Count The whole group keeps one balloon off the floor while counting the hits out loud. When it lands, start again and try to beat the record. Add a second balloon once they reach 20. Ask about latex allergy first. An adult blows up the balloons and picks up every piece of one that pops, because broken balloons are a choking hazard. Players: 3 to 10. Time: 6 min. Props: two balloons.
  • Balloon Tennis With Paper Plate Paddles Tape a craft stick to a paper plate to make each paddle, and string a ribbon between two chairs as the net. Pairs rally a balloon over it and count how many hits they manage before it lands. Ask about latex allergy first. An adult blows up the balloons and picks up every piece of one that pops. Players: 2 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: paper plates, craft sticks, tape, a ribbon and balloons.
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  • Birthday Child Says It is Simon Says with the birthday child as Simon. Do the action only when the order starts with the magic words, and sit down if you are caught out. The last player standing gives the orders next. Players: 4 to 20. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  • Captain, May I Players line up facing the captain and take turns asking for a move: Captain, may I take three giant steps? The captain says yes or names a different move, such as two frog hops. Forget to ask and you go back to the start. The first player to reach the captain takes over. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Doggy, Doggy, Where Is Your Bone One child sits with their back to the group and a toy bone behind them. A silent point from the host picks a guest to sneak the bone away and hide it in their lap. The dog turns around and gets three guesses at who has it. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 8 min. Props: a toy bone or a beanbag.
  • Duck, Duck, Goose Kids sit in a circle. The picker walks around it tapping heads and saying duck, then picks a goose, who jumps up and chases the picker around the circle. If the picker reaches the empty spot first, the goose is the new picker. Players: 6 to 15. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Floor Is Lava Cushion Crossing Lay a trail of cushions, mats and sheets of paper across the room. The team has to get everyone from one side to the other without touching the floor, passing spare cushions forward as they go. Players: 3 to 10. Time: 10 min. Props: cushions, mats and paper.
  • Hot Potato With a Beanbag Pass a beanbag around the circle as fast as you can while the music plays. Whoever holds it when the music stops moves to the middle and chooses when to stop the next song. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 8 min. Props: a beanbag and music.
  • Musical Chairs With Cushions Lay cushions on the floor, one less than there are players. When the music stops everyone sits on a cushion, the player left over is out, and one cushion goes with them. Cushions do not tip over the way chairs do. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 10 min. Props: cushions and music.
  • Musical Islands, Nobody Out Scatter sheets of paper on the floor as islands. When the music stops everyone must have a foot on an island, and you take one island away each round. Kids share islands to stay in, so the game ends with the whole party squeezed onto one. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 8 min. Props: sheets of paper and music.
  • Pass the Parcel, a Treat in Every Layer Wrap a prize in one layer of paper per guest, with a sticker or small treat under every layer. Kids pass the parcel around the circle to music, and whoever holds it when the music stops peels off one layer. Stop the music so that every child gets a turn. Players: 5 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: a layered parcel and music.
  • Picture Bingo, a Prize for Every Line Give each child a picture card and call the pictures one at a time. A full line wins a small prize and the game carries on, so there are several winners before anyone fills a whole card. Players: 4 to 20. Time: 12 min. Props: picture bingo cards and counters.
  • Picture Clue Treasure Hunt Draw or print five picture clues, such as the bathtub, the mailbox and the fridge, and hide each one at the place shown on the clue before it. Kids who cannot read yet follow the pictures as one team to the prize box at the end. Players: 3 to 10. Time: 12 min. Props: five picture clues and a prize box.
  • Pin the Tail on the Party Theme Swap the donkey for your theme: the horn on the unicorn, the wheel on the digger, the candle on the cake. Each child is blindfolded, turned around gently and walks forward to stick their piece on the poster, with an adult walking beside them. Closest wins, and initials on every piece settle the argument. Players: 4 to 15. Time: 10 min. Props: a poster, paper pieces, tape and a blindfold.
  • Piñata, One Song Per Turn An adult walks each blindfolded child to the mark, turns them around and steps back, and the child swings for as long as the group sings one short song, then passes the stick on. The youngest go first. Keep everyone else behind a line until an adult calls that the stick is down. Players: 5 to 20. Time: 15 min. Props: a piñata, a stick, a blindfold and a bag per child.
  • Quiet Bubble Packing Runway Roll a strip of bubble packing down the hallway. In round one, players cross it without popping a single bubble. In round two, they stomp the whole length as loudly as they can. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 6 min. Props: a roll of bubble packing.
  • Red Light, Green Light One caller stands at the far end and turns away on green light while everyone creeps forward. On red light the caller spins around, and anyone caught moving goes back to the start. Whoever tags the caller first takes over. Players: 4 to 20. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  • Run to the Color Call out a color and every child runs to touch something of that color, then freezes. Make it harder with two colors at once, or with a color that somebody is wearing. Nobody is out. Players: 3 to 20. Time: 6 min. Props: none.
  • Sleeping Lions All the lions lie down and stay as still as they can. One or two hunters walk among them telling jokes, without touching, and any lion who moves or giggles gets up and joins the hunters. It is the calmest way to end a loud party. Players: 4 to 20. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  • Teddy Bear Hide and Find Hide one small soft toy per guest around the room before the party. On go, each child finds one toy and carries it back to the picnic blanket, and early finders help the others. Nobody is out and everyone finishes holding a toy. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 8 min. Props: one soft toy per child.
  • What Is Missing From the Tray Show a tray of eight party objects for thirty seconds, cover it and take one away. The first child to say what is missing removes the next one. Older children can play it the long way: show fifteen objects for a minute, cover the tray and write down all they remember. Players: 3 to 10. Time: 8 min. Props: a tray, a cloth and eight objects.
  • What's the Time, Mr. Wolf? The wolf stands with their back to the group, who call out the question together. The wolf answers with an hour and everyone takes that many steps closer. When the wolf answers dinner time, everyone runs back to the start, and whoever is tagged becomes the wolf. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Whisper Down the Line, Birthday Message The birthday child whispers a silly sentence to the next guest, who whispers it on, once only, down the line. The last guest says it out loud. Nobody wins, and the mangled message is the point. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 5 min. Props: none.
  • Wooden Egg and Spoon Race Each runner balances a wooden egg or a golf ball on a spoon and walks the course with the other hand behind their back. Drop it and you stop, put it back and carry on. Run heats of four, then a final. Players: 4 to 16. Time: 10 min. Props: spoons and wooden eggs or golf balls.

Ages 7, 8, 9 and 10 31

  • Backyard Obstacle Course, Beat Your Own Time Set five stations from what you have: crawl under a table, zigzag the cones, five jumps on the spot, carry a ball on a spoon, ring the bell. Time each child twice. The prize goes to whoever improves their own time the most, so the fastest kid does not always win. Players: 3 to 15. Time: 15 min. Props: a stopwatch and household obstacles.
  • Balloon Waddle Relay Runners squeeze a balloon between their knees and waddle to a chair and back without using their hands. If the balloon drops, they go back to the line and start that leg again. Ask about latex allergy first. An adult picks up every piece of a popped balloon before the next runner goes. Players: 6 to 20. Time: 10 min. Props: one balloon per team and spares.
  • Birthday Clue Trail Write six rhyming clues that lead from one hiding place to the next and end at the party bags. Teams of three or four start on different clues so that they do not follow each other. Readers of eight and up can run it without an adult. Players: 4 to 16. Time: 15 min. Props: six written clues and a prize.
  • Chain Tag The tagger catches one player and they join hands. The chain grows with every catch, and only the two free hands at the ends can tag. The last player caught starts the next chain. Players: 8 to 25. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Charades, Kids Against Grown-Ups The kids act and guess as one team and the adults as the other, with one minute per card. No talking and no pointing at things in the room. Holding up fingers for the number of words is allowed. Players: 6 to 20. Time: 15 min. Props: charades cards and a timer.
  • Cookie Face Slide Sit down, tilt your head back and place a cookie on your forehead. Using only face wiggles, slide it down to your mouth inside one minute. Hold a plate in your lap so that a dropped cookie still gets eaten, and sit up before you eat it. Players: 2 to 15. Time: 5 min. Props: one cookie and one plate per player.
  • Cup Stack Sprint Each player gets ten plastic cups in a stack. Build a four, three, two, one pyramid, then slide it back down into a single stack. The fastest clean time wins, and a fallen pyramid has to be rebuilt. Players: 2 to 12. Time: 5 min. Props: ten plastic cups per player and a timer.
  • Draw It Fast Team Race One drawer from each team runs to the host, reads the same secret word, runs back and draws it with no letters or numbers. The first team to guess scores, then the next drawer runs up. Players: 6 to 16. Time: 15 min. Props: paper, markers and a word list.
  • How Well Do You Know the Birthday Kid Before the party, ask the birthday child ten questions, such as favorite dinner, dream pet and scariest ride. Guests write their guesses, then the birthday kid reads out the real answers. Most matches wins. Players: 4 to 20. Time: 10 min. Props: ten questions, paper and pencils.
  • Limbo Under a Pool Noodle Two helpers hold a pool noodle at shoulder height and the line dances under it leaning backward. Touch the noodle or put a hand on the floor and you are out. Lower it a hand's width after every full pass. Players: 5 to 20. Time: 10 min. Props: a pool noodle and music.
  • Musical Party Hats Sit in a circle, with one party hat fewer than players. While the music plays, keep passing the hats from head to head around the circle. When it stops, whoever has a bare head is out and takes one hat with them. Players: 6 to 15. Time: 10 min. Props: party hats and music.
  • Newspaper Dance, Fold It Smaller Each pair dances around a sheet of newspaper. When the music stops, both dancers must be standing on their sheet with no feet on the floor. Fold the sheet in half after every round until only one pair can balance. Players: 6 to 20. Time: 10 min. Props: newspaper and music.
  • Octopus Tag One octopus stands in the middle of the yard and calls for the fish to swim across. Anyone tagged sits down where they were caught and becomes a tentacle, tagging swimmers with their arms only. The last fish is the next octopus. Players: 8 to 25. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Paper Airplane Distance Contest Give everyone one sheet of paper and five minutes to fold and test a plane. Each pilot gets two official throws from the line, and the longer one counts. Run a second prize for the fanciest loop. Players: 3 to 20. Time: 12 min. Props: paper and a tape measure.
  • Paper Plate Head Drawing Everyone holds a paper plate on top of their head and draws on it without looking while you give the orders: draw a cake, add six candles, put a plate under it, write happy birthday. Hold the plates up together and let the birthday kid pick a favorite. Players: 3 to 20. Time: 8 min. Props: paper plates and markers.
  • Pass the Parcel With Forfeit Slips Tuck a slip of paper under each layer with a quick forfeit, such as hop around the circle or name five fruits in ten seconds. Whoever unwraps the layer does the forfeit. Record short bursts of music in advance so the stops are fair. Players: 6 to 15. Time: 12 min. Props: a layered parcel, forfeit slips and music.
  • Pillowcase Hop Race Each racer stands in a pillowcase, holds the top edge and hops to the finish line on grass. Run heats of four and then a final. Pillowcases fit seven-year-olds better than full-size sacks do. Players: 4 to 16. Time: 10 min. Props: old pillowcases.
  • Rob the Nest Put a plastic hoop in each corner of the yard and a pile of beanbags in the middle. Teams send one runner at a time to bring back one beanbag. When the middle is empty, runners may take from other nests. Count the nests after three minutes. Players: 8 to 24. Time: 8 min. Props: four plastic hoops and about 20 beanbags.
  • Roll a Six, Oven Mitt Unwrap A gift wrapped in many layers sits in the middle with a pair of oven mitts and a hat. Players take turns rolling a die. Roll a six, put on the hat and mitts and start unwrapping, until the next six takes the kit off you. Players: 5 to 12. Time: 12 min. Props: a well-wrapped gift, oven mitts, a hat and a die.
  • Shake the Tail Box Tie an empty tissue box holding eight table tennis balls to the back of each player's waist. With no hands, players jump, wiggle and shake until every ball is out. The first empty box wins. Players: 2 to 10. Time: 5 min. Props: tissue boxes, ribbon and table tennis balls.
  • Shoe Pile Scramble Everyone takes off one shoe and adds it to a pile at the far end of the room. On go, players race to the pile, find their own shoe, put it on and run back. Play it again in teams, where the whole team has to be back and sitting down. Players: 6 to 20. Time: 5 min. Props: none.
  • Silly Blank Story Read-Aloud Ask the group for a list of words without telling them the story: an animal, a food, an action, a place. Drop the words into the blanks and read the finished story aloud in your most serious voice. Players: 3 to 15. Time: 8 min. Props: a fill-in-the-blank story.
  • Squeak, Piggy, Squeak The blindfolded farmer is turned around three times, and an adult walks them to a seated player. The farmer places a cushion on that player's lap, sits on it and says squeak, piggy, squeak. The piggy squeaks in a disguised voice and the farmer guesses who it is. Piggies swap seats before each turn. Players: 6 to 15. Time: 10 min. Props: a cushion and a blindfold.
  • Statue Garden Everyone freezes as a statue while one gardener walks among them. Statues may change pose whenever the gardener is not looking, and anyone seen moving becomes a gardener too. The last statue standing wins. Players: 5 to 20. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Steal the Beanbag by Number Two teams face each other across the yard, and each player gets a number that matches one opponent. Call a number and that pair races for the beanbag in the middle. Carry it home for a point, but once you touch it your opponent can tag you and take the point. Players: 8 to 20. Time: 12 min. Props: a beanbag.
  • Sticky Note Face-Off In pairs, one partner sticks as many sticky notes as possible on the other partner's face and hair in one minute. Count them, swap over, and the pair with the highest total wins. Players: 4 to 16. Time: 5 min. Props: a pad of sticky notes per pair.
  • Streamer Laser Hallway Tape crepe paper streamers across a hallway at odd heights and angles to make laser beams. Each player crosses without touching or tearing one, against the clock. Add five seconds for every beam touched. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 12 min. Props: crepe paper streamers, tape and a timer.
  • Trivia With Pot Lid Buzzers Two teams each get a bell, or a pot lid and a wooden spoon, as a buzzer. Read a question, the first buzz answers, and a wrong answer hands the question to the other team. Play to ten points. Players: 4 to 16. Time: 15 min. Props: a question list and two noisy buzzers.
  • Twenty Questions, Party Theme One player thinks of something that fits the party theme. The group gets twenty yes-or-no questions to work it out, and whoever guesses right thinks of the next one. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  • Two Balloons, One Minute Each player keeps two balloons in the air for one minute using hands only. If either one touches the floor, that player sits down. Give anyone still standing a third balloon for the final. Ask about latex allergy first, and an adult picks up every popped piece at once. Players: 2 to 12. Time: 5 min. Props: three balloons per player.
  • Would You Rather Line Jump Run a strip of tape down the middle of the room. Read a would you rather question, point left for the first choice and right for the second, and everyone jumps to a side. Ask one jumper from each side to say why. Players: 4 to 25. Time: 8 min. Props: tape and a list of questions.

Ages 11, 12 and 13 (tweens) 20

  • Blind Portrait Pairs Pairs sit facing each other and draw their partner's portrait without looking down at the paper. After thirty seconds, sign it and hand it to the sitter. Hang the gallery on the wall for the rest of the party. Players: 4 to 16, even numbers. Time: 6 min. Props: paper, pens and something to lean on.
  • Categories Against the Clock Roll a letter and read out a list of categories, such as a snack, an animal and something in a school bag. Everyone writes one answer per category before the two-minute timer ends. An answer that nobody else wrote scores a point. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 12 min. Props: paper, pencils and a timer.
  • Cupcake Decorating Judges Give each guest a plain cupcake, frosting and toppings, and five minutes to decorate it on a theme. The birthday kid gives every cupcake a title, such as tallest or most colorful, and then everyone eats their own. Players: 4 to 12. Time: 15 min. Props: cupcakes, frosting and toppings.
  • Don't Laugh Circle One player stands in the middle and has 30 seconds to make someone in the circle laugh, with faces, voices and jokes but no touching. The first to crack swaps into the middle. Players: 4 to 15. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  • Flashlight Tag at Dusk The tagger carries the only flashlight and tags people by catching them in the beam and calling their name. Set the boundaries while it is still light, and make the porch a no-hiding zone. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 15 min. Props: one flashlight.
  • Four Square Tournament Chalk a big square split into four and put a player in each box, with everyone else in line. Hit the ball with your hands so that it bounces in another box. Miss it, let it bounce twice or hit it out, and you go to the back of the line while the others move up. Players: 5 to 12. Time: 15 min. Props: chalk and a playground ball.
  • Glow Bracelet Hunt in the Dark Snap 30 glow bracelets and scatter them around the dark yard. Teams get three minutes to collect as many as they can, and one rare color is worth five. Players: 4 to 16. Time: 8 min. Props: about 30 glow bracelets.
  • Group Dance in Ten Minutes Split into crews of three or four and give every crew the same song. They get ten minutes in separate rooms to build a 30-second routine, then perform it for the party. The birthday kid hands a silly award to every crew. Players: 6 to 16. Time: 25 min. Props: music and a speaker.
  • Hum It, Guess It One player hums a well-known song with no words and no la-las. The first person to name the song hums next. With two teams, give each hummer 30 seconds per song. Players: 4 to 14. Time: 10 min. Props: none.
  • Kick the Can One guard protects a can in the open while everyone else hides. Players the guard spots and names go to jail beside the can. If a free player runs in and kicks the can first, everyone in jail goes free. Players: 5 to 15. Time: 15 min. Props: an empty can or a plastic bottle.
  • Newspaper Fashion Show Teams of three get a stack of newspaper, a roll of tape and ten minutes to dress one teammate for a theme, such as space explorer or royal wedding. Models walk the runway while a teammate describes the outfit. Players: 6 to 18. Time: 20 min. Props: newspaper and tape.
  • One-Word Story Circle Build a story around the circle one word at a time. Anyone who pauses for more than three seconds is out, and the story starts again with a new first word. Record it on a phone and play it back at the end. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 8 min. Props: none.
  • Padlock Puzzle Hunt Lock the party bags in a box with a three-digit padlock and hide three puzzles around the room. Each solved puzzle gives one digit, such as the number of candles in a drawing. The group works as one team against a 20-minute timer. Players: 3 to 10. Time: 20 min. Props: a box, a three-digit padlock and three puzzles.
  • Prop Box Improv Fill a box with household objects, such as a colander, a scarf and a whisk. Each player pulls one out and has 15 seconds to show three things it could be other than what it is. Players: 3 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: a box of household objects.
  • Roll a Double, Take a Prize Pile small wrapped prizes in the middle and pass two dice around the circle. Roll a double and take a prize from the pile. Once the pile is gone, a double lets you take one from another player, until the five-minute timer rings. Hold back spares so that nobody leaves empty-handed. Players: 5 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: two dice, a timer and small wrapped prizes.
  • Sardines, Sleepover Rules One player hides and everyone else searches alone. When you find the hider, squeeze in beside them and stay quiet. The last searcher to find the pile hides first next round. Agree which rooms are out of bounds before you start. Players: 4 to 12. Time: 15 min. Props: none.
  • Shadow Puppet Guessing Use a bare wall, turn off the lights and aim a flashlight at it. Players take turns making a hand shadow while the rest guess the animal. It works well as the last game at a sleepover. Players: 3 to 8. Time: 10 min. Props: a flashlight and a blank wall.
  • Silly Challenge Jar Fill a jar with host-written challenges that are safe and quick: talk like a robot for one minute, balance a spoon on your nose, do your best teacher impression. Players draw one each turn and may swap it once. Players: 3 to 10. Time: 12 min. Props: a jar of challenge slips.
  • Sticky Note Who Am I Write an animal, a food or a job on a sticky note for each player and stick it on their forehead unseen. Players take turns asking yes-or-no questions until they work out what they are. Players: 4 to 12. Time: 12 min. Props: sticky notes and a marker.
  • Ten Fingers, Kid Questions Everyone holds up ten fingers. Take turns naming something ordinary you have never done, such as ridden a horse or eaten sushi, and anyone who has done it folds a finger down. The last player with a finger up wins. Players: 4 to 12. Time: 10 min. Props: none.

How this list was compiled: Written for birthday parties for ages 4 to 13, in our own words; age bands, player ranges and times are our estimates. Every game is safe to read aloud to children and wastes no food, and every balloon and blindfold game names the adult's job. Broken latex balloons are a choking hazard, so an adult picks up the pieces at once. Rules and the balloon warning were checked on 2026-09-18 against English Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ followed by the name): Pass_the_parcel, Musical_chairs, Musical_statues, Sleeping_lions, Pin_the_tail_on_the_donkey, Statues_(game), Hot_potato, Simon_Says, Egg-and-spoon_race, Pi%C3%B1ata, Telephone_game, Kim%27s_Game, Mother_May_I%3F, Squeak_piggy_squeak, Tag_(game), Steal_the_bacon, Limbo_(dance), Charades, Twenty_questions, Hide-and-seek, Four_square, Toy_balloon; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck%2C_duck%2C_goose and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_time%2C_Mr_Wolf%3F. Licence: own work

How it works

A game that thrills a five-year-old bores a twelve-year-old, so these birthday party games for kids are sorted by age. Choose the age group in the All games menu; every game shows its players, time and props.

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Party games for 4, 5 and 6 year olds, and for mixed ages

With mixed ages, choose for the youngest: older kids can play down, but little ones cannot play up. At five or six, pick games with no losers: Musical Islands, Nobody Out keeps every child in to the end. Open with a game that needs no explaining, such as Animal Freeze Dance, and finish with one from Calm-down games before the cake.

Party games for 11, 12 and 13 year olds

Ages 11, 12 and 13 (tweens) holds 46 party games for tweens: 20 for that age alone, such as Padlock Puzzle Hunt and Newspaper Fashion Show, and 26 that also suit ages 7 to 10. On a wet day, press Works indoors under More filters; Streamer Laser Hallway makes a hallway the venue.

  • Easy party games for kids have one rule. If explaining takes more than two sentences, save it for older guests.
  • Give players who are out a job: stopping the music or judging the statues.
  • Popped latex balloons are a choking hazard: an adult blows them up and picks up every piece after each round.

Questions and answers

How much of a two-hour party do the games fill?

Less than half. Plan six and expect to play four or five, because food, cake and presents take the rest. Keep one calm game, such as Sleeping Lions, for the wait before parents arrive, and one spare from No props.

What are good birthday party games for 5 year olds?

Five-year-olds, kindergarteners included, need one rule, a short turn and no losers. Try Musical Islands, Nobody Out, Animal Freeze Dance and Sleeping Lions. Ages 4, 5 and 6 holds 25 games, and 23 of them work indoors.

What are good birthday party games for 10 year olds?

Ten-year-olds like speed, teams and a fair referee. Outdoors, Rob the Nest and Chain Tag suit eight or more. Indoors, run Cup Stack Sprint, Shake the Tail Box and Two Balloons, One Minute as a tournament. Ages 7, 8, 9 and 10 holds 44 games.

Are there birthday party games for girls, or for boys?

Every game works for any group of kids, so nothing is sorted that way. Crafty tweens will enjoy Newspaper Fashion Show, Cupcake Decorating Judges and Blind Portrait Pairs. A group that cannot sit still will want Four Square Tournament and Rob the Nest.