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Girl Spa Party Games

Polish games, guessing games, robe and slipper relays and calm-down games for a spa birthday, from age 5 up.

Girl Spa Party Games

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  1. Ask parents before the party whether nail polish and scented lotion are fine for their child. Nail stickers stand in for polish.
  2. A grown-up opens and closes every bottle of polish, and an old towel goes under the bottles.
  3. No game judges how anyone looks, and nobody has to have a treatment to play.
  4. Scents are sniffed from a cotton pad in a cup. Nothing is put on skin for a game.
  5. Marbles are counted back into their bag, away from younger children.
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  1. Roll the Towel to the Hair Clip1. A rolling race, for two. Lay a big bath towel flat on the floor with a hair clip on its middle. One player kneels at each end.2. On "go," each rolls up their end of the towel toward the middle, as tightly as they can.3. The first to reach the clip and pick it up wins the heat.4. A loose roll is unrolled three turns by the host. Winners play each other until one roller is left.Youngest player: age 5. Players: 2 to 12. You need: a big bath towel and a hair clip.
  2. Robe, Slippers, Turban: The Getting-Ready Relay1. A dressing relay. At the far end, each team has a chair, a bathrobe, a pair of adult slippers and a hand towel.2. The first runner puts on the robe and the slippers, wraps the towel around their hair, sits on the chair and says "Ahh."3. Then everything comes off and goes back on the chair, and the runner tags the next.4. A turban that falls off is wrapped again before the sitting down. The first team to finish wins.Youngest player: age 5. Players: 4 to 14. You need: a chair, a bathrobe, adult slippers and a hand towel for each team.
  3. Spin for a Color, Roll for a Finger1. A spinner game, with a die to choose the finger. Stand six bottles of nail polish in a ring and lay a seventh on its side in the middle.2. On your turn, spin the middle bottle. Its cap points to your color.3. Roll a die for the finger: one is the thumb, five is the little finger and six lets you choose. Paint that nail, or ask a friend to. A nail that is painted already gets a dot of the new color on top.4. Play until everyone has five painted nails. No two hands will match.Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 10. You need: seven bottles of nail polish, a die and paper towels.
  4. Name That Shade1. A caption contest, for colors. Cover the labels of six bottles of polish with tape and number them.2. Everyone writes a made-up name for each color, such as Grumpy Flamingo or Monday Morning Gray.3. Read out every name for bottle one. Guests vote with a show of hands, and nobody votes for their own.4. Write the winning name on the tape. The bottle keeps it for the rest of the party.Youngest player: age 7. Players: 3 to 12. You need: six bottles of nail polish, masking tape, paper and pens.
  5. Who Is Behind the Towel?1. A voice-guessing game. One guesser turns to face the wall. Two friends hold up a big bath towel as a curtain.2. The host points to one child, who tiptoes behind the towel.3. The guesser turns around and asks, "What treatment would you like today?" The hidden child answers in a disguised voice.4. The guesser has two questions and two guesses. Then the hidden child becomes the guesser.Youngest player: age 5. Players: 5 to 14. You need: a big bath towel.
  6. Slippery Soap Down the Line1. A passing race, for the yard. Each team stands in a line on the grass with a bucket of water at the front and an empty dish at the back.2. Everyone wets both hands. The first player dips a bar of soap in the bucket and passes it down the line, hand to hand.3. A bar that is dropped goes back to the front.4. The last player puts the soap in the dish. The first team with three bars in its dish wins.Youngest player: age 7. Players: 6 to 16. You need: a bucket of water, three bars of soap and a dish for each team.

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  • Name That Shade 1. A caption contest, for colors. Cover the labels of six bottles of polish with tape and number them. 2. Everyone writes a made-up name for each color, such as Grumpy Flamingo or Monday Morning Gray. 3. Read out every name for bottle one. Guests vote with a show of hands, and nobody votes for their own. 4. Write the winning name on the tape. The bottle keeps it for the rest of the party. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 3 to 12. You need: six bottles of nail polish, masking tape, paper and pens.
  • Paper Hand Nail Art From Memory 1. A memory game, on a paper hand. Each child traces one hand on paper and draws five big nails on it. 2. Hold up a pattern card for a slow count of ten: a red thumb, then dots, stripes, a heart and a blue little finger. 3. Hide the card. Everyone colors their paper nails from memory with markers. 4. Show the card again and score a point for each nail that matches. A child draws the next pattern card. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 2 to 12. You need: paper, pencils, markers and pattern cards.
  • Pass the Polish Until the Music Stops 1. Pass the parcel, with a bottle. Sit in a circle and pass a closed bottle of polish around while the music plays. 2. When the music stops, whoever holds the bottle chooses a friend to paint one of their nails that color. 3. Children of 5 and 6 can pick a nail sticker from the bowl in place of polish. 4. Swap in a bottle of another color and start the music again. The grown-up on the music stops it at every child twice. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 3 to 12. You need: bottles of nail polish, a bowl of nail stickers, paper towels and music.
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  • Secret Color: Three Clues Before You Peek 1. A guessing game, in pairs. One partner shuts both eyes and holds out a hand. 2. The other chooses a bottle in secret and paints one nail. 3. The painter gives three clues to the color without naming it: "A fire truck. A strawberry. A stop sign." 4. The partner guesses before looking. A right guess scores a point for the pair. Swap, and play until each has three painted nails. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 12. You need: bottles of nail polish and paper towels.
  • Spin for a Color, Roll for a Finger 1. A spinner game, with a die to choose the finger. Stand six bottles of nail polish in a ring and lay a seventh on its side in the middle. 2. On your turn, spin the middle bottle. Its cap points to your color. 3. Roll a die for the finger: one is the thumb, five is the little finger and six lets you choose. Paint that nail, or ask a friend to. A nail that is painted already gets a dot of the new color on top. 4. Play until everyone has five painted nails. No two hands will match. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 10. You need: seven bottles of nail polish, a die and paper towels.
  • Wet Nails: Cotton Balls by Wrist 1. A pick-up race, for hands that cannot touch anything. Everyone holds both hands up with fingers spread, as if the polish were still wet. 2. Tip a bag of cotton balls onto the table. On "go," move them into your own bowl using wrists, forearms and elbows. 3. A cotton ball that a fingertip touches goes back on the table. 4. When the table is clear, count the bowls. It also fills the time while real polish dries. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 8. You need: a bag of cotton balls and a bowl for each player.

Guessing games 6

  • Feel in the Spa Bag 1. A feely bag. Put eight spa things in a pillowcase: a sponge, a hairbrush, a rolled washcloth, a comb, a wrapped bar of soap, a hair roller, a rubber duck and a pair of slipper socks. 2. Each child reaches in with one hand for a slow count of ten, without looking. 3. Then the child whispers one thing they felt to the grown-up, who ticks it on a list. 4. When everyone has had a turn, tip the bag out and see whether the group found all eight. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 2 to 10. You need: a pillowcase and eight spa things.
  • Guess the Lotion by Its Scent 1. A smelling quiz, with nothing put on skin. Dab five scented lotions onto cotton pads and put each pad in a numbered paper cup. Keep the bottles out of sight. 2. Pass the cups around the circle. Everyone sniffs and writes a guess for each number: vanilla, coconut, lavender, peach, mint. 3. Cup six is a trick. Its pad has no scent at all. 4. Read out the answers and score one for each right guess, with a bonus point for anyone who wrote "nothing" for cup six. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 12. You need: five scented lotions, six cotton pads, six paper cups, paper and pens.
  • Spa Charades: Act the Treatment 1. Charades, with a bowl of spa slips: getting a manicure, soaking your feet, cucumber slices on your eyes, a face mask that itches, wrapping a towel turban, falling asleep in a massage chair, stepping into a bath that is too hot, drying very long hair. 2. One guest takes a slip and acts it out in silence for the whole group. 3. Whoever calls the right answer first acts next. A guest who has already acted passes the turn to someone who has not. 4. Whisper the slip to any child who cannot read it yet. When the bowl is empty, the guests write the next eight. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 3 to 14. You need: slips of paper, a pen and a bowl.
  • Spa Sounds With Your Eyes Shut 1. A listening quiz. Everyone sits with their eyes shut and their backs to the host. 2. The host makes eight sounds, one at a time: brushing hair, shaking a bottle of polish, pumping a lotion bottle, filing a nail, running a tap, snapping a hair clip, shaking out a towel and squeezing a wet sponge over a bowl. 3. After each sound, players write or draw a guess. 4. Make each sound again with eyes open, and score a point for each right guess. Youngest player: age 6. Players: 2 to 14. You need: a hairbrush, a bottle of polish, a lotion pump, a nail file, a hair clip, a towel, a sponge and a bowl of water, plus paper and pens.
  • What Left the Spa Tray? 1. The memory tray game, under a towel. Lay ten spa things on a tray and cover them with a hand towel. 2. Lift the towel for a slow count of twenty, then cover the tray again. 3. With the tray behind your back, take one thing away. Lift the towel again: what has gone? 4. Whoever spots it first hides the next thing. For children of 9 and up, take one away and move two others. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 2 to 10. You need: a tray, a hand towel and ten spa things.
  • Who Is Behind the Towel? 1. A voice-guessing game. One guesser turns to face the wall. Two friends hold up a big bath towel as a curtain. 2. The host points to one child, who tiptoes behind the towel. 3. The guesser turns around and asks, "What treatment would you like today?" The hidden child answers in a disguised voice. 4. The guesser has two questions and two guesses. Then the hidden child becomes the guesser. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 5 to 14. You need: a big bath towel.

Funny robe, towel and slipper games 7

  • Cucumber Toss Into the Robe Pocket 1. A tossing game, with a pocket for a target. In pairs, the catcher wears a bathrobe and holds one pocket open with one hand. The thrower stands three steps away with ten cucumber slices. 2. The thrower tosses the slices underhand, one at a time. 3. The catcher may bend and step but may not use the other hand. 4. Count the slices in the pocket, then swap. Play on a sheet or on the grass, and put the slices in the compost afterward. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 12. You need: a bathrobe with a pocket and ten cucumber slices for each pair.
  • Giant Slipper Shuffle 1. A shuffle race, in a grown-up's slippers. Each team has one pair of big slippers and a cone a few steps away. 2. The first player shuffles around the cone and back without lifting a foot. 3. A slipper that comes off goes back on where it fell. 4. Hand the slippers to the next player. In the second round, each player carries a rolled towel on their head as well. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 4 to 14. You need: a pair of adult slippers, a cone and a rolled towel for each team.
  • Pedicure Pick-Up, by Feel 1. The marble pick-up, in a foot bath. Put twenty marbles in a tub of warm, bubbly water, so that nobody can see them. Stand the tub on a towel. 2. Two players sit on chairs on either side with their bare feet in the tub. 3. On "go," each finds marbles with their toes and lifts them into their own bowl beside the tub. Hands stay on the chair. 4. Stop after one minute and count the bowls. Winners meet in a final. Count the marbles back into their bag, away from any small brothers and sisters. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 10. You need: a tub of warm water, bubble bath, twenty marbles, two bowls, two chairs, towels and a timer.
  • Robe, Slippers, Turban: The Getting-Ready Relay 1. A dressing relay. At the far end, each team has a chair, a bathrobe, a pair of adult slippers and a hand towel. 2. The first runner puts on the robe and the slippers, wraps the towel around their hair, sits on the chair and says "Ahh." 3. Then everything comes off and goes back on the chair, and the runner tags the next. 4. A turban that falls off is wrapped again before the sitting down. The first team to finish wins. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 4 to 14. You need: a chair, a bathrobe, adult slippers and a hand towel for each team.
  • Roll the Towel to the Hair Clip 1. A rolling race, for two. Lay a big bath towel flat on the floor with a hair clip on its middle. One player kneels at each end. 2. On "go," each rolls up their end of the towel toward the middle, as tightly as they can. 3. The first to reach the clip and pick it up wins the heat. 4. A loose roll is unrolled three turns by the host. Winners play each other until one roller is left. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 2 to 12. You need: a big bath towel and a hair clip.
  • Scrunchie Ring Toss 1. Ring toss, with hair scrunchies. Stand five bottles of shampoo and lotion in a row, like a salon shelf, with the tallest at the back. 2. Each player tosses five scrunchies from two steps away. 3. A scrunchie that lands around a bottle scores one, and three on the tall bottle at the back. 4. Players of 9 and up throw from three steps. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 2 to 12. You need: five bottles of shampoo or lotion and five hair scrunchies.
  • Slippery Soap Down the Line 1. A passing race, for the yard. Each team stands in a line on the grass with a bucket of water at the front and an empty dish at the back. 2. Everyone wets both hands. The first player dips a bar of soap in the bucket and passes it down the line, hand to hand. 3. A bar that is dropped goes back to the front. 4. The last player puts the soap in the dish. The first team with three bars in its dish wins. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 6 to 16. You need: a bucket of water, three bars of soap and a dish for each team.

Calm-down games between treatments 7

  • Cucumber Eyes: Who Can Stay Still? 1. Sleeping lions, with paper cucumber slices. Everyone lies down on a towel with a green paper circle over each closed eye. 2. One player, the spa manager, walks among them and tries to make them giggle with words alone. No touching. 3. A guest whose slice slides off sits up and becomes a manager too. 4. The last guest lying still is the first manager of the next round. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 4 to 14. You need: a towel and two green paper circles for each player.
  • Do Not Crack Your Mask 1. The straight-face game, with a pretend face mask. Sit in a circle and pat on an invisible mask. From now on, a smile cracks it. 2. One player turns to a neighbor and says a made-up line in a serious voice, such as "Your pedicure has been moved to the swimming pool." 3. The neighbor answers, "Thank you, how relaxing," without a smile, then turns to the next player with a new line. 4. A player who cracks puts both hands on their cheeks and keeps playing. Count the masks still whole after two laps. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 4 to 14. You need: nothing.
  • Kind Words, Passed With the Lotion 1. A circle game. Pass a bottle of hand lotion around the circle. 2. Whoever holds the bottle says one kind thing about the next person that is not about how they look: "You always share," or "You make everyone laugh." 3. Then the bottle is handed on, and the next person may take one pump of lotion if they like. 4. Go around twice, the second time in the other direction. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 4 to 14. You need: a bottle of hand lotion with a pump.
  • Massage Train Message 1. Back writing, down a line. Sit in a line like a train, each child facing the back of the one in front. 2. Show the last child a card with one simple shape: a heart, a star, a wave or a zigzag. That child draws it with one finger on the back in front. 3. Each child passes on the shape they felt. 4. The child at the front draws it on paper, and everyone compares it with the card. Then the front child moves to the back. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 4 to 12. You need: shape cards, paper and a pencil.
  • The Silliest Spa Menu 1. A writing game. Each pair gets a card with three headings: a soak, a scrub and a wrap. 2. Invent a treatment for each, with one silly ingredient and a price that is not money: "The Pancake Wrap, served warm with syrup. Four high fives." 3. Pairs read their menus aloud in their calmest spa voices. 4. Everyone votes for the one treatment they would most like to try. Tape the menus to the wall. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 4 to 14. You need: cards, pens and tape.
  • Spa Word Scramble 1. A pencil game. Write ten scrambled spa words on a sheet for each player or pair: NOTLIO, WOLET, BREO, SLEPPRIS, BLEBUBS, SHOLIP, RORMIR, GEPNOS, PASO and XALER. 2. Players have five minutes to unscramble them. 3. The answers: lotion, towel, robe, slippers, bubbles, polish, mirror, sponge, soap and relax. 4. To break a tie, see who can make the most words from the letters of MANICURE in one minute, such as nice, mean, cure and rain. Youngest player: age 7. Players: 2 to 14. You need: paper, pencils and a timer.
  • Spa Would You Rather 1. Would you rather, answered with a washcloth. Everyone sits with a washcloth in their lap. 2. Read a question. Hold the washcloth up for the first choice and keep it down for the second. 3. The questions: a bath of bubbles or a bath of warm pudding? Slippers that squeak or a robe that glows in the dark? One towel as big as a bedsheet or a hundred tiny washcloths? Nails that change color with the weather or hair that changes color with your mood? 4. After each vote, one player from each side says why. Then the guests make up the next questions. Youngest player: age 5. Players: 3 to 14. You need: a washcloth for each player.

How this list was compiled: Our suggestions for a child's spa birthday party, from age 5 up; the wording, the ages and the player counts are ours. Each game starts from one children already know, named in its first step. No game judges how anyone looks, nobody is blindfolded and nothing is eaten. A grown-up opens and closes the polish bottles, scents are sniffed from a cotton pad, and the marble game starts at age 7. Licence: own work

How it works

These are games to play at a spa birthday party between the treatments. Each starts from a game children already know, with polish, a robe, a towel or slippers added. None of them judges how anyone looks.

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Spa themed party games, in party order

1. As guests arrive: Name That Shade or Feel in the Spa Bag, which need no start time. 2. To wake everyone up: Giant Slipper Shuffle. 3. While nails are painted: Secret Color: Three Clues Before You Peek. 4. While they dry: Wet Nails: Cotton Balls by Wrist, then Do Not Crack Your Mask.

Before the party

Ask parents whether polish and scented lotion are fine for their child, and have nail stickers ready for anyone who skips the polish. A grown-up opens and closes the bottles.

  • Put an old towel under the polish bottles and another under the foot bath.

Questions and answers

Which spa party games for 8 year olds work best?

Every game on the list suits ages 7 to 12. For eight year olds, start with Pedicure Pick-Up, by Feel, Cucumber Toss Into the Robe Pocket, Scrunchie Ring Toss and Do Not Crack Your Mask.

What can 5 year olds play at a spa party?

15 games start at age 5 or 6 and need no reading, among them Feel in the Spa Bag, What Left the Spa Tray?, Giant Slipper Shuffle and Massage Train Message.

Are there free printable spa party games?

The games on the screen print as one sheet, with a box beside each game and the host's rules at the top. Spa Word Scramble and Paper Hand Nail Art From Memory are played on paper that you write out yourself.

What games suit a 10 year old's spa birthday?

Name That Shade, Guess the Lotion by Its Scent, The Silliest Spa Menu and Spa Word Scramble ask for wit more than speed. Slippery Soap Down the Line is the one to take out to the yard.

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