11 yo girl's Birthday Party Idea - Ideas for Birthday Party Games for 11 y.o. girl - Rapid City, SD

If its nice out you could get a slip and slide for the girls and have them bring their suits. Slip and slids are alway fun. You could also get a bunch of water balloons and have them team up and start close togeather throwing the water balloons back and forth and then they get farther and farther apart and they keep doing that till the water ballons break and whatever team wins mabye gets a little prize. We did that at one of my birthdays when i was a kid and then just had a water balloon fight. You could also mabye do little makeovers with them. Like painting eachothers nails and letting them play with a a little makup for the nite if other parents are ok with that. Have fun!

I also have a summer birthday and we also played the water balloon toss game. I also loved the dice game... still a big hit at showers. My mom would go to the dollar store or buy some other inexpensive prizes(one for each guest). They could make their own pizzas. You could do a craft. They could bake! Little makeovers are always a hit. Turn on the music and let them dance! And about the pinata, could you hang it from your garage door, we have done that before? Well good luck a have lots of fun!

Instead of games, L., I would suggest a manicure party. I think they would enjoy learning how to care for their nails and have fun polishing them. Suggestions for items in a take home bag would be polish (it can be gotten very reasonable at some stores), cotton balls, a small file, etc. Have fun!

B.

You have lots of great ideas so far. Perhaps a crafting party? JoAnn Etc. and Michaels both have "party rooms" and will put together a craft project/activity and then allow you to bring in cake.. or perhaps find a craft idea from the store (they sell kits etc) and do the same thing but at home.

I know the parties sure look fun. I've been to our local Michael's many times while a private party would be underway. I've seen both boy parties and girl parties, and the projects looked pretty cool. The boy party was a pirate theme and they made hats, their own treasure maps and chests. And the girl party I saw was a t-shirt party, and girls were using rhinestone punches, fabric paints, tie-dye etc. It looked pretty fun to me.

If you want to do a pinata, and have no tree, you could use a very long stick and tie the pinata by a medium sized string at one end, and an adult could hold it at the the other. Traditionally, this is sometimes how it is done, because the person holding the pinata could raise, lower, or move the pinata away from the blindfolded person, making it more challenging to smash it open.

We just had a party for my 12 yo girl. We played water balloon toss, limbo and did chocolate mask facials..Other ideas, bean bag toss game and hoola hoop contests.

My daughter turned 11 in May. We had planned an outing to a local zoo, but it turned out to be stormy day, so we were stuck inside. Fortunately, my daughter had devised a backup plan with a list of games to play. Something to keep in mind if you're planning an outdoor event. One game that was really popular was called "I Have Never." Everyone starts out with 10 pieces of candy. The birthday girl starts by saying "I have never...." and then says something she has never done that she thinks the majority of others HAS done. If you have done that thing, you lose a piece a candy. You go around the circle and each person gets to say what they have never done. Once a person has lost all their candy, they are out. The last person left wins the whole pile of candy. One of the fun things about this game was it gave an edge to the younger girls because they haven't done as much.

Another fun game was freeze dance, which helped worked off some of the energy. Play their favorite tunes (we used Hannah Montana) and they dance around until the music stops and they have to freeze. Anyone caught moving before the music starts again is out. We really didn't enforce that, they just had fun dancing and singing along to the music, so we played it until they were tired.

"Guess Who I Am" was pretty funny too. First you have to make sure everyone knows each other. The birthday girl chooses one person to go in the other room. While she is getting blindfolded, the rest of the group switches places in the room. Then the birthday girl walks her in to the room and puts her right in front of someone. She has to feel their hair and face and try to figure out who it is. Whether or not she gets it right, she gets to choose the next person who is blindfolded. Keep going until everyone gets a turn. It sounds like a silly game, but the girls thought it was hilarious.

You can always divide the girls up into 2 or more teams and have them go on a scavenger hunt, too.

My daughter turned 11 clear back in 1994 but I am sure it is the same for the ages now. Since they are getting ready to go into puberty and will be wanting to start with make up and such in the next couple years, I had a Mary Kay party for my daughter and 11 of her friends. The consultant kept the party age appropriate, teaching proper skin care and let them have fun with a little blush, eye shadow and lip color (I said they were too young for the foundation and mascara). The girls loved it.