My Son Is Turning 9! What Can I Do at His B-day Party? Any Ideas, Atleast 1 Game

Wonderful game ideas, Tasha! I remember tying curling ribbon to balloons...leaving the ribbon long enough for them to tie a balloon to their ankles and playing music while they danced and tried to stomp each other's balloon. The one left standing with a balloon still in place would win. Old timey, I guess...but my kids always loved it.

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Pudding Pictionary! This may work depending on how "ruly" and how many kids there are. Cover a table well with wax paper (I mean tape it down well!) Make 3-4 Big bowls of pudding. 1 chocolate, 1 vanilla, 1 green, 1 red. (food coloring to achieve the brightness). Haves kids pick a piece of paper from a container that has a thing for them to draw. The child then paints a picture with fingers using the pudding on the wax paper surface. Use Pictionary rules. (i.e. the child who guesses then has a turn to paint.) To clear the "picture" just slide the pudding to the side, or smooth it out and draw in it. This game is so fun, but messy. You can always make your own list of things to draw by matching it to your kid's theme. (if a pirate theme then: sword, ship, parrot, dolphin, gold coin, treasue box...) If you don't have a theme, then just write stuff kids like (dog, basketball, tv, hamburger...) Oh, if you have a big bowl of warm water by the table, then the "painter" can dunk his hands/arm in it and towel off. It makes a cleaner transition to a sink/soap!

Another game we always played. Have kids take off shoes and sit in a circle with their feet touching together in the middle. One child stands in the middle and stands very stiff(with arms either down tight or hugging across his chest tight), the kids have to really make a good support for the standing kid by holding him up really tight with their feet. The standing kid then falls back and the children "pass" him around the circle or back and forth. This game is super fun/safe if the middle child remains straight and the kids keep their fet tight and hands up to catch. Just have 1 or 2 parents on each side of the circle to "spot". This game was always a favorite from about 5 years old until teenage years in our family!

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Here is some games from my site

http://www.mymommycentral.com/bdaygames.html

Good Luck!

N. B.
Mom ADvice Central-http://www.mymommycentral.com

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