Birthday Party Games for Preschool Age Children
- Play the rubber duck game at your next preschooler's party.Rubber Duck image by Ruthless Photography from <a href='http://www.fotolia.com'>Fotolia.com</a>
A birthday party can capture the magic of childhood. From invitations to goody bags, parents celebrate a child's birthday with cake, decorations and party games. When throwing a party for a preschooler, keep in mind the games will need to be simple enough for them to understand and play along. - Play this game just like the old-fashioned cakewalk. Mark the numbers 1 through 10 on individual sheets of notebook paper (or the number of players you will have). Write the same numbers on small pieces of paper. Cut them up and place them in a cup or small bowl. Place the large numbers you wrote on the notebook paper on the ground in a circle. Have each child stand on a number. Play music to start the game. Tell the children that when the music stops, they must stop on the number they are walking on. Draw a number out of the bowl. The child that is standing on the number drawn out of the bowl wins a prize.
- This is a great noncompetitive game for preschoolers. Get a child's fishing pole and attach a clothespin to the end of the string where the hook would usually be. Take a blue sheet and hang it between two walls or a doorway (leaving a gap at the top for the fishing line to go over). Decorate the blue sheet with fish or sea creatures. Let each child throw the fishing line over the sheet to "catch a prize." Have an adult standing on the other side of the sheet "hooking" prizes to the clothespin. Ideas to use for prizes include small toys, candy and birthday-themed party favors.
- For this game you will need a small plastic swimming pool (a large bucket will work), rubber ducks (enough for each party guest to have one), waterproof marker and prizes. Draw a star on the bottom of two ducks and write the numbers one and two on the bottom of the rest. Place two buckets filled with prizes by the duck pool and label them one and two. If a child gets a duck with a one on the bottom, she will get a prize out of that bucket. If she gets a two, she chooses a prize from the bucket labeled two. The two guests that pick the ducks with a star on the bottom will get a special prize, such as a gift bag of small goodies.
