Kid Birthday Party Game Ideas - 7 Proven WinnersWritten by By Mike Dougherty "Grandpa Mike"
Here are 7 classic kid birthday party game ideas that are always successful. And you can easily make all of them fit your party theme.Incredible Musical Statues They'll have lots of fun with this one and they'll even be still for a short time. Have all your party guests move to center of room. Start playing some music related to your theme. Have your guests start moving in silly positions and dancing around. Then stop music and have all your guests freeze like statues. Anyone who moves is out. Start music again and have your party guests start moving in silly positions and dancing again until music stops. Have them freeze like statues again. Keep repeating this until only one person is left. The last remaining party guest is winner. Crazy Mixed Up Message Relay A kid birthday party game idea that will have them laughing! Have all your guests sit in a circle. Have your birthday child think of a silly phrase or sentence related to your party theme. Your birthday child whispers message to child on their right. That party guest whispers message to child on thier right until message goes all way around to person sitting just to left of your birthday child. That guest repeats message out loud... The birthday child then tells everyone what original message was. Everyone then gets a turn to come up with a message. The more message gets mixed up, more fun it is. Pass The Gift - Open The Gift Hot Potato In Reverse! Before your party, wrap up a small toy or some candy that all kids will want. Then wrap it up again and again and again, over and over again in layers. You can even wrap up boxes within boxes. Anything to make game go on for a while to build excitement. Have all your party guests stand in a circle. Start playing your theme related music and have first child unwrap first layer. Then second child unwraps next layer until one of guests unwraps last layer and gift is revealed. That child wins gift. What In The World Am I? A great kid birthday party game idea for everyone. Tape a picture on each child's back. You can cut out pictures from magazines or just about any other source. The pictures can be characters from your birthday party theme, or it can be pictures of animals or bugs. Have your guests start asking each other questions to find out "what in world they are". But questions can only be answered with a "yes" or a "no." Questions like "do I have wings?," "am I brown," or "do I have legs?" The child who guesses "what in world am I" first is winner.
| | “Gimme” Proof Your Kids: How To Keep Your Child’s Materialism In CheckWritten by Dr. Charles Sophy
It’s first day of summer holiday. Five year-old Stephanie is shopping with you at Wal-Mart and picks out three stuffed animals that she saw in movie Madagascar. “Oh Mom please! I want to bring Alex and Gloria and Melman to Kinder Gym with me!” she says and stomps off in disgust when you tell her she has to choose only one. Your eight-year old, Alex, comes home from Summer Day Camp. “I need an iPod!” he declares, “Thomas has one and it’s sweet!” Your first thought is, “What’s an iPod?” Once Alex fills you in on latest must-have gadget, you’re floored by ticket price and wonder why he needs one when he already has a walkman. To top it off, your ten-year old, Tabitha, woke up this morning with a singular mission; to have pierced ears with diamond studs like her new best-friend Sarah by end of day, when last week she thought body piercings of any kind were gross. She has spent entire day begging you to bring her to Salon to get them pierced, ate her dinner in silence and retreated to her room to call Sarah and complain about how unfair her parents are. You finish day exhausted by challenges of managing “gimme” requests from your children. Sitting down with your partner after kids have been put to bed, you share your concerns about day’s events. You’re both left wondering how your children became so materialistic, and worried that they are becoming followers rather than children who are secure in themselves and their values. A change is needed! But where to begin? During grade-school years, children grow more interested in material world than they were back in kindergarten. Motivated by a combination of an increasing awareness of what other kids have and desire to fit in by having same things themselves, their acquisitiveness begins to become more apparent. A child’s age-appropriate progression from self-awareness to awareness of others is compounded by society in which we live. We live in an age of affluence, at times one obsessed with status and possession. Evidenced by TV and other forms of media. One message is coming through loud and clear: You are what you buy and what you own. There’s no doubt that it has become increasingly difficult to raise children in this world of materialism, distraction and temptation.
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