Birthday games for kids are sometimes hard to come up with if you don’t have the best imagination. Perhaps, you are having a hard time especially finding birthday games for your son and his friends. You know that boys are raucous and rowdy. That is a start. Generally, boys like birthday games that are active and fun. Here are a few ideas to get you thinking.
If you are having the birthday party in the summer, or when there is warm weather, a water gun fight would be a blast. You can have the boys split up into teams like the classic cowboys and Indians game. The object of this birthday game for kids is to get the opposite team as wet as possible. In your invitations, you will want to tell your guests to bring an extra pair of clothes, especially if the weather isn’t warm enough to dry everyone off in time for the cutting of the cake. You can find really good deals at your local dollar store. Water guns come in all sorts of fun colors and sizes.
Birthday games for kids don’t have to be extravagant. Boys will even like playing three-legged races. When playing this game, it is important that boys of similar sizes match up so no injuries occur. You will want to pair up the boys into two teams. Each pair will tie themselves together; one right leg to the other’s left leg. The goal of each pair is to finish the race first. If you want to create more of a challenge for older boys, you can have this be part of an obstacle course.
Here’s another game idea: Dress-up. Wait a minute, isn’t that a girly sort of game? Not necessarily! Girls might enjoy dressing up like princesses, but boys can have just as much fun dressing as pirates. And speaking of pirate themes, you might want to add a pirate treasure hunt to the party.
The spoon race is another fun idea as far as birthday games for kids go. It’s easy to set up, too. All you need are spoons and fruits, small balls, eggs, or some other small objects to balance on the spoon. The objective is to have teams hold the spoon with their teeth, and then pass it down the line. The team that wins is the one that passes down the spoon to the end of the line without using hands or dropping the object. This may be too much of a challenge for younger boys, though.
Those are just a few ideas for birthday games for kids. Hopefully you’ve been inspired to come up with some of your own, too.