Good party games for a group of 10/11 year old girls

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Birthday party coming up - its a big old sleepover, and i want to have a few games / ideas for when needed. Any ideas for what works / easy set up / great fun would be appreciated!

Are then any "Friends" (tv series) themed games?

Going to write up and put in a big bowl a whole lot of " truth & dares" (Although have no idea what a suitable dare is!!) - they can all have a chance of doing these.

Can play charades - always fun,

Any other ideas for games that are easy to organise, wont end in tears, and suitable for this age range!

Can you do kareoka without a machine?

Wink murder, (or other more complex versions like werewolf which take up more time)

That game where everyone has a post it note on their forehead which they can't see but everyone else can and has to guess who they are by asking yes or no questions (celebrities, characters from history - friends characters would be a bit too easy as too few options)

Gosh, I have 4 DC, and they all have had group sleepovers, and I’ve never organised a single game! I give them the run of a few rooms, and leave them at it. I’ve always found that they don’t appreciate parental involvement at all. And that’s the way I like it!

Consequences is a good one

What is consequences?

anothermotherone postit notes - thank you for reminding me - that would work well

leavesof grass can you explain consequences - not sure i know it

dirtynell - you are right, i will keep the "parental invovlement" low key - but due to the set up of the sleep over / no tv's / just one joint big space / so if the energy starts lagging, felt that a few easy ideas / pointers of what to do might work well !

Everyone sits in a circle. In middle of the circle is a hat, scarf, gloves, knife, fork and a big mars bar (or similar). Children take it in turns to roll two dice. If they roll a double six they can go into middle of circle, put on hat, scarf and gloves, and try to cut a slice of mars bar. However, if someone else rolls a six in the meantime, they have to stop, take off whatever they've managed to put on, and the other person gets a chance.

If you want to be really sadistic you can replace the gloves with mittens or oven gloves, and replace two dice with a single die.

A game for outside is a pile of flour with a sweet in it, they have to get the sweet out without using their hands, ie using their mouths. The cereal box game, get an empty cereal box, and they take it in turns to pick it up with their mouths, no hands again, and then each one tears a piece off. Box gets smaller and smaller, last one to pick it up is the winner.

Who's In The Bag
Kids write 3+ names of famous people each, on separate pieces of paper, fold and put in a bowl in the middle of the room. You want about 25-30 names in your bowl.
Make two teams
Round one: A team member stands up and has 1min (or whatever time you want), picks a card out of the bowl and has to describe the person on the card. Only one 'pass' allowed, if you want to pass on another card, you have to get them to guess the first one you passed on. The team keep the cards they get right. After one minute the next team has a go. Keeping going back and forth until all the names have been guessed. Add up how many each team has and put them all back in the bowl.
Round two: Same as round one except no words, just actions.
Round three: Same as round one except you can only say one word, no actions!

Loads of laughs. You can buy a game with cards already printed but we like to put our own ones in, including names of our friends/family

Oh, I loved that mars bar game with the hat, gloves and scarf, totally forgot about it

Consequences: each child has a piece of paper. You start at the top and they each write a girl's name. Fold over so the name is obscured, then pass paper to child on their right. Then they write a boy's name. Fold over, pass on.

Order we play it is:
Girls name
Boys name
Where they met
She said to him
He said to her
The consequence is

Then you take it in turns to read them out. The sillier you can be the better it works.
You can also play a version of this where you draw a person, starting with the head, and swap the paper. Next person can only see the lines where they should start the next part of the body. Again, being silly works well.

Good old jenga works for us.