Zoom party games ideas (7th birthday)

[DisgruntledGuineaPig]

have accepted that DC2's 7th birthday in June will be still in lockdown. We'll do a party day at home and arrange a zoom with friends, but while DC1 has had 'party zooms', there hasnt' been any for DC2's age group (year 2, aged 6/7).

She's clear she wants a 'zoom party' not just a chat, I'm stumped for games ideas, any good ones? We've got 'Simon Says' as an idea.

Musical statues. Trying not to laugh - you can provide a funny commentary mentioning each child. A quiz?

Charades
A scavenger hunt (you call out what they need to find next...eg: a spoon, get them to hold it up to the camera when they find it)

sorry I started this thread and then for some reason it disappeared on my "your on" list

Thank you, musical statues and scavenger hunt are excellent ideas. I'm not sure how well charades will work, but we can give it a go !

Had another idea and not sure if it's great or terrible - all the other children DC2 wants to invite live within half a mile of our house, would it be lovely or terrible if I get DC1 to go round on his bike afterwards and drop party bags/slice of birthday cake on their doorsteps, ring the bell and retreat to some distance to shout it's from DC2's party?

Musical bumps could be a good one?

I like the party bag idea, but might be worth checking with the parents first as they might not feel comfortable with it if they are shielding or whatever.

There are some game cards within one of the Cadoo games (we have a couple and like them) where you have to go and find 2 things within a time limit of an egg timer (think it counts down 2 minutes): so, for example, something wet and something fluffy. Something you could slide under a door and something you could hang on a door handle; something longer than your foot and something you could balance on your head/face. Something that reflects and something that lights up. 2 toys with the same colour eyes. These are a good variant on the 'bring me' games, and you can ask for proof onscreen for some of them.

Could you see if you can get the participants to design their own background for the party in advance if you warn them/parents (they have to draw or paint it and photo it)? My DD seems way more at home changing backgrounds than I am. Or make the silliest party hat to wear on the call?

Game of making something out of 2 handfuls of lego only (whatever comes out, no throwing back)?

Sing Happy Birthday To You, one word per person, which might be like a Zoom Mexican Wave effect!

the screen share options on zoom allow you to play a kind of "pictionary" game. you can text participants the thing they need to draw, or they can decide for themselves.

kids will also enjoy mucking around with a shared drawing tool which could just be unstructured fun or you could give them a three minute timer and use the private chat to give each participant a thing they are supposed to make the picture look like (house, lorry, cow for example) and at the end of the time you judge which option the resulting mess looks most like.

Bingo?

We did a zoom party for dd1's birthday a few weeks ago. I packaged up some things to play the games and posted them in advance (with enough time that that could be quarantined).

We did three games - a quiz (included some things like a picture round and a puzzle round where they had to do a jigsaw from a cut up picture and identify a very close up picture), a guessing game (they all had a sheet saying what animal everyone else was and had to ask yes or no questions of the group to find out what animal they were), and bingo (I sent bingo cards and dabbers to make it more interesting).

I also sent some Baker Ross craft sets out, so after the games they could chat which crafting for a little bit. We give a scratch art bookmark and a little bracelet set.

I actually found that the kids need quite a lot of help in finding things to say to each other - it helped when I suggested they all told the group one thing they have been doing, then they sort of got going.

Our group had a virtual quiz type thing for kids in Easter break, questions about kids movies, songs or tv shows. Just 10 questions and they all got certificates (you can to download templates and put kids names) we didn't do scores and they all just clapped for correct answers and were screaming out the answers at one point. It was fun.
Another game we played to choose a letter and find a name, place, animal or thing and say it in turns. It kept them occupied for a while.

thank you everyone, I'm feeling much more positive about it all!

@Stompythedinosaur - I think I'm worried about what you raised, they seem to struggle to find anything to talk about when we do video calls with a friend each as they've got no news, can't talk about what they've done, can't talk about school etc.

Although just seen up to 6 people can meet if they stay 2m apart. Toying with the idea of doing some sort of meet up at the park/front garden and trying to find games that work in a socially distanced manner. (watch it rain now...)