Help! Games for a castle party? Please, please, pretty please give me your best ideas.

[neolara]

I've got 16 six year olds turning up next weekend (boys and girls) for a castle party and I need some ideas for games before our garden and house get trashed. I don't care if the games aren't castle themed.

So far, I've got:
Treasure hunt
Possible pinata (but I don't really want to do this - lots of hanging around by kids looking bored waiting for wretched thing to burst)
Pass the parcel

Not sure about games where kids win and lose. Do you think this will result in tears at 6? Was thinking about team wins maybe.

That game where you blindfold them and tell them a scary story, during which they have to stick their fingers in grapes (eyeballs) etc to freak them out?

When you say 'Castle Party' what do you actually mean? Do you mean princes and princesses or knights or what?

(It helps, with my creative input!)

Pin the flames on the dragon (like tails on donkeys but different).

Buy one of these big cardboard castles and lots of colouring pens (paint if you feel brave) and get them to decorate the castle as they arrive. Your child will then have a lasting reminder to play with over the summer.

Collect big cardboard boxes, split children into teams and get them to build Rapunzel's tower. The tallest tower wins.

Get them making personalised flags/pennants like this.

Some good ideas here. Thanks. LOVE the cardboard castle piprabbit.

Maureen - My dd wanted a "castle" party as they've been doing castles at school. I suspect she really just wanted to dress up as a princess. I think, as I am becoming increasingly desperate about the whole thing, that castles can be interpretted in the loosest possible way.