Am having a party at home for dds 5th and have complete brain freeze about games

[singyswife]

I have pass the parcel but other than that I am stuck. Help. I have 8 kids coming.

Yeah my mum does this one its great fun

If they start getting a bit noisy, get them all to sit in a circle. Choose one child to go in the middle blindfolded. Put some keys in front of blindfolded child. Adult then points to a child sitting in the circle. The child walks all the way round the outside of the circle back to their place, they then walk into the circle and try and pick the keys up without making a noise. The child with the blindfold can point in the direction if they hear any noises. It is then the person who was creeping to sit in the middle.

We played this at DDs party last week, it really worked well as most of them had never played it. The peacefulness of the game was fantastic! (Plus when all the parents arrived all DC were calm!)

oooh i always stay well away from any 'musical ...' games! Any game that requires me to be subjective (ie I choose who loses) always ends in tears in my house!

How about 'corners'?

Treasure hunts are good too ...

What about corners? Stick 4 pieces of paper in each corner of the room each with a different shape on. Children dance about to the music, when the music stops they run to any corner. Without looking, you then shout out one of the shapes and everyone standing in that corner is out.

We had something crafty too for when things need calming down. we've done rainbow scratchy door hangers and also foam notebooks decorated with foam stickers all available from Baker ross. These double as partybag presents so not too pricey and no mess.

Whatever you do I would have plenty in reserve. They whipped thru' the games we'd organised much quicker than planned.

sock game - pull socks half way off and then all crawl around trying to pull each others socks off. last one wearing a sock is the wimmer (tip - make them take their own sock off and put in their shoes - then use your own dc's socks for the game - otherwise it is sock chaos).

treasure hunt.

tbh at ds's 5th they didn't want to play organised games and really had to be co-orced into it, which was a bit of a shock.