Spring birthday party invitations will go out in coming weeks and could offer kids their first opportunities of the season to celebrate outdoors. Classic outdoor party games like Hide-and-Seek, Red Light Green Light, and Simon Says come to mind. Milder weather pushes many party activities out into the yard, helping to make planning a large birthday party more palatable.
Here are a few other outdoor game classics to introduce to today’s young birthday party goers:
Sardines
The reverse of hide-and-seek, I never understood the name as a kid, but I appreciate the meaning more now recalling trying to control the giggles as more people found where I was hiding and tried to fit into my hiding place. And that’s the game in a nutshell–one person hides and everyone else tries to find her, joining in the hiding spot when they do. The last to find the hider loses.
Dress-up relay
This one is so adaptable to every party theme because of fun possibilities with costumes and accessories. You can also use plain adult clothing, which gets comical with smaller kids (for you as much as for them!) Two teams each send out their first dresser to run to the first stop and put on all the clothing. Then they can either return to the start or go to another spot where another player will then don the clothing. Whichever team runs, dresses, undresses and dresses again wins.
Egg walk
A test in balance and keeping your cool, all you need are spoons and eggs (the younger the players, the more eggs you’ll need!) Divide your party into two teams. Each team sends one egg walker at a time with an egg on a spoon to walk the egg to the next person on the course and hand it off without dropping the egg. They can’t use the other hand or they’ll be disqualified.
Freeze tag
The person who gets to be “it” tags as many in the group as possible, instantly freezing that person in place. Kids who get tagged can only be “unfrozen” and continue running when someone else who is still running free tags them.
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