Kids Birthday Party Games and Party Favor Ideas
Party games and party favors for your child’s birthday party should be fun and reflective of your child’s tastes. Selecting party games and party favors is easy if you select a theme for your birthday party. Themes for children’s birthday parties are numerous. The best way to select a winning theme is to let your child help you choose.
Selecting a Party Theme for Party Games and Party Favors
Popular children’s birthday party themes are most often centered on an item children enjoy such as, tractors, princesses, horses, trains, or a cartoon or storybook character. You can also select your child’s favorite color, movie, animal, or song as a birthday party theme. Another fun idea for both boys and girls is to throw a scavenger hunt birthday party.
Ideas for Party Games for Your Child’s Birthday Party
Children love to sing and dance. Party games that incorporate silliness, free movement, or singing are always a hit. The freeze game can be played to your child’s favorite song. Start the music and children are allowed to dance any way they choose as long as the music continues.
Stop the music and anyone caught moving has to sit down. The classic Red Light, Green Light is a game children can play on their own. Even a simple game of tag can become a child’s birthday party game.
Ideas for Party Favors for Your Child’s Birthday Party
Party favors for children’s birthday parties come in two categories, expensive and inexpensive. Some ideas for inexpensive party favors are McDonald’s gift certificates, homemade cookies, helium balloons, coloring books, and candy.
More expensive party favors can also double as party games. Children love crafts. Several craft ideas can be used as birthday party favors and serve as a game during the party. One great idea is to purchase picture frame decorating kits.
These can be foam, wooden, or ceramic. Children decorate their frame at the party and get their picture taken with the guest of honor before leaving. You can then mail the picture with the Thank You card for each guest to put in his or her frame as a memento of the event.
Another make-and-take craft idea is personalized t-shirts. You can prepare t-shirts in advance with an iron on design commemorating the event, than allow each child to sign each other’s shirts. You can also provide fabric paints, markers, and stamps for children to create their own shirt.
Selecting party games and party favors for your child’s birthday party is easy once you determine your budget and select a party theme. Fun birthday party games and party favors are a terrific way to make your child’s birthday party a success.
