Fun party games for 6 year old boys

Keep an eye on the game, and call it quits once everybody has had a couple of turns in the middle, and before everybody gets bored. Start by making a circle of chairs, bean bags or pillows, with enough seats for everyone except the birthday child.

It may be blue eyes, a green T-shirt, blonde hair, freckles, glasses … you get the picture. Any children who have what the birthday child requests, must jump out of their chair and swap with someone else who also has the same thing.

While all this is happening, the birthday child sits in an empty chair and someone misses out on their seat. That person then becomes the child in the middle, and the game starts again.

By this age children are starting to develop a reasonable concentration span, and most will enjoy the chance to solve a puzzle. Put approximately 6 — 12 everyday items onto a breakfast tray, depending on the ages of your guests , and make sure the children all know what they are.

If you have a theme for your party, you could make sure all the items fit in with your theme. Show the breakfast tray to the party guests, and ask them to try to remember everything in their head. Once they have had a few minutes to take a mental picture, take the tray out of the room and remove one or two items. When you bring the tray back into the room, the children can take turns trying to guess what is missing. The child who guesses correctly gets to put the items back on the tray, and remove something different for everyone to figure out.

Gather together small, light prizes such as stickers, small notepads, and pencils. A fish pond could be a paddling pool, a big box, or simply a rug on the floor. Give each child a fishing rod with a magnet at the end of the line, and let them go fishing for their prize. Charades for this age group is about acting out an action or a thing, rather than trying to depict an entire movie title word for word.

Depending on your guests, this game will be an instant hit or a complete failure, so the key is to keep it simple and get involved yourself. If you have a theme, then choosing what the guests act out is easy, but if there is no theme to follow think of things that everybody will know and relate to. If you really want to have prizes for this game, you could make up certificates for different categories such as funniest performance, most reluctant star, and of course — drama queen, or king, as the case may be.

This is a true classic. Hot tip: Jumping works best! Balloon Race 2: Divide competitors into pairs. Each pair must place a balloon between their chests or backs and race to the finish line without losing their balloon on the way — no hands allowed! Glow Balloon Races: Fun for nighttime parties, glow races simply require you to crack glow sticks, placing one inside each balloon before inflating. Then use the balloons for either of the Balloon Race suggestions above.

Balloon Volleyball: Divide players into two teams with one team standing on each side of a ribbon strung across the room to represent a volleyball net. Should a team fail to hit the balloon over the net in three hits a point is scored for the other team. Should the balloon hit the floor at any time a point is scored for the other team. First team to an agreed number of points wins. Hot tip: Make the winning number a small amount, like 5, and mix up the teams between each round to keep things moving.

Balloon Stomp: Use a short length of string to tie one balloon to an ankle of each player. Last player with an unpopped balloon is the winner. Keep It Up: Divide players into teams of five or six. Team members must hold hands and keep holding hands throughout play.

Each team is given a balloon. Players will need to get creative with heads, shoulders, knees, feet, even backs! The Ground is Lava! The children must hit the balloon to each other, trying not to let it touch the ground. If the balloon does hit the ground, the group is out and must sit down. Last group standing wins. Water Balloon Pinata: Fill several balloons with water and hang them from a tree or clothesline.

Blindfold a player, spin her around within reach of the balloons and hand her a plastic bat. Let the player swing in an attempt to connect with a balloon. Guess the Jellybeans: Before the party fill a large glass jar or clear plastic container with jellybeans or other small sweet, counting the number of sweets as you add them to the jar. Each party guest can make a guess as to how many jellybeans are in the jar — include a simple record sheet for guests to write their guesses on.

The guest with the closest guess wins the jar of sweets! Hoop Pass: You will need two hula hoops for this game. Divide party guests into two teams, each with an equal number of players. Teams stand with team members lined up side by side, holding hands. Give the team member at the start of each line a hula hoop to hold in their free hand. The first team to get their hoop to the end is the winning team! Four Corners: Number each corner of the playing space with a number 1 through to 4.

One player is selected as the caller and stands at the front of the playing space, looking away from the group of players. The players are given a countdown from five to move to a corner.

The caller calls out a corner number and any child standing in that corner is out and must sit out from the game. The countdown begins again and the remaining children again choose a corner. The caller calls out a corner number and again, anyone standing in that corner is now out. Play continues in this manner until one person is left. That person is the winner and becomes the next caller. Players take turns throwing the sock into the bucket. When a player scores, he or she takes a step back and throws again, repeating this action until they miss the bucket.

The player who successfully shoots the sock into the bucket from farthest away is the winner. Encourage guests to bring their stuffed animals, serve drinks in teacups with finger sandwiches and cookies. After eating, have story time and games. Sign up for the Fatherly newsletter to get original articles and expert advice about parenting, fitness, gear, and more in your inbox every day.

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More From Play. We talk about birthday parties , although the elements described here can be used for any kind of kids party , such as graduation parties. In this case, in which the children are older, they begin to assume responsibilities and the type of party depends more on their tastes.

Want to make a deserve it or something bigger? Who do you want to invite? At this point, we may have to put limitations. It is important that children are aware of these and begin to make decisions. Children of the age of 6 sometimes want to be protagonists. You may want something that puts you in the spotlight. We will have to look for something that makes him happy while helping others have a good time.

After all, it is his birthday, although he must not forget to be a good host. The child already knows how to write so that he can make the invitations himself. You can also choose, within our possibilities, the design of the card. In fact, it would be highly recommended to do so to avoid misunderstandings. And if you want, to personalize everything you want. In gift-giving, we like everything personalized.

Personalization is the future! There are menus of many types, for all tastes and budgets. There are even places that will offer you a complete plan with meals and drinks included. That way you can forget everything, even after cleaning.