Toddler Birthday Party Games
Toddler Party Games
Toddler birthday party games,.....great tips on party games for toddlers....ideas for great birthday party games for toddlers
The secret to toddler party games is to keep them simple and short.
Birthday party games for toddlers should include music and movement which they love.
Try 57 Greatest Kids Songs which has songs such as "I'm a little teapot", "head shoulders knees and toes",
If you're happy and you know it clap your hands" and many more.
Toddlers will love it if their adults join in and do the actions too. Remember to have your camcorder on record so you can play it back later.
Toddler Party Games
If you are giving prizes it is really best to keep the prize small and make sure all the children get one at some point.
Music games for toddler birthday party games.
Have a game where you play music and when it stops everyone has to sit down.
Play a piece of music and ask the children to be a cat or a lion, play music again and ask children to be fairies, dancers, dogs etc.
Play music and ask kids to dance or move to the music.
Cut out some colored paper into large shapes for instance yellow triangles, red circles and green squares. Spread these out in a large floor space.
Play some music, when you stop the music shout out "yellow triangle" the first toddler to the yellow triangle wins, parents can help.
Toddler birthday party games.........Bubble Games
Use a bubble machine to create lots of bubbles that your toddler will love chasing after.
If you don't have a bubble machine buy several bubble tubs and get the adults to blow the bubbles for the toddlers.
You could make your own
bubble solution
Challenge your party guests to catch the bubbles without bursting them.
Play doh
Play doh is great and you can use it as a free play activity, just put out lumps of playdoh for each child.
Add cookie cutters and they are away.
If you make edible play doh then you needn't worry too much about the toddlers sampling it.
Edible play doh recipe
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup salt
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 (3-1/2 oz.) package "unsweetened" Jell-O
- 2 teaspoons Cream of Tartar
- Mix everything together in a saucepan and cook over a medium heat stirring it constantly to avoid it sticking to pan.
- Stir until it has the consistency of mashed potato.
- Let the play doh cool then tip out onto a floured board.
- You can then knead it until it is dry.
- Once it is cold store it in an airtight container until you are ready to use it.
Toddler birthday party games........Ball Pool
Either hire a ball pool or make your own. All you need is a splash pool and some small plastic balls.
Toddlers love these and will have great fun throwing the balls around and then climbing out of the pool to throw them back in.
Ball Toss
- Take some small soft balls or scrumple up paper to make balls.
- Find or borrow some buckets.
- Place the buckets around the room.
- Your toddler and guests can move around the room tossing a ball into each bucket.
- For older kids add points to each bucket to give you a winner or two.
Toddler birthday party games.....Treasure hunt
A nice easy hunt for toddler birthday party games goes down well.
Hide pieces of large construction blocks around your garden or the room where your party is being held.
You could:
- Print out a picture of each of the items you have hidden, hold them up and let the children go hunt for the items.
- Give verbal instructions to the toddlers ie. go find as many yellow blocks as you can.
- You can give a prize to the toddler with the most blocks or not( you don't have to have a winner and prize for each game or any game).
You could also hide one item such as a teddy and the winner is the toddler who finds it.
Parents may need to help their toddlers.
More toddler birthday party games
As toddlers love copying what about a good old fashioned game of follow the leader (an adult who can move around the room doing silly moves and noises for example.)
There is always "Simon Says" as well which toddlers usually love.
- Simon says "put your hands on your head"
- Simon says "touch your toes"
- touch your nose.......if your toddler touches their nose they are out of the game (simon didn't say)
A game which I love is sleeping lions, sleeping bunnies.
The toddlers lie on the floor pretending to be asleep. They are out if they make a noise.
Parachute games
If you don't have a play parachute and don't want to hire one, you can use a sheet.
Have the toddlers hold the edges of the sheet then throw balls or soft toys into the middle .
The toddlers can have fun lifting the sheet and trying to keep the items on the sheet.
Have parents hold edges of sheet lifting and lowering it. Call out toddlers name and they run under lower sheet quickly and gently onto toddler then lift it.
Baking
Keep this very simple.
- You could get the toddlers to decorate gingerbread men, cupcakes or biscuits.
- Put out small bowls of icing, and topping for cakes and allow the toddlers to decorate.
- They can then eat their creations or pop them in their party bags to take home and eat later.
Toddler birthday party games......Craft
- One year we simply taped a roll of blank paper to a low table and put out crayons and stickers.
- The toddlers had a great time being creative.
- For older toddlers they could decorate their own party bags with stickers and crayons.
Grab your toddlers and share some quality time together.
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