Your child is celebrating his birthday at home, he has invited all his class friends and it is up to you to organize the entertainment? Do not panic ! Karaoke, escape game, piñata, treasure hunt… Our activity ideas, tested and approved.
For his next birthday, you intend to please your child, who is growing up very quickly. Besides, he would like to invite his best friends / classmates at home. You have already planned a super sugar paste cake with the image of his favorite hero, a striking decoration and personalized invitation cards. Now stay at organize birthday games to keep them busy all afternoon. Our essential and original ideas, to organize easily:
For a successful birthday, install a piñata filled with confetti, small gifts and candies. Blindfold your child and ask their little friends to make a circle around it. Equipped with a stick, he will have to aim at the suspended object and try to break it to drop everything it contains. To be made and hung on a beam or a tree in the garden using a string before the children arrive. To make them, take inspiration from the models of the delivered Happy Pinotata, published by Eyrolles, which also offers patterns to download.
The trend of escape room is well established and the good news is that it is now possible to organize one at home! A perfect activity for a child birthday. Young and old will love solving puzzles as a team. Escape Kit is a French company that offers downloadable home kits, for children from 6 years old (on the theme of Harry Potter). There are also some for the older ones, from 8 to 14 years old, on the theme of pirates, or even ancient Egypt. How it works ? The kit contains everything you need to organize an escape game at home: clues, installation plan, accessories, YouTube playlist… It’s up to you to set them up (it takes about ten minutes), and so on. ‘left ! From 20 euros. Duration of the surveys: approximately 1 hour. More information on www.escape-kit.com
Karaoke is a classic and will always amuse the gallery! You can ask each child which song they would like to sing, or prepare a playlist with songs that children like, such as those from Disney cartoons (including the essential “Let It Go” of Snow Queen), but also “Bring the cup home” by Vegedream, “We write on the walls” by Kids United, “Longtemps” by Amir, or even “Jour 1” by Louane. You can also prepare small accessories (crowns, fun sunglasses, etc.) that they can put on when they go on stage. And, upstream, offer a microphone customization workshop, by making them out of thick paper, with stickers, sequins… So that budding singers feel like real stars!
Team games are always a delight for children. For some age-appropriate designs, prepare a few cards in advance with easy-to-reproduce designs (a house, a cat, butterflies…). Each participant must then make their team guess as many words as possible. Your role ? Show them the cards, count the points, check the hourglass and encourage them! And to reward the big winners, why not give them medals?
Do you know the game of the statue? A version of Jacques said (not to move) revisited, in music for more fun! The principle: launch a very lively song that the children love and know by heart, and ask them to sing and dance. When you stop the music, the first one who moves (or still sings) is eliminated. Laughter guaranteed.
The treasure hunt is a safe bet to occupy children and make them dream. For the little ones, whose attention is limited, plan a short game. Oxybul offers a treasure hunt where children will have to put together a 12-piece puzzle to discover the final hiding place of the treasure. To find the pieces (hidden beforehand by you in the house), the children will answer quizzes. The kit contains a puzzle, an organizer’s guide and a set of 12 riddles in two versions: 4-6 years and 7-9 years. Most ? Practical for parents in a hurry, the installation of the treasure hunt is done in 15 minutes maximum. All that remains is to make your treasure with candies, gold coins and other little surprises! And why not put them in a piñata, the unmissable star of birthdays? Atmosphere guaranteed! Treasure hunt (6.99 euros), piñata, and other surprises for birthdays on the site oxybul.com
For the older ones, we go to the real treasure hunt. But because it is necessarily (a little) more complicated to set up, we recommend a ready-made kit. The ChasseOTrésor website offers puzzles by theme (investigation at the equestrian center, the magician’s game, pirate treasure hunt, etc.) and according to the age of the child. Participants transform into adventurers to find the hidden clues, then must use their brains to solve the puzzles and win the challenges! Everything is marked out, the explanations are clear and perfectly adapted to the level of the children. For parents, still plan some preparation time to hide clues in the most unusual places in the house or garden… Printable games to download (10 euros) on the site www.chasse-tresor.net.
It is the essential children’s birthday parties! The guests are 10 in number? Place 9 chairs, back against back, so that each participant can sit down when the music stops. Whoever does not find a seat is then eliminated and a chair is removed, until only one winner remains. To make the game more personalized and original, prepare a playlist of children’s favorite music. Atmosphere guaranteed!
During birthdays, at the carnival or at the school party… Children love to angling! To do with the means at hand, take a basin filled with water or a basket, place some colored fish or plastic figurines in it, which you surround with a thick thread, tying a knot so that a loop appears. Magic wand, stick or small broomstick can be used as a fishing rod to catch floating animals. You can also stick magnetic adhesive pads (for sale at Cultura) to make it easier for children. Even, if you are good at manual activities, make pretty fabric fish. Conversely, for mums in a hurry, there are complete kits, for example, at Oxybul. As a result, small gifts that you prepare upstream, with numbers corresponding to the fish.
Why not organize a creative or DIY workshop ? Not only do the children love it, but it also allows you to channel them (and therefore let you breathe). To be expected after an activity where they were able to let off steam! Install the children around a large table with all the accessories necessary to create small decorative pots, bead bracelets, rainbow loom. Even simpler, the coloring masks, which children will be proud to take home. You can also offer an origami workshop (the paper casserole is a safe bet!). Another idea: the giant fresco (if you have enough space). Just stick a large strip of paper against a wall (not fragile) and provide markers or paint, then let the children use their imagination. There are also XXL coloring pages (at omy.fr). The +: the star of the day will keep a souvenir autographed by his playmates!
Another great classic. You will only need cans, cardboard, or just plastic cups with the effigy of his favorite heroes. Place them, in a pyramid, on a table at children’s height so that everyone can try their luck, in turn, by knocking down as many boxes as possible with a ball.
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