Fun Birthday Party Games

Fun party games are a big factor in making your party a success. There are however some important birthday party game planning tips to consider which will help your party run all the more smoothly.

No party is complete without balloons, and here is a fun birthday party game which is best suited to being played outdoors.

Group your party guests into equal teams and line them up. You will need to have 5-10 balloons inflated for each team.

The starting players grab a balloon and run to the finish line. Here they pop the balloon. An easy way to do this is by sitting or standing on it. Once the balloon is popped they return it to their team and it is the next player's turn. The winning team is the one that pops all the balloons first.

This is one of the birthday party games where one person chases the others around the room or garden and tags them. Once tagged the person must freeze with their legs agart. The only way to unfreeze them is if someone crawls through their legs. However, once you've been frozen three times you are out. When everyone has been frozen and there is nobody left running around the game ends.

Here is a birthday party game the younger ones will be sure to enjoy.

Give each guest two pieces of A4 size paper. The object of the game is for everyone to cross to the other side of the room by stepping only on the stepping stones (pieces of paper).

Players begin by standing on one sheet. Then then put the other sheet in front of them and step on to it, and so on. If they overbalance and touch the floor, then they must return to the start and begin again. The first one to reach the other side is the winner.

This fun birthday party game challenge encourages a lot of co-operation.

Pair up your guests and get them to hold hands with their partner. Secure their hands together, leaving their outside arms free. Now assign a task to your 'aliens' which they must complete using their free hands.

Such a task might be:

wrapping a present
tying a shoelace
folding a stack of clothes
opening a tricky packet
doing up a belt

The winning 'alien' is the pair who complete their task(s) first.