"Golden Goose". The presenter reminds the children of the fairy tale “The Golden Goose”, in which the heroes were glued to the goose. The guys become pairs and “stick” to each other: arms, heads, legs, little fingers - this is what the birthday boy asks for each pair. All tasks must be completed in this glued form. The winner is the pair that managed to “not come unglued” and complete the task correctly: these can be simple relay races (run to a chip and back, jump to a basket, take a toy and come back, etc.).
Competitions for children 12 years old
"The Garden Scarecrow." Children are divided into two teams. Each team has the same set of things: hats, scarves, pants, skirts, dresses, belts, ties, shorts, shirts, etc. Assignment: dress up a garden scarecrow. The team whose scarecrow is original and funny wins.
"The best hairdresser." Couples participating in the competition: girl - boy. Girls act as models, boys as hairdressers. The title of the best hairdresser is awarded for a beautiful, perhaps extravagant hairstyle. Guests vote.
"Dance Trouble" Tie a balloon to each participant's leg. Music plays, children dance, trying to burst their opponent’s balloon and prevent theirs from bursting. The one who keeps his balloon wins.
Competitions for children 13 years old
"Special order." The guys are divided into 2-5 teams. In a few minutes, each team needs to come up with an original congratulation for the birthday boy, but on special order. The congratulation must contain exactly 10 words with the maximum number of any letter. The birthday boy invites the teams to draw a card with a letter. The winner is the team that manages to use the given letter in the congratulation the most times.
For example, a card with the letter R. Congratulations: “Allow me to cordially congratulate you on the holiday, joy, a backpack of A’s, intelligence, records!”
"Juicer". Each participant needs to be given a glass, a knife, an orange, and a cutting board. At the signal, the guys begin to “extract” juice from the fruit. It is important to choose the right fruit, such as orange rather than bananas. The one with the most juice in the glass wins.
“I became independent.” For the competition you need to prepare a lot of socks and put them in a box or basket. At the signal, participants must find a pair of socks. The winner is the one who manages to collect more pairs of socks than other participants in a certain time.
Competitions for children 14 years old
"Tattoo master". Participants will need felt-tip pens or markers (preferably water-based). Tattoo artists must come up with their own creative tattoo and depict it on the model (they are selected from guests who are not afraid to get dirty and are ready to wash off traces of the marker). And based on the results of the guests’ vote, the best master is chosen and awarded a prize.
By the way, photos after such a competition with the hero of the occasion and tattooed guests will be simply unforgettable.
"In our area." In this competition you need to show who is the most important person in the area. To do this, you need a mountain of seeds and a glass for each participant. At the leader’s signal, everyone begins to “husk the seeds” in any convenient way. The competition stops after 1-2 minutes, and the jury determines which of the participants has more seed husks in the glass. The winner gets a reward.
“It’s probably me!” Each participant takes turns describing one of the guests. For example, a beautiful girl with brown eyes, shy and thoughtful, has blue in her clothes. And the one who recognizes himself says: “It’s probably me.” If everything is correct, the couple receives a prize. This competition will allow you to have fun and get to know each other better, as well as show signs of attention.
Competitions for children 15 years old
“Do you have a temperature, friend?” Several teams are invited, and a fake thermometer is given under the arm. Players are not allowed to handle the thermometer with their hands. You need to pass it to the next participant immediately under the arm with the words: “Do you have a fever, friend?” The team that quickly completes the task and does not break the rules wins.
"What is the strength in, brother?". Everyone can participate in this competition: both girls and boys. Each participant is given a sprayer with water. At the signal, all participants splash water with one hand. You cannot help with your other hand. Whoever empties the sprayer faster than others wins the competition.
"Golden Key". Several people participate. Everyone receives one padlock and a bunch of keys (any shed or attic is full of this stuff). At the leader’s command, participants select the correct key for their lock. Whoever completes the task first shouts: “I found the golden key!” and receives a prize.
Turtles
In this competition, each of the holiday guests has the opportunity to feel like a turtle. So, the guests are divided into teams with the same number of people. Bowls with goodies (cookies or candies in quantities equal to the number of team members) are located at the same distance from the teams. The first participants are given basins (bowls). At the “start” command, the first participants get down on all fours and put the basin on their backs and set off towards their goal (to a bowl of treats), take one treat and back to their team, pass the basin and baton to the next participant. The team that quickly covers the distance and snatches up its treats will be the winner.
Intellectual games for a children's party
When preparing for a children's birthday, adults often forget that friends come to visit the birthday boy not only to eat delicious food and have fun, but also to have a soulful and interesting time. In every company there are guys who prefer intellectual games to dancing and singing competitions.
"True story". Teams are given texts with semantic errors. Within a certain time, you need to correct errors, explain them and read the correct version of the text.
For example: “A hedgehog is a huge animal with an elongated muzzle. Its back and abdomen are covered with soft needles. The hedgehog has good hearing and sense of smell. He sleeps in a nest in a tree or in a hole.”
"Chain". Give each team a piece of paper and a marker. The first participant writes down any word, passes the sheet and marker to the other participant. He writes his word with the letter that ended the previous word, etc. It turns out to be a chain or column of words. An easy but interesting competition performed against time. You can decide on the topic in advance. For example, “Fruits and vegetables”.
IMPORTANT! Puzzles involving rearranging matches and drawing various objects without lifting your hand from the sheet do not require much preparation.
I wished for an object
Each of the guests takes turns thinking “to themselves” about any object that is in the room. The rest of the guys take turns asking the person who made the wish a question about the object he had in mind, for example, is it red? Is it round? Is this a male item? Is this an item of clothing? Is this from furniture? And so on. The person who made the wish can answer “yes” or “no” to the question. Whichever child guesses the item first gets the right to make a guess for their item. At the end of the game, when the children are already tired, the results are summed up and the participants who guessed the most objects are awarded prizes.
Quest at the dacha for children “The Enchanted Gardener”. 6-10 years
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Mr. Pearbeard's large and beautiful garden attracts the attention of passers-by. There are rumors throughout the village that a treasure was hidden in the garden a long time ago by someone unknown. Many have already sneaked past the fence of the estate in the hope of finding treasures, but…
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Shall we play?
Every child loves to show off their toys, especially the birthday boy. In this competition, all the children are blindfolded, and the birthday boy (birthday girl) takes one of his toys and brings it to the guest. The guests stand in a row. The birthday boy chooses his toy and gives it to the first participant, and he must guess what it is (a bunny or a gun, a doll or a teapot from a dish). Then the birthday boy takes another toy and gives it to the second participant, and so on until the last participant, or in a second round until the toys run out. At the end of the game, the guest who guesses the most toys will receive a prize.
Competitions for children 3-6 years old
Mind games
Intellectual competitions at the table are good because they help save parents’ home from the chaos and destruction that naughty preschoolers threaten it with. Of course, children cannot be captivated by such fun for a long time, but for a while they will be “neutralized,” and at the same time, watching their games will help parents learn something new about their child.
The simplest birthday contests for children can be represented by riddles that can be chosen for any age:
"Guess what I see"
The adult verbally describes the object, and the children must understand what is being said and find this object in the room.
Pantomime competition
An adult or child depicts something or someone, and the rest of the children must understand what or who it is.
"What's missing?"
Several objects need to be laid out on the floor, sofa or chair, which children must look at for a while, after which they must turn away, and the adult removes one of the objects. After this, the children look at the “exposition” again and must remember what disappeared from here.
Fairytale Quiz
The fairytale quiz is also one of the interesting competitions for children's birthdays. Here you need to come up with a series of questions based on famous children's poems, cartoons and fairy tales, and provide prizes for correct answers - toys, chocolate medals, etc.
Board games
Mini competitions for children can be presented with their favorite board games, which the whole family loves to spend their leisure time with. Although in our time they have been supplanted by tablets and cartoons, they can easily find a place at a children’s party:
Action games
Particularly interesting are the “adventure games”, where each player has a piece with which he moves around the playing field for the number of steps that is rolled by the dice. These games are good for groups and can be played by children of all ages. In addition, in modern games the chips are made unusual, and manufacturers accompany the games with exciting tasks.
Cards
Now on sale there are exciting and colorfully designed games for children of all ages. With them you can play “Shuffle”, “Dobble”, “Dubble”, “Memory” and many other games - everything that can be found on the Internet.
"Guess what you're eating"
This delicious game is suitable for any age. Children are asked to close their eyes and taste something edible that an adult will put in their open mouths. This is a very funny competition, because it turns out that it is not so easy to determine the taste of a dish without seeing it.
Outdoor games
"Cold-hot"
The game is a variation of the classic hide and seek. An adult hides a toy in the room, and the children’s task is to find it, following the clues from the words “cold” and “hot.”
"Magic Tunnel"
For this game you will need a children's tunnel, but it can easily be replaced by a small table or chair that a child can crawl under. His task is not just to climb into the tunnel, but to come out of there in a new guise, portraying someone: an animal or a fairy-tale character. Other children must guess who came out of the magic tunnel. The one who guesses correctly goes into the magic tunnel himself.
Ball games
Competitions for 4-year-old children's birthdays include good old-fashioned fun that combines tasks for erudition, intelligence, fun and moving elements. So, in the “edible-inedible” game, the leader sits the children in a row and, in turn, throws a ball to each child, pronouncing a word. If the word means an edible object, then the ball must be caught, and if it is inedible, then it must be pushed back with your hands. In another version, the children stand in a circle, and the leader throws a ball to one of them and asks them to name a color, fruit, vegetable or flower. Children need to simultaneously catch the ball and remember the appropriate object.
Role-playing games
Children love most when competitions for children's birthdays of 6 years old contain role-playing games. In order for a group of children to have a lot of fun, you can invite them to temporarily become brave Indians, overcoming obstacles, fighting hostile tribes and performing funny dances. You can transform into brave knights, beautiful princesses or fire-breathing dragons, into fairy tale or cartoon characters - the choice here is unlimited. Of course, such competitions are done with their own hands, so parents will have to try hard to create costumes and attributes. In addition, they themselves can take part in the fun with the children, releasing for a short time the child hiding in the depths of their soul.
Holiday program for children
Funny contests for children's birthdays. Restless, active and very cheerful children at the holiday are quite difficult not only to captivate with any entertainment, but also to calm down. Therefore, parents and holiday organizers should think about a series of active games and quiet, calm competitions so that the children can take a break.
Therefore, to make it easier for parents to cheer up or, on the contrary, calm down their children, we offer options for a holiday program that you can rely on and even make changes to it that suit you.
Birthday contests for boys and girls
Children enjoy participating in any competitions. But still, games for boys and girls are different. It is not entirely true that what boys love will not be very interesting to girls. Although it also happens that princesses are in no way inferior to the stronger sex. Even adult men and women often participate in the same competitions; this can be clearly seen, for example, at a wedding.
“The One-Eyed Pirate” (for boys). Participants are given suction cup guns or darts. One eye is bandaged with a bandage. Prizes are drawn on a special distant stand: candy, chocolate, car, airplane, etc. The one-eyed pirate aims at the target. If you hit the picture, you get a prize; if you miss, you fulfill the wish of the birthday boy. You can make closed pieces of paper to hide lucky secret prizes in them. Assemble teams to build competitive spirit and test group agility.
“Reverse puzzles” (for everyone). The guys are divided into 2 teams: boys and girls. At the signal, each team collects puzzles. It will be funny if girls see a car in the assembled picture, and boys see a doll. The team that completed the task faster wins.
IMPORTANT! Adults ensure the safety of children in dart competitions!
Competitions for teenagers
Teenage children are not averse to having fun, but their games should be more adult, then they will feel “at ease.” Teenagers also love fun competitions and games for children at home for their birthday. No matter how much it seems to you that they are already adults, they are also children. Below we offer competitions that are suitable for children 12-14 years old.
Congratulate the birthday boy
Different letters are written in advance on strips of paper (one on a piece of paper). Each guest draws a card with a specific letter. Now he needs to come up with a congratulation for the birthday boy, in which most of the words will begin with the letter that he pulled out.
"Dance karaoke"
If your teen has a gaming console, you can use it to entertain guests. For example, one of the games, Just Dance, is very popular among teenagers and evokes a lot of emotions. This is a kind of dance battle - two participants dance to a song, repeating the movements from the screen, and then each of them receives a certain number of points, depending on how similar the movements were to the “original”. If you don’t have a console, but have the desire, you can find a video from the game on YouTube (enter the query “just dance video”) and play it on a large TV.
Then the guests can determine the winner with their applause.
"Juicer"
Participants in the game are given half an orange or several fruits and glasses. The goal is to squeeze out as much juice as possible. This game can also be played in teams, then the participants pour all the cups into one jar and team results are compared.
Intelligent
For your child's birthday, you can prepare various quizzes or riddles. It’s good to hold such competitions as a “warm-up” when the children have recently gathered. You can search the Internet for quizzes for your age. Or just take any children's encyclopedia about animals, cars, etc. and write down interesting facts from there. Children can answer open-ended questions or choose from given options. You can take a narrower topic, especially if you know that all the guests love one cartoon - prepare questions specifically about it.
If you have a family birthday and only relatives and their children came to visit, prepare a quiz about your family. Like, dad’s first job, where mom and dad met, the number of the kindergarten Kolya went to, what word Lena spoke incorrectly before 1st grade, etc. It will be fun and pleasant to remember some happy moments.
Introductory part
To begin with, we want to voice some important nuances that are useful to remember before you start preparing for a child’s birthday:
- Think about the venue and where it is convenient for children to play games. Maybe somewhere you will make room for outdoor games or go out into the yard. The easiest way to do this is at the dacha, but it can also be done in the courtyard of an apartment building in good weather.
- The whole family can discuss and choose competitions - involve your children in this, they will feel like real holiday organizers. But leave a few competitions for them that they won’t know about - it will be more interesting for them at the holiday itself.
- When you choose competitions, take into account at least approximately how much time each will take. Calculate the total.
- Collect all competitions in a separate document and print it. This will make it easier for you to navigate.
- Write down what props are needed for each competition. Don't forget to purchase everything you need in advance.
- At the beginning of the holiday, let the children get used to it a little. If the children do not know each other, then help them get to know each other, and only then start the program.
- Don’t forget to remove everything unnecessary from the room, look carefully to make sure there are no sharp objects, protruding corners of furniture, etc. around. If it is possible to arrange a sweet table in one room and free up as much space as possible in the other, this would be an ideal option.
- Don't expect everything to be perfect. Allow yourself to improvise if necessary.
- Don’t try to cram as many competitions into the program as possible and be sure to hold them all. Keep your script flexible.
- Look at the time and at the mood of the children.
- Don't forget about the surroundings - balloons, a poster with congratulations, candles on the cake. All these seemingly little things create a festive atmosphere. The costume of a fairy-tale character that the birthday boy loves will help you take on the role of host. You can rent it; usually such services are available in every city.
- Think about the age of the children when preparing - what is interesting to children at 4 years old is unlikely to be of much interest to a child who is 12 years old. If you have a group of different ages, create competitions for different age categories and hold them in turn.
Tips for a good holiday
If you have organized a lot of interesting and funny competitions for your guests, you have already created a great holiday atmosphere. But there are a few tips that can improve the gala evening and leave it in the memory of guests for many years:
- Think about where exactly it will be more convenient for you to gather your guests: at home, outdoors, in a children's club, in an amusement park or in another place. Assess the financial capabilities and desires of each invitee.
- Prepare a large number of sweet gifts in advance. Often during holidays, children want to receive gifts, even if the holiday is dedicated to another person. Such edible surprises, which will be given out for winning competitions, will be a great incentive for kids.
You can offer your invited guests sweets, waffles, lollipops, marmalade, chocolate, cookies and other delicious sweets.
- At the end of the evening, be sure to arrange a farewell surprise in the form of festive fireworks, if possible. Every child likes the fireworks and delights many adults, so every guest, including the birthday boy, will remember it perfectly. In addition, with your fireworks you can give a little joy to everyone who accidentally sees it.
- If you want to amuse your guests and surprise your child, you can buy unblown candles. Of course, they can be repaid, but it will not be easy for the child. If there is a possibility that the child will not appreciate such a joke, put regular candles for him and comic ones so that he can blow them out with invited guests.
A few more tips
You can buy such candles in online stores, specialized stores and gift stalls, as well as in “fun” stores in different cities.
- Find and download a special children's playlist in advance to the device to which you are going to connect the speakers. In order not to have to worry about searching, enter the request “Children's songs collection download” into a search engine and follow any of the links.
- For those who do not want to eat and participate in competitions, organize a separate dance floor. Let incendiary music constantly play there in a circle, this zone will find its admirers. Music for the dance floor can be downloaded using the request “Music for disco downloads”.
Remember that both adults and children will be rocking the dance floor. The music should be moderately mature, but without unnecessary hints.
- Every child loves rides, trampolines, carousels and other entertainment that is not available on a regular weekday. Give kids the chance to have some holiday fun with a day pass to an amusement park. All competitions can be held there or at home after visiting it.
Remember that a children's party should remain a pleasant day for every guest of this evening. For the celebration to be a success, it is important to pay attention to the wishes of each guest, giving special concessions to the birthday person. Try to make a holiday based on the child in your soul, and then everything will work out.
