Birthday Party Games for Everyone

When you have a birthday party, you need to have birthday party games. Having planned birthday party games will help keep things running smoothly, not to mention keep guests from getting bored while waiting for cake and present time.

One popular birthday party game that is often played at birthday parties for children of all ages is Musical Chairs. The rules for this game are simple. You'll need enough chairs for everyone playing the game (minus one chair so during the first round, one player will get out) and a tape player or other device that you can play music on. The participants gather around the chairs while you start the music. They circle around the chairs until you stop the music. Once the music stops, the players must scramble to find a chair. The one player that cannot find a chair is now out. Remove a chair and start again. Play stops when there is only one player left.

A variation on the game Musical Chairs that can be enjoyed by all is a birthday party game called Unwrap the Present. For this game you'll need a box, a small prize of some sort and lots and lots of wrapping paper (or newspaper), and a tape player. You will want to wrap the prize inside the box in several layers of wrapping paper. Pick any number you wish and just wrap it. To play, players sit in a circle and pass the prize around the circle until the music stops. The person that ends up with the box unwraps one layer of paper and play begins again. The person that gets to un-wrap the last layer of wrapping paper gets to open the box and keep the prize. This birthday party game can easily be modified to fit children from preschool to teens and even adults. The prize would just need to fit the age group and should be more general than specific. In other words, if boys are present at the party, they should not end up with a toy that many feel really is a girl's toy. For adults, the prize inside the box could be something like a gag gift if everyone is comfortable possibly receiving something 'racy', or something more general that anyone can use in any situation.

Waiting for the next birthday party game to start.

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