Birthday Party Activities

Birthday party activities should be fun and enjoyable to every guest at the party. If your birthday person is a young child then you should ask them what sort of games they would like to play at the party. More than likely the games they choose will be games that their friends will like also. Make sure none of the children are left out of any activities.

You should have small prizes for everyone, and special prizes for the 1st three winners for each activity that you have at the party. Small inexpensive prizes may be purchased either online or at one or more of your local department stores.

For small children under the age of three activities should include coloring, finger painting, and other games that might help them learn such as having a variety of different color balloons together and having the children pick out a certain color. As always the prizes should match the age of the children.

Activities for preschoolers should include games such as Simon Says, musical chairs, I Spy, Duck-Duck Goose, London Bridge, finger painting, coloring picture contest. Be sure to allow parents time to take plenty of pictures throughout the whole party.

Then we move up to the preteen years. Preteen children feel that they are not babies and don't want to be treated as such, they are usually demanding to be treated as a teenager would be, so the games would need to help them prepare for the teen years. Preteen birthday party activities need to include races, pin the tail on the donkey, and break the pinata, in-house or mini bowling.

Teenagers usually have their minds into video games of some sort, so your activities should revolve around that. Have prizes for the 1st three winners, and also for each guest. They also love to eat, so you could have an eating contest.

Young adult activities could include races, and games like bowling, dancing, eating contests also. Having contests such as name the band of this song, or name that tune, are very popular activities.

Adults are the hardest to figure out, and planning birthday party activities for them is much different. First consider their age and what they like to do most. If you need to rent a hall or have a party where you just pull the chairs and tables together. If the party is going to be held at home, you have to use reverse psychology, because adults want to feel young again. Base all your activities around dancing or bowling parties, volley ball, or tag football.

You could even have a roast for the birthday person, and try not to say things that would really hurt their feelings. Follow the roast with a nice dinner, then cutting of the birthday cake, and dancing.

No matter what age the participants are, birthday party activities are always a challenge and you wan to ensure that all the guests at the party have an enjoyable and a memorable time.