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Alphabet song game
Sing the alphabet with your child and skip a letter by pausing, and let your child te ...
Type: Game: 7959

Balloon Battle
Designate a certain color for each team. (If you have a LOT of children you can have ...
Type: Game: 7961

Balloon Hot Potato
Fill balloons with water, tie end. Have children gather in a circle. Carefully poke s ...
Type: Game: 7962



Balloon-Pingpong Relay
Each team member gets a balloon. Each team gets a pingpong ball. The team has to ge ...
Type: Game: 7960

Blanket Food Fun
My husband loves playing this game with our children! To make blanket pizza - Take a ...
Type: Game: 7963

Blow Football
Cover box lid with construction paper and draw a line across the middle. Trace a circ ...
Type: Game: 8496

Bottle Bowling
Decorate soda bottles with paper to look like bowling pins. Create variations of wha ...
Type: Game: 7964

Buddy Tag
Participants: 8 to 14 Set boundaries and get the group to pair up. Have each pai ...
Type: Game: 7965

Bunny Tail Pickup
The children transfer the bunny tails(cotton balls) from one container to another. T ...
Type: Game: 7966

Bus Stop Backpack Game
This is a great idea to keep children busy during down times (bus stop, bus duty, bus ...
Type: Game: 7967

Candy Corn Bingo
Program a bingo form with whatever skill is appropriate for your grade level (letters ...
Type: Game: 7968

Candy Corn Estimate Game
Fill a clear jar or container with candy corn. At the party, have each child guess ho ...
Type: Game: 8535

Cat and Mouse
One child is the cat and hides. The rest of the children are mice and sneak up to the ...
Type: Game: 7969

Cold Potato Game
HOW TO PLAY: Using a pin, poke a hole in a balloon. Then fill it with water, so that ...
Type: Game: 7971

Cotton Ball Pickup
Spread out cotton balls in a designated area. Each player has their hands tied behin ...
Type: Game: 7972

Cotton ball race
Put all cotton balls in one bowl and have child(ren) use tongs to pick up cotton ball ...
Type: Game: 7973

Digging for Treasure
Use your sandbox to dig for Treasure!! Ahead of time - have an adult spray several ro ...
Type: Game: 7974

Dive for Pennies
This is a fun game for experienced swimmers at a pool party. Take a handful of pennie ...
Type: Game: 7975

Down, Down, Down Game
You start off with a tennis ball. Throw the ball continually back and forth until so ...
Type: Game: 7976

Drip Drip Drop
Sit the children in a circle...it's played exactly like Duck Duck Goose. One person i ...
Type: Game: 7977

Duck, Duck, Goose
This old favorite is a great game for when you have extra time on your hands. Sit in ...
Type: Game: 7978

Easter Egg Dance
Cut out large easter egg shapes from a variety of colors of construction paper. Draw ...
Type: Game: 7979

Egg Toss
The children line up facing each other and then toss the eggs back and forth. The one ...
Type: Game: 7980

Feed the Turkey
Remove the flaps from one end of the box leaving an open space. Cover the box with br ...
Type: Game: 7981

Find the Gold
Prior to the children's arrival, spray paint both sides of the juice can lids in a we ...
Type: Game: 7982

Flashlight Pounce
Shine a flashlight on the floor, and the children try to pounce on the spot before it ...
Type: Game: 7983

Flip the Fish
Cut large newspaper fish in preparation - you could also use construction paper. If y ...
Type: Game: 7984

Follow the Leprechaun
A great game for St. Patrick's day activities! This game is played like "Follow the ...
Type: Game: 7985

Freeze Melt!
This is a stop and go game. Before you play create a large sun design, and a large sn ...
Type: Game: 7986

Garbage Can Relay
When judge says "GO!" relay members race to water source with their buckets, returnin ...
Type: Game: 7988
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