Muscial Treat/Cupcake Walk

Toddler Party Supplies Needed:

• An assortment of cupcakes or edible treats: rice-crispy treats, small cakes or muffins, small cookies.

• Paper-plates with a different number or small chairs with numbers on them.

• Age appropriate music.

• A hat or bucket with the same numbers that are written on the chairs or the paper-plates

 Party Game Directions:

Set out all the party treats on a table.

 Position the chairs in a circle, and it’s best if the numbers are out of order.

 Play the music in intervals ranging from 15 seconds-1 minute depending on age and attention span.

 Stop the music and make the kids stop on the plate or sit in the chair they are standing on or in front of as the music stops.

 Draw a number. Whoever is on the number wins a treat and can no longer play; At least, not until after everyone has won, and only if there’s enough for everyone to win more than once.

 *This is similar to cake walk but is a nice way to give prizes without giving a whole cake away.

Once the outside of the large box has a well drawn on it, or if you have a booth, you can just put up a sign with “Fishing Well” posted on it with flowers on the counter of the booth. You can add any extra details like: a net, or fish and starfish to make it look more authentic and playful.

You should have 2-4 fishing poles and instruct the kids when they feel a fish tugging they can pull back their line. Some of the older kids will understand.

You should have one person or have parents to help kids place their fishing line over the edge of the booth or inside the box.

You could play a soundtrack of popular kid songs to entertain them.

There should be another person kneeling on the other side to clip a bath-time toy onto the clothespin.

Game Supplies:

• Large or Extra-Large White T-shirts (rummage sale, Goodwill, bulk/wholesale, or old unused t-shirts)

• Super soakers or large water guns. You can supply them to level the playing field or the kids can bring their own if there’s a strict budget

• Two boxes of food coloring

• A hat or bucket with a different color for each guest to draw

• Wide open space

• Whistle, bell, megaphone, bullhorn

• Awards and ribbons or novelty medals (optional)

Game Directions:

Once all guests have arrived, have the children gather and hand out the white shirts for them to put on or change into.

Have each child draw a color and go get a water gun already filled with water and colored with the corresponding food coloring. (Use a lot so it will show up on the shirt.)

Have a starting point and allow anywhere from 30 seconds-2 minutes for guests to hide.

Sound the whistle, bell or bullhorn and set a timer from 10-20 minutes. Watch to see if kids are running out of water. You may want to have another round.

At the end of Painless Paintball, gather everyone around and you and a panel of parents can select or the children can vote on who is the messiest, who is the cleanest, who was the best sharp-shooter (look at whose color is on the most people), and who was the nicest or most considerate (whose color is on the least shirts).

Hand out medals for the awards you create and let the other children have a ribbon or a novelty grab-bag prize.

 Supplies:

• Spray bottles (approximately $.50-$1 each in cosmetic section or can be purchased from a craft store)

• White butcher paper (tape on the outside wall of your house or on the inside of your fence. It can also be spread out on the floor or ground for the edible finger painting for toddlers)

• Water

• Corn syrup if you want to thicken it slightly (1 bottle per 5 spray bottles)

• 2-3 boxes of Food coloring

Instructions:

Once the ‘wall’ has been created, lay out some paper or newspaper underneath to catch any run-off.

 Fill the spray bottles 2/3 of water and add enough food coloring to make a dark spray paint. You may add 1—2 tablespoons of corn syrup to thicken it, or add some viscosity.

 Make at least 2 of each color and have the kids share or take turns.

 This can be an activity for all children or a rotation station for a group at a time.

 If you have an artistic flair, write their names or draw characters for them to spray-paint.

 Supplies:

• Small plastic tubes with a hole for yarn or necklace (in craft or hobby stores) or small plastic containers with a screw-on top (bulk or whole-sale stores and catalogues)

• Pixie sticks (enough for each person to have 5 for the small tubes, no more than 10 per person)

How To Do It:

Pass out the containers and remove the tops.

 Hand out 1-2 of each color of pixie stick and cut off the tops.

 Have the kids alternate each color to create layers of color, which look like sand art, but it’s edible, tastier and a bit healthier than using decorative sugar.

 Before the party, create fake pizza toppings (pepperoni, black olives, anchovies, etc.) out of construction paper, FunFoam or printed images from the internet. Cut a large circle out of tan or brown construction paper and set the timer for one minute. Blindfold two guests at a time and race to build the pizza of their dreams.

Build a Pizza – Childrens Party Games

Same material as above, same idea as ‘Pin the Tail on the Donkey’. Put two-sided tape on the ingredients and let them try to build a pizza vertically while being blindfolded.

*Attention-Always ensure children are supervised while playing these blindfolded games