{"id":1071,"date":"2018-11-25T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2018-11-11T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T14:44:17","slug":"classic-party-games-for-older-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/classic-party-games-for-older-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic party games for older kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duck, Duck, Goose
\nThis classic kids game is perfect fun for any children’s party<\/a>. Gather your guests to sit in a circle and let the birthday child begin as the \u2018Goose\u2019. They walk around the circle tapping each child on the head, saying \u2018duck\u2019 with each tap. When they are ready to choose the next person to be Goose, they say \u2018goose\u2019 when tapping that person on the head. That child gets up and chases the birthday child around the circle. If the new Goose does not tag the birthday child before they make it all the way around the circle and sit in the open spot, then the new Goose becomes \u2018it\u2019. If the new Goose tags the birthday child, then the birthday child remains \u2018it\u2019 for the next round and the game continues.<\/p>\n

Musical Chairs or Cushions
\nSet up chairs or cushions in 2 rows back to back. Put out one less chair\/cushion than there are children. Start playing the music and ask the children to walk all around the chairs\/cushions until the music stops. When the music stops, the children must each sit on a chair\/cushion. The child without a chair\/cushion is \u2018out\u2019. You might like to have a bowl of sweets to offer to each child that is \u2018out\u2019 so they don\u2019t feel too humiliated \u2013 but don\u2019t make it so tempting that everybody wants to be \u2018out\u2019! Then remove another chair\/cushion. If there is ever a tie, don\u2019t spend ages making a decision, just replay that round.<\/p>\n

Hot Potato
\nSit the kids in a circle and choose one to sit out wearing a blindfold. Begin by passing a potato around the circle, while the \u2018blind\u2019 child stands to one side. Everyone must accept the potato, and may not hold it longer than a second. At any point the \u2018blind\u2019 child can yell, \u2018Hot Potato\u2019, and whoever has the potato is out (Think about using that invaluable bowl of sweets again!) Continue to play until there is only one person left, and they are the winner. A really good variation is to follow the theme of your party. Use an appropriate item to pass around the circle instead of a potato.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Duck, Duck, Goose This classic kids game is perfect fun for any children’s party. Gather your guests to sit in a circle and let the birthday child begin as the \u2018Goose\u2019. They walk around the circle tapping each child on the head, saying \u2018duck\u2019 with each tap. When they are ready to choose the next … Continue reading “Classic party games for older kids”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,31],"tags":[94,151,51],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","category-games-activities","tag-best","tag-games","tag-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}