Children's Outdoor Party Games

When ever you are planning a party, whether it is a birthday party or a beach party, you begin to look for ideas. It's obvious that preplanning will determine the success of the party.

And then, the race begins...looking for a theme, games, Party Supplies, Invitations, and...It seems as if the organization of the party is never ending, but what you only do to make your child happy!

Not long ago, my friend Tamar told me that she had thrown a birthday party for her six year old daughter.

Tamar wanted the birthday party to be special, so she began looking for children's outdoor party games. She said that it wasn't easy.

She spent hours looking for party games and activities. In the end she found party games, and the party was a great success.

Upon hearing Tamar's story I thought to myself that no doubt other parents encounter the same problem. I therefore decided to assemble here a selection of children's outdoor party games.

I hope that these games and activities will assist you in planning your next party.

Black rabbit

• Sit all the children facing each other in a large circle.
• One of the children stands outside of the circle and passes from child to child.

• He places his hand on the first child's head and says "white rabbit", proceeds to the second child and says "yellow rabbit", and so on and so forth.

  The child who he has chosen to call "black rabbit" must get up out of his place, chase him and catch him. The child who is being chased must run around the circle, and sit in the place of his pursuer before he is caught.

• If he is caught he must sit in the center of the circle (until another child is caught to replace him) and the other children must chant "We have a fool in the circle".
• If however he is not successful, he starts again from the beginning, passing from child to child and saying "black rabbit..."

Mirror game

• Divide the kids into couples.
• Play music in the background.
• In each couple one child is the activator and the other the mirror.
• The activator must do actions, and the other must reflect his exact actions as if he were a mirror.
• When the music stops, the children must exchange roles; the activator becomes the mirror, and the mirror the activator.

Blind man's buff

• Choose one child and cover his eyes with a blindfold or a piece of material.
• Play music in the background.
• The blindfolded child must catch his friends.
• The friends should make noises so that the blind man can hear where they are.
• The children who are caught are blindfolded, and join the blind man in trying to catch the other children.

Sea and land

• Draw a large circle on the floor or create a division of the area with a piece of material.
• The inside of the circle is the sea and the outside is land. (If the division is being made by a piece of material, one is land and one is sea.)
• All the kids stand on the land.
• When the entertainer says sea, all the kids have to jump inside the circle (or the designated sea area).
• When the entertainer says land, all the kids have to jump out of the circle.
• If the entertainer says sea, and they are already in the sea, they have to stay where they are. A child who makes a mistake is disqualified and is out of the game.
• The last one standing is the winner.

Additional Resources for Children's Outdoor Party Games and Activities

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