Outdoor Party Games for Kids

The outdoors offers a lot when you are planning a children’s birthday party. Space to run around and play can help keep the party from becoming too stagnant. Also, clean up tends to be a lot easier when you don’t have to worry about spilled soda and cake crumbs! But above all, the great outdoors offers space to have some great party games!

Bean Counting Relay
This is a fun and simple game that works for any age. Mark two lines about 10-20 feet apart with string or lime. At one line place two cups with beans and at the other end place two empty egg cartons or ice cube trays. Form the kids into two teams at the bean end. Each team must send one person at a time with a spoon and one bean to drop into the egg carton. If the bean is dropped, the player must return for another one. The first team to fill all 12 cups with a bean wins.

Centipede
Form two teams and have the kids line up, one behind the other, holding onto the waist of the person in front. Set up an obstacle course of cones or lawn chairs that they have to wind between, there should be two identical courses. When you blow the whistle, the “centipede” must run to the end of the course and back without anyone losing contact with the person in front of them. If a chain breaks up, they have to start again at the beginning. The first team to successfully complete the course without breaking the chain wins.

Down Catch
You will need a tennis or plastic ball for every two kids in this funny version of catch. The kids toss the ball back and forth until someone drops it or misses. This person then has to get down on one knee. The second miss means down on two knees. Each time they miss, they have to get further down, while still trying to catch the ball. One elbow, two elbows and finally chin.

Ball in the Air
All that is necessary in this outdoor game is a beach ball or another inflatable ball. All the kids get together in a group and try to keep the ball aloft for as long as possible. There are no winners or losers in the game, just lots of rambunctious fun!

Outdoor games can be fun, but make sure you let parents know not to send their children with fancy clothes so they can run around and get a bit grass-stained. Apart from that, have a blast!

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