This competitive outdoor game for kids is perfect for teams of two. To play, give each child a bucket of filled water balloons. Let players take turns tossing the balloons and see who can make the most shots. The player with the highest score wins! A rowdy game of rocket toss is easy and inexpensive to put together.
Use colorful duct tape to decorate ounce metal cans. This will be the "rocket" that kids can toss at the cans. Give each birthday party guest three tries to knock down all the cans. Don't throw away those empty bleach bottles—transform them into an outdoor catching game for kids! Make a mazelike pathway through fallen leaves, and birthday party attendees can race through it. Rake a curving path through fallen leaves.
No leaves in sight? Use rope or grass clippings and sticks to form the maze. Have kids race together through the maze, or use a stopwatch to time each child. Make a splash at your child's summer birthday party with a fun water game. For each team, string a plastic bucket on a length of clothesline; make the lines the same length to be fair. With the buckets at one end of the clothesline, arm each team with a hose or large squirt guns. Using only water, the teams must race to move their bucket to the other end of the line.
Editor's Tip: Make this fun game for kids even wilder. Arm a team with water balloons to use as obstacles and distractions while the other team tries to push its bucket across the finish line. Little ones will enjoy this fun twist on badminton. Use homemade foam rackets to keep the colorful balloon off the ground. Nature is calling for a game of tic-tac-toe. Provide flower heads from your garden, or let children explore your yard for flower heads, stones, leaves, or other bits of nature to use as game pieces.
Editor's Tip: Alert parents about your plans for an outdoor party and ask about their children's allergies. Make sure to have silk flowers on hand, just in case. You may not have a built-in checkerboard in your backyard, but it's easy to set one up for a birthday party.
Cut large squares from sturdy poster board, and tack them to the ground in a checkerboard pattern. Use plant stakes or other stakes with rounded tops for safety. Or chalk up your driveway to create the board. Make big beanbags or use two colors of Frisbee disks for the checkers. Have kids take turns moving their pieces across the board.
Set up teams to involve everyone in the fun. Editor's Tip: You can also use large square flooring tiles to make the board. Inexpensive tiles are available at home improvement stores. On-the-go kids will love wheeling and squealing on this obstacle course. Ask each child to bring his or her favorite set of wheels.
It's a good idea to have a few extra vehicles available. To create the course, arrange orange cones or other soft items in your yard or a nearby park. Include curves, turns, and small hills, depending on the ages and abilities of your racers.
Fuel the kids' excitement by timing each racer as he or she pedals to the finish line. To make the course more challenging, set up stations along the way where children must stop to perform a task, such as blowing bubbles. Pumpkins aren't just for the porch! Make the most of the season's harvest with this easy outdoor game of tic-tac-toe.
Who's the fastest of them all? Set up an outdoor course and find out! Beat the summer heat with this cool kids birthday party game. Blocks of ice become the base for this pretty painted game.
Simply drip washable tempera paint onto frozen ice shapes and get melting! As the ice melts, it will create cool paint designs. An old-fashioned favorite, pickup sticks gets a gigantic twist when the sticks are as big as the kids. Paint the ends with bright colors: red, blue, green, yellow, orange, and purple, for example.
To start the game, drop the sticks on the ground in a big messy pile, and let the kids take turns picking up a stick. If a stick other than the one the child is removing wiggles, the child must return the stick and forgo his or her turn. At the end, the player with the most sticks wins. Editor's Tip: Add a challenge to the game by assigning each player a color. The first player to successfully remove all the sticks of the assigned color wins the party game.
All it takes is a few dice to get the party started! You can make these outdoor dice with wood, but we chose small cardboard boxes—perfect for younger children.
Have a little Picasso on your hands? Get painting outside! Set up all the materials kids will need to paint or draw outside in a space surrounded by nature. Let each child create their own work of art inspired by flowers, plants, and nature.
Try making homemade sidewalk chalk paint and letting the kids decorate your driveway. Set up a fun game of DIY disc golf right in your backyard! To create this outdoor game for kids, hang an oversized hula hoop from a branch or clothesline. Try a fun take on the classic game of catch. Have each player throw the disc through the hoop. The first one to complete ten shots wins! Beat the summer heat with a game of squirt bottle tag. The child who stays dry the longest wins. This summer craft for kids doubles as a fun outdoor game!
Have each child create their own paper airplane using construction paper and tape or glue. Once the planes are completed, head outside and see which ones take flight. The paper plane that goes the furthest wins. Keep the kids entertained with the cheap outdoor activity idea. Messy Art Activities:. Squirt shaving cream over an old coffee table. Add food colouring or kool-aid powder, and let kids make designs with their hands or with popsicle sticks.
See it here. This activity is so much fun for all ages, and everyone gets a squirt gun and a canvas to make a piece of art to take home after the party. Get the easy instructions here. Another great one for the toddlers at the party: Cut inch lengths of different coloured wool. Place them across plants in the garden, and around the yard. Kids can work in teams or individually. All ages love an outdoor obstacle course , and the possibilities are endless here.
A few terrific suggestions are:. Relay Races. Remember having relay races when you were a kid? Sack races, 3 legged races and carrying an egg on a spoon from one end of the yard to the other are classics! For an added twist, throw in a hula-hooping leg of the race! Or try a Rainbow Relay Race: Split kids into teams and give each child a paint brush dipped in a different colour of the rainbow.
The kids take turns running to a piece of poster board, and swiping their colour in a rainbow arc. The fastest team to paint a rainbow in correct colour order wins! All of these fun and simple party games kid and parent! Not sure where to go to find inexpensive party game supplies?
Try the dollar store as they often have hula hoops, pool noodles, squirt guns, bubble blowers and lots of great trinkets for prizes in stock at the beginning of the summer season! Click to download your copy now! Follow the Hooligans on Facebook. Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She began blogging in , and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.
I was on the lookout for games for my sons next bday party, this is such a big help. Thanks for this. I love the Donut eating contest idea. I can understand why that would be fun for the adults too. I liked all of the games very much especially Relay race and swat the fly. For this hilariously fun and entirely messy game,. Fall backyard birthday party and movie night backyard.
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Use a permanent marker to write point values on the three balloons. A game of giant jenga or cornhole can be such a fun addition to an outdoor party, or bring the laughs around the table with.
But if the bag only lands on the board, you get 1 point. If you want to add some silliness and spunk to your birthday party, then these birthday party games for adults are for you.
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