Iowa Hypnotist

Are you thinking of holding a kids’ party on St Valentine’s Day? Then you would be wise to start thinking of St Valentine’s Day party games for kids too. Kids are more trouble when they are bored than when they are boisterous. Thinking up games is not much of a difficulty but there are usually two things to take into consideration: the age of the children and your finances.

The bouncy house always goes down well with children. You could hire a bouncy house for the day and hang hearts and flowers around the outside. Check on the Net first that the firm hiring out the bouncy house is a member of your country’s governing body for bouncy house rental firms.

You could split the children into teams and hold an assortment of races. One race could be the ‘Race of Hearts’, in which the kids have to run to the finishing line and back with a stuffed heart (or pillow) between their knees. It always results in lots of laughter.

Another race could be to ‘Wrap Mummy’ in which each team gets a couple of rolls of paper kitchen towel and they have to wrap up someone like a mummy as a gift. You could add bows and a name and address tag as well.

The teams could play ‘Mr and Mrs’ in which the compare gives a famous name and the teams have to click a clicker, bang a gong or ring a bell if they know the answer. The compare may say: ‘Samson’ the reply is ‘Delilah’; ‘Hilary Clinton’ – ‘Bill Clinton’; ‘Queen Elizabeth’ – ‘Prince Phillip’. You get the concept.

Split along gender lines, you could play the ‘King and the Queen of Hearts’. Do you remember those round sweets with a heart on them and a romantic saying in the heart? Well, they do not cost a great deal for a huge bag of them. Give every child 50 or so and ask them to stack them one on top of the other.

Whoever builds the highest tower in a minute goes through to the next round. Two boys against each other and two girls until there is just one girl and one boy left. They can eat the sweets, obviously.

You could put a target on the ground, say one of your heart-shaped cushions, give every child an uninflated sausage-shaped balloon and put his or her name on it. Then the children stand in a circle around the heart, say ten feet away, blow up their balloon and let them fly (without a knot in). The first one to land on the heart denotes the winner. Or the nearest to it. You could have one go each per round or they could fire at will until someone is the winner.

You could play Valentine’s Day bingo. This can get as elaborate as you have time for. You could make your own cards with hearts etc on them; if the children are young, you could call out pictures instead of numbers, but the funniest of all is if the caller makes up some Valentine’s Day slang to go with every number.

For instance, when calling bingo numbers in Britain, it is common to say: ‘Legs 11′ and a lot of people will whistle; ‘two little ducks, 22′ and somebody always says ‘quack, quack’. Every number has its own saying and they are used with minor variations everywhere. You could make up your own like: ‘two hairy legs, number 11′ or ‘two beautiful legs, number 11′.

If you cannot think of something appropriate for each number, only do as many as you can – they always get a laugh and that is what it is all about when you are organizing a St Valentine’s Day party for kids.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety topics, but is now concerned with the bouncy castles for sale. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Bouncy House Rentals

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