Kids Party Entertainment: 18 Top Ideas To Give Your Child The Ultimate Birthday Party

Do you organize it at home or at another location ? And how do you surpass last year and all those parties of the children they go to school with?

That's why we wrote this blog to help you get some ideas for organizing a great children's party at home with games your child and his or her friends will still be talking about for years.

We have selected a top 18 of kid’s party entertainment ideas for you, which undoubtedly will give you some useful suggestions. Have fun preparing!

You can let the children do their own thing, but you can also choose to help the children with the makeup or ask someone from your own circle to do this. You put on some cheerful music and the girls will have a great time. Worth considering for a children's party at home.

Birthday Child: The Night Watch

This is a game that children do not know these days, but the generation in their thirties and forties undoubtedly still remember this. The Night Watch is a game that is played in a dark room. All children except one hide in the room. Make sure there are enough benches, closets where they can hide behind.

How does it work ? Each child picks a ticket from a bag. On those tickets you write an animal name with a number in front of it. For example 1: dog, 2: cat, 3: cow, 4: horse, 5: pig, 6: lion. One child is the Night Watchman and he enters the room. The child says: the Night Watch calls 3. The child with number 3 (the cow in this case) makes the sound of a cow. The Night Watchman has to guess which child this is. If he guesses correctly, the child comes out. If he gets it wrong, there is no reaction and the child remains seated.

The number of turns the Night Watch needs to find everyone, is the number of penalty points scored. If you let each child be the Night Watch once (and change the species of animals a few times, it will be more fun), and the one with the lowest score wins.

And one thing’s for sure: Once the first child has been the Night Watch, they all want to be the Night Watch again.

Kids party entertainment: Old-fashioned Games

It sounds old-fashioned, but of course it's still fun to play various games from the old days during a children's party at home. You will notice that many children have never heard of these group games. Set out a course in the garden or in the park with various games. Make a scorecard and attach it to a string, so the children can wear the scorecard as a necklace. Create some kind of diploma in advance and start playing!

As an example we have chosen a small selection of the possibilities you have:

Old Dutch game: ‘spijkerpoepen’, or in other words ‘Nail pooping’

Preparation: You take 2 wine bottles or beer bottles and put them on the ground. Then you tie a rope to a long nail and then you tie the rope around the child's waist, so that the rope with the nail hangs half a meter above the ground behind the child like some kind of tail. The child’s task is to lower the nail into the 2 bottles as quickly as possible. You take a stopwatch (nowadays on every smartphone) and keep track of the time. You write that time on the scorecard, so at the end of all games you can see who did it the fastest. If you have younger children, it's quite a job to get the nail in the bottle. If the kids are a little older, you can make the challenge a little bigger by telling them that the nail may not hit the bottle.

Bite the cake

Tie the slices of cake to some string and hang them on a line. The children can come one by one and bite the slices of cake, but before they do that, you must first blindfold them. Then you turn them around a few times and then they can go and look for them. They have to keep their hands on their backs. The cake has to go all the way.

Balloon kicks

We used to hate it when we were kids, but most kids love it. Inflate 1 balloon for each child and tie it with a string to the ankle. The assignment is to kick each other's balloon. The one who keeps the balloon in one piece the longest wins the game.

What can I taste? 

Let the children take turns to come to you in a separate room and put on a blindfold. Then you give them some flavors to taste on small spoons and they have to guess what it is.

Enough games to keep them sweet for a few hours. Especially smaller children still love to do this.

Think of materials such as tubes, vacuum cleaner hoses, gutters, lego, garden hose, toilet rolls, cardboard tubes, curtain rails, lampshades (as funnel), train rails, stones. At Recycling stores or DIY stores you can also get plenty of ideas. On the internet you can find enough examples to do a great job. Of course, you can also choose to divide the group into smaller groups, so that several small jobs can be made. And maybe you can connect them if you let them work on several floors in the house.

It will take some help from you as a parent, but the result is a proud group of boys (or girls) with a homemade tough marble job. In the summer you can also do it outside and choose a water track instead of marbles.

With possible activities for a birthday child, this one should certainly be on your list. This kid’s party entertainment is simple to organize and gives them 100% fun.

And a disco party is not a disco party if there are no games of course. You can play musical chairs, but you can also stop a song in the middle and let the children finish the sentence of the song. Girls certainly want to try a real disco party at home as a children's party.

Human stratego

Most adults will have heard of Stratego and lots of people have played it. The board game where you have to defeat the army of the other party by conquering the flag. Your army consists of different kinds of army ranks.

From Marshal to Scout. The higher rank beats the lower rank when they meet on the board. So the Marshal always wins, right. No, there is 1 figure: the spy who is the only one who can defeat the Marshal when he meets him on the board. And there are bombs on the board, which even a Marshal can't withstand. The difficult part of the game is that you don't know the rank of the opponent's piece beforehand, because they have their backs to you.

And so there is Human Stratego, which you can play very well with a larger group of children. They already play this is a lot at school with the whole class. Running after each other, stealing each other's flag. The children love it. One of the best kid’s party entertainment: fun and healthy!

And of course you secretly invite the parents fifteen minutes earlier to come and watch the show. Maybe it's possible to turn a room in your home into a circus arena. You need some creativity and the necessary materials, but a circus show during the children's party at home is a real happening.

Kid party entertainment: Human memory

A short, but oh so fun group game for children, is the Living Memory. We all know the game memory where you have to find 2 of the same pictures. Now 1 child must find 2 of the same children.

How does it work? All children are in 1 room, except the one who has to solve the memory. The children make 2 numbers and agree in advance on a certain movement that they do when their name is said. For example, 2 children agree to make a pirouette when their name is mentioned. Another 2 may agree to jump in the air and another 2 may decide to roll on the ground. Each turn, the child who guesses, may call 2 children's names. If he calls 2 children's names that do the same thing, they will leave the game. Just as long till all the children have been guessed. Simple, short, but great fun as a kid’s party entertainment activity.

Children's party at home: the Pajamas sleepover party

Especially when the children are older and there is no more homesickness, a pajamas party is of course very cozy. Everyone wearing onesie, all the mattresses next to each other in the living room and in the evening after you have played all the games on this top list, you can watch a nice movie together with the lights out. Some popcorn and drinks and you have your own night movie theater.

Kids party entertainment: Laser game 

This is a game you can easily create at home. What do you need ? 1 room and a few balls of red wool. You use that red wool to tie wires crisscross through the room. The wires are the lasers. The children have to go through the room without touching the lasers. So make it difficult. Somewhere underneath, somewhere above. Make sure they need each other to avoid certain wires. Very nice to play together with the children at your child's birthday party. Laser game is short and can therefore be combined with other fun children's games at a children's party at home.

Craft party

Are you familiar with Pinterest on the internet? Just look at Craft Party and the ideas will come right at you. Children (certainly until a certain age) always like to do crafts. Of course, the concentration curve depends on the age, so take that into account when you are planning what you are going to do with the kids. But during the children's party at home sitting together at the kitchen table, rolling up sleeves and having a good time, is very cozy and the kids will make something they can proudly show to their parents later on.

Create your own kids slime party

Nowadays it's impossible to imagine making mucus without it. Wow, what a mess we had in the kitchen. But the kids thought it was a great party.

Never too old te play

With these ideas we hope we have given you some inspiration for fun children's parties. Maybe you have some great ideas you want to share. You can respond to this blog, but you can also go to [email protected]

Playing is not only for kids, adults also like to play a group game during a weekend away. So surprise your friends, family or colleagues with a fun game.

"You're never too old to play".