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Children's School Party Games

Party games are an age old form of entertainment for children. They are a way to form social bonds when played at school. Children's school party games should involve the entire class at one time. If the class is particularly large, however, children can be split into smaller groups and play simultaneously. Children will love the anticipation of a prize or the distinction of being hailed the winner.

Musical Chairs
- A large group of children can participate in a game of musical chairs. Arrange the chairs back to back, in two lines. There should be one fewer chair than there are children. The children should line up, surrounding the chairs before you begin playing music. Once the music begins, tell the children to parade around the chairs. Stop the music periodically, signaling each child to scramble to an unoccupied seat. The child left standing is out of the game and one more chair is removed. Continue this until the last child with a chair is deemed the winner.
Parcel Pass
- Wrap a small gift in many layers of a mix of colored gift paper, newspaper or brown paper packaging. Include stickers or other small trinkets between several of the layers. Have the children sit in a circle, handing one of them the parcel. Turn on some music and instruct the children to pass the parcel from child to child. When the music stops, the child with the parcel is allowed to unwrap a layer. Maybe there will be a gag gift, a real treat -- or nothing at all. This continues until all the wrappers are off and the child left holding the last, most coveted prize is the winner.
Telephone
- An entire classroom of children can play a fun game of Telephone. The first child gets a secret sentence whispered into her ear. She then turns to the next child and whispers what she believes she has heard. The sentence is whispered throughout the class to the last child, who then reveals it aloud. There will be lots of giggles when the kids realize how mixed up and twisted the simple sentence has become.
Pin the Tail on the Donkey
- Draw the outline of a donkey on a large piece of poster board, omitting the tail. Hang it up and cut out separate tails from construction paper. Each child takes a turn being blindfolded and guided to the donkey. Hand the student a donkey's tail and ask him to stick it where he believes the tail should go. There should be many laughs when the blindfold is lifted and the often hilarious position of the tail is revealed. The child who positions his tail closest to the correct spot wins.

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