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6 year olds are still little kids, but having been to school they think they’re more grown up so you’ve got a fine line to walk in keeping them properly entertained at your birthday party.

Keep as much as possible a group activity. You’ll avoid any meltdowns from performance anxiety that even a simple game like Charades can induce in some kids. Mix the groups up as needed to prevent the group dynamics from getting out of hand; they’ll just think the changes were part of your original plan.

Directions for what they’re going to be doing need to be kept simple and short to match their abbreviated attention spans. Adding a twist to a game or activity that they already know how to do or play keeps the instructions brief and allows you to bend things to reflect your overall theme. Continuing your theme from one activity to the next will also help keep everybody on board and tuned in.

Be flexible. If a certain activity isn’t engaging the kids or you’re seeing frustration, give it up and move on to another activity. Have more activities ready to go than you expect to use just to cover this situation.

Small motor skills are still all over the lot with 6 year olds, with some kids able and some not. Therefore, I don’t recommend craft activities for this age group as some may have a very hard time, be embarrassed, maybe even act out. It’s important to remember that your child isn’t the only one at the party and what your child can easily do may be difficult for others ( and, of course, vice versa).

Lastly, I strongly recommend keeping the sugar intake to a minimum with this young age group. I’d rather vacuum up the popcorn that gets spilled than deal with 10 sugar highs.

You can see more of my thoughts on birthday party games for 6 year olds on my website.

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I just have to share with my readers this great find: a fully fleshed out backyard party for kids that looks to be loads of fun and very inexpensive. So if you’re lucky enough to live where it’s nice and warm now, or find this post when it is, do check out the backyard relay party at emoms at home.com.

Themed as an Olympics party, the games were pretty much all physical challenges that kept the 7 year olds moving all the time. And 7 year olds need to move!!

Starting with the introductory Opening Ceremonies and the Parade of the Flags, the party then went through 10 different games, and the article offers you detailed instructions for set up and running each of the games, so you’ll be good to go. The second and third parts of the post are a tad difficult to find, so here’s a link where you can get to all three parts of the post.

Kudos to emom.com for this great idea and for presenting it with all the necessary details so any parent can put it together easily for their birthday child. This party plan follows all my “rules” for having a great kids birthday party: an interesting theme, games that move quick enough to keep everyone interested and participating, easy preparation and easy on the wallet. And it sounds like the kids had a great time. What more could you ask for?

Just one caution: be sure you have a back-up plan for any outdoor party in case Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate. Even a “rain-date” on the invitation will work.

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We all know that the kids coming to your son or daughter’s birthday party aren’t coming for the food. Not even the cake. As long as they’ve got fuel in their tank, they really don’t care what they’re eating at a party. So why not surprise them with something unique and different from the usual?

I love it when someone finds a unique something that can be incorporated into a birthday party and makes the kids smile. Check out this personalized jello mold on goodyblog.com. It’s reasonably priced, and obviously you can use it again and again. The personalization should certainly please the birthday child and everyone will get a kick out of it. Stick some candles in it and I bet they’ll find it all hilarious! And as the author so aptly points out, anyone can make jello. And can make it in far less time than it takes to make that cake and write the birthday child’s name on it in icing.

I’m always in favor of making the whole party process as easy as possible while fun and unique, just as I do with the 5 party packages from Birthday Party Games Lady.

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