Fun competitions for kids. Comic win-win lottery game. "Third Extra" is a musical game

26.05.2019

show the word

The players are divided into two teams. From each team, one person approaches the leader and receives a word, a piece of paper and a pen. At the signal of the host, these players must draw the received word on paper so that the team can guess. wins in game the team that guesses the pictured word faster than the other.

Interesting answers

Member competition they sit with their backs to everyone, and a plate with pre-prepared inscriptions is fixed on his back. The inscriptions can be very different - "Toilet", "School", "Shop", etc. The rest of the members ask him a variety of questions, such as "why do you go there, how often, and so on." The player, not knowing what is written on the tablet hanging on his back, must answer these questions.

Firefighters

The sleeves of two jackets are turned inside out and hung on the backs of chairs. Chairs are placed with their backs to each other at a distance of one meter. A rope two meters long is placed between the chairs. Both contestants start each at their own chair. At the signal of the leader, they must take the jackets, turn out the sleeves, put on, fasten all the buttons. Then run around the opponent's chair, sit on your chair and pull the rope. The one who does it first wins.

Guess with gestures

All participants are divided into two teams. The first team comes up with some kind of abstruse word, and then says it to one of the members of the opposite team. The task of the chosen one is to depict the hidden word without making a sound, only with facial expressions and gestures so that his team can guess what was intended. After a successful guess, the teams switch roles.

Put on boxing gloves. Candy is given and time is recorded. You need to unwrap the candy and eat it. Instead of boxing gloves, you can wear several pairs of regular mittens.

Sea battle (water game)

Children are divided into two teams and stand facing each other at a distance of one and a half to two meters. On command, they begin to splash at each other. The contestant who turns away or starts wiping his face with his hands is eliminated. The team with the most members left at the end of the time wins (usually 30 seconds)

Scouts

Several participants are hung on the backs of tablets with the word written on them. At the command of the host, the players try to find out what word is written on the back of others, but without showing their own. The player whose word was read correctly is out of the game.

Carrot

The leader stands in the center, and around everyone else, shoulder to shoulder, form a very tight circle. Participants' hands should be at the back. Target games: Imperceptibly from the host, pass a carrot behind their backs and bite off a piece of it. The goal of the presenter is to guess in whose hands the carrot is. If you guessed correctly, then the player caught with the carrot becomes the leader. If they ate all the carrots, then the presenter lost

sea chain

Participants are given a box of paper clips. On a signal, they begin to make a chain with these paper clips. A game for a while - somewhere 1-2 minutes. Whoever makes the longest chain during this time wins.

Equestrian fight (game on the water)

Children are divided into two teams, taking into account the physical fitness of the players. Pairs are formed - “horse” and “knight”. The rider sits on the shoulders of his partner. At the command of the referee, the teams begin combat. The task of the "knight" is to throw the enemy off the "horse" into the water. "Horses" cannot participate in the battle. Grabs are allowed only by the hands. The discarded "knight" together with the "horse" are eliminated from the game.

Broken phone

Everyone sits in a row, the first player thinks of a word or phrase and quickly passes it in a whisper to the next, and so on. After passing the word along the entire chain, the beginner announces the intended word or phrase, and the last one that has reached him.

Uncle Fyodor's letter

The player sits in circles and everyone is given blank sheets of paper and pens. The facilitator asks the question: "Who?". Players write the names of their heroes at the top of the sheet. After that, the sheet is folded so that what is written is not visible. After that, pass the sheet to the neighbor on the right. The host asks: "Where did you go?" Everyone writes, folds the sheet and passes it to the neighbor on the right. Host: "Why did he go there?" .... And so on. After this, joint funny reading

Desirable candy

guess the picture

The host shows the players a picture that is covered with a large sheet with a hole two to three centimeters in diameter in the middle. The facilitator moves the sheet around the picture. Participants must guess what is shown in the picture. Whoever guesses the fastest wins.

Get rid of the match

A match is taken, dipped in water and stuck on the participant's face. Which will need to get rid of it, using only facial expressions, but not hands

Bursting balls

Buy a lot of balloons in two colors. The company is divided into two teams. Each team is given balls of the same color. Team members tie balls with a thread to the leg. So that there is no crowding with scissors and threads, it is better to immediately prepare balls with threads.

On command, the participants begin to pop the balls of the opposite team. The team that has at least one whole ball left wins.

guess the shadow

One of the participants sits facing a light, better not crowded wall. Behind him, a few steps away, a dim lamp or candle is installed so that the shadow is as sharp as possible. The rest of the participants pass between the lamp and the back of the seated person. Without turning around, the seated person must guess by the shadow who passed behind him. The one who was guessed sits on a chair and becomes the driver.

Participants collect one of any item, which are put into a bag. After that, one of the participants is blindfolded. The leader pulls out things in turn, and the blindfolded player comes up with a task for the owner of the pulled out thing. Tasks can be very different: dance, sing a song, crawl under the table and mumble, and so on.

Siamese twins

Two participants are connected as follows: They stand side by side to each other. The left leg of one player is tied to the right of another player, the torso is tied with straps. Get "Siamese twins." They make several such pairs and then do all the tasks for speed. Target competition- a couple, acting with two different hands, silently must perform various tasks. For example, tie shoelaces, sharpen a pencil, open a bottle, dance.

cracker

The player is given a bunch of keys and a closed padlock on the cabinet or box with the prize. It is necessary to pick up the key from the bunch as soon as possible and open the lock.

Any holiday should be a bright, fun and memorable event, so contests for a children's birthday are a must. Some people believe that if a child turns, for example, 5 years old, then you can not "bother" ...

This is not at all the case, there is a whole sea of fun children's birthday contests for children from 3 years old and up to 16-17 years old.

As experience shows, children of preschool age (i.e. from 3 to 5 years old) gather a very large number of guests to celebrate their years, who are always cheerful, active and overly energetic, but at the same time they still love to learn.

This means that both mobile and educational games and children's competitions for name days at home will do. For example:

right on target

Children form a circle (dance), in the center of which is the organizer of the competition. Each kid has two soft toys or tennis balls (in a word, something that can be thrown into the host's box or package).

On command, for example, “started”, the host slowly begins to move around its axis, thereby giving each participant the opportunity to hit the target, i.e. in a box or a bucket, or simply a package. But ... you can only throw one toy, so that the second one will certainly remain in your hand.

After the first round passed, the host determines the participants in the second round, i.e. those who hit the target.

Those who have passed the second round and made it to the final are already “sharp shooters”.

For the finale, you need to empty the "target" (box, bucket, etc.), and already among the well-aimed shooters to identify the winner - the super shooter.

Instead of mom to the store

This competition develops dexterity, attentiveness and speed of movements of children.
The necessary attributes of the competition are two children's tables, two children's chairs, two charming baskets and models of fruits and vegetables.

Of course, dummies can be replaced with simple pictures with painted vegetables and fruits, but then the game time decreases and the task of finding the right item becomes more difficult.

A table and a chair at some distance are set opposite each other. There is a basket on the chair. On the table, respectively, all the necessary products. Task: strictly one item to transfer all the products from the store (from the table) home (to the basket). Whoever did it faster, he won.

For children of five years old, you can complicate the task and name a list of certain products, thereby the child will not only have to transfer, but also remember the list and choose. Refereeing in this case will be more difficult, as it must take into account the mistakes made.

Color associations

The purpose of the competition is to teach children in an accessible playful way to accurately determine the color, regardless of the shape of the object and its purpose.

Before the start of the game, on a certain surface (table, cabinet, children's bench), the leader lays out objects of various colors (cubes, parts of a colored designer, dishes, wardrobe items (hat, mitten, scarf), pencils, etc.). The main condition is the uniformity of the subject!

The essence of the game. According to the agreed sign or word, one person from each team goes to the table with objects. And the kids must choose an object of the color whose name is his team.
Assistance in refereeing can be provided by the children themselves. It is very fun and unpredictable.

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Older children (from 5 to 8 years old) are also inquisitive and energetic.

However, in order for children to not only have fun, but also be interesting, more specific goals should be added to outdoor games.

Consider a selection of various children's competitions for boys and games for girls for a name day.

"Fun cleaning" is a great way to entertain all the guests of your birthday.

For the competition you will need:

gymnastic hoops (2 pcs);
multi-colored panicles for dust (2 pcs);
balloons (from 10 pcs).

So, first you need to choose two children "on the gate", and divide the rest into pairs.

Goaltenders will need to keep their hoops slightly off the ground.

Each player is given a whisk, and an even number of balloons are poured onto the floor.

The task of the players is to score as many balls into their own goal as quickly as possible with the help of whisks, i.e. in a hoop

"Rainbow" is an excellent educational and at the same time active game for 14 people.

As props you need to prepare:

a rainbow drawn on a large drawing paper (preferably A1);
cut out geometric shapes of rainbow colors (i.e. each figure has 7 pcs).

All figures are shuffled on the same table. Next, each team is assigned its own color and figure.

At the command "Start!" children take turns in pairs to run up to the table and pick up their piece. Once all 7 people have collected the pieces, they must line up in the same color order as the rainbow and lift their piece up.

Who is the first, he won. To help children, a rainbow drawn on whatman paper should be hung on the wall.

"Greedy Bear" is a very lively and fun competition for a children's birthday at home. You need to outline a place for the teddy bear and throw a lot of toys there, as well as something that will symbolize a jar of honey (her teddy bear should protect especially well.

Children from two teams in turn should run into the territory of the bear and try to pick up either honey or some of the trophies, but if the bear cub touches the child, then he is out of the game.

When one of the teams takes more trophies or a jar of honey, the game ends.

"Sharp arrows". Children need to be put in a circle, in the middle of which the leader will stand with an empty box in his hands.

Each child should have a toy or a ball in their hands (in each hand). The host begins to spin slowly, and the children throw one of their items into the box.

After the circle is completed, the most accurate arrows go to the next stage.

Clothespins are a good option to puzzle children. First, the host enters the room and hangs multi-colored clothespins (15-30 pieces) throughout the room: on curtains, furniture, toys, etc. On command, the children run in and begin to collect the found clothespins. The one who collected the most wins.

Air Combat is a fun, active and addictive game. It is necessary to divide the children into two teams and draw a line between them.

Each team has 5 balls of the same color (more possible). As soon as the music turns on, the children must throw all their balls out of the opponent's line and prevent them from returning.

When the music is turned off, a count is made of who was able to throw more balls.

"Sister Alyonushka" is also a great game with balloons. Each child is given a ball, a handkerchief and a felt-tip pen. At the command "Start!" you need to tie a scarf on a ball and draw Alyonushka's face there.

“Warm-cold” is a game known to many in which a little thing is hidden, and the child must find it, focusing on the prompts of the children, how cold or warm it is from the cherished thing.

"The sea is agitated". This game also needs no introduction, because it is familiar to many since childhood.

Under the counting rhyme “The sea is worried one, two, three”, I guess for the children in the form of what you need to “freeze”. And then the presenter, “turning on” each frozen figure, must guess what it means. This is a great board game for the holidays.

Penguins is a simple balloon game. Each child is given a ball and he must, holding it between his ankles, take small steps to a certain place.

Which of these "penguins" runs faster, he won.

Cool games for teens for a birthday

Children aged 9 to 12 are eager to take part in competitions, games and quizzes.

Here are just a few of the options for entertaining your guests:

By mushrooms
The competition will require a sufficient number of images of mushrooms, dummies of mushrooms or items stylized as mushrooms (up to ordinary matchboxes).

Before the start of the competition, the organizer must hide the "mushrooms" throughout the "forest" (that is, the room).
On command, mushroom pickers (competitors) enter "into the forest" and start looking for mushrooms. Whoever picks up the most mushrooms wins.

Merry water carriers
This competition is best held in the bosom of nature. Children are divided into teams. A bucket of water and an empty bucket for each team are placed at a sufficient distance.

The bottom line: players take turns transferring water from a full bucket in their palms to empty buckets. After the agreed time, the game stops, and which team has more water transferred, that one is the winner.

Childish advertising
We are surrounded by a sea of objects, at the mention of which we pronounce the names of brands, and not directly their semantic purpose. Examples are Pampers (baby diapers), Fanta (orange soda), etc.

For the competition, prepare as many of these names as possible and invite the contestants to advertise the item in their own words, taking into account the relevance of the semantic load and the absence of brand words.

Approach the choice of words on your list with care, as there may be surprises from children.

Quiz: "What do you know about SpongeBob?"
This competition is a quiz that focuses and calms the children for a while. Almost all children enjoy watching the cartoon adventures of SpongeBob.

Questions will be about the content of the cartoon and attentiveness watching it.

Sample questions for the contest:
Who is Spongebob?
Who are his best friends?
What is the purpose of SpongeBob in Jellyfish Field?
Which exam does SpongeBob fail to pass?
How many people live in Bikini Bottom?
What neighbors of SpongeBob do you know?
Where does Patrick live? etc.

To prepare for the competition, adults will have to watch a cartoon or enlist the help of children.

Dance-dance like Pinocchio
To organize this dance competition, you need to prepare dance music and cardboard cards in advance, on which the names of the heroes of the Golden Key fairy tale will be applied.

The number of cards should correspond to the number of guests at your party.

The cards are placed in a "magic bag", from where the participants take turns taking out a card with the name of the hero of the fairy tale Pierrot, Malvin, or Pinocchio, etc.

In a minute, the participant of the competition must show an impromptu dance that conveys the character of the hero of the fairy tale that fell to him.

Spectators at the end of the competition choose the most talented dancer.

An original gift for a birthday is best done with your own hands.

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Funny games for a children's holiday for young people

Moving on to an even older age category (13-16 years and above), it is not necessary to select games and entertainment for a name day much more seriously.

The fact is that young people often respond to simple, but very funny contests for children's birthdays. For example:

Real culinary specialist
The participants of this competition, in accordance with belonging to a particular team, write down the name of any food product on a blank sheet of paper. Then the sheet is folded and passed to a teammate.

When all team members have written their food products (with a small number of players in teams, the procedure can be repeated in a circle), the sheet with the ingredients of the future dish is unfolded.
In a short time, each team must come up with the name of the dish and the recipe for its preparation and voice the innovation.

The fun usually comes with dubbing, when "choux pastry is added to the borscht and it's all baked until golden brown."

housewarming
Guests of the holiday are divided into teams. In front of each team, a cheerful plan-scheme of a house or apartment with a large number of windows is posted.

Target. Leaving one participant to the posted plan, the teams draw figures of future residents in each window. The task can be complicated by the fact that the age and social status of the tenant can be determined from the drawing.

The first team to cope with the difficult task of settling the house is declared the winner.

Decryption
Participants are invited to split into two intelligence centers. Each center receives a "ciphered note" - a piece of paper with a printed word. For example "String".

Team members must decipher the word, knowing the main key - the phrase is encoded in the word. Each letter of the word is the first letter of the word of the encrypted phrase. In this case, it is "Seven terrorists decided to rob the royal arsenal."

The most witty deciphering wins.

4 monkeys
A fun competition for the audience and no less fun for the participants. Four unpeeled bananas are laid out on a low table or chair without a back.

Four participants are tied with their hands behind their backs and, on command, at speed, they are offered to first clean and then eat the delicacy of the monkeys.

On this, perhaps, we can sum up. Of course, there are many more children's amusements and only a few of them are listed here.

Young children love to compete in agility, speed, strength. They also like role-playing games that allow them to transform into another person. We offer 13 different fun contests that can be used at any holiday.

1. "Chefs"

Props: envelopes containing letters that make up some "edible" word (for example, "carrot"); a sheet of paper and a pen.

Children are divided into teams, each of which receives an envelope. The task of the participants is to assemble a word from the letters as quickly as possible. After that, on a piece of paper you need to write as many dishes as possible in which this ingredient is present. The task can be complicated: the teams are given not one envelope, but several. From the words made up, the guys must make a recipe for a dish.

2. "Artists"

Props: a thick sheet of white paper, a felt-tip pen, cards with words.

Children are divided into pairs. Each pair draws a card with a word that they will have to draw. One participant holds an open felt-tip pen in his hands, the other moves a paper sheet so that an image appears on it. The team whose drawing will match the task will win.

3. "Plasticine duel"

Props: multi-colored plasticine, cards with the names of animals according to the number of participants, sheets of paper, pens.

Participation in the competition is individual. Each person draws out a card with the name of the animal so that the others do not see what is written on it. Selects the plasticine of the desired color. When everyone determines that they should blind, the host sets the stopwatch for 2 minutes. During this time, participants must have time to mold the animal that was indicated on their card.

After the time has passed, all works are collected and numbered. An exhibition is organized, during which the participants try to determine who the rivals blinded. They write down their assumptions on a piece of paper (for example, 1 is a fox). Here 2 winners are selected: the one who did the task best of all, and the one who guessed the most animals.

4. "Arrows"

Props: paper clips, bank.

Each person receives several paper clips (10-15). The task is to throw them into the jar from a certain distance. The one who throws the most wins. Paper clips can be thrown individually each, you can - all at once, depending on the established rules.

5. "Between two fires"

Props: Balloons.

Children are divided into 2 teams, each of which receives a certain number of balls. The task of the participants is, while the music is playing, to throw them to the side of the opponents. The problem is that rivals return them back! As soon as the melody ends, the number of balls for each team is counted. The one with the fewest wins.

6. Pathfinders

Props: paper-cut footprints of various animals - cats, dogs, chickens, ducks.

Traces are hidden in different places of the room. The task of the participants - teams - is to find as many traces as possible. After a certain time, the teams line up opposite each other and take turns making the sounds of those animals whose prints they have found. How many traces they found, so many times they must pronounce the desired sound. For example, they found 5 duck tracks - they must grunt 5 times.

7. "Testers"

Props: basin with water, plastic cups.

When a new ship is created, tests are carried out to see if it can withstand the allowable load. The children are also invited to play the role of testers: they lower a glass half-filled with water - a “ship” into the water. Those who wish receive a glass of water. They take turns pouring some water into the ship. The one whose ship is sinking is out of the game. The game starts anew and is played until a winner is revealed.

8. "Running under the rainbow"

Props: bright lining fabric - rainbow.

Two adults take the cloth by the corners and lift it up with sharp movements. Participants must have time to run under it. Whoever touches the fabric is out.

9. "Constructors"

Props: balloon filled with helium, plastic cup, tape, thread.

The task of the participants is to design a balloon. You need to tie a long thread to it to make it easier to control it. Then, with the help of the created aircraft, you need to transfer various light objects from one end of the room to the other. For example, small details of the designer, from which you need to build a house.

10. "The most attentive"

Props: clothespins (about 30).

Clothespins are fixed on any objects in the room. The task of the participants is to collect them as quickly as possible. Whoever finds the most clothespins wins.

11. Treasure hunters

Props: a bowl in which various cereals and several larger items (beads, buttons or shells) are mixed.

Participants are blindfolded with a handkerchief. Their task is to find treasures by touch. Who quickly?

12. "Clip"

Props: everything you need to make a video.

Teams need to put a video for any song within a certain time. At the end of the time, the teams show what they did.

13. "Fashion sentence"

Props: everything that can be useful for creating clothes - old T-shirts, shorts, ribbons, adhesive tape, threads, needles, paper.

Participants are divided into pairs: a designer and a model. The designer creates a costume from improvised material, which the model will have to present. Everyone will be the winner in this competition, but in different categories (for example, “the most terrible costume” is about the mummy costume).

Any game will be interesting and fun if adults not only organize, but also actively participate in ongoing activities, setting a good example. After all, laughter is contagious, and a good mood is transmitted by airborne droplets. So, you need to laugh and have fun more often so that the children feel good!

I decided to make this article as a collection of games, or rather, there will be the best 50 birthday contests for different ages. For all the time while I was preparing game selections on various topics, when we talked about forfeits, or learned how to make a piñata together, I have accumulated a huge collection, which includes children's birthday contests at home. Here I will share it. And I will make a list of everything so that it is convenient for you to look for material that is useful to you.

I already posted, and today we are waiting for competitions. The list will be by age category in order to focus on what the crumbs are already familiar with and what they will be interested in.

2 years

At 2 years old, the crumbs still do not know much and it will not be possible to strictly break them into teams. However, there are pluses at this age, for example, they really like to move to the music. And therefore, it is worth picking up incendiary songs for competitions.

Who is it? We need cards with different animals. And the little one should “tell” a little about him. For example, what sounds does it make.

Dancing. Let's have a competition to make our buttons move. Let's pick up funny melodies from your favorite cartoons crumbs, let them dance. I'm sure everyone wins! And the audience too!

Great artists. We construct a tripod. To do this, we connect 3 sticks about 120 cm long with an elastic band from one end. We move them apart and install them on the site. We fasten a plastic bottle with paint to the top of the tripod on a string. We make a small hole in the cap of the bottle so that the paint slowly drains. The bottle can be rocked. This is how the pattern is made. Each team of kids needs to “draw” their own “picture”.
Bubble. All children are given jars of soapy water. The task of the kids is to inflate as many bubbles as possible. This is a great option for celebrating a birthday at home.
Rainbow. An adult names any color, and the crumbs must find it with themselves, a neighbor or a parent. This game is also suitable for older people. Only those who have the color must run to the finish line behind the leader so that he does not catch them. The one who is not caught becomes the leader.

We sculpt from the sand. The peanut will not be able to construct something on its own yet. But he loves to run. We will instruct him to bring water to wet the sand, and the adult will sculpt. Which group of kids will work well together? And who will win? If you spend your birthday in an apartment, then you can provide two teams with kinetic sand in which to hide the “diamonds”. Which team will find all the diamonds faster will win.

3 years

At 3 years old, little ones can already be organized for joint classes. By the way, I have an article about how you can have fun with the kids, about that. What are the games.

4 years

At 4 years old, the possibilities of crumbs are even greater. He is already interested in doing something at speed. He can design and understands what a team is.

Whose toy. Everything is very simple in this competition. Just need to stock up on toys. The little ones become in a circle. There is a toy in the center. The music turns on and all the kids dance. But, as soon as the music is turned off, the most agile rushes to the center for a toy. You shouldn't take it from him. This is his fair prize!
Ball game. Which team will quickly sort the colored balls according to the proposed scheme.
Funny caterpillar. Children from each team need to stand one by one and hug the waist of the one in front. So the kids turn into a caterpillar. And the host announces what the caterpillar should do: jump, dance, crawl.
Penguin. Each crumb is given a ball, which he must squeeze between his legs. And so jump to the finish line.
Kangaroo. Another "jumping" competition. Only now you need to jump with two straightened legs.
Frog. The baby crouches and jumps on bent legs.
"What elephant?" The host invites the children to show what this or that animal looks like.
Let's make a monkey. Each team is instructed to mold a figure of some animal from plasticine. Only each of the participants sculpts a separate part of the body. The captain (adult) connects everything.

5 years

At 5 years old, the crumbs are already all talented and active. They will soon go to school, and therefore they have already mastered a lot and they can be given more serious tasks. For example, a fun scenario can be built on the principle of definition with the help of some characteristics of an object.

6-7 years old

When children are 6-7 years old, they are already confidently performing in a peer team and are responsible for any task. Yes, it is very important for them to win.

9-10 years old

At 9-10 years old, they are already quite adult and active children. But they are still fun to play with everyone. So let's figure out what this age group can do.

Hide and Seek! Believe me, at this age, when we remove strict control, it is especially interesting for children to look for someone who is well disguised. Or hiding where no one would think to look for him. It is only necessary to preliminarily limit the search area.

The ball has flown! Put a ball on the table. It is best to tie him up so that he does not fly away ahead of time. Put the little one in front of the table. Blindfold him. Twist a little and release. Let him determine in which direction the balloon should be blown on so that the balloon will take off. And don't tell your friends!

Think of an animal. This is a collective work. First, everyone draws a fantastic beast together. And then let's talk a little about it. Funny and unusual animals are welcome.

11 years

At 11 years old, children already want to have fun in a way that is actually interesting for them. But do not forget that they are still children, which means that there should be funny events.

Of course, look for other options, include experiments in the event program (see my articles on this topic). Take advantage of all the opportunities to give a lot of pleasant emotions and memories!

When a children's company gathers in a country house or in a private house, in a forest clearing or on the banks of a river, or, perhaps, in a cafe's summer area, adults will definitely face a problem: what is fun and exciting to do for children who are cut off from the usual gadgets? Especially if it is not just about friendly communication, but about a children's holiday, for example, a birthday or graduation from elementary school.

With the help of proven over the years, as well as modernized outdoor fun, you can so captivate children with spending time together that they will remember this holiday for a long time and passionately ask for a repeat!

We bring to your attention outdoor games and competitions for children for a holiday outdoors in summer or spring. Depending on the diversity of the children's company, the characteristics and interests of the little guests, the organizers can combine competitions from different groups.

Turn on your fantasy! Many contests can be adapted to the theme of your holiday. For example, catch-up games don't have to be called cat and mouse: maybe it's a team of puppies chasing CATOStrophy, a shark chasing little fish, or a witch chasing princesses!

For a number of games, you need simple props, most of which are always at hand, but it's better to take care of it in advance:

rope;
skittles or plastic bottles weighted with water, beans or peas;
ball(s);
Balloons;
a piece of fabric, tulle, a long scarf;
pebbles;
chestnuts;
vegetables and fruits;
water pistols.

Don't forget to take care of the prizes and souvenirs for the young winners of the contests!

Combat Games

These contests are based on winning a certain duel. And even though the battle is jocular, victory is always victory, and it should be rewarded with a prize.

"Roosters". Children are divided into pairs. A balloon is tied to each child's ankle. Task: burst the opponent's ball by stepping on it, while not allowing your own to burst. During the game, be sure to turn on fun music.
"King of the Hill". Various variations of this popular game are possible. You can try to knock the "king" off the log with a long balloon or pillow. And if you don’t shoot down, but try to take off the huge crown and put it on yourself? Or compete to see who can keep his balance the longest while standing on the ball? Or holding a balloon on your fingertip?
Tournament. This noisy and fun game will be a lot of fun for kids (and usually terrifies adults!) Give the kids pillowcases with a handful of feathers each, inflated balloons, paper water “bombs” and offer to defeat the opposing team! You can arrange water “Cossacks-robbers”: if you hit your hand, you can no longer shoot with this hand, if you hit your leg, you will have to jump on one, well, if you hit your head, what to do, you are out! We need an arbiter here. But you can make a wonderfully fun battle between two armies! Let the children have fun, and adults with them along with them.
"Paparazzi". The game is based on the fact that modern children very often carry mobile phones with a built-in camera. Have a couple of participants take up "weapons". A “secret sign” is attached to the back of each - some bright picture, for example, a flower, an animal, a rainbow. The task is to take a picture of the opponent's sign faster than he takes a picture of yours while the music is playing. Can you imagine what a cheerful “dance” others will see? And the winner will be easily determined by the resulting pictures.

Games - runners and jumpers

1. Relays.

Children are very fond of taking turns running after various objects and performing intricate actions. Depending on the theme of the holiday and the availability of props, you can offer a variety of relay scenarios, creatively beating them and dividing the children into two or three teams:

run around the skittles or bottles placed on the path and return;
feed a bunny (hedgehog, dog...) with a carrot (apple, bone, etc.): at the finish line there is a toy that you need to wear a “delicacy” one at a time;
running with a stick, on which you need to string a leaf at the finish line and return, and the next one will continue the general “barbecue”;
joint running in various interesting variations: putting a hand on the shoulder of the one in front, holding the bent leg of the one who is standing behind, or simply “train”, joining one at a time;
place children from different teams along the route, and the run begins with the transfer of a relay stick, ball or toy: the main thing is not to pass the stick to an opponent from the other team!

2. Various tags.

All sorts of variations on the basis of "catch-catch". You can catch someone who does not have clothes of a certain color (“colored tags”). You can attach the caught player to yourself and continue to catch the two of you, lengthening the chain.

And if you give two drivers a long scarf or rope, then it will be interesting to catch the rest, driving them into a “loop”.

“Snail tagging” can be funny - you will have to catch up with the crawling participants covered with cardboard boxes. Or “one-legged tags” - both the catcher and the runners jump on one leg!

3. "Airplanes".

Round “landing pads” are drawn with chalk or lined with ropes on the track, there are 1 less of them than the players. One of the participants is a dispatcher. He leads a chain of "planes", setting the route, commanding to wave the right or left wing, commenting that he is right on the course.

With the command "Non-flying weather!" you need to quickly take the landing site. The dispatcher is also trying to do it. Who did not have time - will become a dispatcher instead of a driver.

4. Modernized rubber bands.

Remember the childhood games of our mothers, when two stood holding a long elastic band on their ankles or knees, and the third jumped, following a certain “program”?

If you come up with interesting modern names for various ways of jumping, for example, “louboutins”, “robocars”, etc., you can try to captivate a small company, especially girls, with this game. Whoever went the furthest without stepping on the rubber band wins a prize.

5. "Olympics".

This game can be played using the same rubber bands as in the previous contest. Two participants hold a design in the form of a bow by the edges (an elastic band, the ends of which are tied in a circle, crosses).

With the exclamation of "Olympics!" the holders give the structure a certain position, and the rest of the participants must cross it without touching the elastic. You can try to jump over the top or crawl into the resulting hole. Who touched the gum - takes the place of one of the holders.

The winner of the "Olympiad" (the one who was able to climb the most times in a row, setting a new record) is entitled to a medal!

6. "Vysnozhka".

A variant of catch-up, in which it is impossible to catch someone who has stood on some hill with one or both legs. If the evader hangs on the horizontal bar, he is also out of the game!

In advance, you need to take care of the presence of benches, stumps, overturned buckets, etc. on the site.

7. "Cherished place".

Another game for those who do not want to let their mobile phones out of their hands. The game starts like normal hide and seek.

Equip a “cherished place”: for example, a bench under a lilac bush, where the driver counts until the players hide. Then he goes to look for everyone, and the players must try to sneak into the “cherished place” unnoticed and take a selfie there.

If the driver managed to find them earlier or manage to take a picture in the "cherished place", he won! And the footage will remain in memory.

Skill games

These competition games are based on the ability to perform some difficult, uncomfortable and at the same time funny manipulations with various objects. The winner is the one who does it better and faster than the others. It is more fun when a large number of children participate in such games, but some can be played with two or three participants.

1.Did you hold it? Pass it on to your neighbor.

In different ways, you can pass each other, standing side by side, certain items, for example:

ball under the chin;
cardboard thermometer in the armpit;
stick in the teeth;
a soft toy, holding it with your knees;
in pairs - to transfer the ball, sandwiched between the backs or between the foreheads.

2. "Hands off!"

Prepare small items, vegetables and fruits, just take care of their cleanliness. It can be apples, oranges, carrots, cucumbers, as well as balls, chestnuts, pencils, medium-sized toys and even leaves.

Lay them out on a table. The task of the children is to transfer the items, each to their own basket, located at some distance. You can wear it in any way, except using your fingers! Elbows, teeth, chin will be used ... If you drop it - there will be 1 less item in your basket ... The one who has the most items in the basket at the end of the game will win.

3. "Porridge for chanterelles".

You can beat this contest with any convenient scenario, for little fans of Kolobok, this one is suitable: so that the Fox does not eat Kolobok, you need to feed her porridge!

The bowls for porridge are already on the stump, and the grits should be poured into them with a spoon, which the young "koloboks" will hold in their teeth. He scooped up cereal from a common bag - and carry it into your bowler hat! The prize will be given to the one whose fox will be the most well-fed.

4. "Flamingo".

The clearing will be a water surface, and barefoot children walking on the grass will be flamingos. To make it more interesting, you can distribute fake beaks or pink capes. Chestnuts are scattered across the clearing - these will be fish.

Flamingos should catch them - naturally, with bare feet! - and then take them and put them in the center of the clearing, where there will be a "nest".

5. Flight "Instrument".

This game is for older kids. Prepare an “obstacle course”: a rope that you will need to cross, skittles to bypass them, a bench that you need to climb over, etc.

In turn, each player is blindfolded, and he goes "on the instruments", that is, following the instructions of the others. You can allow a cheerful uproar when everyone will advise at the same time. Or add a note of order by leading the first player on their own and then announcing that everyone who just cleared the lane becomes the dispatcher.

And if you quietly remove some of the obstacles, and the player diligently overcomes the free path, it will be even funnier!

6. "Inconvenient Treat".

Everyone knows how difficult it is to eat an apple hanging by a thread. And try to get a candy out of a bowl of flour with your teeth or drink water from a plastic cup without using your hands!

Games in one place

When everyone is running and jumping, you can play something just as fun, but not requiring significant movement. Such games will calm the children a little and at the same time add additional variety.

Children's quests

More and more popular are games based on the phased passage of tasks or the search for hidden treasures. Such a competition, of course, requires preliminary preparation, but it allows you to keep the children busy for a long time, and besides, it is easy to tie it to any theme of the holiday. Various variations depend on the age and capabilities of the children, as well as your talent as an organizer.

"Magic Lottery". Hide "lottery balls" (boxes from kinder surprises, multi-colored balls, wooden eggs, chestnuts with numbers written in a marker) in a variety of places where children can find them: under the porch, in raspberry bushes, in a hollow or between the roots of an old tree. Announce a search, and then play the received numbers, for each handing an interesting prize.
"Treasure hunters". Make a "pirate map", following which the children can find the hidden "treasure". There may be one or two different maps for a team competition. Plan a complex route with waypoints where you will need to complete something to move on. For example, "ten steps north from the gazebo" - but how to determine where the north is? Put a compass on the table in the gazebo, let them guess to use it. Or tell them after guessing the riddle. In the finale, the “treasure” can be dug up (take care of the shoulder blades) or pulled out in a chest from some hiding place. "Treasure" will serve as souvenirs or sweets for all guests.
"Pathfinders". Here the preparation will be more thorough. The search route must be determined on the terrain itself: arrows made of branches, inverted and shifted pebbles, indications on tree trunks ... You can do a little easier: paint the pebbles with white paint, draw an arrow on each pebble, and hide these pointer pebbles along the entire length of the route . Let the children look for where to go next! Take the risk of complicating the path with deceptive arrows.
"Unravel and move on". The path of the quest will be marked with riddles, each of which encodes a specific search point. It all depends on what riddles you can find or come up with: this or that place should serve as a clue, for example, a stump, a garden figurine of a gnome or a mushroom, a porch, a gate, an apple tree, a dog house, etc. For an older company, you can offer additional contests for each item: to get the next riddle, you need, for example, to guess a rebus, make something, sing a song, etc.
"By photographs". You can give the children numbered photographs, each of which depicts a specific place. Of course, the pictures should be fragmentary so that the guys have to think, but from which tree, for example, this branch, under which the next clue is hidden?
"Encrypted Finish". Performing tasks at various objects, children receive a code letter. At the end, a word is assembled from the received letters - the final destination of the search.
"Collect the List". The task of the children is to bring all the items from the list that you make in advance. The list should look like a riddle: "Something green, something with the letter K, something consisting of two parts." Or you can have the children pull out 5-7 letters each from the bag and bring objects for each letter. You can search for items on the site, in the garden, on the birthday table ...

In any combination, the proposed competitions will definitely be popular with children. And the organizer of all this splendor will earn the love and gratitude of the children and their parents, as well as a great desire to visit you again for an interesting children's holiday. After all, for children, the opportunity to have fun is much more valuable than treats and even gifts!