10 LEGO Party Birthday Party Games
Great LEGO themed birthday party games for your LEGO party aren't so easy to find. There's lots of LEGO themed items to spend your money on and LEGO party decoration ideas, but not as many good game ideas that you can tweak to work well with the LEGO theme. Your party needs structure through organized games to keep those preschoolers focused and engaged. Turning a dozen little kids loose at a LEGO table won't work nearly as well as games.
Here are 10 games all age appropriate for preschool and early elementary school age kids. Each game has been massaged to fit seamlessly with your LEGO birthday party theme.
Game #1: A LEGO variation of the jar full of jelly beans. Fill a transparent container with various shapes, sizes and colors of LEGOS and have each party guest guess how many are in the jar as they arrive. Arriving parents can help get the guesses down on little pieces of paper with the child's name before they leave. At the end of your party, award the LEGO jar to the child with the closest guess.
Game #2: Give each child 3-5 LEGOS of different sizes to drop into a container from their nose either while standing or kneeling over the back of a chair. Younger children need a wider container to drop into. If you have them kneel on a chair be sure to have an adult hold onto the chair so there aren't any tip-overs.
Game #3: Gather up a variety of containers of different shapes and heights; things like cut down milk cartons, bowls, and boxes. Place them at varying distances from a line on the floor that the kids need to stay behind (duct or masking tape works great for the line). Mark the targets with different point counts- the further away the higher the point count. Give each child 5 LEGOs of different sizes and see how many they can pitch into the containers from behind the line. Score as per the point counts on the containers. This can be played either individually or in teams.
Game #4: Instead of Game #3 above, you can play a LEGO ring toss. Build a narrow tower out of LEGOs on a LEGO base that can be taped to the floor or rug for stability. Make rings out of plastic plates by cutting out the centers. Use plastic instead of paper as they are more rigid and will toss better. Give each child 3 to 5 ‘rings'. From behind the line on your floor, have the kids try to get their rings onto the LEGO tower. If you use different color plates, the different color rings can have different scoring values. Scoring can be individually or by teams.
Game #5: Calm everybody down when needed with a game of LEGO bingo. You can print out everything you need here: http://bpsrobotics.wikispaces.com/file/detail/lego+bingo.pdf
Game #6: Hide enough LEGO's either inside or out for a good old-fashioned scavenger hunt. Preschool kids can get points for each LEGO they find. Older children can be sent off with a key card showing the point value for different color and shaped LEGOs.
Game #7: With either a small batch of LEGOs for each child or a big communal bowl of LEGOs, challenge the kids to lift out as many LEGOs as they each can in 1 minute with chopsticks. Give them time to practice before you start the competition. Increase the difficulty for older kids by putting other small objects in with the LEGOs that they then have to avoid picking up.
Game #8: Put a bowl or bucket full of LEGOs a good distance away from your ‘stand behind' line. With the kids divided into two teams, give the first one on each team either a big cooking spoon or spatula. (Make sure each team has the same type, either spoons or spatulas, or you'll be accused of not making the game fair. Spoons are easier than spatulas because of the slightly sloped sides.) On ‘GO', one child from each team races down to the LEGOs, picks up as many as they can on their spoon or spatula without using any hands and takes them back to the starting line. After dropping the LEGOs into a team container or just onto the floor, the spoon or spatula gets handed off to the next in line to repeat the process until all the LEGOs have been removed from the container. The team with the most LEGOs is the winner.
Game #9: Following directly on Game #8,challenge each team to build the tallest tower with the LEGOs they brought back in the previous game. This will require cooperation, which is usually a challenge.
Game #10: Challenge the kids either in pairs of individually to build a pyramid (for the younger ones) or a bridge (for the older ones) out of a pile of LEGOs that you provide. Make each group of LEGO's you give them as similar as you can. Set a time limit like 10 minutes. Building in pairs increases the challenge.
It's likely you will need to increase your LEGO collection to have enough for some of these games. But then again, if you're having a LEGO themed birthday party, you've got a LEGO lover who will be delighted to have his or her LEGO stash increased as part of the birthday.
Here are 10 games all age appropriate for preschool and early elementary school age kids. Each game has been massaged to fit seamlessly with your LEGO birthday party theme.
Game #1: A LEGO variation of the jar full of jelly beans. Fill a transparent container with various shapes, sizes and colors of LEGOS and have each party guest guess how many are in the jar as they arrive. Arriving parents can help get the guesses down on little pieces of paper with the child's name before they leave. At the end of your party, award the LEGO jar to the child with the closest guess.
Game #2: Give each child 3-5 LEGOS of different sizes to drop into a container from their nose either while standing or kneeling over the back of a chair. Younger children need a wider container to drop into. If you have them kneel on a chair be sure to have an adult hold onto the chair so there aren't any tip-overs.
Game #3: Gather up a variety of containers of different shapes and heights; things like cut down milk cartons, bowls, and boxes. Place them at varying distances from a line on the floor that the kids need to stay behind (duct or masking tape works great for the line). Mark the targets with different point counts- the further away the higher the point count. Give each child 5 LEGOs of different sizes and see how many they can pitch into the containers from behind the line. Score as per the point counts on the containers. This can be played either individually or in teams.
Game #4: Instead of Game #3 above, you can play a LEGO ring toss. Build a narrow tower out of LEGOs on a LEGO base that can be taped to the floor or rug for stability. Make rings out of plastic plates by cutting out the centers. Use plastic instead of paper as they are more rigid and will toss better. Give each child 3 to 5 ‘rings'. From behind the line on your floor, have the kids try to get their rings onto the LEGO tower. If you use different color plates, the different color rings can have different scoring values. Scoring can be individually or by teams.
Game #5: Calm everybody down when needed with a game of LEGO bingo. You can print out everything you need here: http://bpsrobotics.wikispaces.com/file/detail/lego+bingo.pdf
Game #6: Hide enough LEGO's either inside or out for a good old-fashioned scavenger hunt. Preschool kids can get points for each LEGO they find. Older children can be sent off with a key card showing the point value for different color and shaped LEGOs.
Game #7: With either a small batch of LEGOs for each child or a big communal bowl of LEGOs, challenge the kids to lift out as many LEGOs as they each can in 1 minute with chopsticks. Give them time to practice before you start the competition. Increase the difficulty for older kids by putting other small objects in with the LEGOs that they then have to avoid picking up.
Game #8: Put a bowl or bucket full of LEGOs a good distance away from your ‘stand behind' line. With the kids divided into two teams, give the first one on each team either a big cooking spoon or spatula. (Make sure each team has the same type, either spoons or spatulas, or you'll be accused of not making the game fair. Spoons are easier than spatulas because of the slightly sloped sides.) On ‘GO', one child from each team races down to the LEGOs, picks up as many as they can on their spoon or spatula without using any hands and takes them back to the starting line. After dropping the LEGOs into a team container or just onto the floor, the spoon or spatula gets handed off to the next in line to repeat the process until all the LEGOs have been removed from the container. The team with the most LEGOs is the winner.
Game #9: Following directly on Game #8,challenge each team to build the tallest tower with the LEGOs they brought back in the previous game. This will require cooperation, which is usually a challenge.
Game #10: Challenge the kids either in pairs of individually to build a pyramid (for the younger ones) or a bridge (for the older ones) out of a pile of LEGOs that you provide. Make each group of LEGO's you give them as similar as you can. Set a time limit like 10 minutes. Building in pairs increases the challenge.
It's likely you will need to increase your LEGO collection to have enough for some of these games. But then again, if you're having a LEGO themed birthday party, you've got a LEGO lover who will be delighted to have his or her LEGO stash increased as part of the birthday.
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