Decorating a classroom for Birthday is a guarantee of a good mood!
It is enough to bring just a few balloons filled with helium to the classroom, secure them in the place where the birthday boy is sitting, and that’s it - a good mood and a feeling of celebration are guaranteed!
If you devote a little more time to this issue, it is better to buy garlands of paper balls, hanging lanterns, soft pom-poms and other holiday accessories in advance and hang them around the classroom.
Such accessories are easy to find in gift shops, they are inexpensive, and decorating the classroom will take no more than 10 minutes.
In order to somehow distinguish the birthday children from the rest of the children in the class, you can write their names and pin them in the form of bright flags on their desks. Or colorfully paint the board and also indicate the heroes of the occasion on it. The main task of all these actions is to notify the children about who exactly is being congratulated on their birthday today.
Music games
What would a holiday be without music! The celebration may end with an ordinary disco with popular children's hits, but during the celebration, musical accompaniment will be needed for entertaining birthday games.
Parents need to prepare a playlist and playback device in advance. It is also worth making sure that all dancers have enough space to demonstrate their choreographic talents.
"Slurred Singing"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: none.
- Children's age: 6+
A song is chosen that all participants know well. At the leader’s command, the children begin to sing loudly in chorus. When the presenter claps his hands, the participants continue to sing, but do it silently, after the next clap - again loudly. The one of the participants who gets lost and does not get in time with the others is eliminated. The game continues until the song is finished or until one player remains.
"Dancing with our faces"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: none.
- Children's age: 6+
The presenter selects several fragments of funny songs. Participants are invited to perform an impromptu dance to them, but with one condition - you can “dance” only with facial expressions. The winner is the one who managed to portray the funniest pantomime.
"Dancing with tasks"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: none.
- Children's age: 6+
All participants dance to the music, just like at a regular disco. The leader periodically announces some tasks (dance on one leg, take the neighbor on the right by the nose, dance in threes, move like a hare/snake/monkey, do a round dance, etc.).
"Musical Freeze"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: none.
- Children's age: 5+
Participants dance as they please. When the music stops, everyone freezes in the pose of a fairy tale hero, an animal, a cartoon character. The presenter must guess who the players are portraying. All guessed figures are eliminated, after which the game continues.
Unexpected congratulations in the classroom on Birthday Day
Children love surprises, so the option of an unexpected birthday greeting will appeal to them.
Here are some examples of how you can create an unexpected surprise for the whole class:
- The last lesson ends, the bell rings and suddenly, many colorful balloons fly into the open door. The children are waiting to see who will come in after them - but there is no one! First surprise, and then screams of delight are guaranteed.
- Another scenario is when a teacher receives a phone call, he picks up the phone and tells the kids that he will be leaving the classroom to answer an important call. He leaves, and some other character enters instead, for example, “Iron Man”, Crocodile Gena or Transformer. The animator, dressed in a suit, begins to congratulate the birthday people and may even give them greeting cards or a balloon as a nice gift. After congratulations, you can hold competitions or quizzes with riddles, take bright photographs, sing a congratulatory song, etc.
- Congratulations in the dining room will be even more unexpected and very memorable. To do this, you need to agree in advance that at the moment when the class with the birthday children enters the room, loud music with a theme song will be turned on. And then all the guys will be able to sing along and enjoy the event.
- Well, where would we be without a congratulatory cake? At the end of the lesson, the teacher goes into the corridor and returns with a large cake on which there are lighted candles - one for each birthday person. The kids will be able to blow them out, and everyone will enjoy a sweet treat together.
Outdoor games
Children of all ages love various activities. Outdoor games for children at birthday parties, as a rule, are liked most by guests. The main thing is that all entertainment is safe.
Adults need to carefully monitor the participants: children who are naughty can accidentally injure themselves or others (push, fall, hit a bump, etc.). The room should have enough space for movement; it is also better to remove all breakable and fragile objects from there, and move furniture with sharp corners.
"Who am I?"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: blindfold.
- Children's age: 5+
A presenter is selected. He is blindfolded. The guests scatter, and the host must catch one of them and, with his eyes closed, determine who exactly he caught. If the host guesses correctly, the caught guest takes his place. The game will be more interesting if the presenter asks the person who falls into his hands to perform some task that will help establish his identity (sing a song, imitate an animal, for example, grunt, etc.).
- Outdoor games for children at home
"Water Carriers"
- Number of participants: not limited, but even so that children can split into two teams.
- Props: two toy buckets of the same volume.
- Children's age: 4+
Teams line up in two lines. The first participants are given a bucket of water. Their task is to run with the bucket to the start, then go back and pass the container to the next participant, who will repeat the race. When all participants have completed the relay, the leader will compare the amount of water in the buckets. The winner is the team that not only overtook their opponents, but also spilled as little liquid as possible.
"War of the Balloons"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: chairs and as many balloons as possible.
- Children's age: 2+
A partition is made from chairs in the room. The teams are located on opposite sides of the barricade. At the leader’s command, both teams begin to throw balloons to the enemy’s side. When the “Stop!” command sounds, the game ends and the balls are counted. The team with the fewest balls on its side wins.
Birthday Gifts for Presentation at School
Giving gifts to birthday boys in class is quite common. However, how can you do it in such a way as to please the heroes of the occasion, but not offend the others? There is such a congratulation - to create a gift through joint efforts so that all classmates can take part in it. To do this, you need to print a beautiful anti-stress picture on A3 sheet format. These are images that are divided into small fragments and they are called zendoodles.
You need to prepare the number of pictures corresponding to the number of birthday people. Each drawing is given to the children in rows along with a pack of felt-tip pens or colored pencils. Children begin to take turns painting over fragments of the drawing. The result will be a colorful, bright picture, which will then be presented as a gift.
This gift, created by the whole class, can be framed and hung on the wall or placed on a shelf in the room. It will remind you of a pleasant moment!
The same joint gift could be a wall newspaper prepared by classmates. To do this, you can ask for photographs of the birthday people from their parents. Paint a wall newspaper with funny drawings, paste photographs with names and come up with funny congratulations in verse. Also, everyone can leave their wishes to their friends on it. Let such a wall newspaper decorate the classroom board and bring joy to the children.
Collective presentations on Birthday Day
You need to prepare for such an event in advance, and even better, identify the person who will be responsible for creating the congratulatory presentation. These could be parents from the parent committee, the teachers themselves, or classmates.
One version of the presentation is for each child to write a congratulation or wish on paper pieces of paper, and then take a photo holding the piece of paper in their hands. Or you can do it differently, each child is given a piece of paper with a letter, after which they all stand next to each other to post the phrase “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations... we wish...” and then a joint photo is taken.
Another, more impressive option is to make a video with joint congratulations. It would be great if there were people who know how to edit videos in special programs. Then you can come up with a lot of options and ideas for the video, you can add congratulatory musical compositions. If there are none, then everything is filmed in one take. One of the suitable plots would be this: classmates congratulate with poems, others sing and dance, others fool around and laugh. After this, such a video greeting is launched in the class. Both children and adults will be impressed.
If a video is being shot for several people, then it is better to make a separate video for each birthday person. Then each child will be able to keep it and review it later, remembering the pleasant moments of the holiday.
Birthday games at home
If you wish and carefully prepare your home, you can organize a party that will be no worse than an event in the game room. Moreover, the birthday boy will feel more comfortable in his own home; a familiar environment is the best remedy for shyness.
To prepare fun home games for a child’s birthday, parents need to have only a little enthusiasm, a minimum of time and organizational skills, but a great desire to please their child on his long-awaited holiday.
"Fanta"
- Number of players: unlimited.
- Props: hat, vase, box or other container, notes with tasks, forfeits (personal items of all participants).
- Children's age: 5+
A game familiar to absolutely everyone. One leader is selected, who turns his back to all players. The second presenter chooses a forfeit and asks: “What should this forfeit do?” The first presenter takes a note from the hat with the task and reads it out loud. If the first presenter is an adult with imagination, then you can do without notes and come up with tasks on the go. The tasks should be simple (crow a rooster, jump on one leg, etc.).
Another option for this entertainment could be the chamomile game. The essence is approximately the same, but the tasks are written on the petals of a large daisy. Each participant tears off a petal at random and completes the task assigned to him.
"Painted Figure"
- Number of participants: not limited, but must be even so that participants can divide into pairs.
- Props: none.
- Children's age: 5+
Participants are divided into pairs, each pair speaking in turn. One player from the pair “draws” some kind of figure/animal/plant on the other’s back with his finger. The second participant with the “drawn” figure must depict it. The pair that guessed right shows next. The pair whose pieces are guessed the most wins.
"Self-Portrait"
- Number of participants: unlimited.
- Props: Whatman paper with slots for hands, paints, brushes, water.
- Children's age: 4+
The participant inserts his hands into the slits of the Whatman paper. Next, he needs to blindly draw a self-portrait. The winner is the one whose drawing is as close as possible to the original. This is a very funny competition that will greatly amuse the participants watching the artist.
How to involve classmates in celebrating Birthday
Contests for birthdays in the classroom will help to motivate children. For example, you can arrange a competition to guess the youngest or oldest birthday person. Or maybe let your classmates try to guess the height of each birthday boy. The one who is closest to the correct answer receives a symbolic prize.
Another option for spending time together is role-playing games. Small pieces of paper are prepared in advance on which funny tasks are written. For example, “Read the quatrain as a robot would do it” or “Say the phrase in the voice of a mosquito,” etc. You can write simple happy birthday greetings as rhymes.
Some kind of joint game will greatly entertain all the children. For example, the whole class is divided into teams. The presenter (maybe a teacher) asks the children from one team a word, which they must explain without words to the participants of the other team. Everyone takes turns coming out and showing their actions. The competition lasts until the word is solved. After this, the roles change.
Children really like such joint events and bring them closer together.
Stages of preparing a children's party
Organizing a children's party is actually not that difficult. To do this you need to perform several steps:
- Decorate the room. Balloons, flags, banners with inscriptions, funny photographs of the birthday boy or images with his favorite fairy-tale/cartoon characters can be used as decoration.
- Set the table. There is no need to prepare roasts, mayonnaise salads and numerous snacks. Children will appreciate the sweet table and fruit selections. Of course, the centerpiece of the table is the birthday cake (necessarily with candles, because blowing them out is a fun tradition that every child looks forward to on their birthday). It is recommended to use festive dishes with cheerful designs. Firstly, this will make the table look more elegant. Secondly, children will not be afraid of breaking a plate or glass. Thirdly, this will save parents from having to wash mountains of dirty dishes after the holiday is over.
- Prepare gifts. You can not just give gifts to the birthday boy, but arrange a real quest to find gifts and even involve all the guests in it. If all invited children will participate in the quest, it is worth preparing a small gift for each of them.
- Choose games for children for their birthday.
You need to prepare especially carefully for the last point, because children will quickly get bored of sitting at the table, they will quickly want to move around and have fun.
Don't forget about the prizes for the competition winners. These can be various little things (soap bubbles, funny keychains, stickers, children's stationery, etc.) or sweets.
