Fun Age-appropriate games for birthday party?????

Question

Tomorrow is my brother's birthday party, and we have a bunch of kids between the ages of 2 and 9. We have a sort of Fear Factor theme but I'm flexible. Do you know of any good, fun, age-appropriate games? (We will probably be outdoors!)

Answer 1

between 2 and 9 is a big age gap

u could get one of those huge egg cartans that hold like 30 eggs and u could color the dips a different color. and the kids could stand a few feet away and through pebbles or pennies or somethin into the holes and different colors mean different things: like blue- take a peice of candy

or green- grab a sticker

*or u could make it easier and bigger than egg cartans and use different color shoe boxes and plastic fake bugs.*

u could make a lot of pudding and mix in some gummy worms and then have the kids try to find the gummy worms in the pudding and who ever finds em gets a prize or something

u could create an opsical course where the kids have to gather the flags. like they have to go down a slide and get a flag at the bottom. then pop a balloon and get a flag inside. then find the flag inside a popcorn bowl of slime (check out the site below for slime instructions) do crazy stuff like that

Answer 2

In my opinion the best thing you can do is separate by age group. A 9 year old will not want to play games with a 4 year old. Have the 6 or 7+  year olds do a water gun fight and or water balloon. 2-4 year olds should be put together with some toys. And the people in between could throw a Frisbee or football or play soccer.

If you want everyone to have fun, you can't put them all together on everything that you do. Give them a chance to do their own thing as well.