I need some ideas to keep ten 6-year olds occupied!!!?

Question

My 6-year old is having a sleepover for her birthday, and I need some ideas that will keep them occupied and in control. Does anyone have any good ideas???

Answer 1

Turn the living room into a pretend theatre with sheets, and watch a movie wiith popcorn and pizza.

Icecream making

Treasure Hunts

Play Dress ups.

Play Twister, or board games like Monopoly

Use a polaroid camera to take photos with.

(The kids will end up making a production with the camera lol)

cool ideas I found on one website:

Fun Ideas to Set the Mood

Hang or float bunches of balloons throughout the party area. For girls, you may use a combination of pink, purple, and white, or your daughter's favorite colors. For boys, red, yellow, and blue work well, unless your son prefers other colors.

Twist together streamers in the same color scheme as the balloons, and hang them along the walls and doorway(s) of the main party area(s), such as the room in which the children will sleep. For a fun touch, you can also hang long strips of streamers in a row across each entryway into the main party area(s), creating curtain(s) for your guests to pass through as they come and go.

Decorate the party area with glow-in-the-dark stars and planets. (These can be purchased at most local discount or novelty stores.) The kids will love seeing the sky appear when it's finally time for lights-out!

Make the party an indoor camping sleepover, and set up a few tents inside the house before your guests arrive. You may want to decorate the inside and/or outside of the tents with streamers and balloons. Or, for a camouflage touch that boys are sure to like, try draping fake moss or dried sheet moss over the tents.

Hang a lantern or flashlight near the sleeping area. If you're using a tent, hang it inside or place it close by on the outside so that light shines through the tent's walls. This adds realism to the "camping" experience while solving any night-light problems at the same time. Please only use safe, battery-powered lanterns—no gas or kerosene!

Make it a movie night! Help the kids make a "box office" and a "concession stand" out of cardboard boxes, then give them Monopoly money to buy tickets and snacks. Set up lawn chairs or beanbag chairs where the kids can watch movies—but none that are too scary! Some good bets are:

Old Classics - The Love Bug, Swiss Family Robinson, The Absent Minded Professor, The Shaggy Dog, The Apple Dumpling Gang.

New Classics - Sky High, Cheaper by the Dozen, Holes, Hoodwinked, Chicken Little, The Incredibles, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone/Chamber of Secrets/Prisoner of Azkaban

Just for Girls - High School Musical, The Princess Diaries I and II, Raise Your Voice, Ice Princess, The Lizzie Maguire Movie, Ella Enchanted.

Last but not least, make sure you have plenty of spare pillows and blankets near the sleeping area so that your guests can help themselves and bed down whenever they're ready.

Set up a beauty salon where the girls can give each other new hairstyles, pedicures and manicures. Stick with nail-filing, nail polishing, braiding, brushing, and hair ornamenting. To be safe, don't allow haircuts. To make things more interesting, give the girls dress-up clothes, wigs, and glasses, and be sure to take plenty of pictures!

Print out copies of the Slumber Party Booklet for the girls to fill out during the party and take home as keepsakes that will be fun to re-read as they grow up:

http://www.birthdayinabox.com/downloads/...

Help the girls make some baked treats, such as cookies and cupcakes.

Let the girls make jewelry using a kit or a random assortment of beads and rolls of necklace leather or heavy thread.

Make homemade soap, lip gloss, and/or face masks with the girls using our recipes:

Homemade Soap

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Homemade Lip Gloss

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Homemade Face Masks

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Sleepover Snacks

When it comes to food, partygoers are usually perfectly content to eat pizza or hotdogs, which is certainly much easier on the hosts! Popcorn, bowls of M&Ms or other candy, chips and dip, sodas, and juice are also good, quick snacks to have on hand the evening of a slumber party. Don't forget that you'll need to feed most of your guests before they leave in the morning, too, which is why we've prepared this list of fun and creative breakfast ideas:

Funny Face Bagels - Cut bagels in half and toast them, if desired. Slice smoked salmon into strips or chop chives to use for hair; cut small black olives in half for eyes; cut slivers of red peppers or halve small cherry tomatoes to use as mouths; cut baby carrots into quarters for noses; finely chop peanuts to use as freckles; and use any other fruit or vegetable you wish. Slather cream cheese on the bagels for a base that will hold all of the decorations. Then, let your partygoers make funny faces on their bagels using the pre-prepared fruits and veggies.

Smiley Face Pancakes - Make a batch of pancakes, and set them out along with canned whipped cream, chocolate chips, maraschino cherry halves, chocolate syrup, finely chopped nuts, blueberries or halved strawberries, or any other sweet treat that can be used to make eyes, a nose, a mouth, hair, etc., on each pancake. Let your guests decorate their pancakes the way they like.

Restaurant-Style Breakfast - Let the kids decide who will help cook, who will "wait tables," etc. They can create an actual menu, picking from standard breakfast foods such as pancakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, and bagels. The "servers" can take everyone's orders and pass them on to the "chefs" who will be wearing chef's hats and aprons, and who will assist mom and/or dad in cooking breakfast for everyone.

Waffle Bar - Set up a waffle bar with a selection of syrups and toppings such as cherries, whipped cream, strawberries, chocolate chips, and nuts. Let each child make his or her ultimate waffle.

Fruit Pops - Let your guests make fruit pops using our recipe (below) or your own for a fun, yet nutritional, morning treat.

Ingredients:

Long Lollipop Sticks

A Variety of Cubed Fruit

Peanut Butter

Honey

Yogurt (flavored or plain)

Coconut

Candy Sprinkles

Directions:

Slide a few cubes of fruit onto each lollipop stick.

Create a dip from 1/3-cup smooth peanut butter mixed with 1/4-cup honey. (More honey can be added to taste or for a thinner consistency, and the mixture can be heated in the microwave for easier mixing and blending.)

Give each child a fruit pop. Have them dip their fruit pops into the peanut butter-honey dip or yogurt, and then roll them in candy sprinkles and/or shredded coconut.

1 month ago

Answer 2

Here's a fun thing that I want to do with my six-year-old...

Figure out what you're going to do for loot bags or activities and buy all the necessary items (dollar stores are great for that kinda stuff.)  Give the kids some monopoly money and have them "shop" for the things they like and choose their own party keepsake.  We did about 5-7 items per child.  Things like bracelets, hairbands, glow sticks, treats, notebooks, pens, pencils, etc.

The other thing that we've done is have a fashion show.  We told all the girls to bring their favourite outfits and we did their hair and makeup and nails and took pictures as they showed off their outfits.  They had fun using accessories and sharing their things to make each other's outfits.  Don't forget the cool music like High School Musical or Hannah Montana!

Have fun!

Answer 3

Duct tape and rope.

Answer 4

have them make an ice cream sundae and pizza decorating party.

Answer 5

Buy a HUGE box of crafty stuff: all different sorts and colors of paper, glitter, wrapping paper with cartoon characters on it, paper plates (to make faces), lace, wool, cotton, glue, blah blah and put a HUGE sheet of plastic on the floor and let them go for thier lives. Games like dance freeze, dead fish (this game is great get them to lie on the floor and not move as they move they go out the person to saty the stillest for the longest wins) and when you want them to go to bed dvd's....good luck hahahahaha:)

Answer 6

Sleep overs are NEVER controlled.  They're not supposed to be.  When my kids have sleep overs they play games, the oldest and her friends are into the Ouiga board right now.  They stay in the "play room" downstairs, we have a piano down there that they like to play on.  We also have a wide screen HD television and the kids seem to love that.  There is an old pinball machine as well as popcorn machine down there.  I just shut the door to the play room and let them goof around and play as kids do.