What are some cheap (free) games and activities for a 7-year-old girls birthday party?

Question

I'm pretty well broke, but want to throw a nice party for my little girl and some of her friends here in our apartment complex. I need some ideas of cheap/free games and activities. Please help!

Answer 1

you could do play make up and do their nails. Try the dollar store too! They are my party headquarters!  

Answer 2

-Bobbing for apples

-Shaving Balloons

-Balloon Challenge: Put challenges inside balloons and each team pops 3 balloons. Whoever finishes the challenges first wins a prize. For Example:

Pat your head and rub your tummy

Run around and shake everybody's hand one time

Sing Row Row Row Your Boat

Stand in a circle and everybody says the alphabet in order one by one until you get to Z

Put all your hands in the middle and shout 123 OH YEAH

Make a pyramid

-Cookie decorating

-Simon Says

-Scavenger Hunt

-Hide candy in random places outside and have the kids look for them. Whoever finds them gets to keep them

-Karaoke

-Toilet Paper Mummy

-Limbo

-Musical Chairs

Answer 3

they still like drawing? you can get a white paper table cloth in which case they can decorate it before or after they eat cake and whatnot

diversity of games like hide and seek, you can make one of those stories where you leave blanks and then ask the kids for different word groups, like animal, color etc, you fill it in and read it back to them with the full story

jumping rope or band, also just leting them play alone with her toys kids often can activice themself a lot if they are allowed to

Answer 4

Make-overs is a good activity and all girls love make-up!

Something I did for my daughters slumber-party when she was 6 was I bought the cheapest pack of 24 roll toilet paper and had mummy races.  In teams of 3, the girls raced to see who could wrap their mummy the fastest.  Then I let them wrap me.  Then they had a toilet paper fight, they had so much fun....easy clean-up, too!

If it's a slumber party, have each girl bring their favorite stuffed animal.  Put all animals in a pile and one by one, blindfold them and have them pick their animal by touch only.

Turn the music on.  Let them lip sync, make dance routines, pretend they are the the stars.

Teach them to play charades.

Good luck!

Answer 5

my girls love playing freeze dance. you just play some music and have them dance as silly as they want to and then when you press pause they have to freeze. If any of them are still moving after you have stopped the music they are out.

I also did pass the boa a lot. you know get a feather boa and pass it around the circle like hot patato. when the music stops if you have it your out.

good luck im sure your gonna get lots of fun ideas on here.