Middle School Games

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You can save a lot of money by having a middle-school birthday party right in your own back yard. You will need to find something for the middle-schoolers to do, however. There are many great games that work well for a middle-school birthday party
Bunko is a fun game that can be the theme of the middle-school birthday party. This dice game is fun and easy to teach and learn. You can set this up as the entire party or it can just be a small part.
Many middle-schoolers would enjoy playing Pictionary. This is an easy game. First, you break the group into teams. One person from each team gets a topic and tries to draw it out; the other teammates try to figure out what it is as quickly as possible. The teams take turns. This can be a lot of fun and keep the children occupied.
You can also do some races in the middle-school birthday party. For instance, you can have a three-legged race where you tie one leg of each of two kids together and see which pair can run the fastest. You could also do a sack race with pillowcases or sacks you bought from a party supply store.
During the summer you can add in some water games. For instance, you can have a water balloon toss. Fill up water balloons and divide the children into teams of two people. The children need to toss the water balloon back and forth to the other person on the team. When a team drops and breaks a water balloon, they are out. The team who can keep the balloon unbroken the longest wins.
A scavenger hunt makes a great game for a middle-school birthday party, and you can make it as easy or as difficult as you would like. Make different clues that lead the children to other clues. You can do this within your house, in the back yard or wherever else the party is occurring. The children can work alone or you can divide them into teams. When they get to the final clue, you can give them some sort of prize.
There are many great games that you can play at a middle-school birthday party. Talk to your child when planning the games because you want to make sure that he or she is comfortable with all of the ones that you plan to do.