What you’ll need:  spoons, ping pong balls, string (optional), prizes

How to play:  Create a starting line using some string, each child balances a ping pong ball on a spoon and has to go from the starting line, around the course and back to the start line.  Here are some ideas to vary the game.  The kids can hold the spoon in their dominant or non-dominant hand, depending on how hard you want the game to be and the age of the kids.  Various obsticles can be put on the “course” like having to crawl under a chair or table, or having to do things like turn around 3 times when you get to a certain point or even having to pass the ping pong ball from one spoon to another in team relay play.   You can create various penalties for dropping the ball such as singing a song, saying a nursery rhyme or having to start again.

Who ever (or whichever team) wins the race gets a prize, or maybe everyone gets a prize!  Have Fun!

Supplies Needed: A small Gift, a box, wrapping paper, slips of paper for writing on, tape, scissors.

Wrap a mystery gift in multiple layers of wrapping paper. Play music and have the kids pass the parcel until the music is randomly stopped. Who ever is holding the gift when the music stops gets to unwrap a layer of paper. In between each layer of wrapping paper, tape a note to the paper that describes an activity that the person who unwraps that layer has to do. for Example, jump on one leg 20 times, say a nursery rhyme, blow up a balloon and pop it, answer a trivia questions, or tell a funny joke.

The person to remove the last layer of wrapping paper wins the prize!

As an alternative you can also include small prize giveaways on some random layers too, this keeps the kids interested in getting to unwrap a layer!