Health - How To Information. Planning your 7- or 8- year- old's birthday party: Games and activities. Game plan. When it's all over, 7- and 8- year- olds will remember a party for the games that made them laugh and cheer. With this age group, you have to dig a little deeper to come up with fresher, more challenging games than the ones they loved at 5. Watch the latest TODAY video at TODAY.com. Now Playing Sponsored Content Slow cooker pulled pork, crunchy coleslaw: Carson and Siri Daly get cooking. Duck, Duck, Goose isn't going to cut it! Big kids like to try new things, and they understand more complex rules and instructions. They also enjoy team games and competition. Get the latest health news, diet & fitness information, medical research, health care trends and health issues that affect you and your family on ABCNews.com. Wondering how to prepare for pregnancy, to choose a baby name, or to get your toddler to sleep? EverydayFamily is the place to be, with resources from preconception. Celebrity trainer Dolvett Quince releases his first diet and fitness book, The 3-1-2-1 Diet, in November 2013. Watch video interviews with the author to learn more. When it's all over, 7- and 8-year-olds will remember a party for the games that made them laugh and cheer. With this age group, you have to dig a little. They no longer get upset about who goes first and who wins. This age can also focus on a quiet activity such as an art project for a good long while – in fact, you might struggle to tear them away when it's time to move on. You'll want to have about a dozen games ready to go and at least one project that lets the kids use their imagination and create something with their hands. Let's get this party started. You'll want to begin with a game that allows kids to join in as they arrive. Bingo works well because you only need one or two guests to get started and when others arrive you just hand them a card and they can easily jump in. You might pass out stickers, erasers, or baseball cards as prizes. Treasure hunt. Next, you can get everyone up and moving with a treasure hunt. Hide clues around your house, backyard, or at a park, with each clue leading the search party closer to a prize. You can easily adapt a treasure hunt to the theme of your party. Throwing an insect party? Hide plastic ants, gummy worms, and bug stickers in a basket. Turn a paper box into a treasure chest and fill it with costume jewelry and chocolate coins. At a small party with up to eight kids, everyone can be on one treasure hunt team. For a larger party, you can divide them into teams and create separate sets of clues leading to different locations. After the hunt, you can serve a meal or snacks and then move on to some games. Musical Chairs, Ring Toss, Charades, Freeze Tag, Twister, and Pin the Tail on the Donkey (or variations such as Pin the Hat on the Snowman) are popular at this age. Team sports. Team games particularly appeal to an 8- year- old's sociability: Try three- legged races, Blind Man's Bluff, Tug of War, and Capture the Flag. You can get creative with relay races. For example, divide your group into two teams and give each a suitcase filled with adult- size clothing. Someone screams “Go!” and then the first one in line puts on everything in the suitcase, runs 1. Down time. As the children begin to wear out, you can move to a quieter project (girls, especially, might like this). Play for 7- and especially 8- year- olds tends to be structured and focused on creating something tangible. You'll want to come up with a project – whether it's gluing scrap wood together to build toy houses or making construction paper party hats and decorating them with faux gems. Roll out a big piece of paper, pass out paints, and let the kids create a mural that ties into the party theme. Kids can really get into painting an ocean filled with pirate ships and islands, a faraway galaxy with spaceships and planets from Star Wars, or a jungle teeming with wild animals. Grand finale. At the end of a party, the kids might enjoy a game of Tag or a water balloon toss. You could also walk over to a neighborhood park and kick a soccer ball around. Bounce houses are popular at this age. Make sure an adult is supervising – you might need two adults if you have a big group. Kids this age are infamous for attempting tricks they might not be capable of pulling off. If you hire an entertainer, you don't need to worry about kids this age being afraid of someone in a mask or full makeup. Eight- year- olds, though, can be quite skeptical and critical, so you'd be better off with no magician than a mediocre one.
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