It is important to understand that as your child reaches their second or third birthday, they are more than likely still be dependent upon their mother and not understand the full meaning of birthday party games. Your child will certainly be happy playing alongside others of his/her age group, but he/she may snatch toys, make other children cry without realizing why and even bite and kick. Although this can be quite embarrassing, it is normal behavior for a child of this age. Therefore it is vitally important that the correct party planning and birthday party game is selected.

An ideal birthday party game for children of this age would be something simple, but with prizes at the end for their best efforts.

Be sure of how many children are attending the birthday party. Purchase small gifts, enough so that each child receives two gifts each. Wrap the gifts in pretty paper and number each one. Cut out stars from cardboard and paint these also. Number them with corresponding numbers that are on the gifts, also place a small piece of magnetic tape on each star. Prepare some sticks, enough so that each child has one stick each, chop sticks or confetti sticks would work well, and place a small piece of magnetic take on the end of each one.

When choosing the gifts for the birthday party game, remember that things that will stimulate their imagination would be best. Things like Play dough, coloring books and pencils, child reading books etc are the best.

Take a bag of poly fiber and place it on the floor to represent a cloud and then place the stars on the bed of poly fiber. Each child has two turns each to catch a star. The number on the stars will correspond with the numbers on the gifts, therefore that child wins those two gifts. Be sure that the children are fully supervised and ensure that they do only have two turns each. Children do not understand rules too well, so it is important to make them understand when they have had their turn.

It is important to play the birthday party game early on in the day, as many children of this age are still customary to having an afternoon sleep. Also keep the birthday party quite short. Children will start to get bored after a certain period of time.

Fill in the gaps with short birthday party games such as ring o’roses, Simon says or dancing to music, which are great fun and pass the time. After all of their excitement, you could consider reading them a short story to calm them down before they go back to their own homes.