2 cups apple sauce
1 cup apple cider
1 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons Vermont maple syrup
1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses
and serve.
Birthday Party Games - Birthday party games are the best ways to keep the guests busy and also have fun and enjoy the party.
Chinese
whispers
Sit everyone in a circle. Whisper a long phrase to one
person. They, in turn, whisper what they heard to the
next person, and so on. The last person announces what
they heard.
Pass the
Parcel
Wrap a bar of chocolate (or some other gift), in a layer of
paper. Now wrap it in another layer and repeat until you
have about 10 layers. Finally wrap it in gift paper (so it
looks nice).
Sit everyone in a circle and play a short snippet of music.
When the music stops, the person holding the parcel
removes ONE layer of wrapping. Repeat until the last
layer of wrapping has been removed.
The winner keeps the present.
Pass the
Parcel with
forfeits
As above but every layer contains a forfeit (E.g Sing a
song, Eat a teaspoon of Mustard, have your belly button
filled with water).
The
Chocolate
(or Jelly)
Game
Sit everyone in a circle and place a tray in the middle
with a hat, scarf, gloves, knife and fork, die and a
wrapper bar of chocolate.
In turn, players throw the die. If they throw a SIX, they
must put on the Hat, Scarfe and Gloves before they start
to unwrap the chocolate with the knife and fork, ad then
start to eat it.
To speed up the game add a second die and require a
Double SIX.
The Jelly Variation is to turn out a set jelly onto a plate
and eat it with the knife and fork.
Musical
Chairs
The old favourite. With one fewer chairs than people, a
short snippet of music is played while the people move
around the room. When the music stops everyone tries to
sit on a vacant chair. (Only ONE person per chair) The
person who doesn't find a chair is out. One chair is taken
away and the game continues until only one person (The
Winner) is left.
Memory
Game
On a tray, place about 10 to 15 small items (e.g. pencil,
watch, comb, shoe lace, spoon, toy car, etc.) and cover
with a cloth.
Sit everyone in a circle.
Place the tray in the middle of the circle and remove the
cloth for 60 seconds. Everyone has to remember the
objects. When the time is up, replace the cloth.
In turn, each person has to name an object on the tray.
The first person to fail to name an object, repeat an object
or name something not on the tray is out. The tray is then
removed and some or all of the objects replaced, and the
game re-started with the person following the one who is
out. If the game is too easy for the group, add more
objects or reduce the time.
Musical
Statues
This is like Musical Chairs, but when the music stops, the
players have to keep still. Anyone who moves, quivers,
shakes etc is out. The winner is the last one still playing.
Listen and
Move
Place party shapes on the floor in a circle. For example if
your theme is Knights the shapes could be shields,
swords, and castles. Children walk around circle while
listening to music. If the music is loud the children move
fast. If the music is quiet the children move slow. If the
music stops, the children stop on the closest shape.
Young children like to play it this way.
To make it more challenging for older children have 1
less shape than the number of children. Continue remove
shapes as the children are 'out'.
Postman's
Knock
All the boys gather in a group and each takes a card with
a sequential number (One, Two, Three etc). The girls do
the same. The boys then form a line (shoulder to
shoulder) facing the girls who are in a similar line.
(Players should NOT stand in order. First a girl calls out
a number and the boy with that number goes across to
kiss her. The a boy calls out a number and the girl with
that number goes and kisses him.
Port and
Starboard
On the command (from the list below) the children have
to do the appropriate action. After a while, start
removing the last player to comply, untill only one
remains.
• Port (Run to one side tof the area)
• Starboard (run to the other side)
• Captains Comming Aboard (Stand to attention
and Salute)
• Submarines (Lie on the floor)
• Hoist the Mainsail (run on the spot - like climing
the rigging)
• Mess Deck (Sit cross legged on the floor - ready
for lunch)
• Davey Jones (Climb a tree, stanbd on a chair -
anything so that you are not on the floor)
• Up Periscope (Stand up straight and old hands to
eyes as though looking through binoculars)
