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| Fairy Dress Up Relay Race: |
This will work great as an ice breaker as the children arrive and it also an energetic way to get your little fairies into costume. The basic layout of the game is one member of the team at a time must dress up as quickly as possible from a pile of fairy costumes, run across the room to perform a “stunt” and run back again. The team that all its members complete the race first, wins! If you have all sorts of fairy and princess costumes on hand, use those. Otherwise on the invitation, ask that the children bring their fairy/princess costume with them to the party. As the children arrive take their costumes and pile them in individually in a line on one side of the room. If they are all your costumes, leave them in on humongous pile. Add crazy funny items like scarves, gloves, boas, shawls, ties, hats, etc. Rules: The variations to the stunt portion of the game can be as numerous as the costume pieces. Some examples are having the children run to a table, put on a pair of big gloves and eat a piece of chocolate or fairy cake with a knife and fork. Put cookies with a whole in the middle and tie them to a piece of yarn. Have a grown up stand at the other end of the room holding the cookies just above the child and the children must run eat at least half of the cookie before they return back to their team. To make the game more manageable, separate the children into teams. Each child should only take a few minutes each to get dressed, but if you have 2 teams with 10 children each, the game will take too long. You can have as many teams as you like to lengthen of shorten the game. Each child has to put on the same pieces of clothing, but not necessarily in the same order. For instance: skirt, wings, head garland/hat, gloves, wand and one extra “crazy item”. Have a grown up or older child demonstrate once by getting clothes from the pile and dressing as fast as they can and stand as an example during the game. The game can easily be adjusted for parties with both boys and girls. Either have the boys bring their own costume or add something “knightly” or “piratey” to your pile. Any very small children should of course have help through the whole process. |
