Kids enjoy drawing- they like creating something from nothing. Using your party theme, crayons or markers and a pair of dice, you can turn drawing into one of your kids party games.
Choose a theme related object for your game. For example, if yours is a jungle or safari party, choose something like a creepy crawly bug. If a pirate party, make it a sea creature such as an octopus. For a star wars or space party, an alien. And if your theme isn’t conducive to a theme oriented object, just make it a monster or an animal or a person. This is what the kids will be drawing.
Get a pad of newsprint at the craft store and a roll of painters masking tape at the hardware store. Tape up two sheets one on top of the other for each child to the wall in your party room (two so there’s no marker leakage through a single sheet). Give each child a few markers or crayons.
Decide what body parts your drawing object will require, i.e. head(s), legs, arms, antennae(s), tail(s) eye(s) etc. Assign each a number between two and 12 and make a sheet on your computer for each child. There can be repeats, i.e. 1 can be head and 7 can also be head, and this is where it gets good and silly.
Armed with their paper on the wall, their crayons/markers and their sheet telling them what each roll of the die will require them to draw, it’s time to start with the first person rolling the dice and starting to draw their object. The dice will pass from child to child.
If you’re having trouble visualizing this game, check it out at the source- scroll down the page about 3/4 of the way to “Draw that Creepy Crawly Jungle Bug!”
The first kid to finish drawing their object wins the game. An apt ‘prize’ would be a neat looking pencil. If they’re old enough to handle it, let the others all finish/embellish their drawings after the first is done and then have them vote for the best drawing (no one can vote for their own creation).
Simple sometimes yields the best kids party games.
