As the colder (and wetter) weather approaches, we are regularly asked “what do we do if it rains?”<\/b>\u00a0by understandably anxious parents organising their child’s birthday party.\u00a0 Our rather annoying response is usually\u2026.. “we\u2019ll get wet”<\/b>, for which we make no apology as rain often improves a Survival or Mini Olympics party!\u00a0 If, however, your party must be inside, here are a few ideas of great things to do with lots of children in a small indoor space:<\/p>\n
Smartie Sucking Championships Strictly NO HANDS!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3-legged Balloon Burst <\/p>\n Balloon Keepy Uppy <\/p>\n Strawberry Bootlace Race Turn your house into an obstacle course with tunnels between sofas, bumpy slides down stairs and slalom between chairs. Time individuals or teams to complete the course as quickly as possible.\u00a0 To make it harder, get them to try to race whilst carrying a cup of water, the most water to return to the finish line wins!<\/p>\n Junk Percussion <\/p>\n Want some more silly-ness? Take a look at their website<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hooorayyy!! Half-Term is upon us, can we be any more excited? Our fabulous friends at Sharky & George have some fabulous ways in which to entertain the troops over half term: As the colder (and wetter) weather approaches, we are regularly asked “what do we do if it rains?”\u00a0by understandably anxious parents organising their child’s … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,17],"tags":[227,228,69,43,219,220,229,11,59,230,12,13,231,83,72,45,144,232,233,234,235,47,25],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-families","category-uncategorized","category-saving-money-2","tag-3-legged-balloon-burst","tag-balloon-keepy-uppy","tag-fun","tag-games","tag-half-term","tag-halloween","tag-indoor-assault-course","tag-inspiring-families-2","tag-journey","tag-junk-percussion","tag-kids","tag-littlebird","tag-parachute","tag-parents","tag-party","tag-play","tag-sharky-and-george","tag-sillyness","tag-smarties","tag-strawberry-bootlace-race","tag-survival-games","tag-toys","tag-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sharky](\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Sharky-George-Party-Smartie-Sucking.jpg\")
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\n<\/b>Split the group into two teams
\nGive everyone a cup and a straw
\nCover two separated big tables with Smarties
\nEach team stands around a table and on \u2018GO\u2019 the teams race to get all their Smarties into their cups using suction through the straws only.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>This is a noisy one
\nBlow up enough balloons for one between two
\nTie a large elastic band around the knot of each balloon
\nGet everyone into pairs and give each pair one of the balloons
\nEach pair make themselves 3-legged with the elastic band, making sure the balloon is hanging behind their ankles
\nWhen the music starts, each pair has to burst everyone else\u2019s balloons whilst keeping their own intact
\nThe last team with a balloon wins<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Very simple, but very good fun
\nBlow up masses of balloons
\nEveryone has to keep them all off the ground<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>Give everyone a strawberry bootlace
\nGet everyone to put one end into their mouth and their hands behind their back
\nOn \u2018GO\u2019 the race begins to eat the bootlace as fast as possible without using their hands<\/p>\n![\"S&G](\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG-Survival-Party.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Indoor Assault Course<\/b><\/p>\n![\"S&G](\"http:\/\/www.littlebird.co.uk\/blog\/app\/uploads\/2013\/10\/SG-Parachute.jpg\")
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\n<\/b>Collect lots of bottles, jars and cans
\nPut out bowls of lentils, rice, coins, gravel and sand as well as gaffer tape, coloured card\u00a0and felt tips pens
\nGet everyone to create their own percussion instruments then play some great music for everyone to play along to
\nMight be worth getting some ear defenders for this!<\/p>\n