Recommended games for Children's Day, including party games that really liven things up
May 5th is Children’s Day, celebrated as Tango no Sekku! Many families celebrate Children’s Day to mark their kids’ healthy growth.
In this article, we’ve gathered a bunch of exciting games perfect for Children’s Day! There are probably lots of kids feeling bored because they can’t go anywhere despite the holiday.
And parents may be wondering how to keep their children entertained.
Use the games we introduce here as a guide, and be sure to play together as a family on Children’s Day.
These are games that adults can enjoy too, so the whole family can have a great time!
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Recommended games for Children’s Day, including party games that really liven things up (41–50)
Catching tissues with a party blower
You know those party blowers that shoot out a long paper tongue when you blow them and curl back up when you stop, like a chameleon’s tongue? This is a game where you try to catch a tissue dropped from a height using one of those.
Because tissues are so light, their movement is unpredictable, which makes the game exciting.
Plus, the silly sound the blower makes always makes you laugh.
Recommended games for Children's Day: Party games that get everyone excited (51–60)
Ping-Pong Ball Speech Bubble Showdown
Fill a bowl with lots of ping-pong balls and blow on them to push them out of the bowl.
Whoever finishes getting them out the fastest wins.
Ping-pong balls are light, so they’re easy to blow away at first, but toward the end, the ones at the bottom of the bowl tend to slip and are harder to get out.
It’s a simple game that’s fun even with a small number of players.
Mozzarella Cheese Game
It’s a game where you replace the word in the “Mozzarella Cheese Game” with any word you like and face off.
Originally, it’s a game where you keep saying the word “mozzarella” with more and more enthusiasm than the person before you, but in this version, you change the word and play.
As you can see from this video, it’s guaranteed to get everyone hyped!
Limbo dance
Many people may feel that staying at home all the time leads to a lack of exercise.
In such times, why not try the limbo dance to get your body moving even indoors? The limbo dance originated on the island of Trinidad in the West Indies and spread around the world for its humor and novelty.
Dancers, moving to the music, bend backward and pass under a horizontally held bar without touching it.
It really tests your flexibility.
If you don’t have a bar, try holding a string between two people and play!
Russian cream puff
Russian roulette is a staple gag at banquets and wedding after-parties.
You prepare a batch of cream puffs, but hide just one ultra-spicy one filled with mustard among the regular ones.
Several people eat them at the same time, and everyone tries to guess who got the spicy one.
Some people play it with wasabi instead of mustard.
However, since that might be too intense for kids, it’s a good idea to tweak it—for example, use something about as spicy as kimchi, or prepare mini cream puffs with chocolate filling and make just one of them filled with okonomiyaki sauce.
Nonexistent three-letter shiritori
Of course, everyone knows shiritori, right? But in the rules of “Three-Letter Nonsense Shiritori,” the middle letter of the three must be n, meaning the words don’t exist in the real world.
That makes it pretty risky, huh? Still, it’s sure to get everyone excited!
Newspaper Rock-Paper-Scissors
Stand on a single sheet of newspaper spread out on the floor.
Play rock-paper-scissors, and the loser folds the newspaper in half.
The game ends when someone keeps losing and can no longer stand on the newspaper.
You can play with two people, and although it requires a bit of space, it works with a large group too.
You could even make it a tournament.