party games Archives ~ Happy Whimsical Hearts https://happywhimsicalhearts.com/tag/party-games/ a Waldorf inspired blog Wed, 06 Jul 2016 02:07:28 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 A rainbow treasure hunt https://happywhimsicalhearts.com/2016/07/rainbow-treasure-hunt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rainbow-treasure-hunt https://happywhimsicalhearts.com/2016/07/rainbow-treasure-hunt/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2016 09:00:25 +0000 https://happywhimsicalhearts.com/?p=14416 Max helped me set up a rainbow treasure hunt for Ruby’s 5th birthday party. We like to keep our birthday parties fairly simple, with a couple of games, some mostly healthy food and time to simply play. For our rainbow treasure hunt we used: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple children’s wool beautiful wooden beads in the same colours a wooden tree stump that has nails in it for making twisties string for making necklaces We placed the wooden tree stump to the side of the lawn. Then we tied a ball of yarn to each nail and ran it out into the garden. One went up the cubby house slide, one went into the sandpit, one went to the mud kitchen and so on until they were all used up. At the end of each ball of yarn was a bowl of beads, the same colour as the yarn. The yellow yarn leading to the yellow beads and so on. The rainbow treasure hunt was a nice way to ‘break the ice’ at the party since some of the children didn’t know each other. It was lovely to watch them happily ran along the yarn lengths to find […]

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