Here are some suggestions for kids birthday party games that will be enjoyable and keep the guests occupied.
Preschool kids enjoy games they can play at the same time, though be sure to change the rules so that everyone wins at the end. Games with one winner make the other young children feel sad, which you don't want at the party. Try these variations:
Musical Chairs: Play the conventional way (music plays, and when it's stopped, everyone has to sit on a chair), but allow the people who don't get onto a chair to sit on another player's lap. When enough chairs have been removed so that every chair has an occupant and a "Lapper" (someone sitting on a lap), everyone wins. If there is an odd number of players, the odd person can squeeze onto the chair with another pair.
Pin the Tail on the Donkey: Spin a blindfolded player a few times, and let them try to put a sticky tail onto a picture of a donkey. After all have placed their tails, everyone wins.
Piñata: A blindfolded player tries to break the piñata with a stick and when it breaks, everyone grabs the candy or toys that fall out. Everyone feels like they won because they all get to scramble for prizes. Just be sure to give the child with the stick plenty of room.
Musical Gifts: Wrap a few little prizes individually in wrapping paper, enough for each guest to end up with one. Sit them in a circle, and have them pass around one gift while the music plays. When it stops, the person holding the prize gets to open and keep it. That person then is only a "Passer" and the game continues until everyone has opened one prize. The host should manipulate the music timing a bit so that the music stops at a person who hasn't had a gift. If it stops at a person who has opened the gift, just start the music again.
Freeze Dance, Follow the Leader, Red Light/Green Light: These are games that involve everyone moving, without turn taking, so there's no wait. No winners need to be identified, and no losers need to be taken out of the game. Just play and have fun.
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