Airplane Game Ideas That Will Send Them Soaring!

Create a fun-filled airplane theme party and you'll have all your little co-pilots flying high! Here's some games with an airplane flavor to consider:

AIRPLANE TATTOOS - As the kids arrive, place a removable tattoo on their arm, hand, or cheek.

AIRPLANE GAME - PLANE-GO-ROUND - Have kids sit in a circle and start passing toy airplanes to the birthday child, who in turn hands off their airplane to the child on their right. Ultimately, give out one less airplane then there are children, but have enough airplanes for all. Play music and have kids continue to pass the airplanes. Stop the music and whichever child is not holding an airplane wins the extra airplane you didn't hand out. Remove one airplane from the circle and continue playing the game until all the kids have won an airplane.

AIRPLANE GAME - PIN THE PILOT INTO THE JET - Hang a large poster of a jet on a wall. Prior to the party, if you have photos of all your guests, create pilots of your guests to use for this game. Cut out the head of each guest and glue it to a pilot body, which you create from construction paper. At party time, blindfold a guest, give them their picture which will have double-stick tape on the back, and have them try and "pin" their picture as close to the pilot's seat as possible. If you don't have photos of all your guests, then just use the birthday child's photo and write the name of each guest on the construction paper pilot.

BUS, BUS, PLANE - Play this game like Duck, Duck, Goose, but change it to coincide with your airplane theme by saying, "Bus, Bus, Plane!" Have the birthday child start the game as the leader.

MUSICAL AIRPLANES AND CLOUDS - Game is played like Musical Chairs. Create felt airplanes and clouds and place them on the floor. Turn music on and have everyone walk around the items. When the music stops, have the kids get onto the objects. Whichever child doesn't get to an object in time is out. Repeat until only one child remains and he/she is the winner.

AIRPLANE GAME - HOT PLANE - This game is played like Hot Potato except you use a toy airplane. Have all the kids sit in a circle and have the birthday child start with the airplane. Turn the music on and have everyone pass the airplane to the child on their right. Play continues until the music stops and whoever is left holding the airplane is out. Repeat until only one child remains and he/she is the winner.

AIRPLANE PILOT SAYS... - Play this game like "Simon Says." Birthday child starts out being the pilot. Play continues for 1-2 minutes. Give each guest a chance to be the leader.

AIRPLANE SEARCH - Fill a wading pool full of Styrofoam packing peanuts (clouds) and then place enough small diecast airplanes into the peanuts, as there are children. Then let everyone look for one plane. Once they find a plane, then they must stop looking.

AIRPLANE PINATA - Blindfold a guest with a handkerchief. Wrap the bat with streamers and tie curling ribbons at the bottom of the bat that are in your party colors. Let all the kids take a turn whacking the pinata.

PRINTABLE GAMES - Here's a great site for some fun print and play toddler party games that would be a perfect party game add-on!

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