Candyland Birthday Party Games To Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

If you're throwing a Candyland Party, here are some great ideas for Candyland-themed invitations, decorations, party food, favors, and more!

Here's some games with a Candyland flavor that would compliment your party nicely:

GINGERBREAD COOKIES OR GINGERBREAD MEN - Have guests decorate cookies with frosting, edible glitter, sprinkles, sparkling sugar, nonpareils, raisins, and decorative candies.

LIVE CANDYLAND PARTY GAME - Using the game board as your guide, create the color path by painting large canvases to look like game board or gluing colored felt squares to cardboard. Attach pictures of a candy cane, snowflake, peanut brittle, ice cream cone, etc. to create those squares. Layout path. Either use cards from actual game or duplicate cards into a larger game-appropriate size.

CANDY DOMINOES - Kids love candy in all forms and they are sure to enjoy playing Candy Dominoes.

BUILD KING CANDY CASTLE - Let kids build the castle out of graham crackers, frosting and candy decorations or mini gingerbread house kits.

CANDYLAND BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES - PEPPERMINT FORREST RING TOSS - Paint various sized wood dowels red and white to look like peppermint sticks and have the kids toss red plastic rings. The winner receives a large candy cane and everyone else receives small candy canes.

MUSICAL CANDYLAND PARTY GAME - Glue colored felt squares to cardboard and put squares into a large circle. Cut 8 1/2" x 11" pieces of card stock into 4 pieces, color one square to coincide with each color of felt squares. Shuffle cards and place them face down. Play music while guests walk around on squares. Stop the music, draw a card, and whatever color it is, the children on squares of that color are eliminated. Rounds of the Candyland birthday party games continue until only one child remains.

CANDYLAND GAME RUG - Kids will love playing a game of Candyland on this fun rug that is imprinted with the Candyland game.

PEANUT ACRES TREASURE HUNT - Fill a wading pool with Styrofoam peanuts, hide mini Nutter Butter candy bars in the peanuts, and let the kids each find one.

KING KANDY SAYS - Play this game like "Simon Says." Birthday child starts out being King Kandy. Play continues for 1-2 minutes. Give each guest a chance to be King Kandy.

BUST THAT PLUM - Make a tree out of cardboard and hang small purple balloons on the tree. When game time arrives, have everyone pick a "plum" and the first one to burst his or her "plum" shall be the winner. You can use either water balloons or air-filled balloons.

QUEEN FROSTINE MAY I? - Play this game like "Mother May I?" Play continues for 1-2 minutes. Give each guest a chance to be Queen Frostine.

PIN THE CROWN ON KING KANDY - Play this game like "Pin the Tail on the Donkey." Use a projector to enlarge a picture of King Kandy, create crowns out of yellow construction paper, and use double-stick tape.

CANDYLAND CASTLE GAME - Here's a fun game, perfect for this theme, that you might consider incorporating into your game time. For more info, click on the picture link to the right.

CANDYLAND BOARD GAME - Purchase or borrow enough Candyland games so everyone can play. Continue play until everyone makes it to Candy Castle.

LICORICE, LICORICE, LOLLIPOP - Play this game like "Duck, Duck Goose." Give each guest a chance to be It.

RAINBOW PINATA - A Rainbow-Shaped Pinata would be the perfect add-on to a Candyland Party. Blindfold guests. Wrap bat with colorful streamers and tie curling ribbons at bottom.

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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