Simple 1st Birthday Party Games and Activities

1st Birthday Party Games should not be complicated. Just a few simple and easy games will be enough for your little one.

Babies like to play and not be pulled and pushed around. Plan some fun activities, but be relaxed about it.

Go with the flow. If baby doesn't like a particular game, then scrap it and try another one.

Box Race

Use sturdy boxes for this fun first birthday game. Cut the top flaps off or fold down. Place a pillow in each box. Set babies in the boxes and let the parents push. Have a start and a finish line. To tweak this to match any party theme, just decorate the boxes. Make train cars for train parties, cars for a Cars party, ect. You can also just decorate the sides with paint, stickers, or markers in your 1st birthday party theme.

Bean Bag Toss

1st birthday party games can be as simple as this. You really can't get much easier than a toss game. You can make the bean bags to match your party or just have little pillow squares. Homemade beanbags are really simple. Just sew up little square pillows and fill with beans or rice. To add to your party theme you can make the beanbags into a shape like bugs, stars, crowns, cupcakes, ect. Then you need something that the babies can toss the beanbags into or on. You can make a face with the mouth open, a bucket works great, or just have them toss onto a large poster board with different prizes painted on it. When they land on a certain painted prize, then they get that real prize.

Comes in Pink or Blue!

Pin the Candle on the Cupcake Game

1st birthday party games can also be part of the decorations. Check out this adorable cupcake game that is completly baby friendly.

Rubber Ducky Prize Pool

Place stickers on the bottom of some little rubber duckies. Fill a small kids pool with water and put all the rubber ducks in the water to float. Let the babies pick a ducky. They get a prize if they pick a ducky with a sticker on the bottom. Can also do this first birthday party game idea with other floaty toys.

Bottle Bowling

This is a fun game for everone to play. Including the parents. Fill 10 baby bottles with beans, rice, or water to make them heavier. Place the bottles on the floor like bowling pins. With tape, mark the point where the players should stand. Let the players take turns trying to get a strike!

Crawling Race

Set a start and a finish line. Place babies down on the floor and let them race while crawling. You can also make the adults do this game for a few laughs.

Guessing Game

Purchase a large baby bottle and fill with candies that match your party theme. Be sure and count them as you put them in. Have the adults guess how many candies are in the bottle. The one who is the closest, wins.

Baby Can Do

People don't realize how much a baby can—and can't—do by the time her first birthday comes rolling around. Write a list of little things your baby can do, such as "Clap her hands," “Say Momma” and "Blow kisses." Add to the list some things she can't do yet: "Tie her shoe," "Say Elephant" and "Eat steak," for example. Let the parents guess which things the baby can do or can't do.

Baby Memory Book

Sometimes you just need a few activties and not a whole lot of first birthday party games for baby's birthday party. This is a perfect little activity for any first birthday. Purchase a good sized book that has empty pages. Let each guest write something to the baby. Take pictures of the guests and add to their page that they wrote. This is fun for the baby to read when he gets older.

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