A friend of mine has twins, a boy and a girl. It was their fifth birthday party recently and I wondered how she would manage with a party of mixed gender. She did such a great job I thought I would share it here…
Invitations
She made all her own invitations. The boys got an invite that looked like a Lily Pad and the girls one was like a tiara. The girls were told to come as princesses, the boys as frogs. Each princess invitation contained a home made badge with a number on it and each frog received a corresponding badge.
The Games, Ribbit!
When the children arrived, they had to pair up according to their badges and this was their “team” for the party. They played musical chairs where the princesses had chairs decorated like thrones and the frogs had cardboard lily pads. The last frog and princess left in the game won a prize for their team. Another game was musical pairs where all the frogs danced in one half of the room and all the princesses in the other and when the music stopped they had to find their other half. Last to do so was dismissed.
They played a novel game of hide and seek where first all the princesses hid and the frogs had to find their match. First to do so won. Then they reversed it with the frogs hiding. Finally each frog had one minute to talk about a topic (films, TV programmes, school subjects) without mentioning the topic and their princess had to guess it. Again the roles were then reversed. The winning team was then decided and the couple sat in special thrones at the top of the table for the party food.
The boys and the girls loved the party and a lot of them decided that the opposite sex aren’t quite so bad after all!!!
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