Tween Birthday Party Games

Games for pre-teens in the be "tween" ages of 10, 11, 12

Party Games and Ideas for Tween parties.  Every birthday game has been tested and approved by tweens and moms. Fun games include Mall Scavenger hunts for tween parties complete with free scavenger hunt lists.

Fun Tween party theme ideas - fun theme ideas for tween (10, 11, 12) parties.           

Tween Party Food Ideas     Tween Icebreakers    Tween Birthday Activities     Sleepover Games       Truth or Dare

Swimming Pool Party Games
See the complete list of fun swimming pool games for tweens

Tween Truth or Dare Game 
For this birthday party game have the first person ask someone around the circle “Truth or dare?” The tween must answer either “truth” if they want to answer truthfully to a question or “dare” if they want to perform a dare that they are given. They must do the dare … no matter what. Before the birthday party make a list of truth questions and dare options for the girls to pick from during the game. This keeps the game under control and tame.   Free list of fun truth and dare questions

Sponge Relay Games 
Divide birthday party guests into 2 teams. Use 4 buckets - place two at the starting line and two 30 or more feet away.  Fill the farthest buckets with water. Tweens take a sponge and run to the far bucket, dip the sponge in the water and then run back to the starting line bucket and squeeze the water into the empty bucket. The first team to fill their bucket wins. (Use larger buckets to hold the water first since a lot of the water will be lost as they race back to fill their
bucket.) Variation: Race backwards for a crazy birthday party game twist!

Prize Auction Game 
On the birthday party invitation ask each of the tweens to bring an inexpensive item or a "white elephant" (something in good shape they don't want anymore) wrapped or sealed in a bag.  Give the tweens $20 in play money and start an auction for the unwrapped gifts. Hold up the first sealed bag and ask who will give $1 for it... and so on.  For fun you can add food and gag gifts to the auction items.  Keep the gifts wrapped and don't let anyone know what is inside until the high bidder opens the item.  At the end let the tweens trade bags or buy each other's presents with their left over auction money.  With any other left over auction money tweens can bid on who gets the first piece of cake to who chooses the music.

Nail Polish Birthday Spin Game
Fun game for tweens at a make-up or spa birthday party.  Place several colors of nail polish in the middle of a circle of girls.  Have the birthday girl spin a bottle of nail polish.  Who ever the cap is pointing to when it is done spinning  must paint one of their fingernails that color.  Then that person spins the next color of nail polish .... and so on.  You can also have them paint their toes for this game too!

Mummy Wrap Game
Tweens enjoy this fun birthday party game!  See which team can wrap their mummy in toilet paper first. Divide birthday party guests into teams of 2 or 3 and give them 2 rolls of toilet paper.  Let teams decide on who will be the mummy and then race to see who can wrap their mummy in toilet paper the quickest using all the paper. Stock up on paper and play this game a few times switching out mummy's.

Oversize Birthday Party Game
This birthday party game let's the tweens get really involved!  On a very large patio or driveway draw a large (VERY large!) gameboard with chalk.  Make every square at least 18".  Make it in the shape of a circle or oval (or a figure 8).  Write "start" at the first square and then on each square write a command or action.  Example:  Square 2 = move ahead 3 spaces, Square 3 - jump up and down until your next turn, Square 4 = sing the national anthem until your next turn, Square 5 = go back 2 spaces ... and so on until every square is filled.  Make 2 large oversize dice from boxes at least 12 x 12 (the bigger the better!).  The pieces being moved around the board are the tweens themselves.  They roll the dice and then move themselves along the game board.  The winner is the tween to reach the end space first by landing on it with an exact roll.  Tweens LOVE this game!

Tween Blind Make Over
The first person puts on a blindfold and does the makeup of the second person.  Then when they are done the second person puts on the blindfold and does the makeup of the third person.  Draw numbers to determine the order.  Really funny - take pictures so you can keep the memories. 

Song Maker Birthday Game  
Pick one person to go first.  Everyone in the group decides on a title of a song and then the person chosen first must make up a song to go with that title.  Example:  Little bunnies on my pillow

Commercial Birthday Game  
Draw numbers to see who goes first.  The first person stands up and the number 2 person chooses an object from the room.  The first person then must make up a commercial about the object and speak for 30 seconds about it.  Then #3 picks an object for #2's commercial and so on. 

M & M Tween Challenge
This game can be played with m&m's, skittles or any small candy that comes in different colors.  Place candy in a bowl.  Sit in a circle and without looking choose 2 candies.  Put them in your mouth ... if they are the same color then you can chew them, if not you have to hold them in your mouth until your next turn when you can try and choose 2 more of the same color.  You can't chew until you get 2 of the same color.  

Toilet Paper Share  
You’ll need a new roll of toilet paper for this sleepover game. Gather everyone in a circle and tell them you are going to pass around the sleepover game toilet paper roll and to take as much as they think they need for the game.  Pass the paper around without any further instructions and have them take sheets of paper off the roll.  After everyone has their sheets then tell them they have to share one thing about themselves for each square of paper they have.

Tween Birthday Ball Game  
Buy a large inflatable beach ball and in permanent marker write questions all over it.  Place everyone in a circle and throw the ball to someone.  The person who catches the  ball must answer the question that their right thumb is touching. After answering the question they then throw the ball to another person.    Fun questions to write on the ball:  (The more questions on the ball the better!) What is the scariest movie you’ve seen? What is your favorite color? What are three adjectives that describe you? Who is your favorite band/singer? Who is your favorite movie star?  What is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to you?  What do you say when you talk in your sleep? What is your biggest phobia? If you were invisible what would you do? If you were an animal what would you be? Who's your secret crush?  What was your last dream about?  What is one thing about you that no one here knows?  What do you want to do when you grow up?  Think of questions that you would want to be asked or things that you would like to know about others.

Candy Hunt Party Game
Ask everyone to bring a flashlight (or provide them for everyone) to the slumber party.  Before everyone arrives at the party ask a parent or sibling to hide candy all over the yard.  When it gets dark have everyone take their flashlights outside and hunt for the candy. 

Tween Scavenger Hunt Games
Fun for birthday parties - especially for tweens.  The scavenger hunt games can be played many different ways.  The main idea of the scavenger hunt game is to divide the tweens into teams, each team has a list of items to find (or things to do) and the first team done wins.

Fun birthday party scavenger hunt varieties

Traditional Neighborhood Scavenger Hunt Games
Played by teams of tweens going door to door in a neighborhood and asking for items from their list.  A sample list on a neighborhood scavenger hunt could be:  an old shoe, teaspoon of flour, green crayon, popsicle stick, band-aid, etc.  (Make sure you send adults out with each team.)  Once the items are collected the first team back to the house within a certain time limit wins.  Those who get back late are given a penalty - 1 item for every 5 minutes they are late.    Free scavenger hunt lists - 2 different scavenger hunt lists that are free to print out.

Video Scavenger Hunt
Make up a list of crazy things the tweens must do.  Such as all standing on one foot in front of a yellow car, making a human pyramid on someone's front lawn including the owner of the house, walking a dog around the park etc.  Use video cameras to record the silly things on their list.  When all the groups get back sit down and watch the tapes together. 

Picture Scavenger Hunt
Tweens use Polaroid® or digital cameras to photograph the crazy things on their scavenger hunt party list.  Since you are using pictures instead of collecting the items the list can be really crazy! 

Bigger Better Hunt
The object of this scavenger hunt is to be the team that returns with the biggest or the best item.  Start by dividing into teams and give each team 1 small inexpensive item ... a paperclip, penny or rubberband.  Then tweens take opposite sides of the street and go door to door asking if to trade their item for something bigger or better.  For example a team chooses to start with a paperclip and they take it to one of the houses on their side of the street and ask to trade it for something bigger or better.  The neighbor trades the paperclip for a quarter.  Then the tweens then take the quarter to the next house and asks to trade it.  The neighbor might give them a coffee cup.  Continue on until time runs out or teams are happy with their trades and feel they have the biggest or best item.   (Some friends played this one time and one team came home with a color TV!)   

Fun Tween Sleepover Ideas - Lots of fun games, activities, crafts and food ideas for tween slumber parties!