Barney Party Games for the Little Ones

Barney party games are probably going to need to be geared towards toddlers and preschoolers. To that end I’ve got a couple of good games to keep the wee ones interested.

The first barney party game is called, ‘Tissue Tournament’. Get everyone to stand or sit in a circle and give everyone a fun straw. You’ll start off by showing the guests that they can hold a tissue to their straw by inhaling through it and letting the suction pull the tissue against the straw’s end. Next you’ll tell everyone that you are all going to try to pass the tissue around the circle with your straws, without letting the tissue fall to the floor. Hopefully you’ll be sitting next to an adult with whom you’ll be able to demonstrate passing the tissue to. This way the kids can get a good idea how it works. This is just a fun activity and if the tissue does fall to the ground have the guest who dropped it just pick it up and resume passing the tissue around the circle with their straw.

‘Name Ripple’ is another fun activity that you can use to help the kids get to know each other at your Barney party. This game involves saying someone’s name while performing a physical motion. Get everyone to stand in a circle, an arm’s length apart from each other.

Then you’ll start the Barney party game by saying one of the guests name’s and performing a physical motion that you associate with that name. For example, yelling Ralph and jumping forward in a pouncing motion. Then the person to your left will repeat this motion and the next person and the next until it gets to the person named, Ralph. Ralph will pick someone else’s name and perform a different motion and the new motion will be repeated until the ‘name ripple’ gets to the person named. Keep doing this until everyone at the Barney party is named.