star wars birthday party games
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01 STAR WARS BIRTHDAY PARTY games
Below are ideas for Star Wars Birthday Party Games
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printable STAR WARS birthday party games
First off, there are so many great printable Star Wars birthday party games, available here, to take the headache out of planning your own. So if you can’t face putting together the ones on the rest of this page, these will be a quick and easy fix.
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jedi robes
Start by kitting out all the young padawans in preparation for the Jedi Training Academy. You can pick up these capes for around $5 each, available here.
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lightsaber battles
When planning your Star Wars birthday party games, don’t underestimate how long kids will be happy to just play-fight with lightsabers.
You can create homemade lightsabers using foam pool noodles then just use heavy duty black and silver tape to create handles. You might want to pad out the handles with some tissue paper before wrapping in the tape, just so they are more pronounced than the main body of the ‘lightsaber’.
Alternatively, you can buy them ready made here, or use these cheap inflatable ones.
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JEDI TRAINING ACADEMY PASSES / SIGNS
Finish the prep for the Jedi Training Academy by issuing everyone with these printable passes, available here. Kids always love special VIP style passes and you can customize them with each child’s name.
You can also get these printable Jedi Training Academy signs, available here, to decorate the area.
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JEDI TRAINING:
Once they are kitted out with a lightsaber and robe, start your Star Wars birthday party games with a series of training exercises and tests for the kids to qualify as true Jedi’s:
01 JEDI MIND TRICK
Get a parent to dress up as Obi Wan to lead the training. Have Obi Wan first establish his credentials by performing a Jedi mind trick on them.
Obi Wan will ask them all to think of a number between 1 and 10. He then gives them a series of simple instructions. For this example let say….add 6 to their number, then subtract 1, then add 5. His final instruction is to tell them to subtract their original number. Then he will announce that the number they are all left with is….10!
The trick is that no matter what number they all started with, because Obi Wan’s final instruction was to subtract the original number, it cancels out. Therefore, for Obi Wan to predict which number they will all end on he just calculates the sum of all his instructions, in this example 6 -1 + 5 = 10.
You can use this tutorial to make Jedi robes for Obi Wan like the one below left. Alternatively, check out the Jedi robe and Obi Wan costumes to buy here. You can pick up just the outer robe, below, for around $17.
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02 LIGHTSABER TRAINING
Replicate Luke’s lightsaber training on-board the Millennium Falcon (below, from Episode IV: A New Hope) as one of your Star Wars birthday party games by hanging a plastic ball on a string at around head height to represent the orb. (or use one of these Star Wars stress balls).
Take turns to blindfold each child, then swing the ball back and forth on the string and see if they can ‘feel the force’ enough to hit it three times with their lightsaber.
Alternatively, for younger children, you can use this Death Star beach ball.
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03 LIGHTSABER DUELS
Split the kids into pairs and have them play tennis using the pool noodle lightsabers, available here, as rackets and these storm trooper balloons, available here, as a ball.
The object of the game is for each player to keep the balloon from touching the ground when it is batted towards them. They can only touch the balloon with their lightsaber—no hands—and can only touch it once before the other player does. If they touch it a second time before other player has, they are out. The first player to let the balloon touch the ground loses.
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04 PHYSICAL TRAINING
Jedi’s have great balance and physical agility, so test their skills by creating an obstacle course that has them running through hula hoops, under nets, jumping over things, and walking along a balancing beam while dodging soft balls being thrown at them. You can pick up various bits of obstacle course equipment here.
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05 TARGET PRACTICE
To destroy the Death Star in Episode IV: A New Hope, Luke has to fire his proton torpedoes into a narrow opening of the Death Star’s thermal exhaust port. Have the Padawans practice their aim by making a 2D cardboard Death Star (or pick up one here) and attaching it to a basketball hoop. If you don’t have a hoop use a bucket instead.
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06 FEEL THE FORCE
See how strongly they can feel the force by testing their Jedi senses with these Star Wars birthday party games:
TOUCH
Place different objects into bags or boxes and have them reach in and try to identify the contents while blindfolded.
TASTE
Have the kids blind taste different foods and see how many they can identify.
SMELL
Do the same with different smells
SIGHT
Before the party print off pictures of different Star Wars characters or vehicles then cut into the picture so you are left with just a small section of it (ex, a quarter or Queen Amadala’s face, or Jar Jar Bink’s mouth). Then see how many they can correctly identify from just a small section of the picture.
SOUND
The Star Wars website now has an amazing sound board where you can play familiar sound effects from the films. Unfortunately you can’t download them, so I would suggest you set up a laptop and speakers at your party then play back different sound effects and see how many the kids can identify.
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07 DARTH VADER DUEL
At the end of their Jedi training they are ready to face Darth Vader / Darth Maul / Kylo Ren for a lightsaber duel. Have a parent enter dressed as their favorite villain (see here for Darth Vader, Darth Maul, and Kylo Ren costumes) and let them do battle until they have managed to touch them with their lightsaber three times.
Update: Check out this supplier here, which may have better / cheaper Star Wars costumes.
Don’t forget to pick up the Star Wars soundtrack, available here, and play the Imperial March (Darth Vader theme) for a dramatic build up when they enter.
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08 JEDI TRAINING GRADUATION CERTIFICATES
Once they’ve all destroyed Darth Vader / Kylo Ren / Darth Maul, present them with one of these printable Jedi Training Academy certificates.
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CLONE WARS
This is a variation of the children’s game Stuck in the Mud.
Pick up some of these cheap Star Wars party masks (there are some available here and also some printable ones here). Divide the kids into two teams. Give one team rebel masks and the other a mixture of empire masks.
They then play a game of tag, but when each person is caught they have to stand on the spot with their legs spread open and arms out. They can only be released when another member of their team crawls through their legs. Keep playing until all of one team has been caught.
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REBEL V FIRST ORDER
Using the paper masks (there are some available here and also some printable ones here) buy / print enough so that you have one rebel mask for everyone (you can use a mixture of characters), and also one First Order / Empire mask for everyone (this time only choose one character so that all the First Order / Empire masks are the same).
Get one volunteer to start off as the First Order / Empire character. The remaining rebels have to run from point A to point B trying to get past the First Order / Empire character in the middle. As each rebel is caught they swap their mask to become a member of the First Order / Empire until there is only one rebel left—who is the winner.
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USE THE FORCE
One of the most simple Star Wars birthday party games is to spit them into characters from the dark side and the light side using the masks and have them play tug of war.
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STAR WARS BOWLING
Using a selection of the paper masks, attach them to these giant inflatable skittles, available here, then let the Jedi see how many baddies they can bowl over. Alternatively, there are some actual Star Wars bowling sets, available here.
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STAR WARS bean bag toss
There’s also this cheap Star Wars themed bean bag toss game, available here.
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STAR WARS PINATA
This supplier has a selection of Star Wars pinatas, which is a simple activity to use as one of your Star Wars birthday party games. Alternatively, there are also a few options here.
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