Shrek Party Games
For Shrektacular Fun!

Fourteen Shrek party games to celebrate
this fun fractured fairytale!

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Start your Shrek party off right with an icebreaker activity...

Decorate A Shrektacular Birthday Banner - Purchase a large piece of white butcher paper from your local arts and crafts store. At the top of the banner, write " Happy Birthday Shrektacular", the party child's name and the date.

Mount the paper on a wall within easy reach of your guests, or on the floor if you have enough space. Provide a variety of crayons and waterproof markers for kids to sign their names and perhaps a special message to the party child.

Encourage them to make a Shrek-related drawing too. After the party, keep it as a birthday memento, or take a close-up picture and add it to your memory album.

Shrek Says - Played like "Simon Says"... Children stand in a group in front of the leader. The leader says, "Shrek says, ‘Do this,'" as she taps her head, claps her hands, turns around, etc. The children must follow the leader's actions, but only if she begins with "Shrek says..." If the leader just says "Do this," the children must do nothing. If a child makes a mistake, he is out. The last child "in" is the winner.

Puss in Boots Toss - Toss kitty beanie babies into large boots for points.

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Donkey Donkey Dragon - Played like "Duck Duck Goose"... Gather your guests to sit in a circle and let the party child begin as the "Dragon". He/she walks around the circle tapping each child lightly on the head, saying "Donkey" with each tap. At any time, the party child can choose the next person to be the Dragon, by saying "Dragon" when tapping that person on the head.

That child gets up and chases the birthday child around the circle. If the new Dragon does not tag the birthday child before he/she makes it all the way around the circle and sits in the open spot, then the new Dragon becomes "it." If the new Dragon tags the birthday child, then the birthday child remains "it" for the next round and the game continues.

Feed the Ogre - Draw the face of Shrek on a piece of heavy cardboard. Cut out the mouth area to form a large gaping hole. Prop the ogre against a chair or other support. Have guests stand behind a line and "feed" the Shrek by throwing bean bags, rolled socks, or even dog chew toys (which resemble food) into the open mouth.
Variation: Feed "Donkey"

Don't Fall in the Moat - Have a cassette player handy to play some fun upbeat children's tunes. Tape a length of wrapping paper or plastic tablecloth folded in half on the floor. This is the "moat".

Guests line up on one side of the moat and as the music is played they walk back and forth over the moat. When the music stops, any players who have fallen in the moat are eliminated. The last player to escape the moat is the winner.

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Save the Swamp - Divide your partygoers into two teams, and line them up next to each other. Give the first person in each line a small bucket or cup full of water. About thirty feet away, place an empty cup or bucket for each team.

When you say "GO!," the first person runs down to the empty bucket, pours the water from his or her container into the bucket, and races back to their team with their empty container. The next teammate must then race down to the full bucket and pour the water from the bucket into his or her empty container, and then return it to the next person in line.

Your guests will have fun trying to keep as much water as they can in their buckets. The game ends when each team member has run down and back once. The team with the most swamp water at the end is the winner.

Indoor Variation: Have guests transport rubber frogs and lizards instead of water.

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