Asian party games kids

We ordered plain white paper fans and the girls decorated them with colored pencils. I gave the girls each a set of Chopsticks. Some girls used them to try to eat the cake, but many just put them in their hair notice the pictures of this above.

They used ribbon to make the straps to the sandals. Then I took our leftover fortune cookies and dipped them in both white and dark chocolate, and placed them around the bottom of the cake to make the border.

I then piped the Chinese letters with white chocolate on the top of the cake, and dusted them with gold-colored food powder found in cake decorating supply stores. It is good to play with a class of kids, divided into teams, and can be adapted to suit different ages. It can be very exciting! Best played with kids aged 5 and over. The shuttlecock - a flying object made out of feathers, known to most of us through badminton, has been used traditionally in kicking games of skill in China. This traditional Chinese outdoor game requires a certain amount of skill, practise and ingenuity, as well as some flat ground.

This is a traditional Chinese boy's game, similar to marbles. Children "win" coins in this game, so you will need to decide whether to play with real coins as the prize or to claim them back at the end!

This traditional Chinese game can be played by 2 players or quite a large group. It develops quick thinking, addition and logic skills - but it's also fun! Throwing The Square is a traditional Chinese game which can be played with two players or teams, indoors or out. This game of Chinese dominoes may sound complicated but is in fact very simple to play.

The game was originally played with bone or wood dominoes. Become a Member to access 38, printables! Skip to main content. Traditional Chinese Games Enjoy some of these traditional Chinese games with your family, perhaps when you are learning about China or celebrating Chinese New Year. Age: Any. This is a simple, traditional Chinese boy's game which needs no props! There are many regional variations to this game but at the basic level, the group divides equally between police and thief.

The group designates one place for the jail. At the beginning of the game, the police give the thieves some time to disperse. Then the police look for the thieves and if they touch them, they can take the thief to jail.

Courageous thieves who have not been caught can rescue thieves from the jail by tapping on them. The game ends when all the thieves are arrested.

Source: Katsushika Hokusai. In Japanese tradition, this person is called oni or demon. In Oni Gokko, the oni counts to ten with their eyes closed while the rest of the children hide. Then the oni searches for each of the children. When they find one, they tap on them and that new kid becomes the next oni. Beigoma is a traditional spinning top game which peaked in popularity in the 20th century during the Showa period. The beigoma is made from metal, usually with a beautifully carved out kanji character written on its top side.

Its bottom side comes to a point and you wrap it in cord and pull the cord quickly to give it a spin. The game can be played on any flat surface like the top of a covered barrel. Everyone throws their beigomas at the same time onto the barrel cover. Source: Nesnad. Menko is a card flipping game popular since the Edo period and played by children. You play with cardboard cards with one or both sides decorated with pictures and manga.

To start the game, play janken to determine who goes first. Everyone else lays down their cards on the ground. The first player slaps their menko card on the ground to flip the others over. If a card is flipped over, the thrower keeps it and the loser is out. For example, players mark a circular boundary line and the thrower must aim to flip menko cards outside of this boundary.

The simpler version, iroha-garuta, is great for kids and comes with two sets of cards. One set contains a simple Japanese proverb. The other set contains one hiragana character and a corresponding picture.

This second set is laid out in front of all the players. One player will read out the Japanese proverb from the first set while the other players must find the matching picture card.

The winner is the first person to find the matching card. The more grown-up version of this game is called uta-garuta. Here, the two sets of cards contain famous poems rather than proverbs. The first set of cards will contain the first three lines of a poem in a traditional 5-line poem , and the second set will contain the last two lines.