After (daftly) agreeing to a Doctor Who themed party by one of my children we actually came up with some good games.

If you ever wish to do the same then I am happy to pass on the following to you.

Emperor’s Dare  (In this case relating to the Emperor Dalek)

For a few weeks before the party or event, save the inner cardboard tubes out of kitchen roll.  You can decorate these if you like (we just used some tissue paper which was cheap and cheerful). 

Get a large piece of cardboard (again maybe save some from an old box or from Christmas toys).

Make random holes throughout the cardboard large enough to be able to feed the cardboard tubes through, so that they will stick out more than two thirds at the front.  If necessary sellotape them at the back.

In each of these write a ‘dare’ for the children to have to act out.  These should obviously be suitable for their ages without offending or totally embarassing any of the children.

Examples:

1. Shout out loud I am the prettiest girl in the world
2. Tell the person on your right ‘you’re looking good’
3. Tell a joke (if you don’t know one, use this one - what’s green and stands in a corner - a naughty frog!)
4. Sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in a mouse voice
5. Pretend to be a frog and hop from one side of the room to the other
6. Balance on one leg for 30 seconds
7. Say the nursery rhyme Mary had a little lamb in a very posh voice
8. Act like a rabbit and say “hey I’m bugs bunny, what’s up doc"
9. Turn to the person on your left and say “I’m so very pleased to meet you” in an robot voice
10. Stand up, put your arms out wide and say “I’m a tree,  hug me”

Start with the Birthday person and let them choose first.  Then get that child to nominate the next person and so on.

GUESS THE DOCTOR WHO ALIEN

The BBC website have some great pictures that you can download.  All you need to do (providing you have a colour printer) is download the pictures, save them and print. 

Tip: To save toner if you have a software package that will allow you to take out some of the background colour, reduce the image size and crop, then it may be worth your while to edit the pictures in this way. 

We used a roll of cheap lining paper and cut a piece large enough to stick on 12 pictures with blu tack. 

Don’t forget to write out labels with the characters names on as well.

There are two ways you can play this game.   Either get the children in two groups to identify, from scratch, the names of the characters and see how many they get right.  The group with the most right obviously win.

Or, give them the labels and again in two groups time them as to how quickly they can match the character label with the character picture.

Tip:  To save any unfair advantage, while one group has their turn, don’t let the other group watch.