Birthday party advice needed!

Sounds like you are getting a lot of the same game ideas that I was thinking of, but I would also suggest since your daughter is moving away, that perhaps you have her friends either sign an address book, or make a book that they can write some note to her. Maybe like weddings, you could put a couple of extra disposable cameras for different people to take pictures for a nice remembrance for her later. One other musical game like muscial chairs...you pass around a big cookie wrapped in plastic wrap. When the music stops, that person is out, but gets the cookie. Then you start again with another cookie. This way everyone gets a cookie and maybe the last person gets something extra or a bigger cookie.

They would probably like it better if they could pin the mustache on mom or put the red nose on daddy. Take the idea of pin the tail on the donkey and update it. Also, hang bite sized donuts from string on the ceiling whomever eats the donut first wins. Play musical chairs or dance contest. Also, for prizes take small squares of paper and put a different number on them, fold them really small and stick each one inside a balloon then blow up balloons. Go to the dollar store and buy different small items that would interest 7 year old boys and girls. LIp gloss and hair things are usually sold in bulk. Instead of party bags, make up prize bags. When a person wins a game that allows them to pick a number from a hat that coincides with the numbers on the prizes and in the balloons. At the end of the party what ever number you pick out of hat tells you what order you will pick a balloon. If you get number one in the hat you pick a blown up balloon, with a number in it. WHen you pick the balloon, have them sit on it and pop it. The number inside tells them what numbered prize bag they get. If the number in the balloon is 7, give them the number 7 prize bag. Be sure to have the boys and girls numbered balloons in separate bags unless theyre not gender specific. It really is fun. They get to pop something, they get a surprise and they are using their numbers. Hope this helps.

lol i have no idea what 7 year olds do! but maybe instead of your house, your could take them all to say a cheap version of chuckycheeses or soomething, that way its not your house getting beaten up! lol. Here they have some indoor gaming rooms that you can rent where they offer pizza and drinks and the kids get to play on the equipment and eat for a flat rate if you know how many kids you are going to have.

First of all, don't worry too much yet, the forecast always changes, and since it is still a week away, it may be fine. You could also consider getting a tent to put up for shelter. If you want to or have to move the party inside, there are lots of options. You could do pin the tail on the donkey, or any variation of that. There's musical chairs, and you could do it with squares or circles of paper taped to the floor for more space. There's the Freeze, where you pause the music and everyone has to freeze in whatever position until the music starts again. Charades can be fun, with simple things to act out such as animals. A game I played when I was a child was 7Up, where everyone closed their eyes and put their thumb up and a few people go around and push down thumbs, then if your thumb was pushed down, you get up and do the pushing for the next round. I forget the details, but look it up and you may find it. There's Simon Says, the limbo. They don't all have to be competitive games, you could just do them for a fun activity.