Count Your Birthday Blessings:
The Wishing Tree Game

You can really count your birthday blessings as you pick them off The Wishing Tree which is covered in leaves the children have filled in with their blessings and good wishes for the Birthday Child.

The Birthday Child later picks the leaves off the tree trying to guess who wrote them the blessing. and, get this… The Birthday Child has to say what s/he has to do to make it happen.

For example: when s/he picks a leaf that says:
"I hope you live till 120"
The Birthday Child translates that into concrete terms and says:
"I'll eat less junk food and do more sports"

This way the Birthday Child gets to think PROACTIVELY about his/her own life. S/he not only thinks what everyone can do for him/her, but what s/he can do for him/herself to make his/her dreams come true.