Parties need games, and lots of them. A Greek Myth theme fits nicely with the format of a Quest, so we based all of our games on the need to fulfill a Quest. Quest: Earn three Drachma in order to play the Game of the Gods [I found that it was cheaper to use pennies or nickels than it was to purchase fake gold coins. The Game of the Gods is what I called Left-Right-Center. It is a great party game for this age group --fifth grade. I got the idea of using LRC from Small Hours and Little Wonders.] Boys had to win Drachma in a series of challenges given to us by characters in Greek Myths. Dionysus Challenge #1: A cookie is placed on each player's forehead. Holding his hands behind his back, the player needs to try to eat the cookie. If it drops, the player may pick it up and start over. [Our winner got his cookie by very slowly and carefully raising his eyebrows and twitching his cheeks until the cookie was on his lips.] Medusa Challenge: In teams, the boys had to transfer rubber snakes from one bucket to another, while blindfolded and using only chopsticks (you can't look at or touch Medusa's snakes!). The Sphinx Challenge: Using the book What a Beast, by Sophia Kelly, my son read humorous descriptions of mythical beasts. The winner was the guest who correctly guessed the most beasts. Arachne's Challenge: The boys sat in a circle. One boy wrapped yarn from a ball around his ankle (loosely), and then tossed the ball to the boy who followed him alphabetically. The winner was the first boy who could not wrap the yarn because the ball ran out. What a tangled web! (See their togas in the picture below...they did such a great job with their costumes. You can even spy Eros's wings.) Dionysus Challenge #2: We split up into two groups. I gave each group a brief myth for them to act out. Three judges (my two young party-helpers and myself) voted on the best skit to win. I wasn't sure how the boys would like doing an activity that involved reading, but they loved putting on the skits. For this challenge, I chose the stories of Daedalus's wings and Theseus vs the Minotaur. Both stories related to the labyrinth, and I wanted the guests to be familiar with the story so they'd better appreciate the labyrinth challenge which comes later in the quest. Kid-friendly versions of the myths can be found online. Zeus Challenge: Toilet paper togas! Need I say more? Teams worked within a time limit to dress one team member in a toga that would stay on by itself. Hercules Challenge: We hid symbols of each of Hercules 12 Labors in the yard and teams competed to find the most. I got the idea for using the 12 Labors from this site. Our gang had to find a lion, a hydra, a stag, a boar, a sponge and dustpan (to represent cleaning the stables), birds (we hid ten), a bull, mares (we hid 17), a belt, cattle (we hid nine cows), an apple, and Cerberus, the three-headed dog. Most of what we hid were toys we had (we have toys of Cerberus and the hydra, believe it or not), but pictures would work, too. The apples had to be picked from our trees (took the boys a while to figure that out). A list of Hercules' labors can be found online or in the book Oh My Gods, by Megan Bryant. Dionysus Challenge #3: My helpers (my daughter and niece) hid a cookie in a plate of whipped cream for each boy. Hands behind the back, the first boy to find the cookie with his mouth was the winner. The boys quickly realized that the 'real' winner was anyone with a face full of whipped cream! Theseus Challenge: Find the toy minotaur hidden in the labyrinth! After the challenges, all of the boys had enough coins to play Left-Right-Center. It was lots of fun. We followed the game with cake and presents. The boys then played outside in the labyrinth until pick-up time.
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Remember two years ago? When the Summer Olympics were in London and all we could talk about was Ryan Lochte’s grill, Ursain Bolt’s very fitting name, and Gabrielle Douglas just impressing the crap out of us. Well get ready for a whole new round of inspiration of the snowier and colder variety. This year, you better believe we’ll be screaming, “USA! USA!” louder than ever. The 2014 Sochi Olympics is seeing the largest tribe of US athletes in history (230 superstars to be exact). And while favorites like Shaun White, Lolo Jones, and Patrick Kane will be showing up, we’re ready to throw one massive party for soon-to-be house hold names like ski jumping maniac Sarah Hendrickson, brother and sister hockey dream team Phil and Amanda Kessel, and the youngest ever member of the US men’s luge team, Tucker West. While they perform their hearts, we’ll be toasting them with food, drinks, and medal-worthy merrymaking. Enough talk. Let the party-planning games begin.
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My little sister Sam turned 10 in June. A few weeks prior to her birthday she started dropping hints that perhaps I should be planning out her soiree for her, but, unfortunately for her, Kurt and I were finally going to get around to taking a honeymoon on her actual birthday. In a completely un-10-year-old-y move, she decided to postpone her birthday party until I returned. But, lest you think this was because she enjoys my company, it was actually because she knows I throw the most legit-est of all the kid parties. If you find yourself conversing with 10 year olds, then you may have heard of the Warriors book series. In short: it's a book series about gangs clans of wild cats who live in the forest and do cat stuff. I took it upon myself to do some scientific Google research so I could make the party as true to the books as possible without actually having to read them. One thing I found while trying to find parties that other people did (which was very slim pick-ins) was that grown-ups must not have really researched the books and often tried to go with a jungle cat theme. These books are about normal cats that happen to be wild, not leopards. Don't let your little humans down like this, big humans! Cat Ears Sam and I decided everyone would be assigned a cat-sona (see what I did there?) upon arrival. Sam went so far as to make me a list of cat names from the books and their colors so I could be sure to make the right amount of properly colored ears. I even made pairs for Kurt and me. I like to be in character. Hi I'm Sisterpaw. You'll need: headband multi-packs (I found them at Michael's but also check the dollar store) cat colored felt (no leopard or tiger!) pen scissors hot glue and gun Pick a cat ear shape and draw it out on a piece of paper for a pattern. Also make a pattern for the inner-ear shape Trace the outer-ear pattern onto the felt, doubling it over, making sure to leave a little strip between each side of the ear so it can wrap around the headband. Repeat step 2 for the inner ear parts, but don't worry about doubling anything up. The inner ear will only show on the front. Hot glue those bad boys together. Don't stress about how legit the cat ears look. Remember that they're for little kids and will probably be thrown away at the end of the day. Buy them in bulk online if you're craft-icapped. 'Become a Warrior' Station Using the list Sam gave me of all the names of the warrior cats, I made name tags using clear plastic pop-out tags from Michael's. The things were miserable and I broke at least half a pack trying to get them apart to put the names in. I arranged the name tags in square faux grass patches that I got on clearance from Michael's. Sam wrote the warrior names on the inside of the cat ears to ensure that once a name was drawn from the warrior station that everyone had the proper color ears. Gotta love a kid who pays attention to details. Offerings Gifts, duh. 'For the Journey' Gift Bags Sam compiled (in all honesty) some random crap for the gift bags. I think there was a wooden puzzle, a bobble head cat, and some Swedish Fish in it. The good news is that several kids forgot their goody bags and I was able to go in and poach the candy from them. Nom. Moonpool My sister is fortunate enough to live with my parents, who are fortunate enough to have a pool. They also live in the woods so it fit the theme quite well. In the book the cats assemble at a place called the Moonpool so I put my sister's good fortune to use by making the pool into the Moonpool. Kurt and my dad rented a helium machine (which was a waste of money--don't do that) and blew up enough balloons to arch over the pool. They really struggled with this, only to see most of them deflate shortly after (sorry guys!). So if you have the means and really want to do this, I'd suggest hiring a balloon person to do it for you. Fresh Kill Table "Fresh Kill" is straight from the books and just means "food." The sign was from Party City and was actually for a tiki-themed party. I removed the paper backing that had parrots on it and made my own sign with contrasting forest-y looking papers. I made the letters by cutting out bone shapes. The mini tiki torches were also from Party City and were about $7 each I believe, but I found them later at Wal-Mart for much cheaper, so go there first. The backdrop was cheap plastic table clothes cut length-wise and attached to the ceiling light fixture above the table. Strawberry Mice You'll need: a knife black or red (I used red) string licorice (like the Pull-n-Peel kind) strawberries mini marshmallows almond slivers black cake decorating icing (I used the gel kind and it worked well) Cut the stems out of the strawberries. Shove a mini marshmallow in each strawberry's "butt." Cut small sections of the string licorice. Stick a licorice piece into each marshmallow "butt." Stick two almond slivers in the strawberry for ears. Draw two dots for eyes and one for a nose on the pointy end of the strawberry. Bird Nests You'll need: mini chocolate donuts a baking sheet shredded coconut speckled jelly beans Toast the shredded coconut by spreading it on a baking sheet and baking it at 375 degrees for five minutes. Roll the chocolate donuts in the toasted coconut. Don't worry if this looks messy. Bird nests are messy. Top with speckled jelly beans. Bones You'll need: short, skinny pretzel rods mini marshmallows white melting chocolate a cookie sheet wax paper Stick a mini marshmallow on each end of the skinny pretzel rods so they look like dumb bells. Melt the white chocolate according to package instructions. Dip the 'dumb bells' in the white chocolate and let dry on a wax paper covered baking sheet. Moonpool Jell-O I got the idea for a Jell-O fishbowl (in this case it would be a pond) from Pinterest and let my step mom handle it. She didn't follow the instructions which called for flat sprite and food color to make a light, see-through blue, which was initially disappointing because the fish more or less disappeared in the dark blue Jell-O, but I actually think it lent itself more to the natural body-of-water feel because generally those aren't see-through like a fishbowl anyway. Plus when the Jell-O was served the fish became visible so it was like, "Hey, surprise! There's more sugar in your sugar!" You'll need: a big bowl swedish fish blue Jell-O Make the Jell-O in the big bowl according to package instructions. When set, but not fully hardened, start shoving in random Swedish Fish. Finish with a few popping out of the top. Clan Cookies These were sort of a disaster. My original plan was to roll sugar cookie dough onto a baking sheet, cut out the clan shape, and then draw the clan symbols onto the cookies with cake decorating icing. This did not work out for me. My alternate plan was to just draw the clan shapes and symbols onto round cookies, but this proved to be rather tedious as well. Cookie decorating, as it turns out, is not my strong suit. After decorating one cookie for each clan I lost interest and just stuck one on each pile of cookies. Only the first kid to get to the table appreciated my effort, but I got a picture first, so oh well. Moonpool Bottled Water Just some copying and pasting in Word, printing, and taping. The Cake Sam wanted an ice cream cake which meant any decorating I wanted to do to it would have to be done quickly. I used chocolate chips to render her favorite clan (Thunderclan) in the center and then popped some of the other, already-made decorative foods on there. I thought it looked pretty rough but her and the other kids were ridiculously excited about it, so I guess it passed? Games Pick Your Prey This game was basically an Easter Egg hunt, but cat themed. Sam had a few large bags of stuffed animals that were en route to be donated so we combed through them in search of animals that a cat might eat (mice, birds, etc) and my dad hid them throughout the yard. The kid who found the most "prey" won. Pass The Prey Hot potato, but with a stuffed mouse. I played music from my iPhone and randomly stopped it. Whoever had the mouse was out. This was a good idea in theory but I didn't think to make a playlist ahead of time and just let my iTunes randomly shuffle. I'm 27, I don't have kids, and I went through a serious unedited rap music phase so I promise you this was not a good idea. The Hunt This one's slightly more confusing...but basically it's a complicated version of Tag. I separated the kids into three groups: cats, birds, and mice. Mice received 10 rubber bands to wear around their wrists, birds received five, cats got none. The rules were explained that cats were allowed to tag everyone, birds were allowed to tag only mice, and mice weren't allowed to tag anyone. Mice got a running head start, followed by birds, and then cats. If someone was tagged, that person was to relinquish one of her rubber bands and then had 10 Mississippi-seconds to run away without being re-tagged. The kid with the most rubber bands after 10 minutes was the winner. I'd never seen this game played before so I wasn't sure how it would work out...but in general the "cats" ran around and tagged everyone pretty quickly and no one else had a chance. In a surprising turn of events, however, one "mouse" hid in a bush the whole time and re-appeared after 10 minutes with all 10 rubber bands still in tact and won.
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Here's a fun sleepover party (or un-slumber party) game. If you already have a collection of nail polish, you have the bulk of what you'll need to make the game (and if you don't, you can pick up bottles at Dollar Tree for $1 each or buy multi-packs after Halloween and Christmas at steep discounts). If you're buying new bottles rather than digging into your personal collection, you could even give away some of the bottles as party favors. My version of the game requires 20 different nail polish colors, but you could easily play with fewer bottles by using a six-sided die instead of a 20 sided one or using a game spinner (Brian suggested using a spinner from the game of Life and matching nail polish colors to the colors on the spinners. I've also seen several variations of this Spin the (Nail Polish) Bottle game, which generally use 8 colors but which could be modified to use more or fewer). Also, although I thought my game board was a nice touch, you can easily make a variation of this game using only nail polish, a die, and some way of numbering your nail polish bottles. Materials: *20 bottles of nail polish *20 sided die *Painter's or masking tape *Marker *12x12 sheet of cardstock *Number and letter stickers (or cutouts; I used my CAMEO for the lettering/numbering) Directions: *For making the game board, add a title like "Nail Polish Roulette" to the top of a 12x12 sheet of paper and then place numbers 1-20 along the board. *Write numbers 1-20 on painter's or masking tape and stick them to the backs of the nail polish bottles. *Place the nail polish bottles along the board at their designated spots. Game Play *Players sit in a circle around the game board taking turns rolling the die. *The number a player rolls corresponds to the nail polish color a player will have to paint one of their nails. *The game concludes when each player has painted all of their fingernails (or toenails).
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