Party ideas
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Party ideas
I am really procrastinating this week.
So tomorrow I am having a party (at the school) for about 20-30 kids from 1st to 3rd graces mostly. They were promised, snacks, games and crafts.
So we are having ice cream sundaes.
I thought it would be great to set up 2 crafts stations and 2 games.
So I am now seeking great ideas! Now I have to have this all together by 3 tomorrow and don't have much time today!
thanks!
Do you have a sandbox or a small wading pool? Fill it with clean sand and hide small toys/prizes under the sand. Let them 'dig for buried treasure'.
Water balloon fights.
Buy those sand art things at craft stores. It's a sticky picture and you peel off one section at a time, filling that sticky section with the colored sand they include, shake off the excess, then peel off the next section. Very fun, NOT messy when you're outside, and even inside just a newspaper underneath is enough to contain it all. When done you have a really pretty picture!
Create an obstacle course?
Get a cool bubble maker. Either the ones that blow continuous bubbles ($10 at Target) or the kind you dip in the solution and press the button and it blows many at a time.
Sack races?
Three legged races?
A lollipop tree: Buy a styrofoam cone shaped thingy at a craft store (get it while you're getting the sand art things  ) and buy a bunch of lollipops. Marker a colored dot on as many of the bottoms of the sticks as you want, and let the kids pick a sucker off the tree. If their sucker has a dot, they win a prize.
Sidewalk chalk drawing contest.
Hula hoop contest--who can hula the longest?
Pogo stick contest--who can jump the most jumps?
Hand out paint brushes and let them dip them in water and 'paint' the driveway.
A cake or candy walk is fun, too. With sidewalk chalk make a oval or circular 'lane' of big squares, number the squares, and the kids walk along the lane. Play music and stop the music whenever and call out a number (or draw a number from a hat. Have the numbers repeat every 12 or 15 if you want more than one winner each time). Whoever is standing on that numbered squares wins a cupcake or a piece of candy.
great ideas...but..lol..
I forgot to mention, we are inside our school library.
???? In Texas??? Sigh...I thought for sure you'd be outside due to good weather down there! Guess it's too hot? I take it your library frowns on sand and water balloons inside? Frowns on sidewalk chalk on the rug? Hmph!
Well, you can still do the lollipop tree and the hula hooping! You could still manage a cake walk with squares of colored cardboard or paper....
in houston it is 95 today with about 80% humidity...YUCK!
I love the cake walk idea, not sure how to work it though. I need to have them in 4 groups because of the size, but i am not sure if I want to do stations, or come and go type places. This party needs to last an hour, including ice cream eating, so that helps.
I was thinking one craft would be book marks.
hmm..i have a gs party tonight from 5-7, so I will be able to think when I get all that done!
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