We decided on Knights and Castles since he loved to play make believe and play with his Fisher Price Castle. Then I took ideas from a parenting magazine that I had been saving for a year or so that had the best ideas for that same theme and I planned the party from that article and also from ideas I found on the internet and from books at the library (excellent ideas from both).
I shopped at dollar stores and found theme appropriate goodies for the treat bags which included bubbled swords, crowns, chocolate money, knight stickers, fisher price castle colouring book and crayons, plus other items I don't recall (it was three years ago). I made shields and swords out of cardboard and then made a castle out of boxes. The pattern to do this was in the magazine and included two towers that the kids could play in and a draw bridge door. For the remainder of the castle, I had approximately 20 paper boxes and I made available for the kids to make the walls of the castle (this kept them busy forever). I made a dragon head out of a box and we played what time is it Mr. Dragon (what time is it Mr. Fox) and this was also a big hit. I wrapped a potato in foil and decorated it with glitter and played hot jewel...whomever was caught with the jewel when the music stopped were sent to the castle dungeon. The meal wasn't anything festive, but I've since found plenty of wonderful ideas in books to have a royal feast, but most kids (or from my experiences with my son's parties seem to like hotdogs or pizza). The party was outdoors even though I decorated inside as well with hanging stars and shields, plenty of balloons and streamers. The best ending was a treasure hunt. Since the guests were 4 or just turning 5 and reading was at a minimum, I gave each guest a cut-out of a shield (different colours and different patterns) on the front of each shield. The guests were instructed to hunt for treasure by looking for the loot bag and matching the shield in their hand with the shield that was on the loot bag and if they found a loot bag that didn't match their colour or design, not to take it but to continue looking for their own.
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Hi! I am a kid my self going on 13... one of my favorite things to do at my slumber parties is a shaving cream fight. In the invitations, tell everyone to bring one to two bottles of already foamy shaving cream. Then outside, have everyone put on a shower cap so it dosnt get in your hair and goggles so it dosnt get in your eyes and run around in the yard, we use the coldasac, and spray each other with the shaving cream!!! When all the bottles are empty, go get the garden hose and spray each other down!!! Its a really fun thing to do and its really cheap too!!!
Bee
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