Every year the kids switch off who will get the “Big Themed” Birthday party (since it can get pretty crazy planning so many so close to each other.) This year it was Wyatt’s turn. We of course had to go with a space theme since he is soooo into space.
I love when parties actually include games for the kids to do instead of just letting them go off and play. I also love to include my kids in the planning. I asked Wyatt what he would want to do for the game and he came up with an obstacle course. It was perfect.
When needed to find away to separate each group to go through the obstacle course to compete against each other to have a winning team, So we made them into divisions and made them some cool name badges.
When each kid arrived I had them put their name on their badge which then would separate them into teams for the game. We had the “Smarty Division” and the “Mad Division” which was listed on their badge.
Once we started the game the “smarties” had to come and get dressed in nerd glasses and fill their pockets with smartys. The also had to wear a lab coat which was my dad’s old nursing coats. The Mad scientist for the mad division had to dress up in slinky eye glasses that you can find at the dollar store and fill their pockets with body part candy (which I found at a local grocery store which we lucked out since Wyatt’s birthday is close to Halloween) and they also had to wear lab coats.
When they all got dressed the first obstacle was to unscramble space words before moving on to the next station. My dad dressed up as a mad scientist and they had to give him the cards to see if they could move on. If they got it correct he gave them Mentos to test the rocket fuel (a bottle of coke) which was the second station.
Once they tested the rocket fuel they had to crawl through streamers and bubble wrap which we called “space” and make sure that all the bubble wrap was popped. (we were going to through bouncy balls at them and call it meteors but I forgot the balls) When they finally got out of space they landed on the moon which was a watermelon box we spray painted into a moon and filled with pillows and blankets. To “land” on the moon they had to jump into the box.
Then run back to the rocket ship that I built out of boxes. Whose ever team all got there first won.
It was a blast to see them running around. They had a lot of fun.
We then did cake and presents but we had the party start later in the evening so it would get dark before they left.
After the cake, I passed out glow sticks I mean a ton of glow sticks and let them have at it. The built some cool things and run around playing and chasing each other in the dark. Over all it was a success. See for your self.
I tried to take as many pictures as I could. I also included the invite I made and the name tags as well as the space scramble. Feel free to use any of those.
The party didn’t cost me a lot because I did mostly everything my self. (besides the amazing cake that my husband’s co-worker made.) The decorations were simple black table cloths filled with star stickers. I also drew black alien eyes on green balloons and had star streamers hanging down everywhere.
The highlights of course were the rocket ship that I spray painted and put together and the moon as well. The boxes for the rocket I got from my old work (thanks friends) and the watermelon box I got from my husband who works in produce. So the cost for those was just the spray paint.
so all in all the party cost me about $150. That was for the glasses, the printing of the tags, spray paint, bubble wrap, food, cake, and decorations. If we adding in Wyatt’s costume (found online) that would be another $100. That thing was expensive but he used it for this and Halloween plus all the playtime in between. well worth it for me.
Happy birthday Wyatt. I hope you enjoyed your 7th birthday party.
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