Ideas for 7 yr old's Birthday Party at Home?

[ChrisMariner]

What to do with a bunch of 7 Year Old BOYS at a home birthday party????

I'm looking at hosting a birthday party for my son (turning 7) and a number of friends, boys and girls, aged 4 through 7. He wants a home party.

Does anyone have any good ideas on things to do with these kids?????

[lindaM]

ds turned 7 last yer we did a pirate party at home. We did a treasure hunt where they had to find 3 clues then on the last clue they found a box filled with chocolate coins. (wrapped in bunches enough for each kid). We played hot potato with a treasure chest. A pinata. And I then I just put music on and let them dance and play on the swing set. It was July so that was easy for me to do. Not sure when your party is.

[Diane]

Just a few idea's... I hope your son's birthday party is successful!!! Have fun!

Diane... :wave:
Military Party

Invitations:
Outside:
~Attention Troops!!
We are on a mission to celebrate "name" birthday
Inside:
Date:
Base: Use your last name i.e.: Boardman Army Base
Time: use 24 hour clock
RSVP: Base Commanding Officer
Wear your camouflage clothes and be prepared for troop training.
Decorations:
Green, black, and tan balloons and streamers. Hit the surplus stores or your garage for netting, tarps, ammo boxes and other interesting things. Cover the table with a canvas tarp. Serve the cake on tin plates. Serve other foods out of helmets and drinks from an aluminum coffee pot. If you have one, use an old canvas tent or a canvas tarp to shade the food area. Use canvas cots for seating.
Cake:
Can't See Me Cake: Sheet cake decorated in camouflage. Use splashes of dark green, tan and black.
OR
Decorate a sheet cake with a terrain type look. Add Army men or other troops.
Goodie Bags:
To hold the goodies use camouflage bandanas, green bags or plastic helmets. Put in Army men, compass, toy binoculars, canteen, paper airplanes, dog tags (make with string or yarn and tag board covered with foil, add their names with permanent marker). If not too much, you could even purchase olive colored shirts.
Games and Activities:
For the games have this be like a training course. With each activity the kids gain points and rank. They will all start out as privates.
Rope climb: From a tree or swing set. Time the kids going up.
Tug of War: Make two teams, kids will get the same amount of points for the winning team.
Pack up relay: Find or borrow full size backpacks and things that would go inside (canteens, compass, pack of food, plate, etc). You will need one pack per team and one item per person. Have the teams line up with their pack. The first person must run to the pile of item #1, with the pack on, put it into the pack, put the pack back on and run back to their team...continue through teammates.
Agility Course: Set up a small course. Plank to walk/run across. Tires or inner-tubes (could also use pool type ones) to step / run through. 5 gallon buckets with poles taped across to crawl under. Thing to climb or jump over. Time each child. Could even do this with the pack on for the older kids.
Army Men Hunt: Hide plastic Army men outside and let the kids find them. Can score by how many they get.
Other Ideas:
Arm Wrestling Competition
Water Fight to cool off - Use the grenade water balloons. Put up barricades for the kids to hide behind.

Alien / Space Party
MIB (Men in Black)
Star Trek
Invitation:
Front:
Celebrate "name" Space Odyssey Birthday
OR
MIB Your Presence is Requested
Inside:
For a birthday party!
Zoom on over to: address
Touchdown time and day:
Call the Mother Ship to RSVP
Decorations:
Colors-Green, silver and black. Balloons and streamers.
Flying space ships: use 2 aluminum pie plates, one inverted on top of the other. Before sealing together pass a thread or fishing line though the bottom of one and tie or tape. Suspend from ceiling at different heights.
Planets: Tape blown balloons to ceiling with ribbon hanging down. Tape on paper planets at different heights.
Cake:
Bake cake in an oven proof bowl. Invert cake and frost with gray frosting. Decorate to make it look like a space ship...use candies, frosting and other embellishments. Sparkler candles make a great enhancement!
Goodie Bags:
Fill with geodes, glow in the dark stars, alien items, astronaut ice cream, MIB or Star Trek items and space pops. Have for each kid an ID badge with their Agent Letter on the front put their fingerprint on the inside. Provide stats also on the inside "home planet, sector, special skills" Fill bags with tinsel for effect.
Games and Activities:
Alien World:
Fill up a room with blown up balloons (like a ball pit). Let the kids play in this (not for toddlers).
Robot Arm:
Need: Teams of two. One is the Operator and the other the robot. Bandana or something to cover the robots eyes. One or more items to retrieve. Timer
Set the objects in different areas at waist level. Let the robot see at this point. From a starting point, cover the robots eyes. Make sure they cannot see, could even cover their whole head with a brown paper bag-over the bandana.
At "GO" the operator must give the robot commands from a stationary position. i.e.: forward, left, right, arm out, down, pick-up etc. These commands should get the robot to the item(s). The operator must then give commands to have the robot return. Time each team. The winning team is the one with the lowest time.
FOR YOUNGER PLAYERS: Have the robot sit and use only an arm. Cover their eyes and place the objects around them. The operator then gives the commands for the robots arm.
Phone Home:
Give them a mission to build a radio tower
Need: Blocks or other materials that can be stacked. Could also be an assortment of items.
Teams of two or more
On "Go" let the teams begin building for a set period of time. The team with the highest tower built with out tumbling wins. The towers must be free-standing.
Alien Planet Exploration:
Hide different objects or space rocks (rocks wrapped in foil) in a set aside area. Other items that could be hidden are: Plastic Easter eggs with items inside, unusual plastic animals or alien figures, and candies. If you set up the balloon pit/room...hide them in that.
Make Aliens:
Need: Toilet paper tubes, yarn, eyes, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, glue, tape, etc.
Let the kids use their own creativity to create alien beings.
Make spaceships:
Use overturned paper plate and and overturned paper bowl glued on the top (colored plates work great). Let the kids decorate with glue, construction paper, glitter, pipe cleaners, crayons and pens. Give prizes for the most alien and imaginative.
Space Race:
Let the kids fly their new craft. Give a prize to the one that fly's the farthest.
Pin the Planet on the Solar System
or Alien Space Invasion with small spaceship shapes. The object is to land on earth or closest one wins-all done blindfolded of
course!
Hot "alien" (similar to hot potato)
Milky Way Mash:
The kids all sit in chairs in a circle and are given one of 3 planet names. One child stands in the center of the ring and calls out one of the planet names, all the kids with that planet then have to scramble to another seat and the person in the middle tries to get one of the vacated chairs. If the kid in the middle wants to really make things fun....S/he shouts Milky Way and ALL the kids have to scramble to a new chair.
Alien BINGO:
ALIEN across the top. Can use a dry erase board to write down the numbers as they are called. Can be a challenge for the Bingo caller.
MIB Relay:
Relay race to see which team can dress in MIB clothes the fastest. Use 2 black suits, old shoes, white shirts, and ties from thrift stores. Have each child race to the pile of clothes, put them on (over their own) put on sunglasses and have their picture taken (for ID badge) then raced to the next person in line.
Play a game of squirt gun tag. Divide the kids into 2 groups- aliens and agents (agents wore their sunglasses). If an alien was squirted he was out. After all aliens were "captured," switch roles.
Give each agent a clue- written in alien code. Using a key, have them decoded the clue to find the hiding place of an alien ( a plastic toy hidden in the backyard).
Musical meteors/meteorites-- make shapes out of poster
board and nailed into grass (minus one the amount of kids) played music and when music stops must be on a meteorite shape!
Mission to the space station. Ideas from Valerie Wood
Recruit older kids as "Captain" and "Commander," with the
partygoers as "Ensign." The birthday boy, will be the "Cadet." His promotion is part of the activity.

Space Suits: Give each a paper bag, slit up the back with head and
arm holes cut out. They decorated their "space suits."
Space training: "Captain May I?," Trying to take a bite from doughnuts tied with yarn to a tree, Smashing a rocket piñata.
Space mission: Inside if you have stairs. Line up at the stairs. One at a time, allow to run up the stairs to "blast off." A helper upstairs meets them with a glow in the dark stick . Now the astronauts can "space walk" with their glow stick in a room lit only by a blue light bulb.
Space station: Where you have the cake, "space sludge" to drink (an ice cream soda), promote the birthday boy to ensign, and play
"I'm going to space and I'm taking..."
Splash Down: Run down the stairs and take one bounce on
a mini trampoline.
Awards ceremony: Each receive a handshake and a souvenir medal.
Jar Jar says
Find Princess Leah
Search for Darth Mauls treasures

[Diane]

Camp Out Jamboree

Invitations:
Outside~
Come Join "name" under the stars for a Camp Out Jamboree!
Inside~
We'll be celebrating "name" '8th' Birthday!
"Last Name" Camp Ground: address
Date:
Time:
RSVP:

Bring: Your sleeping bag, pillow, ghost stories, ...
decorations & Set up:
Outside set up a tent(s)
Camp fire or low grill
Camp chairs or beach chairs
Cake and Food:
Group mix, chips, a big cooler full of lemonade or other drink. Hot dogs, hamburgers, pot of beans, and for a late snack...smores and roasted marshmallows.
Cake: Person in a sleeping bag~ Use a rectangular cake pan. From the cake cut off 1 11/2" from one long edge. Use this piece to form a head at one end. Frost the bag (the main piece) with a blue using a darker blue for the sewn channels. Along the bottom and one edge use white or gray for the zipper. Frost the head, flesh color and use a frosting tool/applicator to make hair. Add touches for eyes etc.
OR
Use a rectangular cake, frost green and add Oreo 'dirt.' Add frosting sleeping bags/heads around a pretzel campfire. Find plastic trees for decoration.
Goodie Bags:
Mini toy binoculars, whistles, mini compasses, bag of gorp.
Games and Activities:
Daylight~
Nature Scavenger Hunt:
Make a list of natural things that you can find around the 'camp site' and make a list for each individual or team. See how many they can find.
Freaky Nature Hunt:
Doctor up different plants, trees, make your own freaks of nature. i.e.: An orange growing on a oak, flowers out of tree trunks, etc. Keep a list and see who can find them all within a time limit.
Frisbee Golf:
Need aluminum pie plates, string, one Frisbee per player.
Hang pie plates around the area, on tree limbs at different heights OR if there are no trees, set them on the ground.
To Play~ Starting at a designated area 'tee.' Throw the Frisbee toward the pie plate. If the Frisbee does not hit the plate, this is were they throw from next. Keep a record of how many tries it takes per player to hit each 'hole.'
Lion Hunt:
Select one child to the the lion. They get to go out and hide using a baggie full of bean, rice, etc to lay their trail (every 6-10 feet) and six tennis balls or bean bags. Give the lion time to set up their hiding spot, then let the Patrol go after him. Following his marks and armed with one tennis ball or bean bag each.
The lion may stay hidden or creep upon the hunting party, run etc, but were ever he goes, he must leave his droppings behind.
When the hunting party comes near his lair, the lion fires at them with his tennis balls. The moment a hunter is hit he is dead and cannot throw his tennis ball. If the lion gets hit by a hunter's tennis ball he is wounded. If he gets wounded three times he is killed.
Rules:
Tennis balls may be fired only once; they cannot be picked up and fired again.
Night-time~
Monkey See, Monkey Do: (Play around a campfire)
Select one person to be 'it' and give them a flash light and have them leave the area.
Select another person to be the monkey and have 'it' come back. The monkey then begins to make faces and actions which the other players copy. 'It' must try to figure out who the monkey is.
Flashlight Tag or flashlight freeze tag.
Going on a Camping Trip:
Have everyone in a circle. First person begins with "I'm going on a camping trip and I'm going to bring (something that starts with the letter a), next b, c, etc. With everyone repeating what was said before them

Firefighter Party
Invitations:
Sound the Alarm!!!
It's time for _____ birthday party
Decorations: Red and White
Cake: Decorate with Dalmatian candles. OR
9x13 - frosted white. Making a "burning" building from graham crackers. Have the candles poke out of the building for effect and surrounding it with Hot Wheels fire trucks and action figures.
for food, serve in plastic fire hats.
OR serve white cupcakes and let the kids put on Dalmatian spots.
Goodie Bag Favors: Dalmatian pencils, inexpensive fireman hats (write the kids names on them with a white marker), Red Hots, a Hot Wheels fire truck, Dalmatian stickers, a Dalmatian balloon and a siren whistle.
Do you sew? Make simple fireman coats for each one out of black flannel, stick-on Velcro and yellow reflective tape.
Activities:
Visit a fire station or Invite a local firefighter to the party.
Fire Fighter Relay: Kids must put on large rubber boots, fireman's hat and a rain coat, walk/run through obstacles (walk a plank, step through inner tubes, and other objects) rescue a teddy bear or toy cat from a small 'tree' then run back to their team so the next in line can go.
Put the fire out: Have small squirt guns for each of them. Set up targets that they can squirt to "put out the fire" or chalk a fire on a sidewalk/driveway and let they erase it with the squirt guns.
Bingo Make Bingo boards with just four squares across and down. Draw illustrations of different firefighter gear - fire hat, hose, truck, coat.
Make fire trucks from boxes-see the race car party on my page.
Firetruck, Firetruck, Dalmatian - like duck, duck, goose (or young kids can say.. truck, truck, dog)
Hot Dalmatian or truck- Using a stuffed Dalmatian or a firetruck toy, play like hot potato.

Peter Pan Party

Invitation:
Come to Never Land and Celebrate a Birthday for ---
Inside:
Enchantment Day:
Straight on 'till morning (plus a few hours): time
Second Star to the right: At (address)
could even suggest they come dressed as their favorite Peter Pan character

Decorations:
Stars and star garland on the table.
Sprinkle shiny confetti on the table, pixie dust
Balloons hanging from ceiling (if inside) tape onto ribbon- stars, cutout of Peter, the Darling Children and Tinkerbell. Use tape to hold balloons to ceiling.

Cake:
Maybe a sheet cake cut into an island shape. Frost with green top and blue sides. Place Swedish fish around edge or mermaids if you could find some. Place an volcano (edible or plastic on top) with palms.
Jolly Roger cake: Bake two round nine inch cakes, the bottom half will be used for the ocean, color some white icing, the second layer cut in half and sandwiched together with chocolate icing. Then cut the bottom half of the sandwiched cake, so that it can sit flat on the ocean (icing), this becomes a boat, the Jolly Roger. Use some remaining white icing for the deck of the boat. Skewers and construction paper make sails for the boat. Place sword toothpicks on the deck of the boat, and thread some yarn through the toothpicks for the railing. Finally, write Jolly roger on the boat, make some windows and an anchor. For the plank I a piece of graham cracker and hold in place with some wooden toothpicks. ...idea by Undine

Goodie Bags:
I always use lunch bags, usually the brown kind. If you fringe the top of them all away around (about a 2 1/2-3" cut) you can fill them then tie them off with ribbon or star garland. Decorate with stickers.

Games and Activities:
Make Shadows:
Have the kids lie down on butcher paper and trace them. Cut out the bodies and let them decorate them with crayons or markers.

Hide from the Pirates:
Outside, use chalk to draw circles one less then number of kids. They can be in random areas. Outside this area have the kids stand, give them a direction and a method to move (hop, run, walk, fly like Tinkerbell, walk like the Indian's or pirates) After a bit call out - "hide from the Pirates" and they all must scramble to find a "hole." The one who does not make it stands in a "hole" for the next go round. Continue...the last one to get a "hole" wins the game.

Tagged by Captain Hook
Stand the "Lost Boys" (all the kids) against a wall except one who is chosen to be Captain Hook. A signal is given and players must change ends, with Captain Hook trying to tag as many as possible. Those tagged become Hooks pirates and as such may help Hook with his hunting but only Hook can do the tagging. The pirates can catch and hang on to the Lost Boys until Hook can tag him. One pirate to hold one Lost Boy at a time.

Who's Shadow:
Hang a sheet, form teams. Take one team at a time behind the sheet with a flashlight or other light. Have the kids walk by, close up to the sheet. The team on the other side must guess the shadow of the person walking by.

Sleeping Pirate
Need: blocks of wood, can paint them to look like treasure chests
Blindfolded one child, they become the sleeping pirate and sit on a chair in the middle of the room with "treasure" (blocks of wood) which he is defending, at his feet. The other kids -lost boys, line up at one end of the room. On signal, "GO", they must stalk in an attempt to pick up treasure without being caught. The sleeping pirate catches those who have made noise by pointing at them. A child pointed to must retire and start from beginning. Two try's for each player. Only one block can be captured at a time.
Variations: Form teams...the team with the most "treasure wins."
Single players...let them try to reach a goodie bag instead of the blocks. (only one though).

[Jennifer]

wow thats only just a few ideas ??

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