Party Themes - frugal ideas
Barn yard party theme
Hide pennies in a hay pile to find.
Carry a egg on a spoon game.
Pin the tail on the donkey game.
Use red bandannas on the table as place matts.
Purchase straw hats and bandannas at Dollar stores.
Put girls hair in ponytails or piggy tails.
Paint freckles on kids faces.
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Pirate Party Theme
Let each child make a paper pirate hats out of newspaper. If you don’t know how go to www.ehow.com/how_4540334_make-pirate-hat.html
Long Balloons can become pirate swords, let them use markers to make designs on theirs sword.
A porch or deck can be called the ship. A trash can lid tacked to the railing can be the ships wheel.
Use an old white sheet that the kids can use markers on to make a large pirates flag to hang off the porch rail. Or hang over a cloths line.
Do name tags and let each child think of their own pirate name.
Look up some pirate words and definitions to tech them to use. Like ship ahoy!
Have a treasure hunt game.
Face paint can be used to make pirate tattoos. (Or stickers)______________________________________________________
Good Old Games
Hide and Seek out doors. Indoors they can take turns hiding an object for everyone to find.
A Treasure Hunt - make a list of clues to hide to find the treasure.
Freeze Tag- One person is picked and they chase everyone around and if they touch you then you have to freeze. Last person to get touched wins or it’s their turn to chase the others.
What am I- Put names of animals in a hat and each child acts out the animal they draw out of the hat, and the other children have to guess what animal they are.
Do what I do- pick a leader and what ever the leader does the other children have to do, like march in place or jump on one foot, est.
Simon Says- One child is picked to be Simon, if they start a sentence with Simon says to jump, everyone has to jump. If they just say Jump without saying Simon says and someone jumps there out.
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*Kids Pizza Party
An easy Cookie Pizza the kids can all help make.
Crust:
1- 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
2/3 cup choc.chips
Directions: 1. In a medium bowl, mix together the flour,baking powder,
baking soda, and salt until well dispersed.
2. Cream both the sugars and butter together. Add the egg
and beat until light and creamy. Add the extract.
3. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed ingredients,
mixing well, then add the chocolate chips and mix again.
4. Press the cookie dough into a 10-inch pizza pan.
5. Bake the crust at 350 for 12 to 15 minutes or until it just
starts to brown.
6. Remove the pan from the oven and let cool.
Pizza Sauce Spread (use one or all of these)
1- 4 ounce individual serving chocolate pudding
1/3-cup peanut butter
1/3- cup vanilla yogurt
toppings as desired
Directions:
1. In a medium bowl, mix the pudding, peanut butter,
and vanilla yogurt together.Spread the Sauce on the
cooled crust.
2. Place whatever toppings you desire on the top of
spread sauce.
(*See Topping ideas below.)
3. Cut into wedges and serve.
Topping ideas:
Whipped cream
Chocolate whipped cream
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup toffee chips
M & M candies
Maraschino cherries
Gummy Bears
Gumdrops
Miniature marshmallows
Chopped peanuts
Chocolate syrup
Sliced bananas or other fruit
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Party Snack Food Idea’s
Make Peanut and Jelly sandwiches and cut and quarter them, stack them on a platter.
Mix different Kool-Aid’s together and add fresh fruit, and give it a special name to go along with the party theme.
Make homemade dips and cut up fresh veggies and fruit. Kids love to eat anything they can dip.
Cook hotdogs then slice them and stick a toothpick in each slice, have catsup & Mustard for dip.
Don’t forget good old Marshmallows. If you can’t build a fire then use your charcoal grill for the kids to brown the marshmallows over. In door parties without a fire can be marshmallows on a short stick to dip in heated chocolate or heated jam. (Like strawberry jam)
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