This year my son had requested a Super Silly Sixth Saturday Birthday Party. My first thought was Oh My Gosh where will I find party supplies for that type of party. But the more we talked and thought about it, it was actually pretty easy and fun to do!! So if you child comes to you with a crazy request like this, here's some stuff you can do:
Invitations:
My husband put together an invitation in Microsoft Word and used lots of silly pictures that he found off the internet. Or you can get the birthday boy/girl to make silly faces and then put them on the invite.
Decorations
Tape balloons upside down from ceiling. Write Silly Stuff or draw Silly faces on them with permanent marker.
Streamers on the floor.
Go to a party supply or dollar store and let the birthday boy/girl pick mismatched party plates, napkins, ect.
When the children arrived give them sticker name tags and let them think of their own silly name or spell there names backward. Since the kids were between the ages 4 and 6 we decided to come up with our own silly names using their first and last names. For example: Freddie "Krueger" Smith or Frankiestein Thomas.
Games
Silly Outfit Contest - the silliest outfit gets a prize!!! Birthday boy or girl is the judge!!
Pass the parcel - Play a silly song and get the kids in a circle. Since it was a Super Silly Saturday Party we had them pass a silly straw and when the music stopped whoever was left holding the silly straw got to pick a wrapped present. We gathered all kinds of silly things to wear. For example, bunny ears, Tiara, green curly wig , old lady glasses, over the hill glasses, ect. I needed one extra silly thing so we took a plastic top hat and decorated it, that one actually was the biggest hit of the game. It's important to wrap them so that they couldn't see what they were picking, it would have been really silly if one of the boys would have gotten the Tiara!!
Silly Picture Time - Use Disposable Camera's pair the kids up and let them take each other's pictures. For the younger ones ask some of the parents to take pictures for you. Take group picture!
Silly String Attack - I highly recommend you only door this game OUTDOORS.
Simon Says Opposites - A game where everybody has to do opposite of what is told by the person acting out as Simple Simon.
Toothless Vegetables - Players take turns to name a fruit or vegetable without showing their teeth. No repetition allowed. Show teeth or laugh and you're out.
Food
The party was purposely schedule from 2-4 so that we didn't have to provide lunch or dinner. I just put out some snacks and let my son help me make Silly Sticks. We took pretzel rods and dipped them into melted melting wafers (most craft stores carry them) and then sprinkled an assortment of sprinkles on them (he got to pick out the colors of the wafers and the sprinkles). The kids love these and they work for just about any holiday or party!!!
Cake
We didn't want to do a traditional cake since it was a silly birthday party so we came up with making a Pizza Cookie and Giant Donut Cake. The Pizza was a huge hit both by taste and appearance. The Donut Cake looked great but didn't really like the actual cake. We bought the Donut Cake pan from Williams-sonoma and used the recipe on the back of the box. The glaze they suggest is fabulous (kind of fudge-like) so if I ever use it again I will probably just use a box cake mix. Here are some pictures of the cakes, instructions will be on a separate post - so stay tuned................
5. Now you're ready to add the toppings. For white chocolate "cheese," roughly chop or grate white chocolate.
