So, Eila and her cousins, Mary-Amma and Josephine, all had a Candyland themed birthday party in April. I've already blogged about the lollipop-esque invitations, so now it's time to write about all the fun and games we planned for the party. Since we invited children from ages 2 to 10, I had to plan a wide variety of activities to keep them all entertained. Of course, a Candyland party wouldn't be complete without the actual game Candyland! I purchased a number of the board games during the Christmas sale, so we had plenty to set up around the house for guests to play. There were even enough games for each child who didn't have one already to take one home! Using the game board itself as inspiration, I tried to plan games and activities that matched each of the themed lands and major characters. Here's a picture of the game room I set up with different stations. Notice how we used construction paper to replicate the path across the board game! For Jolly, the gumdrop man, I set up a guessing game. I filled a jar with gumdrops and let people guess the number inside the jar. The winner would win all the gumdrops (and a dollar that I put inside the answer envelope!). For Queen Frostine, we played an ice cream relay race. I used some drink cups we had gotten at our local Denny's restaurant as decoration and printed some stickers to match the party motif. Then, using a color-stacking ice cream cone game that my daughter and nieces had, we split the children into two teams. We lined the kids up so that the youngest on each team would go first and the oldest on each team (also the one with the highest ice cream stack) would go last. Eila had so much fun! For Mr. Mint, I created a ring toss game. I bought green wreath forms at the local dollar store and striped them like spearmint candies using white electrical tape. Then I purchased a dowel at a local hardware store. I sawed the dowel into three equal-sized pieces, spray painted the dowel white, and striped the sticks with red electrical tape to make them look like peppermint sticks. Because spring in Maine is somewhat unpredictable (yep, that's snow on the ground!), we couldn't put the sticks in the ground, so we stuck them in a planter. It didn't look the way I wanted, but it worked. When it came to Grandma Nut, things were a little harder to figure out. I went to a craft store, got some peanut-colored felt, and printed out a peanut shape from the Internet. I traced the shape on the felt, cut out six of them, and got out the sewing machine to make some peanut bean bags! Using a super cute little basket my sister had lying around, the kids had a bean bag toss (well, maybe Eila didn't quite get the hang of tossing....) Ok, so this next activity is a sure sign of my craziness. I bought a giant-sized box of Fruit Loops, dumped them out onto the dining room table, and made my husband help me sort them out by color. We had to pull out all of the broken pieces (which made for a nice big bowl of cereal at the end of this project - yum!), and sort the rings by color. The kids could then make fruit loop necklaces to eat and wear - delicious and stylish! I also ordered a few things from the Oriental Trading Company. I love them! I purchased these cute little gingerbread house boxes with sticky foam shapes so that the kids could decorate their very own candy castles, just like King Kandy's. The boxes came in handy at the end of the party, as I let all of the kids fill them up with candy before they headed home. I also ordered little gingerbread boy and girl notebooks for the kids to decorate with foam stickers. They had such a good time! I also bought a cute little Play-Doh candy jar set. I set that up on a small table with all of the shapes and a lot of fun colored Play-Doh. Often at parties, there is down time since some people finish eating before others, or sometimes kids get bored during the presents (since the presents may not be for them), so I like to have extra little games or activities for the kids to do so that they don't start hanging from the ceilings. All in all, the kids had a really good time with all of the games and activities I had planned. I only wish it had been warmer for the games we had planned outside. Stay posted for the next installations of the Candyland Party - we've still got the food and cake, giveaways, and decorations to cover!
6 Comments
10/1/2013 04:27:09 pm
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Anna-Lisa Rich
1/20/2014 12:50:53 pm
Thanks for posting all the activities you did! I can find tons of candyland parties but people just show candy buffets. I want activities to do with my little ones! I will be borrowing some of your ideas (that peppermint one is awesome!) for my daughters birthday.
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Marcy
3/6/2014 10:46:53 pm
I love all the game stations you did! You're awesome! Where did you get all the clip art and fonts? Would you be willing to share all you signs/decorations as like a word document? Thank you,,
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3/28/2015 03:17:55 pm
I purchased a number of the board games during the Christmas sale, so we had plenty to set up around the house for guests to play. There were even enough games for each child who didn't have one already to take one home!
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Amy
7/12/2016 10:32:26 am
great ideas. thank you. Cute, affordable, doable party.
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Melissa
3/23/2017 11:21:27 am
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