Things You'll Need:
- Imagination
- toy snakes and rats
- Halloween decor such as skeletons, cob webs, and spooky fabric
- treasure
- a huge beach ball
- grey spray paint
- straws and q-tips
- Indiana Jones party favors
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Step 1
Set the party date and the length of the party and get out invitations.
It could be as easy as an evite with an Indiana Jones picture attached or you could get more creative.
Scan an old map into the computer and letter your invitation on top of the map, print on card stock and (safely) burn the edges so it looks worn. -
Step 2
Plan games and activities.
*As guests arrive plan a table activity that can keep kids busy while they are waiting for the main event such as building balsa wood airplanes and decorating them with markers or working in Indiana Jones activity books
An Indiana Jones party lends itself to a scavenger hunt.
Gather some items that look like treasure and send your guests on a search for the Holy Grail, the Arc of the Covenant, or any other important historical artifacts. Put the activities into the most logical order for you. Make up clue's that lead them from one activity to the next
*It's always fun to have some one dress as Indy if you have a willing victim.
*Plan to have a giant boulder come at them at one point. Use a giant beach ball, from Oriental Trading, painted grey and brown
*Line up parents with straws and Qtips to serve as blow darts from angry natives
*A snake pit--fill a kiddie pool or the floor of a room with toy snakes and rats, make them search for a valuable magic amulet (costume jewelry)
*The Grail room-- in one area have a selection of fancy cups and glasses on a tall decorated table, fill all of them but one with confetti and make them pick which one is the true grail
*Con your husband or a kind neighbor dad into acting as a mummy, put them in a spooky area covered with cob webs, make them wake him and answer questions to retrieve the "Mummies Heart" (a fake rubber heart, or even something pulled from the valentine's day box.)
*If you have a play structure tie a rope to it and place toy alligators under the rope and make them swing over the pit.
*The final clue can lead them to the temple (the garage in disguise) where they find a piñata and goody bags -
Step 3
Plan Decorations.
Use several rooms in your home or different areas in your yard to create scenarios for the scavenger hunt. You can use roles of bamboo fence, luau decor, plastic skeletons and Halloween decor to create atmosphere and turn your house into a temple
*turn your garage into the main chamber, gold Dollar Store table cloths hung from the ceiling can do a great deal to create atmosphere and hide the weed wacker -
Step 4
Favors and food
*Make a basic sheet cake and decorate with icing leaves and vines, add action figures or if you are not a cake decorator most grocery stores carry an Indiana Jones cake
*You can build a great crystal skull piñata, follow the link below
*Buy theme plates and favor's,
*make satchel's as goody bags, use faux suede and put together a very simple two sided bag that can be worn across the body.
*The Dollar Store has fedora's that look like Indy's hat or buy the paper ones at the party supply
*Snakes ... why is it always snakes
*Label your party snacks---Worms(gummy worms) Beetles legs (pretzel sticks) Butterfly wings(potato chips) Jungle Juice (no not the jungle juice you drank in college, green koolaid) and sitting next to that ... Ante dote (M&Ms) -
Step 5
Create Atmosphere
*hang differnt shades of green streamers randomly from the ceiling and across furniture to simulate an overgrown jungle look, twist them to look like vines
*Dim the lights, pull out the flickering candle decorations from your Christmas box
*You can get the sound tracks to all the movies on itunes, keep it playing in the back ground
*Don't forget the cob webs and skeletons as many as you can pull from Halloween storage
*Place boxes and wine crates with "Property of the Natural History Museum" or "Property of Indiana Jones" signs on them and baskets filled with treasure around for atmosphere
