Indiana Jones Kids Birthday Ideas
Indiana Jones movies are packed with adventure. Incorporate an adventure into your birthday party and there will be no loss of excitement. Treasure hunts and races will keep your guests entertained and themed food from the movies will keep their bellies full. Send them home with party favors to make their own Indy adventures at home. Does this Spark an idea?
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Costumes
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Paint white hats brown for your adventure. Make or purchase brown plastic hats similar to those Indy wore in the movie. Pick up some hats of the right shape and size even if they are a different color and spray paint them brown before the party. Sew brown vests with pockets for all of your guests and fill the pockets with adventurer equipment. Request your guests to come dressed as different characters from one of the movies and then incorporate each character into your activities.
Food
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Hot dogs will be a favorite, serve sauerkraut on the side. Create an international menu based on the movies such as dates and hummus, pitas and crudités from the Middle East, samosas and curry from India, and bratwurst and sauerkraut from Germany. Create a eyeball soup out of fish balls which can be purchased at a Chinese market. Make chilled monkey brains out of raspberry sorbet and Jell-O. Serve them in a tall plastic martini glasses. Decorate your birthday cake with spiders, snakes, frosting leaves and vines and top with toys from the movie.
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Games and Entertainment
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Fill your treasure box with the guests' presents while they are busy playing races. Organize a treasure hunt around the house and at each prize point provide an obstacle course for the guests. Include stations such as an archeological dig for keys, coins or bones in a snake pit, a fill-your-Holy-Grail race, and a toilet paper mummy race. Assign a time to open the gifts. Hide the presents in a large box with a lock which opens with the key found at one of the prize points.
Party Favors
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Sew some simple satchels for each guest. Hand them out at the beginning of the party to store prizes from the treasure hunt. Fill a wooden or plastic treasure box with candy, plastic spiders, bugs, snakes, pencils, pads of paper and toy compasses. Use plastic champagne glasses as Holy Grails and fill them with candy, cover with plastic wrap and secure at the top with a rubber snake.
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