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A BANANA SPLIT FAREWELL TO SUMMER
Labor Day is almost here, and the kids are ready to head back
to school. Give the season a proper send-off by celebrating it
with your kids and their friends—and some delicious banana splits.
This good old-fashioned treat makes for a tasty and fun end-of-summer party.
The Invitations
Make invitations using bright yellow construction paper cut into the shape of bananas. Write all the party details on one side and draw brown spots on the other. Alternatively, hand-deliver real bananas with tags tied to them that include all the party details. In the invitation, ask the guests to bring their own favorite ingredient for making banana splits or have them bring a banana that they dress up in some way, like with a hat on it for some extra-silly fun.
The Decorations
Decorate the party area with yellow and brown balloons, streamers and party ware. Have a large piece of butcher paper lying flat on a table. The kids can draw a huge banana split together and hang it in the party area.
The Activities
Have your guests make the banana splits on the party table. Set out all the toppings as well as spoons, bowls, etc. You may want to pull the chairs away from the table while the kids are making their sundaes.
The main activity of the party will be making banana splits. Have the kids make their own splits using the ingredients that you have laid out and the special ingredient they brought. Then hold a tasting competition, where everyone gets to taste everyone else’s and wins prizes.
If you have had the kids bring a banana that is dressed up, have a competition to see whose is most creative, the funniest, etc. Hand out banana candies as prizes and make sure everyone wins.
Play a game of Pass the Banana.
Have a series of relay races with bananas. Divide the kids into two teams and place a bowl of bananas at the opposite end of where the kids race from. When a kid runs down, he or she must peel a banana, eat it, place the peel on his or her head and race back to the team. The first team done wins!
For another relay race, have the kids peel a banana at the start, race down to the other end and make a mini banana split, eat it and race back. The next kid must do the same. The first team done wins!
For a favor, the kids can exchange the toppings that they brought. Combine them in plastic Tupperware containers so the kids can try them on the banana splits they make at home!
Lisa Kothari is the founder and president of Peppers and Pollywogs (www.peppersandpollywogs.com), a kids’ party-planning company that provides parents with ideas, entertainers and interesting web-based tools (customized rhymes and cards for your invitations!) to make kids’ party planning easy. She has recently written and published Dear Peppers and Pollywogs… What Parents Want to Know About Planning Their Kids’ Parties, which is available at www.amazon.com and www.peppersandpollywogs.com. |
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