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FOOD FIGHT!
Don't throw your money away on a costly birthday
party. Fight for your right to party on a budget with
this fantastic food-fight night (or day).
Here are 10 ways to fling (the fun) on a shoestring:
1. While it's advisable to host this party outside, if you choose to do it inside, choose a space that you don't mind getting messy, like your garage or basement. Cover the space with plastic so the cleanup is easy afterward.
2. When the kids arrive at the party, give them shower caps, plastic goggles and a rain poncho to wear to ensure their safety and an easy cleanup.
3. After they have their food-fight outfits on, give the kids a bag of marshmallows and slingshots so they can start the fun by slinging marshmallows at one another while they wait for everyone to arrive. Make sure the kids are supervised in the designated party area.
4. Set out the ammo for the party, aka lots of good food-fight food like spaghetti, whipped cream, mashed potatoes, chocolate pudding, Jell-O, cereal, hard-boiled eggs, popcorn, oatmeal, bananas, etc. You can make it even more interesting by putting food dye into the different foods; for example, green mashed potatoes.
5. You may want to announce a few rules to the kids before the food fight breaks out, including that they must keep their goggles on, they must stop throwing if they hear the sound of a whistle or something else you find appropriate, and that the food fight must stay within the space you have designated.
6. If there are kids who do not feel comfortable participating, let them have fun watching on the sidelines.
7. Make sure to have your video camera out to capture this fun!
8. You can also have the kids play some organized “food games,” including blindfolding the kids and having them eat donuts that have been strung on a string. First kid finished eating his donut wins. Have the kids partner up and feed each other pudding using a plastic spoon and standing five feet away from one another. Afterward, the kids can use squirt guns to clean themselves up.
9. Your party menu can be very simple, as they will be playing with the food at this party more than eating any of it! Serve ice cream and cake to top the party off.
10. Send the kids home with a splattered brown paper bag filled with good food: a piece of fruit, a veggie, a pudding pack, etc., as a reminder of their foodie fun!
Getting messy with a food-fight party is a simple way for the kids to have loads of fun (believe me, this will be a party they'll remember!) without throwing away your hard-earned dollars.
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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