A Golden Birthday Party Planning

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Keep this simple by just sending out invites that say “Stay Golden”, or fill the envelope with golden stars or confetti - although that is not always a popular choice.

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I have to admit, we went a little cray-cray on the Amazon orders!  Oriental Trading has an unbelievable storehouse of exciting supplies as well. From mylar curtains (always a hit with the 10 and under set), to paper fans, orbs, and swirls.  There are buntings, banners, and all types of stars.  There are numbers, tablecloths, paper goods, and the above mentioned confetti. Basically there is anything imaginable.  To ensure that our decor didn’t become too flashy, we added turquoise and white as accent colors.  My advice, set a budget and go to town online.  You’d be amazed how much you can get for $50.00.

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NAME TAGS - We had about 40 kids. To ensure we could remember everyone’s name, we made big themed “star catcher” name tags.  The idea here was for each guest to circulate through the series of activities collecting golden stars for each one.  They were encouraged to do all the activities. However, if they found an activity they loved (with the exception of the candy necklaces) they were allowed to do that activity over and over, and receive a star each time.  

GOLDEN PHOTO OP - A gold sequin backdrop, gold props and costume pieces, .   We printed the photos on the spot and let the kids decorate the frames with golden washi tapes.

DIGGING FOR GOLD  - A huge hit with all of our guests.  Guests took turns in our mini sandbox digging up pieces of fool’s gold, golden rocks (little pebbles sprayed with gold paint), blue crystals, tiny diamonds, gold coins and gold rings. 

GOLDEN OBSTACLE COURSE - We wanted to make sure that we had something for our more active guests, so we designed a “gold” obstacle course.  Guests had to feed the golden idol with nerf gun bullets, make a golden basket free throw, use a mechanical claw hand to transfer pieces of gold into a treasure chest, and shoot the golden sun with a nerf bow.

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SILENCE IS GOLDEN -  Everyone sits stoically in a circle, while one person tries to make others smile or laugh.

WHO’S GOT THE GOLD - players in the circle place their hands behind their back as quickly as possible.  The blindfolded player removes the blindfold and then has 3 guesses to locate the hidden gold.

PANNING FOR GOLD - Two or more players are handed hula hoops (the pans), they are the gold seekers.  Each gold seeker designates his own “camp” on the outer edges of the playing field.  All other players are the gold.  The gold runs around trying to avoid being caught in the pans (a gold seeker tosses or places a hula hoop over their heads to catch them).  If they are caught they go stand in the gold seekers camp.  Play continues until there is no more gold to be captured.  The seeker with the most gold in his camp wins.  Another variation is for the leader to yell out “landslide” - at which point, anyone standing in a camp is freed.

 

Make 'em Laugh!

Trying not to laugh when your friends are acting wild and crazy might be the hardest task in the world! There are many variations of this popular game, but the principle is the same - everyone tries as hard as possible to be serious while one person tries as hard as possible to make everyone laugh!

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GOLDEN CANDY LEIS - Everyone loves a candy bar, but sometimes kids can go a little crazy. To keep our guests from becoming too sugared up, we decided to make Candy Leis.  We allowed each guest to choose 8 candies plus a lollipop.  The guests then created necklaces with the candy. We did allow “sampling” along the way.

GOLDEN MASTERPIECES - We bought tiny 5x7 canvases and allowed kids to paint.  Once the pictures were dry we placed them in golden frames from Dollar Tree.

GO FOR THE GOLD JEWELRY  - We put out an assortment of gold, white, turquoise and sports themed beads (so our boys and sporty girls were represented) and let the guests make everything from keychains to bracelets.

GOLD CONFETTI CANNONS - This was one of my favorite projects - and became one of the most magical moments of the party. Guests made their own poppers which we used during the Happy Birthday Song.

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We had fun with the food.  Instead of trying for food that was actually gold, we went for things with gold in the name: “gold”fish crackers, rold “gold” pretzels, “golden” raisins, crispy “golden” tater tots, 24 “carrot” gold (carrots), Gold Medal Apple Juice, and golden weiner wraps.