Bolt Birthday Party Ideas
Bolt was released in November of 2008, and it is expected to be one of the most popular movies of the year. Naturally, that means a lot of kids are going to want to integrate Bolt into their everyday lives, and one such way to do that is with a Bolt themed birthday party.
You may be getting stressed at the prospect of holding a Bolt themed birthday party, but it can be an easy task when you use these birthday party ideas and some imagination.
Design a Super Hero Animal
This is a fun activity for the kids and it helps put their imagination to work for them. All you have to do is cut out a series of animals in cardboard, ranging from horses and chickens to dogs and cats. Then, each kid can choose the animal they want (so make lots) and then they can paint and color the cutout to design the super hero animal they want. They can even name them.
A Super Hero Show
Once the super hero cut outs are designed, you can have the kids perform a quick play using the super hero animal cut outs. This is a great activity because it will now help the kids take their creativity even further by creating a super hero persona and story to go with the super hero animal that they created. It can also be highly entertaining and it is unlikely anyone won't enjoy this great activity during the Bolt birthday party.
Baking Treats
This next activity involves everyone and it can actually help make the world a better place. There are plenty of recipes on the internet for making special dog treats from scratch. Have the kids help you make a big batch, and then you can feed them to the animals in the house. Once you have done that, tell the kids that you are going to take those left-over treats to the local animal shelter so that the other animals can have a happy 'birthday' too. It is a small gesture that may have a big effect for the kids.
Bolt is going to be a hit, there is no doubt about that and you can expect that your kids will ask for a Bolt theme birthday party. With some supplies and a bit of out of the box thinking, you can make a great birthday for everyone.
Crystal McLain
http://www.articlesbase.com/parenting-articles/bolt-birthday-party-ideas-686256.html
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I need ideas for food for a Harry Potter birthday party.?
Some ideas for easy food (no drinks please) so far I have Golden snitches (chicken nuggets) lightning bolt shaped sandwiches and herbology fruit platter. Also if you have any other cool ideas for decorations ETC. that would be great too. (I am on a tight budget so anything cheap is great) And Fyi the party is for my 10 year old son. Thanks
- You can serve root beer but call it "butter beer" for the party.
- Get Harry Potter cutlery (plates, bowls, spoons, etc.) I’m sure party stores, Wal-Mart or Dollar stores would have them.
- Have party hats, but make them into witch/wizard hats with black paint/marker.
- Have loot bags with jelly beans (ie, billy botts jelly beans), pencils (ie, wands) and possibly Harry Potter bookmarks, if you are able to find them.
And most important: don’t forget to invite MEEEEEE!!!!!!
Have FUN! =)
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Magic Wands
1 (15 ounce) package pretzel rods
1 (16 ounce) container prepared vanilla frosting
1/2 cup sprinkles or colored sugar for decoration
Dip each pretzel rod into frosting, not quite half way. Roll in sprinkles to coat the frosting. Abracadabra, you have a magic wand!
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Remember to label each dish!
Bat-Wings – chicken wings in barbeque sauce.
Wizard (or "witch") Stew – You can make your kid’s favorite soup, stew or other hot dish and serve it from a cauldron or large pot! As you give out each kid’s portion, sprinkle salt and pepper over it and chant or have the kids chant a magic spell for fun! (Example: "A dash of ginger root and a bit of dried swamp flowers, keep this magical soup hot for hours!")
Professor Snape’s Pizza
Golden Snitches (chicken nuggets, or Donut Holes)
Dragon Legs (chicken drumsticks)
Fizzing Whizbees Levitating Balls (meatballs or falafel balls)
Hermione’s Magic Wands – assemble your kids’ favorite fruit on (make sure to cut off the sharp tips).
Hogwarts Celery Sticks – Take celery stalks and fill them with peanut butter (you can keep the feathery ends of the celery stalks for decoration). Then place "bugs" (raisins) all along the length of the stalk for a surprise you’d find only at Hogwarts!
Slytherin "Snack"ers – You can choose several different shapes and flavors of crackers and serve on a snack tray. Add to the tray Dudley’s Delight which is many kinds of cheese cubes with colorful toothpicks in them. Decorate with vegetables.
Hedwig’s Silly Sandwiches – everyone will love these crazy sandwiches. Just make your kid’s favorite sandwiches and cut them with all kinds of different cookie cutters.
Harry Potter Kid Party Drinks:
Spellbound Magic Drink – Your guests will be spellbound when they witness your ability to turn an ordinary beverage into an enchanted drink that crackles and spits! Pour any kind of beverage into everyone’s cup and then add a few Pop Rocks to each, it will then crackle, pop and spit. The little magicians will love it!!
Magic Potion – You’ll need one pack of (0.13 oz) unsweetened drink mix (you can chose any flavor, but try bright colors). Mix each pack of drink mix with one and a half cups of water and pour into an ice cube tray to freeze solid. On the day of the party, pour chilled lemon-lime flavored carbonated soda into clear glasses and put 1-2 flavored ice cubes in each glass. The ice cubes then dissolve and the drink will magically change color and flavor before the kids’ eyes.
Dragon Snot – add green sherbet to sprite.
Harry Potter Kid Party Treats:
Snake eyeballs (grapes)
Lizard tongues (baby carrots halved lengthwise)
Jell-O (make all kinds of colored Jell-O shapes using star and moon-shaped cookie cutters)
Chocolate Toads (melt semisweet chocolate, and with a clean paintbrush lightly paint the tops of gummy frogs with the chocolate)
Ghostly onion dip (with chips)
Eyeballs, fingers, tongues and hearts (make edible "eyeballs" by peeling radishes and leaving thin streaks of red skin on them to represent blood vessels. Then scoop out a small hole in the radish and put a green olive – pimiento side out – in each hole. You can put "eyeballs" on a serving tray and add baby carrots as goblin fingers, cucumber slices as Lizard tongue, red Jell-O squares as hearts of eels, etc. Be creative!!
Droobles Best Blowing Gum (blue gum)
Hogsmeade Chocolates (frogs, bats or rats)
Florean Fortescue’s Fruit (grapes, cantaloupe, watermelon or other fruit cut into bite-sized pieces)
Peppermint Humbugs (peppermint candies)
Harry Potter Party Favors
You can put all your kid party favors in upside-down wizard hats. Things you can put inside are: round Harry Potter glasses, magic wands, owl bean bags, Harry Potter stickers and tattoos, silly putty (that represents Dragon eggs), dragon figurines, etc.
Harry Potter Games and Activities
*Tame the Dragon: Tell all the kids to help tame Hagrid’s dragon, Norbert. Hang up a dragon pinata and then blindfold each guest and position him or her near the pinata (for older guests, spin each player three or four times before handing them a stick or other long object to hit the pinata (tame the dragon). For younger kids you can purchase a pull-string conversion kit for the pinata (sold separately). This gentler kid party pinata activity includes a trap door release and 20 pull strings.
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