(Ant)Arctic Party Planning: Pt 2

Besides Polar Bear Bowling, Snowball Fight and a water table we had a few more activities at the party.

To start, we decorated our own (Ant)Arctic scenes. Husband printed out an iceberg/water scene. I put out crayons and stickers and let them go to town. C is not usually crafty but loves stickers. And awesome cold weather animal stickers are right up his alley. He had a lot of fun with this actually and it was a great way to keep everyone occupied as others arrived.

I already told you a little about the penguin pinata here. But I did, in fact, plan a pinata. I read on some website about how to have a less chaotic pinata experience by bagging the items individually and every kid takes a bag. While critics of this method think it ruins the fun and promotes the "life is fair" mentality that is ruining our children, it worked for us. Not only was this 4/5 kid's first pinata ever but I was planning on it being an inside activity. *It DID rain on his birthday as I knew it would, but it was earlier in the day and we did wind up going out to the patio*

A little order at the expense of possibly ruining the kids forever was worth it to me. Inside each bag was a bag of fruit snacks, a box of yogurt raisins and a penguin rubber ducky. C's current favorite movie is Cars so we payed a little homage to that. As it happens, they were all terrible at hitting the pinata hard enough to damage it. Baseball players they probably aren't. So Husband eventually broke it in a way where we can fix it up and C is quite happy about that.

The other game I am pretty proud of is our feed the walrus game. This is the one area we went a little overboard with cost wise, but I am totally okay with it because we had the capabilities of going overboard. Husband designed the walrus and one of the companies that he uses for large-format printing at work printed it out on coroplast. (Plastic cardboard just like the stuff political signs are made of.) They even laser cut out around the shape of the walrus and the mouth. It is so great.

I found fish shaped bean bags on Etsy and these little buckets in the Target $1 section. Which pretty much just made the whole thing even better than I could have imagined.

So that concludes the overview of our party activities. If I haven't lost you completely I have one more post tomorrow about the awesome and inexpensive goody bags we had.