DEMIGOD Party - A Socially-distanced 10th Birthday

 Another birthday in the books!  J really loves the Percy Jackson books and we've read the second series too with the Roman demigods.  The invites were based off of ones i saw online.  (Once again, we had to keep it small.  I can't wait to have full blow out parties again!)  Simple printout and glue to short pieces of dowel rod.  They were a little tricky to get in the envelopes, but we managed.

For decorations, we went simple, with white and I ordered some cardboard Roman Columns that we attached to the front of an easy up tent.

Activities included..

Getting claimed by your Godly parent.  We made necklaces with the symbol of a Greek or Roman God or Goddess and put them in seal envelopes.  Then the kids were asked to take the envelope that was calling to them.  The necklaces were also used to collect beads for each training exercise they completed.

Zeus' training - air - paper airplane designing and throwing contest.

    

Area/Mars Training - War - we designed shields.  The shields were pizza pans with metal slap bracelets riveted to them.  Then they could use markers and stick-on gems to decorate them.

Hercules Training - Strength Challenges.  Sit-ups, push-up, one-foot balancing, and then endurance balancing rocks on their outstretched arms.

For the contests, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place won pieces of armor (slap bracelets).

The food was pre-bagged chips, fruit snacks, and apple slices.

J doesn't like cake, so we had pudding cups.  

All in all, a decent time.  1.5 hours, done!

ART PARTY! - A Socially-Distanced 7th Birthday

This year is definitely different!  To begin with, we usually invite the entire class and entire scout groups....however, in light of being spaced out and more cautious, we had to tone it down this year....well, as much as this pinterest-mommy's heart could stand!  My daughter reached level 7!!  She chose an art party for this year.  Here below is what we did....

The invites.....i only let her invite a small handful of people.  Mostly, family and neighbors.

The set-up...we setup easy-up tents in the driveway with tables.  No one had to walk into the house at all!  And I used some plastic tablecloths to create walls and add color instead of messing with streamers.

  

For activities, we planned for tie-dye, rock painting, and decorating small wooden treasure boxes.  To prep for the party and minimize a lot of touching, i pre-packaged all the supplies each kid would need.  I got each kid an apron (set of 24 from amazon), a shirt, a little box, a paint brush, a bag with gloves and rubber bands, a bag with stick-on jewels, and (because i was at Walmart and they were calling to me) an individual pack of hand wipes.

 

As each kid arrived, they got to pick a supply kit and a gift bag.  The gift bag was to put their crafts in when they were done.  the pic above also shows the fast food boats (we used to have a food truck, so we have a lot of these leftover!) and the pre-painted rocks we prepared.  

Here is the my daughter working on her tie dye and her rocks.  For the tie dye, i limited the possible designs to just a fan fold or bullseye and we used squirt bottles, 1 at a time, to apply color.  For the rocks, i have little paint palettes and each kid got to pick 3 colors.  For some reason, I did not get a picture of her decorating her treasure box, but if they wanted to paint them, they used the same 3 colors they already had and then they had the adhesive jewels.

Once the 3 craft were done, we handed out snacks.  I let E choose crackers, gummy snacks, and a healthy thing (she went with apples).  Then we had hugs and water.  We prepacked snack bags and handed them out while E opened her gifts.

  

And finally, cake and ice-cream.  I let E choose a snack cake and the individual ice cream cups.  

So, there you have it.  A socially distanced (mostly), masked, clean-ish 7th birthday!