Cameron's Birthday Party

Cameron's birthday party went really good. There were 16 kids....15 boys one girl! The theme was Cameron's Birthday Adventure (Magic Tree House). Dustin and my Dad turned the back porch into an enclosed tree house. I had borrowed a strobe light from a coworker and had planned for the kids to enter the tree house and read them the beginning part of the magic tree house books where the wind began to blow (we would turn on a fan) and the tree house began to spin...faster and faster (strobe lights) and then all was still...turned everything off. We did this for each new place we would go to. The first time we landed back in ancient Egypt and i had the kids first wrap one of their team mates in toilet paper to make them into a mummy. Then they had to race around the yard where we had buckets layed out of sand and dig throught the pyramids to find puzzle pieces. As soon as their team put the puzzle together I handed the a scroll which had hieroglyphics on it and they had to use their notebooks to decode the message. Once all three teams had decoded their messages they had to act out what it said in order to break the mummy curse (hop on one foot, spin around, and yell birthday). We then did the tree house thing again this time landing us in Greece and we set up the Olympics....relay races each child recieved a medal and we went back into the tree house and came out for an erupting cake and present opening. I had made the cake into a volcano and with a little dry ice it erupted with red lava and steam....the kids really liked this and then the left over dry ice was put into the punch to bubble. We were running out of time and so we quickly had the kids go on the treasure hunt which ended with a treasure box and a pirate pinata. By this time all the parents were there ready to pick the kids up and so the jurassic period had to be skipped (I had 50 balloons blown up with dinosaur stickers inside....kids were suppose to pop the "eggs" to find the t-rex babies. I ended up letting Cam, Dyl, and Ethan just go out and pop them all!) Good birthday...little hectic but it was well worth it to see how much it meant to Cam.

Digging into the pinata!

Racing around to find clues to the buried treasure.

Volcano cake.

Bat spinning relay race.

Gathering up all the kids.

Creating a mummy!

My dad had helped Dylan turn Ethan into a mummy too!

Ethan after popping all the balloons....he found every inch of his body to place a sticker on!