Kids love face painting, games where something is hidden and they have to find it, etc.

I have also rolled up pieces of paper with directions or puzzles and put them in balloons before you blow them up. When the kids pop them they can read the clues and it lead to a prize.

The best birthday party I ever threw was based on the book Captain UnderPants. There is a book about lunchroom ladies so I made food with disgusting names that was really all their favorite foods. We used the name generator in the book http://www.ultsoftware.com/NameGen.html and had to call eachother the name on the name tags or we had to eat something gross like worms (gummy) or maggots (rice). We made goop with cornstarch and water to carry in contests from one bucket to another. We did not have birthday cake, we had birthday sushi. I made it with gummy worms rolled up in sheets of rice krispy treats wrapped in green fruit roll ups and then sliced into the typical rolls. We let the kids play video games some because it was an overnight party with 14 boys. We also showed an older kids' movie we could pretty much bet no one had seen, the first Super Mario movie.

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