We have a Batman birthday party coming up. True to form, I am waiting until the last minute to prepare for it. I made these out of card stock and used a silver pen to write the details of the party; "The Joker escaped from Gotham City Jail...Batman needs your help." "Please R.S.V.P. to the Bat phone." I amuse myself this way.
I do need your help with ideas for games. I want to use the villains from Batman as the theme. I was going to freeze Batman & Robin and have the kids use squirt guns to unfreeze them...because evil Mr. Freeze put them in the freeze chamber. Ideas? Thank you.
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My favorite villain was The Riddler. You could do some sort of treasure hunt/mystery game and leave clues that each begin with "Riddle me this..." and each one leads to the next clue.
Also, a call on the Bat Phone from Commissioner Gordon is a must :)
Posted by: charlene prince birkeland/crazedparent | July 02, 2009 at 12:02 AM
I had a superhero party for my three-year old and had a fun game. I found old comic book pictures online, printed them onto iron-on paper & transferred them onto fabric. Then I sewed them into little beanbags. Then I printed pics of villains onto card stock & glued them into shoe boxes. Then each box got stapled onto a board. The kids had to throw each hero beanbag at the coordinating villain. You could just do a bunch of different Batman villains (Joker, Riddler, Penguin etc) and the beanbags could be different pics of Batman. Is this making any sense? The link to the party is here: http://dashislittle.blogspot.com/2009/01/calling-all-superheroes.html
If you want I'll be happy to email you the Batman & villain pics.
Posted by: Liz | July 02, 2009 at 11:21 AM
I'm no help for games, but I did do a batman party a few years ago and the invites were almost identical ;)
Posted by: cara | July 03, 2009 at 01:56 PM
Those strawberries up top look really good.
Posted by: Patty | July 04, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Bat phone, hahahaha. Hmmmm, games... My boys haven't gotten into Batman yet and I am not familiar with them but a scavenger hunt is always good. You could hide little disk with photos of the bad guys or good guys and all the kids have to collect them for "ransom". These big superhero themes always make me want to go the opposite direction and have a Batman pie contest. Instead of a pie eating contest it can be a pie tasting. Each pie could be "made" by all the characters, "Green ivy pie"-wink wink made with whipped cream, food coloring and mint choc. chips or something. The kids could vote on the winner.
Ok - I'm going to go plan my son's Star Wars party now. Any ideas?
Have fun,
Tracey
Posted by: Paper Dolls for Boys | July 05, 2009 at 05:47 PM
Throwing Batman-logo shaped cardboard cut-outs at paper cut-outs of the enemies? Which I guess is kind of like the beanbag idea above, only more like one of Batman's actual weapons... but I don't know how easy it would be to aim when throwing cardboard lol.
Another idea, if you could find black cloth cheap (thrift store possibly?) you could have some simple pre-cut "capes" and let the kids decorate them with felt shapes... I'm not sure how feasible that one would be though.
So yeah, all my ideas have disclaimers. ;P
Oh oh, I thought of another one! You could have pictures of three of the villains, and Batman needs to figure out which one committed the crime this time... so the party guest "Batmen" get to play 20 questions to figure out which is it. That would be a fun start to a scavenger's hunt potentially too... "You found the criminal! Now you have to follow the clues to figure out where he hid the treasure..." kind of thing.
Oh crap, you wrote this post a while ago, I hope the party hasn't happened already... that's what I get for being behind on blog reading grrr.
Posted by: Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom | July 10, 2009 at 02:41 PM