Theme Party Ideas
 
Spiderman Party
Sunday, October 14, 2007
It was easy to create some web-slinging Spiderman fun. Sticky felt and glow-in-the-dark spider tattoos was all it took to turn the kids into spider heroes, who swung between the NYC backdrop, obstacle course, web walk, and a web stringing fight...
 
Invitations: The invitation was compiled from a half-dozen Spiderman strpis (things can still be really hard to find on Google!). Thankfully, there is a masked marvel font I could use for the text, where Spiderman says: “Kian’s 6th birthday is approaching fast! I need to tell everyone the party will be on <date>, <time>, at <address>. On no! The green goblin! I have to tell everyone about Kian’s Spiderman Birthday Party! Sorry Goblin, You aren’t invited!” with more details relayed through a Spiderman comic strip on the inside.   Costumes: The whole theme started when I found out the Spiderman muscle costume was only $20 at Costco.  When the kids came to the door, we let them get ‘bit’ by a Halloween motion-detector dropping spider prop, then put a glow-in-the-dark spider tatoo from the Dollar Tree on their hand. We had asked the guests to wear red shirts and blue bottoms (and they all did!), so we placed a black sticky-back felt spider shape on their shirts (which I had cut out earlier). Instant super hero!   Decorations: NYC Backdrop Photo Wall (painted appliance box cardboard using a variety of house paints) Spider decor galore (especially easy to find before Halloween! Paper spiders, spider webs, spider garland, spider confetti...) Spiderman toys Spiderman plates, tablecloth, red and blue napkins, etc   Food: Spiderman Cake (created from one loaf pan and two mini-loaf pans, held together with three fondue forks sticking out of the top like radio towers) Peanut Butter Spiders (Ritz crackers sandwiching peanut butter and stick pretzels for legs) Karotene Producers (Baby Carrots) Peter Parker Pizzas (Bagel Bites Pizzas) Home-made webs (make-your-own cotton candy--looks like webs!) Green Goblin Juice (Punch made with Mountain Dew)  Games: Superhero Obstacle Course (Using things like mini-basketball hoops, a web shooter, a trampoline, and two play-structures, the kids were timed on running the course, the other kids given jobs to ‘help’ them) Web Walk (like a cake walk, the kids walked around a duct-tape spider web to the Spiderman theme song, receiving a Spiderman theme prize from the dollar tree) Find the Spidermen (cutting out all the spiderman graphics from all the prizes, toys, etc, we taped them around the house and asked the kids to try to find all 31 of them!  Party Favors: Spiderman gift bag (gummy spiderman, spider rings, mini frisbees, spiderman candy, pencils, etc--easy to find at dollar tree 4 months after Spiderman 3 came out :)) Silly String (to have a web-slinging fight at the end) For more photos of this party, click here http://gallery.louie.net/T-Spidermanshapeimage_4_link_0