Water Party Obstacle Course

For my sons 9th party he wanted to do a water wars party.  I wasn't quite sure where to take that until I realized he really just wanted a party that involved water and having a water fight.  

I gathered a couple ideas for a fun obstacle course from pinterest etc. and adapted them to items I already had from home. Our first obstacle was carrying a bucket of water on our heads while we "walked the planks" and jumped over the alligator.

Our second water obstacle was that we needed to toss water balloons (which I filled up most before the  party)  into the water tubes.  I had to put boards over the water tubes so they wouldn't fly away. This didn't look cute or nice but nothing blew away.

Next I used an old slip n slide, folded it in half and staked it into the ground.  I used water noodles, a dollar at the dollar store with small dowels in the ends of each side.  The kids had to army crawl under them. 

Here I had 3 hula hoops from the dollar store and the kids had to jump one to another. 

 

Next was the hit of the party.  I used 13 bottles of $1 cans of shaving cream, again from the dollar store.  I filled up our small plastic pool and had put small bouncy balls in before the shaving cream and covered them.  The kids had to "dig" to find a bouncy ball.  They had swimming suits on so we were all good to get dirty. (I filled the pool up about 1 hr before the party and left it in the garage out of the sun, It kept it's shape and texture just fine.)

 

Next was the slip n slide......

After we finished the obstacle course we cleaned off the shaving cream with the hose.  And split the boys into two teams to have their water war.  I filled up lots and lots (about 300) water balloons way before the party probably 3-4 early which was too early.  The balloons kept popping in the buckets and just leaving water in them.  I would fill them up early again just not too early.

We also bought the water balloons and water guns from the dollar store.  The balloons worked great but I would buy easier to fill water guns next time.  The kids had a blast, it was a little more work than I thought it was going to be once I got started but it all turned out great. For goody bags we put in an inflatable beach ball, bubbles, empty water balloons, and a water gun.

Angry Birds Party

Here were a few fun games we did for Owen's birthday party which wasn't too expensive.

 Basic party hats, we then added a sticker to each.

 Cool sling shots I found at the Dollar Store and added another sticker.  We used these to knock down a tower we built with small wooden blocks.

 Frisbee shooters we used for the target below.  We took turns shooting them to see how many points we could earn.  Again from the dollar store with stickers.

We went on a golden egg hunt and found small angry bird erasers inside.  I used plastic easter eggs, spray painted them gold with a clear coat over top.  If there is not a clear coat top the gold gets all over your hands. 

We had helium in these balloons and tied them to a brick we used and tied around them.  We used small water guns to see if we could shoot at them all.  Bigger water guns would have been better and more balloons. Some of them popped from the wind. 

Girl party hats

For a princess themed party we made these party hats out of foam paper, beads hot glued on, curling ribbon tied in a knot and threaded through the tops with a ribbon to hold in on their heads.  They were so fun and are reusable.