Are You Ready for a Food Fight Party?

Here’s a great budget birthday party idea that will be fabulous fun for the kids: a FOOD FIGHT! If the idea interests you and your child, here are some ways to put this together:

• This party is ideal for outdoors, but it you are willing to have a food fight inside, host it in a space that you don’t mind getting messy, such as a garage or basement, or perhaps a large shed. You may want to cover the space with plastic to make post-party cleanup easy.

• When the kids arrive at the party, for both safety and easy cleanup, provide kids with shower caps, plastic goggles, and a rain poncho. These will keep them safe and relatively clean through the food fight.

• After they have their outfits on, give the kids a bag of marshmallows and slingshots; they can kick the party off by slinging marshmallows at one another as they wait for everyone to arrive. Make sure they’re supervised in the designated party area.

• Cover a table with a variety of perfect food-fight foods: spaghetti, whipped cream, mashed potatoes, pudding, Jell-O, cereal, hard-boiled eggs, popcorn, oatmeal, bananas, etc. Use whatever you like—and you can make it even more interesting by dying some of the foods (for example, green mashed potatoes).

• You may want to announce a few “rules” to the kids before the food fight breaks out. Some suggestions include: keep the goggles on, stop throwing if they hear the sound of a whistle (or something else you find appropriate), and keep the food fight within the designated space.

• If there are kids who do not feel comfortable participating, let them have fun watching on the sidelines.

• Make sure to have your video camera out to capture this fun!

• You can also have the kids play some organized “food games,” including blindfolding the kids and having them eat donuts that have been strung on a string. The first kid to finish eating his donut wins! Or, have the kids partner up and feed each other pudding standing five feet away from one another using a plastic spoon. Afterward, the kids can use squirt guns to clean themselves up.

• Your party menu can be very simple, as the kids will be playing with as much food as they eat! Serve ice cream and cake to top the party off.

Send the kids home with a splattered brown paper bag filled with good food: a piece of fruit, a veggie, a pudding pack, etc. as a reminder of their foodie fun!

-Lisa Kothari, Peppers and Pollywogs

Comments

[Kim Holland]

I love this idea! My 7 year old son and I have been trying to figure out what kind of party he will have. I think I found it! Now all I have to do is convince my husband! Thanks for sharing this great idea.