Spy/ Mystery parties

[saffrone]

Hi, I have a soon to be 9 year old DS who is thoroughly into spying, mysteries, MI High etc and has asked for a spy party....afaik, Stagecoach offer spy parties, but I don't know of anyone else...anyone got any experience of this Stagecoach party at this age? Or of any other spy party ideas?

I keep thinking about murder in the dark and other party games of old, but think I would struggle to run a whole party myself!

Any help much appreciated!

maybe you could do a simpler version of a murder mystery weekend thing.

(or would that be too gory?) pick one murderer and one victim then get the other children to guess via clues who done it

Mmmm, thanks for that - was thinking about murder mystery and goriness and also whether I could tie it into Cluedo somehow, though I'd have to make sure that they have all come across Cluedo before...

Any experiences much welcomed as well!

I used one of the bought murder mystery games for my dc about that age - just edited some of the costume suggestions. Don't think they got some of the jokes luckily.

Spymasters in Cambridge is also great if you are anywhere near. We have done a couple of parties there..

Or experiences.com might have something suitable.

www.questexperiences.com

Sorry forgot to preview.

Thank you Jicky - I have some murder mystery games so will check out if any are suitable. Have played a couple of them with nieces and nephews, but they were a little older!

We did a spy party for my dd when she was 8.

We got photos of the kids blown up and put them on the wall with disguises (drew moustaches, beards, glasses on pics of her friends). You had to id who they were.

We passed 'secret videos' between the knees along a chain of people, using teams of 4 and seeing who won first.

We played murder (where someone taps someone (can't remember exactly how they played it...kids'll know better than you).

We had a treasure hunt with clues hidden around the church hall.

We also bought small gifts and had a tombola, a tattoo stall and a sweetie stall (not very spy-related, but it worked well).

It was a great party but was probably a bit big. We had 40 kids come as it was a joint party. Stressful, but fun.

Hope it goes well for you.

That sounds great - I was thinking of 10 children at most but I guess we could get baby pictures and photoshop them a little...
I think it's coming together...
Thank you everyone, and any more ideas welcomed!

The stagecoach party looks good, but think they are in the region of £200 last time I looked.