Doctor Who themed party for 8yo - ideas please!

[roisin]

It's a long story but ds2 has ended up with a party with c.30 guests, aged 5-9, for 2 hrs. We will have a HUGE church hall, with a bouncy assault course and bouncy castle, and still have LOADS of room for games/play.

We will only have the inflatables up for specific times - maybe two 20 min sessions; with calming games/activities inbetween.

Your ideas please, esp on Doctor Who theme - decorations, party bags, or activities/games.

So far:

1. "Starter" as they arrive - Doctor Who characters around the walls with scrambled names for them to solve on an answer sheet.
2. Pass the parcel
3. Food with Doctor Who names - cyberman sandwiches, etc.

build a monster in teams? pile of junk cardboard boxes etc, sellotape, tinfoil etc - same for each team if poss, and get them to make a dr who alien?

LOL bet you're loving that!

GAME-monster in each corner and then they all move around and when the music stops choose a corner.You pull out a card and all those in that corner are out.

what about a version of port and starboard? so one wall gallifrey, another tardis etc, and actions could be arm out in front for dalek, twisting action for sonic screwdriver, stiff legged walking for cybermen etc..?

5 mins to make up a Dr WHo story (with Pandas monster?)

OOh these are great. Please keep them coming!

I think my brain has turned to mush.

Port Starboard, etc. Do you normally do that to music? What happens between shouting out instructions? Or is that it? I was thinking about something vaguely along those lines, but couldn't really pull it together.

I think I might have to rope ds1 into 'helping' and 'judging' with a lot of these, as he'll be far too competitive and will be on a different level to them.

ds1 is nearly 10 btw, and only coming in the role of big brother.

port/starboard not usually to music - just shout out an instruction, last one to do it out. good to have some group things as actions too, so Rose and Mickey -could have to get into pairs?

Waitrose sell a kit for making dalek biscuits - I bought it just for the dalek shaped cookie cutter ()

Dr Who Partyware

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I've been searching for a Dr Who bouncy castle to no avail. Can you imagine a bouncy tardis? I'd be Mummy-Goddess for weeks if I found one of those!!!

You could play musical planets using large circles of painted cardboard as the planets.

If you have a poster of a Dalek (check Dr Who magazines) you could make a pin the 'plunger' on the Dalek game. Photocopy lots of pictures of the plunger and use blue tac or sticky pads to put them on with.

JackieNo - so did I!

Oh dear, we haven't got a Waitrose here.
I wonder if we will be able to find one whilst travelling in half term!

Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

Bet we have a poster if you need one (def have a martha and Doctor one can't remember what wa on the other side)

Duchess/Jackieno - me too (had to buy 2 though so kids had one each!)

I am happy to investigate and post one for you if you like? I would get one for DS at the same time!

Roisin -Asda had them last week!

MrsWho - where did you find a Waitrose?

Could I borrow your Dr Who posters and cookie cutters for half term, whilst you're living it up with the literary set!

OK, I'll see if I can get to Asda, or even better get dh to go, tomorrow

My friend had a Time Warp party (we had to travel to different eras and dress accordingly) ..... anyway she made a Dalek out of her water butt covered in those silver trays that apples come in and a sink plunger for the bit that sticks out.

Have you found a cake? I'm sure I saw a Tardis cake in Asda (but didn't take much notice as I have a Disney Princess girlie.

The dalek biscuit-mix packs are made by a company called Green's and I think most supermarkets stock them.

I could make Dalek cookies and buy writing icing, and if they finish eating early, they can decorate a Dalek to eat or take home!

the thing is I don't even like Dr Who

Dd2 had a cake from Tesco last year

Or you could make a Dalek cake. See yesterdays thread

Yes, cake will come from Tescos.

I used to love making and decorating birthday cakes for the boys, it was a real important "mummy" thing for me. Then one year I couldn't make one (I was with my dad who was very critical in ITU and I just dashed back across the country for the day of ds1's 7th party), and dh ordered a cake from the bakery. It was a complete revelation to me that it didn't actually make any difference at all to ds1, it was only me who was bothered about it!