Oh arse DS 10 wants a Dr Who party and I don't know where to start

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Any tips? Not costing a fortune as well please!

OK well for a start you can get Dalek birthday cakes in Tesco. You can also get a Dalek biscuit making packet that comes with a cutter. The biscuits it makes are pretty grim, so I tend to use the cutter on my own shortbread recipe.

You can get Dr Who paper plates and stuff.

Dh made a passable tardis out of one of those mahoosive cardboard boxes you get when you move house (the ones they hang your clothes in). If you have access to big boxes, just paint them blue and draw some squares.

Pin the stalk on the Dalek?

Sleeping lions companions?

Dr Who fancy dress ?

Suggest children who are into Dr Who come as their favourite monster/character/companion? (Really easy fancy dress given he travels in space and time so you can come as anything - if it hasn't been in the series, it might be something from the future...)

Pass the parcel with each layer containing a jelly baby and final prize being a sonic screwdriver? (You can get all sorts of tat merchandise in ToysRUs etc. etc.)

Decorate the room in lots of black cloth with stars twinkling - fairy lights or stickers. As in outer space and all that.

Ooh you lot are good.

More please especially games.

At dd's we did Cyberman Simon Says using a Cyberman Voice Changer Helmet thing. They were 6 though - is 10 a bit too old?

Yhis is what I'm thinking - he's quite young for his age and the other boys might lose interest and think it's all lame

my ds was 10 a couple of weeks ago and hes also mad about Doctor Who (and star watrs lego - but that another very expensive story!). His friends, some of whom were 10 back in October would have found a Dr who party a bit young, but some would have loved it. We did have the dr who cake and plates etc but not activities.

We actually had a water pistol party - they all brought super soakers water guns and charged round the garden in shorts and t-shirts for an hour before coming in to dry off and have hot dogs - went down a storm!

This was at the end of April and we were very lucky with sunny weather, but just a tad chilly - not that most of them noticed.

if the weather forecast is good, its a fab party. I'd have been stuffed it was raining!

Or...could you bypass the party and take a select few to one of the Dr Who exhibtions if you are anywhere near one?

List of 'em

oh I wish I could persuade DS to go out somewhere instead of having it at home, but he won't be moved. And anyway I'm not near any of the exhibitions but if I were that would definitely be the best option and I'd talk him into it...

I did a bit of a google to see if there are any Dr Who events going on in half term that I could take them to, but no luck.