Phineas and Ferb Party Ideas - Guest Blogger Lisa Kothari
Phineas and Ferb is a very popular TV show. Are your children fans of these two step-brothers who will do anything to escape summer boredom? There's something to their schemes, humor, and pet platypus, Perry, and the cast of characters, like Candace the sister ready to out them at every turn, and the mad scientist, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. This would make an excellent summer party theme for kids, but can also be fun for those kids with winter birthdays that want a taste of summer vacation.
For a Phineas and Ferb Invitation: use colorful orange, green, and blue card stock and create a surfboard invitation card. Write all of the party details on one side of the invitation and on the other side make sure to use a Phineas and Ferb glib statement to begin the thematic fun: Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today...Party Hardy!
For your party decor, use the colors orange and green for your balloons, streamers, and table ware. Create a beach scene either in your backyard or in the party room with a sea of balloons in pearly white, blue, and green, surfboard pictures, shells, sand (if outside), beach balls and toys, and whatever else you have around your home to bring it alive.
For your party activities, watch episodes carefully to inspire your party games and fun:
- When the kids arrive, provide them with Phineas and Ferb T-shirts for the guests to wear during the party and to take home with them as a party favor.
- Hire a face painter to draw summer scenes on the kids' faces: surfboards, roller coasters, parade floats, and more would be fun.
- Once everyone has arrived, begin the games.
- Find the Lawn Gnomes that Dr. Doofenshmirtz has hidden. Hide chocolate gnomes (or other types of miniature chocolates) for the kids to find during a two-minute scavenger hunt.
- Have the kids sing and perform Glitchi Glitchi Goo, Phineas and Ferb's one-hit wonder song.
- Mt. Rushmore Carving. Just like Phineas and Ferb try to carve Candace's face into Mt. Rushmore, give the kids modeling clay and see what faces they can carve.
- Can your party guests melt chocolate with lasers? Divide the kids into pairs and give each a chocolate bar and a laser pointer and see what happens? Is there any way they can melt their chocolate bars?
- Hold a Bigfoot Race. Divide the kids into two teams and give each team a pair of large shoes that they must put on and race from one end and back to the team. First team done wins!
- Set up a Bowl-a-Rama game for your guests using empty soda bottles and plastic bowling balls.
For your party menu:Serve up grilled cheese sandwiches (a Candace favorite), platypus crunch (trail mix), and a large bowl full of Jell-O in orange and lime flavors.
Phineas and Ferb try to create a giant ice cream maker to help their friend. Have the kids make their own ice cream. Alternatively, create an ice cream bar for the kids to make their own concoctions to enjoy.
For your party favor, send them home with shoelaces, of course, and their T-Shirts.
--Lisa Kothari
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birthday party supplies on March 21, 2010 at 06:29 PM
that is the theme that my twins requested for their 5th birthday. This will be the first year that they get a "real" party with new friends. Your ideas are fantastic and inexpensive which is always a plus. Thank you very much!
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