Monopoly Party

We hosted a Monopoly party for my son's homeschool youth group this weekend.  I made these little notepads for party favors...

 

 

It was a combination party/donation drive for Catholic Charities.  We made a list of needed items and assigned a dollar amount to each.  The kids could bring items to earn extra monopoly money to start the game with.  This is what we collected...

 

The kids played 4 different game boards. 

Star Wars...



 

Disney...

 

 

Looney Tunes...

 

 

and of course, Classic Monopoly...

 

 

The winner of each board went on to play the Monopoly Deal card game.  The winner of that card game was crowned "Monopoly King" and won 100 grand bars for him and each of the people who were at his original board.  I also found this monopoly shirt on walmart.com so this was the grand prize...

 

My son ended up winning the whole tournament.  I told him that wasn't fair since he was the host, but he said he didn't care.  He wanted the shirt!! :)

 



The individual game winners won these prizes...

I got the bags from Oriental Trading and printed out my own pictures to iron on.  Then, I scanned the $500 bill from each of the 4 games and printed it out to make a bookmark.  I filled the bags with bubble gum coins, chocolate coins and payday bars. :)

We hope to make this a yearly event using different boards each year.

 



Catching up!

October was a busy month!  Novemeber is goig to be pretty busy too!

I never did a Halloween post or an All Saints post like I usually do so I guess I'll combine them into one!  The kids went to a party at a friend's house on Halloween.  They had fun trick-or-treating with their friends.  They were a pretty big group...

My kids were Dorothy and Perry. :)

 



Before Halloween my son's bookclub read Frankenstein.  I made these rice krispie treat monsters for them.  The original recipe says to make them green, but in the book the monster is NOT green so I stayed true to the book even though they would have looked cuter green!

Our homeschool group has an All Saints Party every year.  This year Claire went as St. Elizabeth of Hungary.  I love that there were "princess saints" because with all I had going on we had to throw the costume together at the last minute!

 

Nathan's teen youth group puts on the All Saints Party for the little kids.  He doesn't dress up anymore, but here he is working the St. George and the Dragon game...