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...

 

Wordless Wednesday

  This week's theme is Disney Costumes/attire. I love how Mickey is always dressed for the occasion!  

     

Ferb, I know what we're going to do today....

My daughter turned 10 on Saturday.  We gave her a Phineas and Ferb birthday party.  My husband and I sort of talked her into it because WE like the show so much!!  She said it was her best party ever!  It was a lot of fun.

I made a Dr. Doofenshmirtz pinata out of a paper bag...

 

My husband made an ice cream topping-inator!  He even played the part of Doofenshmirtz whe it was time for ice cream.  :)

 



complete with a self destruct button!

 



sign I made for the front door...

 



Agent P cake.  This turned out cute, but was a pain to make because my cake was falling apart!  I don't know what happened, but every layer of the cake decided to fall apart that day.  Needless to say, there's lots of icing on it!!

 



 

We had pizza for lunch....

 



Found the plates and napkins at Party City...



 

 

We played "Where's Perry?"  I hid a Perry Pez dispenser in the yard and the kid that found it got to keep it.  We also had Phineas and Ferb air guitar....

 

 

My daughter's favorite part was the Scavenger hunt.  I told the kids that some things had gone missing from the theme song.  They had to bring back:  a freshly showered monkey, something that doesn't exist, a painted continent, Frankenstein's brain, and a dodo bird.  I put 2 of each of these things around our yard and split the kids into 2 teams.

 

Here's the monkey shower station.  I put 2 stuffed monkeys, a bottle of febreze, 2 shower caps and a towel in a laundry basket on the back of my husband's truck.  They had to follow the directions and bring the monkey back to me.

 

Here's a freshly showered monkey....

 

 

Painting a continent...

I put a binder of coloring pages and some water colors on a bench.  They had to flip through and find a picture of a continent, paint it and bring it to me.

 

Claire found Frankenstein's brain.  Since her birthday is in October it was easy to find plastic brains.  I got these at Dollar Tree.  They had a large selection of plastic organs. :)

 



For the dodo bird I printed out pictures from the internet and clipped them to low tree leaves with a clothespin.  For something that doesn't exist, I printed out pictures of winged unicorns and put magnets on the back and stuck them on the side of my husband's truck.  It was funny.  The kids walked past them dozens of times without noticing them!  It was the hardest thing for both teams to find!!

 

 

 

We ended the party with the kids being secret agents and fighting Dr. D.  They all donned a secret agent hat and fought him blindfolded. :)

 



 

 It was a really fun party!

 

 

I'm also linking up with Tiggerific Tuesday Trivia hosted by Magical Mouse Schoolhouse. 

So, here's a little Phineas and Ferb trivia for you:

 

The show takes place in Danville, which is in Jefferson County which is in the Tri-State Area. Danville is named after co-creator Dan Povenmire and Jefferson County is named after co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh.   

 

 

 

Wizard of Oz Bookclub

This is the first year that I'm doing a bookclub for my daughter and her friends.  I started one for my son when he was in the 4th grade and it's still going.  Claire is in the 4th grade this year so now it's her turn.  Our second book this year was the Wizard of Oz.  Since we did it in October we had a dress up party for book club complete with Wizard of Oz themed snacks.

The yellow brick road made out of cookies.  It led to the Emerald City where everything was green including the cookies and the chips!

 

One of the moms made "Over the Rainbow" cupcakes...

 

The kids came dressed up.  The most creative was one of the boys who came as the Wicked Witch of the East...complete with the house that fell on her!

 



I'm having a lot of fun with this bookclub.  Each month the kids read a classic book and then we watch the movie and compare them.  It's been a lot of fun and the kids are getting really good at filling in Venn Diagrams!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Today's theme for Disney Wordless Wednesday is Disney Storytelling.  Here's Disney telling one of my all time favortie stories!

Disney Wordless Wednesday is hosted by Focused on the Magic.

Tiggerific Tuesday Trivia

I'm linking up with  Tiggerific Tuesday Trivia hosted by Magical Mouse Schoolhouse.

A little bit of Halloween trivia for you today.  Did you know that there are over 300 carved pumpkins on Main St. at Disneyland during Halloween time?  And no two are alike!

Here are a few we took pictures of last fall when we were there...

 

 

The centerpiece Mickey Pumpkin at night....



and during the day...

 



 

Various charcter pumpkins greet you at the turnstiles...