Candyland Theme

I took a short hiatus from Mario Party planning this morning to think of a few games for a Candyland themed party. Here is what I came up with -



You can set out the board game and take out the color cards. Then you can draw out cards to show which game you're going to play.

Fix King Kandy's Crown - Have a crown for each child and have them find jelly beans to glue onto it

Lolly's Match - draw two or three bands of color with a crayon on the bottom of several lollipops, two with red stripes, two with green, etc. Turn a box upside down, decorate it, poke holes in the bottom/top and stick the lollipops in. Have them take turns pulling them up and try to find a match. To make it easier you could keep half the lollipops out and hand them one when it is their turn and then they just have to find it's match. Here is a picture of a Veggie Patch Match game to give you a visual -



Grab Gloppy's Goodies - Have a big bowl of chocolate pudding or for less mess draw or tape on a picture of Gloppy onto a box. Cut out his mouth and hide either real treats or just pictures of treats. Cut a piece of paper into several squares and draw or glue on a picture of each goody. Give each child a card and have them take turns reaching in and trying to find the goody that matches thier card.

Lord Licorice Tic Tac Lotto - Make simple bingo cards by dividing up paper into 9 squares and drawing a different color licorice in each one (just a rectangle with some slanted wavy lines) in different order for each card. Draw out one of each colored licorice and cut it out or you can buy a bag of multicolored licorice (you can use the leftover for your goody bags). Put them in a sack and pull out one at a time. You can use licorice bits as markers. Play till everyone gets three in a row.

Feed Jolly - Draw Jolly on a box, cut out his mouth, and throw gumdrops in

Mr. Mint's Musical Mints - cut out big circles and decorate them to look like peppermints, set them out in a big circle and play like musical chairs. You could also number them and have numbers attatched to prizes (or your goody bags) and draw a number when the music is turned off.

Pin the Wand on Princess Frostine - Draw a big picture of her on a piece of posterboard leaving the top off of the wand. Draw the outline of a circle. Cut out blue circles and draw on snowflake detail with a white crayon.

Make Grandma Nutt - Cut out curly hair, eyes, nose, and mouth for Grandma Nutt. Pass out paper plates and a set of facial pieces to each child. Cut peanuts from paper and write the name of a facial feature on each one. Have them take turns picking a peanut. They get to add whichever facial feature they pick out.

Here are a few activities -

Decorate Gingerbread men, either paper or cookies

Sandy Candy is really fun -
http://www.ehow.com/how_4882519_make-own-sandy-candy.html

And coloring sheets can be found here - http://www.coloringuniverse.com/index.php?p=1_128&p2=1


To make this party complete how about these place settings -

Plates - Cut construction paper candy wrapper ends and attatch to either side of your plate (underneath the edge) to make candy plates

Cups - Light blue with Snowflakes glued on would make Princess Frostine Cups

Silverware - Add red stripes with a permanent marker onto white silverware for candy cane style

Napkin Rings - wrap your candy cane striped silverware in napkins and slip on a peppermint napkin ring made bye cutting out strips of paper, attatching into rings and glueing peppermints over the line where the two ends meet (real or paper)