Mario Party Party Finale

This is the round up of all of the Mario Party Party items made and games played.

Invitations were sent out -
Hidden Picture Mario Party Invitations

As guests arrived they decorated their own Coin Collector -

Arrival Activity - decorating coin collectors

Once everyone arrived they were divided into four teams Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow.
We rolled the dice to move around this board -



A member from whichever team's color we landed on selected a mini game to play.



For each game we played every player recieved a gold coin (painted Bingo markers) and the winning team members recieved tickets.

These are the mini games we played -

Scaldin' Cauldron - be the last team left to escape flaming cauldrons

Bob-ombs Away - Earn points by dropping down a Bob-omb, Plinko style

Breakneck Building - race to paint a board, hammer in nails, and saw a log

At the Chomp Wash - Scrub Away Chain Chomps

Shake It Up - Shake up "cans", see if they poof up

Fish Sticks - Cheep Cheep fishing game

Rumble Fumble - Find the Shy Guys, Avoid the Bob-bombs

Chimp Chase - Return the Lakiki babies to their Lakiki mamas

Paint Misbehavin' - Paint goombas

Aim of the Game - Grab cards to win points


After all of the games were played, everyone recieved a star. The stars were just printed Mario stars with numbers written on the back. The stars were in a magic bag so that when they first reached in they found nothing there. I told them they had to have a sticker for the stars to appear. After they'd put on a sticker I would flip the switch on the handle and the stars magically appeared. They did get wise and start putting the stickers on before it was their turn so I had to keep making up new things for them to do. "You're wearing green so you have to say "Yippty Bean!" etc.

After everyone had a star they were lined up in order of the numbers on their stars. This was to decide who would get to go into Shy Guy's Candy Shack to spend their coins and tickets first.

Three at a time they were sent in to buy candy -



The candy for sale was -

Goomba Gum - little packets of Chiclets from the checkout at a mexican restaurant
Toadette's Tarts - giant smarties with hearts on them from after valentine's clearance Blooper's Fish & Fish Food - bagged up two swedish fish with nerds sprinkled in Cheep Cheep Treats - gummy worms and lightning bugs
Luigi's Licorice Mustaches - mini licorice sticks
Latiku's Sour Balls - sour fruit candies
Princess Daisy's Fun Dips - valentine Fun Dips on the to and from I wrote You with a heart for the o and Daisy with a daisy for the dot of the i
Spikes - candy corn Princess Peach's Fruit Salad - I bought one package of peach rings and one of fruit slices cut them up and put them in lil baggies
Bob-bomb's Butterscotch - glued lil bob-bomb's to the wrappers
Baby Peach's Fruit Jewels - hard fruit candies
Dry Bones' Bones - leftover Halloween bone candy
Birdo's Eggs - jelly beans DK's Root Beer Barrels - root beer barrels
Toad's Taffy - taffy with picture of Toad glued on

Most of the candy could be purchased with coins but there was a section just for tickets as well.


Those that were not shopping for candy chose a drink and picked up a place setting -

KA-POW Punch and Mustache Straws

Boo Cups and Bob-omb Plates

Star Napkin Rings

After everyone had shopped for candy, we ate cake -




After cake we opened presents and visited with our friends and family.

Then I cleaned up, wrote up a detailed party plan, and entered it into the Birthday Party Idea contest at www.birthdaypartyideas.com and guess what, we won!

You can read the very detailed party plan at their site.

Happy Birthday to Jacob and Benjamin!

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Bob-ombs Away

When I saw the Mario Party 8 mini game Bob-ombs Away, I immediately thought of The Price is Right game, Plinko. In the video game version 3 players stand on top of a Plinko type board dropping Bob-ombs down onto the 4th player. Our party game is a friendlier version in which a Bob-omb is dropped down the board to win points.



Unfortunately I did not take photos along the way but hopefully I can describe it well enough.

I started with a (free of course) box from Walmart. It was angled down on the sides. I lifted the front part of the back and put it down across the top angled down to the front. I attatched this with a LOT of tape and covered in construction paper that I then decorated.

Across the top I put a section that had been inside the box to seperate the toys it once held. At the bottom I placed another free container this one from Pop Rocks Easter Eggs. I painted each cup of this container with point values in each one.

I then stuck multicolored push pins all over for the ping pong ball (painted to look like a Bob-omb) to bounce around against.

I used what I had but you could also cut out your own piece of cardboard to angle down and tape a few paper cups together for the bottom.



Each player was allowed to drop the Bob-omb down three times and then the teams total scores were added to determine the winner.

Items Used and Total Cost of This Game -

Box - $0
Construction paper - (already had) $0
Pop Rocks Egg container - $0
Paint - (already had) $0
Push Pins - (already had) $0
Ping Pong Ball - (already had) $0

Total Cost of This Game - $0

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Scaldin' Cauldron

Scaldin' Cauldron is a Mario Party 5 game in which players hide in cauldrons. Koopa enters and blows his flame breath on one cauldron at a time until only one player remains. The youtube video and a short how to on the party game version are below.




For our cauldrons I emptied out four of my boys' toy bins. I lined them up behind the couch and taped black construction paper cauldrons with the letters A,B,C,and D on them and flames below them above each bin.



I taped four pieces of orange construction paper together with painters tape. On each one I glued on a cauldron cut from an old pair of black sweatpants. I used sweatpants because my "flames" were nerf darts that would stick quit nicely to sweatpant material. I painted the corresponding letters on these cauldrons and hung the finished project up on a door across from the toy bins.

I printed out a Bowser face from the internet, cut it out, and attatched it to a wooden stick used for mixing paint.



One person from each team climbed into a bin and then I as Bowser stuck a dart onto one of the cauldrons. Whomever was in that letter cauldron was out of the game. Then another player would go in and everyone would switch cauldrons. When only one team member was left that persons team won.

Items Used and Total Cost of This Game -

Plastic Bins - (already had) $0
Construction Paper - (already had) $0
Paint - (already had) $0
Nerf Darts - (already had) $0
Sweatpants - (already had) $0
Painter's Tape - (already had) $0
Wooden stick - (already had) $0
Printed Bowser - $0

Total Cost of This Game - $0

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Breakneck Building

Once again, here is a youtube video of a Mario Party 8 mini game followed by photos of my party game version.



In our party game version of Breakneck Building we timed each team painting a "board", hammering in nails, and cutting "logs". The team with the best time won.

For the boards I cut regular printer paper in half and then rolled a brown crayon (with wrapper removed) across each one. Then I just drew on a little bit of wood grain detail. The paint was just a few drops of food coloring mixed with water inside of an old sour cream container. I taped a piece of paper that I had written the word paint on and attatched a metal handle on top. The paintbrush was just a real paintbrush that I already had.



For the hammering part of the game I painted a box brown and drew on wood grain with a brown marker. I painted just the tops of nails to match each team's colors. I did six nails for each team. I pushed the nails all the way down to make sure they would be easy enough and then pulled them back up. The hammer was a plastic one from my youngest son's tool bench.




The logs were shaped from clay and then painted brown. I drew out a saw on an empty plastic bottle, cut it out, and painted with brown and silver paint.



The teams did this game one at a time with each member painting one board, nailing in three nails, and sawing off one section of a log. Each team was timed and then the fastest time was announced at the end.



Items Used and Total Cost of This Game -

Printer paper - (already had) $0
Crayon - (already had) $0
Sour Cream Container - (already had) $0
Markers - (already had) $0
Box -(already had) $0
Paint - (already had) $0
Nails - (already had) $0
Plastic hammer - (already had) $0
Clay - (already had) $0

Total Cost - $0

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At The Chomp Wash

In this game, At The Chomp Wash, players have to wipe paint off of a big Chain Chomp. Below is a youtube video of the game followed by a how to on our party game version.



In the party game instead of having one big Chomp for each player I made 7 small chain chomps for each team. I drew them all with white chalk out in my carport and put different colored spots on them to match with the team colors.




Then I drew one large Chomp for each time to keep track of how many chomps they had washed.



I passed out a damp sponge piece to each player. Then they wiped away their team's chomps as fast as they could. The team to get rid of all their Chomps first won.

*Note - To save money on sponges, buy a cheap bag from the dollar store and cut them into 6 pieces each. I did this for a previous party game and had enough left over that I didn't have to buy any for this one!

Items Used and Total Cost of This Game -

Sponges - (already had) $0
Chalk - (already had) $0

Total Cost - $0

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Mario Party Party Slideshow

I will update soon with more tutorials and etc. but in the meantime here is a slideshow of our Mario Party Party.

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Boo Cups and Bob-bomb Plates

For our Mario Party I made Boo cups and Bob-bomb plates.

Boo Cups - First I printed out (in draft mode) several Boos.

I then cut out just the mouths.

Gluesticked the mouths to the cups

Then I added on eyes and eyebrows with a permanent black marker.

I wrote BOO on the backs with a red permanent marker

The Bob-bomb plate tutorial photos are currently stuck on a now non-working computer. *Remember to save to a disk frequently! Lesson learned. Here is a quick non-photo tutorial -

First I traced the narrow side of a rectangular block onto black construction paper and cut them out to make the top of the Bob-bombs.

Then I used the wider side of anothere block and traced it onto white paper to make the wicks. I added line detail on the wicks with a gray crayon.

I traced two ovals onto the back of each black plated and cut them out for the eyes. I then glued the tops and wicks onto the underside of each plate before adding a white plate underneath. To attatch the white plate I put one thing line of glue around the very edge of the plates as well as around the place where the plates indent down.



Items used and Total Cost of Cups and Plates -

White Cups - $1
Printed Boos - $0
Markers - (already had) $0
Black Plates - $1
White Plates - $1
Construction paper (already had) - $0

Total cost for 15 Boo Cups and 20 Bob-bomb plates - $3

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