Shark Birthday Party
Instructions:A ferociously fun shark birthday party guide with games,
decorations and activities your birthday cINVITATIONS
Send invitations 2-3 weeks before the party date.
Purchase personalized matching invitations, or make your own using
card stock paper. Cut 3x5 postcards from gray or blue cardstock paper.
Your computer will come in handy for shark clip art to add with a glue stick. Cut a semi-circle "shark bite" from the corner using pinking shears.
Write your party details with a gel pen.
SHARK PARTY DECORATIONS
Begin with basic party decorations; streamers, balloons, table ware etc.
Add more elaborate ocean themed decorations if you have the time...
- Make a sign for your entry "SHARK ZONE - Enter at your own risk!"
- Blue fabric hung from the walls and on the furniture will create your
ocean. Organza or other iridescent fabric is fun but can become costly.
- Use butcher paper and poster board to make seaweed, fish etc.
- Hang strips of streamers in varying length from the ceiling.
- Fill the ceiling with blue and green helium balloons.
- Hang paper sharks and fish from the ceiling as well.
Having these items hanging from the balloon covered ceiling will create
the illusion of being under water.
SHARK PARTY GAMES
Shark Attack Game #1
With a permanent marker draw a basic shark face, with teeth on a white balloon. Players will stand in a circle. Play fun theme music while the children tap the shark balloon back and forth within the circle.
The players will try to keep the balloon away from themselves.
After bit of time, turn the music off. Whoever is touching the shark
when the music stops...is out. The last player is the winner.
Shark Attack Game #2
In this game the children are the sharks and fish at the same time!
Before the party inflate two balloons per child and tie a 12-18
inch piece of ribbon to the end of the balloons. To play, tape or tie
the balloons to both feet of each child. The object of the game is
to pop the other players balloons while still protecting your own.
The player/s with at least one remaining inflated balloon wins.
What Time is it Mr. Shark?
A shark twist on a traditional party game!
You'll need a reasonably large kid-safe place to play.
One child or adult is "Mr. Shark" and is positioned at one end of the
play area with his/her back turned. The other players (fish) stand at
the opposite end of the room. To play the children ask...
"What time is it Mr. Shark?" Mr. Shark replies for example, "Four O'clock".
The "fish" will take take four steps towards Mr. Shark. This continues until Mr. Shark changes his reply to "Dinner Time!" at which time he/she turns and runs to try and catch one of the fish. The captured child then becomes Mr. Shark. If the children reach Mr. Shark before he calls
dinner time, then the game is repeated with the same Mr. Shark.
Tip: Give the Mr. Shark player a hat with a dorsal fin for extra fun!
Feed the Shark
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