Party Theme: Candy Land (Kid Tested)

Party Theme


This is one of the most magical parties that you can dream up. The party was based on the magical childhood favorite board game: Candy Land. All kids love candy, so who wouldn't love a party that was completely focused on CANDY! Get the Party Started: I like to start parties with activity that kids can do when they first get there and takes little instruction. For this party, we had each kid decorate a bag to keep all of the goodies they will get at the party. Once we got the party started, all of the kids were given a game card to identify what place they would start on the game board.
















Kid Sized Candy Land Game We created a life sized Candy Land game. Kids moved from station to station by picking a card and moving the color that they picked.

• Musical Lollipops - The kids sat in a circle and passed around fun lollipops until the music stopped. The person holding the lollipop was out of the game, but got to keep the lollipop.
• Rainbow Pass - They passed over the Rainbow Pass which was a raised rainbow the kids walked over. Each kid picked up a cool rainbow bracelet as they went over the pass.
• Candy Necklaces - The kids used various candies and cereal strung on licorice strings to create unique edible necklaces.
• Candy Cane Limbo - Each child had to limbo under a giant candy cane to get to the next station.
• Gingerbread Man Notebook Decoration - I used pre-made gingerbread men notebook kits. This was a great way to keep with the candy theme, but have a non-candy activity.
• Chocolate Swamp - A kiddie pool filled with pillows and covered in a chocolate brown blanket became the perfect chocolate swamp. The kids stomped through it on the kid sized board and picked up a little chocolate treat along the way.
• Gramma Nutt's Peanut Butter Cookie Hunt - Each kid reached into wrapped box full of packing peanuts in search of Nutter Butters. Of course, we had a few non-peanut treats in the event that a child had an allergy.
• Snow Flake Lake - This was another pass through on the board. Each child received a snowball cookie.
• King Kandy Buffet - When the kids completed the board, each was rewarded a King Kandy Buffet ticket and treat bag. The kids were set free to raid the candy buffet and fill their bags with any candy they liked.

Setting the Scene

• Kid Sized Board -

This was key to setting the tone for the party and important for the events. It was very simple. It was made from several colors of 11x18 construction paper taped to the floor. I also created a rainbow pass with construction paper cut in strips and pasted the opposite way as the other paper.

Kid Sized Gingerbread Men - We also created kid sized gingerbread men/women using brown craft paper and various other papers to add pearls and buttons.

Licorice Forest - Using several red tablecloths and red crepe paper, we created Licorice Forest.

Candy Bouquet - These are easy to make and a lot of fun. Place a chunk of dense green foam into any fun container. Tape a variety of packaged candy to skewers. Poke the skewers into the green foam and cover the foam with tissue paper or colored paper strips.

Giant Hard Candy - This was so cute and really cheap and easy. It takes only old newspaper, fun tissue paper, curling ribbon and cellophane wrap. Cut the cellophane wrap slightly larger than the tissue paper. On a flat surface place the cellophane, then the tissue paper and crumpled up newspaper on top. Roll everything up and tie the ends to look like hard candy.

Food

• 'Sweet'-corndogs
• Gramma Nutt PB&J (A variety of PB&J Sandwiches Without Crust)
• Fruit Lollipops (Fruit on Skewers)
• Cookie Sandwiches
• Veggies & Dip
• Rainbow Jell-O Jiggles
• Chocolate Swamp Goop (Chocolate Cake Crock-pot Recipe)
• Colored Goldfish

Cake

I ordered a cake frosted in light green with pink edging, but otherwise plain. Using the board as inspiration (and many online examples) I created a Candy Land board for the cake using various candies, cookies and sprinkles. It was very easy and so much fun. We served it with Peppermint Stick Ice Cream.