Pink Panther

DETECTIVE PARTY
Carmen San Diego Party

Things You Will Need For the Party

Invitations:
Can be in the form of a fax or card. 'Name of child' Detective Agency requests your presence to help solve a crime.  Also add date, time, etc.

TOP SECRET file folder addressed to Agent --from the ACME detective agency. The inside had the party details written in white crayon to be invisible. Agents were instructed to rub a q-tip dipped in colored water over the inside to reveal the "coded" party details (when , where etc.) - Marley Billings

 
Decorations:
Empty jewelry box, footprints cut out of construction paper, finger prints (dip fingers in ink and put on white paper) cut out. Place jewelry box in center of table (you will put clues for the jewel hunt inside). Place finger prints on and around. Footprints go on walls (clues will be on the backside), floor etc.
 
Cake:
Use your child’s Detective Agency Logo or Acme. Before frosting or before baking place one candy inside the cake. Who ever gets this 'jewel' gets a special prize.

Carmen SanDiego Cake:  Use a bundt pan and make two seperate cakes.  Place the first cake on a plate upside down.  Add icing on top so the second cake will stick. Then place the second cake on top of the first cake rightside up(you know you did it right if the flat botttoms of both the cakes are in the middle).  Now your cake should look like a ball and you can decorate it to be the world!!!!   If you need help making the continents make copies of pictures from a book and either use them as a stensil or just color and lay them on the cake.
Goodie Bag:
Briefcase: Make out of paper lunch bag. Cut off two inches, form handle out of remaining and cut out center. Fill with small notepad, pencil, mini magnifying glass, badge (make out of paper and contact paper or use as an activity and let the kids make these themselves), Decoder Watch. Here's how to make, Need: Ribbon, cut to fit wrist. Match boxes, white paper to cover them and Velcro. First, write code inside slide out match box, easiest to write on paper and paste in. (Code is simply A=1 B=2 C=3--J=10--Z=26). Glue ribbon to back in center. Attach Velcro to each ribbon end. Draw watch face on top of Match cover.

GAMES

  1. Scavenger Hunt: See ideas for Scavenger List on the ideas page.
  2. You Name It: Find items that make noise. Each team of kids trys to guess what the items are. Winner has the most right.
  3. Find the Jewels (a treasure hunt): Pass out the briefcases. Kids use their decoder watches to figure out clues to take them to a small sacks of jewels (bags filled with chocolate coins and colorful candies. This may take some time.
  4. Make a word game with secret codes.
  5. Play CLUE

Activity

Make a wanted poster on computer - Take Polaroid pictures of or Digital camera pics of the kids- dressed up in trench coat, slouch hat and dark glasses!  Makes a fun take home item.

The poster can say:"Wanted for breaking international fun allowance laws"  List the childs "alias", and say they were 'seen ' in the company of a notorious spy (or detective) (the birthday child).  Thanks for the idea..

 

Please e-mail me with additional ideas
boardlr@coupeville.net
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