| Theme colors:
blue, red (for the siren), silver ... and / or black depending
on the color of your police departments cars. Invitations Blue with a police badge on the front (use plain blue cards or postcards and glue a copy of a police badge to the front). |
Decorations
White table cloth with blue plates /napkins and silver utensils. Use
red plastic cups and set them face down on
the plates to look like
sirens.
Blue and silver helium balloons on the backs of chairs and also on the mailbox to show where the party is located.
Yellow police tape
Fun Ideas
Check with your local police department and see if they will do a tour
for your group of the police station, or if a
police officer would stop
by the party in a patrol car or motorcycle and let the children look
inside and test the siren. Some police stations have stickers and
coloring sheets to hand out also.
Games
Rook the Crook Scavenger Hunt
Make clues that will lead the guests all over the house and
both the front and back yards. Make one clue lead to
the next. If you
want to make the scavenger hunt last longer - and be more fun - make the
guests do small tasks or challenges before they can get the next clue at
each stop. Fun or silly ideas are best …. Make a block tower taller
then
the tallest person in the group, count off from 1 to 50 - if the group
messes up you have to go back and start
with 1, Name 3 TV shows with
policeman in them, run a relay race, etc.
Tell the party guests that the Rook the Crook has stolen all the
birthday candy and hidden it away. It is their
responsibility to find
Rook the Crook, recover the stolen candy and bring him to justice. At
the end of the scavenger
hunt have a piñata hidden that they can then
string up and recover the candy. * Let the guests decorate lunch sacks
with police stickers to hold their candy before the pinata is broken -
this could be one of the tasks in the scavenger hunt.
To punish Rook the Crook let a parent (or friend) play the part of
Rook and have the kids place him in jail. Make a
jail out of a large
appliance box and cut a hole just big enough for Rook to put his face
through (the rest of the front
of the jail should be solid so only his
face shows). Set up sponges about 10 feet away and have the victorious
police throw wet sponges at Rook’s face when he peeks his head out of
his cell. (Kids love this!)
Cops and Robbers
Divide guests into two teams - cops and robbers. Set up a “jail” on one
side of the yard and a “bank” at the other
side of the yard. In the bank
place a bowl or basket of 10 water balloons. Also set up a spot to be
the robbers
hide-out - no cops are allowed in the hide-out. The object
is for the cops to protect the water balloons. The
robbers must take as
many of the water balloons to their hide-out (without breaking them) as
possible without
being caught by the police. The police may catch a
robber by tagging him and then taking him to jail. The police
must
actually take him to the jail. Once in jail the robber can only be freed
if another robber tags him. After one
game switch it up and let the cops
and robbers trade places.
Red Light, Green Light
Activities
Research your cities police badges and make similar ones out of
cardboard. Let the guests decorate them and then
wear them with double
stick tape.
Food
Doughnuts
Hero sandwiches
Rice Krispie treats cut into star or badge shapes with a cookie cutter
Grill out hamburgers or hotdogs
Fruit tray or veggie tray
Blue kool-aid or other blue drink.
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Party Favors Small sets of police equipment - badges, handcuffs, hats Plastic police cars Walkie Talkie’s Water guns Goody Bags Blue paper bags decorated with sirens and police stickers. |
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