Cupcake Wars

For Ellie's 10th birthday party we had a CUPCAKE WARS. It turned out to be pretty good. When the kids first started to arrive we had them decorate their chef hats and aprons. Once everyone was properly adorned I had them each make their own mini pizza. We used English muffins for the crust and a handful of different toppings for the kids to choose from.
While the pizzas were baking we played "grenade toss" For this game I set up a bunch of cupcakes on a long piece of wood resting on two ladders. Each kids got 3 tries to toss a grenade (tennis ball) to get as many cupcakes off the board as possible. The person with the most "kills" won a candy bar.
After the battle was over the kids ate their pizza and chips while I cleaned up for the next event.
A round of "basic training."
they had to play the game where you put a cookie on your forehead and wriggled or scrunched your face until the cookie traveled down into your mouth.
Next they had to decorate a cupcake especially for Ellie's birthday. We had ton of candies and different frosting's 3 kinds of cupcakes with 4 different wrappers. They couldn't ask Ellie any questions. Just to see who knew Ellie the best. Once the cupcakes were finished we set them aside for the judging and prepared for the ultimate war.

This is where most of you might think I'm crazy but I knew the kids would love it. I dressed the kids in their armor (plastic garbage bags) set out a few ground rules and let the war begin. Basically throw cupcakes at each other until there were no more cupcakes to be found. (I baked 72 cupcakes) the kids had a BLAST!!!! the whole thing lasted about 10 min. or so. But according to them it was AWESOME. We cleaned up from the war Ellie chose the winning cupcake then opened presents. Believe it or not the clean up wasn't too bad. I offered everyone who helped a special treat (left over candy) So the clean up was quick All in all it turned out to be a memorable birthday party.