Messy Disgusting Derby Party

If you have a kid who loves to play in the dirt, then we have a party plan for you. This party is a mess, literally. Get your camera set up and prepare to laugh a lot at our messy Disgusting Derby!

Whipped Cream Face

The Disgusting Derby

First things first…

Make sure your invitation warns your guests to wear old clothes. Seriously, they may want to throw them away at the end of the party. Here’s our simple invitation:

Disgusting Derby Invitation

Now for the activities…

Divide your guests into groups of two people. Each pair will be a team. The activities will include a series of disgusting competitions.

Messy Marshmallow Drop

Supplies: Each team will need 5 large marshmallows, one cup of chocolate pudding, and one chair.

One person from each team will stand on a chair. The other will lay on the ground next to the chair. The goal is to dip a marshmallow in pudding, then drop it into the mouth of your partner laying on the ground. The team with the most marshmallow catches gets the points.

Messy Marshmallow Drop

Spitty Sticky Game

Supplies: One roll of LifeSavers per team (14 LifeSavers are in a roll.)

This game is seriously gross. One person in the pair will suck on the LifeSavers, then stick as many as they can on their partner’s face. They have 30 seconds. The team with the most LifeSavers on a face gets the points.

Spitty Sticky LifeSavers Game

Whipped Cream Toss

Supplies: One or two cans of spray whipped cream.

An adult will spray a blob of whipped cream on the top of each person’s hand. The kids will flip the whipped cream in the air and try to catch it in their mouths. (See video.) Give every player at least three chances. The team with the most successful catches gets the points.

Whipped Cream Toss

Whipped Cream Catch

Gross Goatees

Supplies: Each team will need a plastic cup with 1/8-1/4 cup corn syrup in it. They will also need a plastic cup with 1/2 cup of Life Cereal crumbs. (Make the crumbs by pouring Life cereal in a Ziplock bag and smashing it with a rolling pin or your hands.)

Once again, the teams will decide who will do each of two tasks. One person will paint a beard and mustache on their partner with their fingers and corn syrup. Then they will pat Life cereal crumbs on the syrup to create “facial hair.” So funny! Best beard wins the points.

Gross Goatee Bearded Boy

Disgusting Derby (Relay Race)

Supplies: Paper Plates, Creamy and slimy foods such as pudding, refried beans, canned tomato soup, cottage cheese, peanut butter, hummus, whipped cream, baby food, yogurt, and mud.

Combine the pairs into two large teams for a relay race. Players will run across the yard to a table. The table will have paper plates sitting on it. Each plate has one of the following items: pudding, refried beans, tomato soup, cottage cheese, peanut butter, hummus, whipped cream, baby food, yogurt, or mud. Anything slimy, sticky, or creamy will work! The plates will then be covered with a second plate so the contents are hidden. When the runner reaches the table, they point to a plate. An adult removes the cover and the player must smash his face in the contents before he can run back to tag the next person in line. Those who hesitate usually don’t win!

Smashing his face into chocolate pudding. Lucky choice!

Refried Beans Face — Covered in refried beans

Disgusting Derby- Tomato soup — Oooh! Tomato soup slime.

Whipped Cream Face

Water Fight

End the party with an epic water fight! It may help clean up your little mess-makers, or it may just make everything more sticky. Either way, it will be fun.

Treats

You can choose your favorite messy dessert. We served Dirt & Worms at our party. Yum!

Dirt and Worms Dessert Recipe

We hope this party is as much fun at your house as it was at ours!

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6-Foot Tall Party- Celebrate your child growing TALL

Six Foot Party

It’s time for a TALL Party

We have tall genes in our family. We knew our boys would all be taller than six feet as adults. So far, three of them have passed the mark. Our fourth son just turned twelve, so we’ll give him a couple more years.

When our oldest son reached the height of six feet, we decided we should celebrate. We threw a Six-Foot Tall Party for him, inviting our extended family to join in the tall celebration.

Dinner for this party was a lot of fun. I made a six-foot-long sandwich and a six-foot-long banana split!

I worked at Subway as a teenager, so I felt confident I could make my own sandwich. Years later, when we repeated this party for our younger sons, I just ordered six-foot sandwiches from a grocery store deli. That made it a lot easier, but here’s the instructions if you want to make your own.

6-Foot Dinner

I made enough bread dough for six loaves of bread. I rolled out 1/4 of the dough into a large rectangle, then cut it in three long strips. I braided the dough and placed it diagonally on a greased cookie sheet. I made four of these loaves- each just over 18″ long. I let them raise until they reached my desired size, then baked them for 24 minutes. (My regular loaves usually take 30 minutes to bake.)

I made these the day before the party, allowed them to cool, then wrapped them in plastic wrap.

On the night of the party, I lay them side by side on a table. I trimmed off the ends (except for the two on the far ends) and pushed them together so they appeared to be one six-foot loaf. I filled them with sandwich fixin’s and it was the freshest, yummiest six footer I’ve ever tasted!

We made our six-foot-long banana split in a rain gutter. Plastic rain gutters are very inexpensive at Lowe’s or Home Depot- less than $10. I scrubbed it clean and it made a perfect 6-foot long bowl for our ice cream. This is surely against health code, but lots of fun!

6-foot long ice cream sundae at the Tall Party

6-Foot Party Activities

When the guests arrived, we measured all of them on our growth chart. We need to know how tall everyone is at a Tall Party.

We included markings for a few famous people, including the tallest man and woman to ever live. Tallest woman: Zeng Jinlian of China (8′ 1 3/4”) Tallest man: Robert Wadlow (8′ 11.1”)

Growth Chart

Our first activity was a slam dunk contest in the driveway. We used a mini trampoline for the contest. Be careful if you decide to do this. Our little tramp’s legs fell off after a dozen dunks. Oops! An alternative idea would be to play the basketball game of HORSE but spell SIX instead.

Next we played volleyball, which is a tall person’s game but is also great for all sizes of people.

The next activity was a game we call “Line Up”. In this game, you divide your group into two teams. The person in charge then calls out a sorting category and the teams race to be the first group lined up in the proper order.

Lined up in order by darkest to lightest hair color

Lined up in order of favorite Star Wars character’s height. Chewbacca to R2-D2!

Here are a few examples of sorting categories: Height (tallest to shortest), Age (oldest to youngest), Hair length, Shoe size, fingernail length, birth date by month- not year (January to December), number of times you’ve been to Disneyland, your favorite Star Wars character by height, your favorite sport alphabetically. You can think of all kinds of things! Make the list and give it to the caller. He then begins each line-up race by saying something like, “Think of your favorite food. What letter does that food begin with? Now line up alphabetically A to Z.) Fun!

Tall People Game- Describe and guess the famous tall people!

Our last game was one we call the “30 Second Game”. Again, we divided our group into two teams. Previously, I had printed a long list of famous people (and a few neighbors and friends) who are over 6’0″ tall. I cut up the list so there was one name on each slip of paper and put the names in a bowl. The teams took turns having one person give clues to their team. Their goal was to get their team to guess as many names as they could in thirty seconds. Teams took turns, trading the clue giver each time, until the bowl was empty. Here’s my list: Tall People List

Sixlets are a great party favor for a Tall Party — Sixlets are a perfect party favor for a 6-Foot Tall Party

Everyone took home a party favor: a long pack of Sixlets! Hooray for tall people!

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Epic Game Show Competition

You are going to love this activity!!

We created this competition for a youth activity for 36 teenagers. It was a hit! We have shared it with other groups who have had great success using it for both adult gatherings and large family gatherings. All we can say is, “You’re welcome!”

We will include all of our clues and questions but you may need to adapt some of them to your own situation. Our youth were all members of the same church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) so we have some songs and trivia questions specific to their faith. It should be easy for you to swap these clues/questions to fit your own needs.

Large Group Game Show Competition

Instructions

Divide your group into teams. You’ll need about 6-9 people per team.

Spread your teams out so they are each sitting in their own semi-circle. Make sure they are positioned so they can watch the other teams when it’s not their turn.

Divide each team into three sub-groups. Our teams had nine people so we had three groups of three people on each team. If you have less people, some individuals will need to participate in two sub-groups. Each threesome will be assigned to be Artists, Actors or Singers. For example, my team has seven people: Roy, Joy, Kate, Tate, Jill, Phil, and Bill. We decide that Roy, Joy and Kate will be our artists. Tate, Jill and Phil will be our actors and Bill, Joy and Tate will be our singers. Three for each competition.

Artists: The artists receive a card with three clues. They can look at the clues together and decide who will draw each clue. The artists all draw on the whiteboard at the same time. They have 40 seconds for their team to guess all three words. They get one point for each correct word. Then, if the guessers can solve the riddle of how their three words are connected or what they have in common, they get a bonus point.

Example Clue: Car, Tree, Elephant / Bonus: They all have trunks.

Go around from team to team, allowing each team to have a turn while the others watch. If you have time, you can have a second round.

Actors: The three actors work together to act out four group-charades clues. They may act the clues out in any order. Their team has 80 seconds to solve as many clues as possible. One point per correct answer. Have an adult (non-player) hold the clues to the side where the actors can see the clues, but their team cannot.

Example Clue Card: Zoo, Olympics, Trick or Treating, Jonah & the Whale

Go around from team to team, allowing each team to have a turn while the others watch. If you have time, you can play a second round.

Singers: The game is “Name That Tune”. The singers have 60 seconds to name as many songs as they can on their list. Each singer must hum/da-de-da two songs on the list. No words allowed. Again, have a non-player hold the clues to the side where the singers can see the clues, but their team cannot. The songs can be sung in any order. One point for every correct answer.

Example Clue Card:

Amazing Grace (Hymn)
Piano Man (Billy Joel)
Let It Go (Frozen)
Rewrite the Stars (Greatest Showman)
Ring of Fire (Jonny Cash)
Shake It Off (Taylor Swift)

Go around from team to team, allowing each team to have a turn while the others watch.

College Bowl: The final game is a trivia showdown. Everyone stays with their team in their own semi-circle. Everyone stands up. The host circles the room, going from team to team asking trivia questions. One person from the team must answer the question. The team can discuss who will answer the question after they hear it. (Example: Finn says he knows this one, but Kate does too. The team decides to let Kate take this one and save Finn for another category. Maybe no one knows the answer. Allie volunteers to take a guess and use up her turn.) Once an answer is given, that person must sit down. Each person only gets to answer once. Right or wrong, they sit down after they answer. Right answers receive one point. As the game progresses, each team has fewer and fewer players to answer. The last person standing must answer the last question. No questions is ever repeated. You simply get it or you don’t—no stealing. A time limit is usually not necessary, but you could put a 20 second clock on each answer if it seems necessary. It is important that every team have an equal number of players in the College Bowl. If a team has less, one of their players should be randomly chosen to answer two questions.

Note to Host: Write/Print the clues on individual cards as shown below for the artist, actors, and singers. Do not print the answer to the riddles on the artist cards. The College Bowl can be printed as-is for the host to give a clue in each category for each team member. We had 9 people on four teams (36 people), so we needed 36 total questions– 4 questions from 9 categories. Adapt as needed for your group. My list has many more questions in case your group is larger than ours.

Print our clues/questions here: Large Group Game Show Competition