Mud Run Boys Party

We had a great time at the Mud Run party for my ten year old boy.  It was a lot of work {for my husband} but a lot of fun.  The party goers (mostly the boys) said what a great party it was over and over again.  The best comment was from my friend.  She told her son to get as dirty as he wanted and to throw all the mud he wanted because she was NEVER going to have a party like this for him!

We are cool parents!

Our invite just said "Bring on the mud!"  I printed it on card stock with a brown background... easy and effective.  We told the invitees to wear something to get muddy, bring a change of clothes, and a towel.  This was a 2 hour party including food, cake, and presents.

We lined a path to the bathroom with Plastic Drop Cloths, 9' x 12' -  a helpful hint to keep the dirt off the floor as much as possible.

I made this DIY Mason Jar hand wipes so they could wash their hands without going inside.

Here are the obstacles we had.  It does help to have some property to dig up.  You could probably do the deeper pits shallow if you needed to keep your grass pretty.

All of our mud was top soil purchased from Walmart.  We did not want to use the sand out of the yard because we did not know what kinds of organisms were living there. {yuck}

We used Caution Tape, 1000' to rope off the course- it added some color and some spunk!

When I say "we" I really me "he".  I coordinated invitations, food and drinks.  :)

This was the slip and slop.  Using plastic sheeting we made a slip and slide that slid right into a pool of mud.  We added a little baby soap to make it super slippery and kept the hose running on it the whole time.  The kids congregated to this even after they were done running.  It was definitely a fun one!

The spider web was not muddy but a way to add an obstacle to the course.  We tied up random strings to two trees.

This is a baby pool filled with night crawlers we purchased from the bait shop.  It was to add a little yuck.  The kids started throwing the worms on each other- quite fun!

This obstacle was like barbed wire.  My son created it with some orange tape.  They had to crawl under the tape in a pile of mud.

This was called the tunnel of yuck.  My husband  used pallets to make the tunnel, threw some old bags of mulch under it and some left over popcorn {?} from the movies.  The mulch really did not smell good during the hot summer day.  He ran a tube sprinkler over the top that continued to  sprinkle down water the entire run.

We also did an over under obstacle using the caution tape.  My husband dug out two pits.  With the caution tape, the kids had to go under into the pit, jump the tape, and then under into another pit.

We added in some tires just to run through also.

Overall, tons of fun!  Some manual labor is involved but this party really does make you cool parents!

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A Play Doh Party

My son's birthday is coming up next week. We had been debating over what type of party to have for him. His two best friends are his two cousins. So we thought we would take the three of them to a water park for the day and have a great time, just the three of them.

He climbed into bed with me yesterday morning and told me he wanted a play doh party. I thought that was a great idea. He is a little obsessed with play doh these days. We ran out a while back (a lot gets thrown away since it does not make it back into the container) and I have not had all the ingredients to make it. He went to a party the other day and he and his sister got a small 1 oz container in his party favor bag. He treated it like gold- until we did not put it away and it ended up in the garbage.

And then he thought of this idea... so we are going with it! His party is in less than two weeks, so I went to the play doh site, and they have these great "snow globe" type containers to save your creations. We are going to use those for party favors. We also got a bunch of colors of play doh and cutters to play with during the party. There are some listings for these types of parties, some actually make the dough. Not me- I go for the real thing! But I have not idea how he came up with the idea... sounds like fun to me!