Doctor Who Themed Party Games

After (daftly) agreeing to a Doctor Who themed party by one of my children we actually came up with some good games.

If you ever wish to do the same then I am happy to pass on the following to you.

Emperor’s Dare  (In this case relating to the Emperor Dalek)

For a few weeks before the party or event, save the inner cardboard tubes out of kitchen roll.  You can decorate these if you like (we just used some tissue paper which was cheap and cheerful). 

Get a large piece of cardboard (again maybe save some from an old box or from Christmas toys).

Make random holes throughout the cardboard large enough to be able to feed the cardboard tubes through, so that they will stick out more than two thirds at the front.  If necessary sellotape them at the back.

In each of these write a ‘dare’ for the children to have to act out.  These should obviously be suitable for their ages without offending or totally embarassing any of the children.

Examples:

1. Shout out loud I am the prettiest girl in the world
2. Tell the person on your right ‘you’re looking good’
3. Tell a joke (if you don’t know one, use this one - what’s green and stands in a corner - a naughty frog!)
4. Sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in a mouse voice
5. Pretend to be a frog and hop from one side of the room to the other
6. Balance on one leg for 30 seconds
7. Say the nursery rhyme Mary had a little lamb in a very posh voice
8. Act like a rabbit and say “hey I’m bugs bunny, what’s up doc"
9. Turn to the person on your left and say “I’m so very pleased to meet you” in an robot voice
10. Stand up, put your arms out wide and say “I’m a tree,  hug me”

Start with the Birthday person and let them choose first.  Then get that child to nominate the next person and so on.

GUESS THE DOCTOR WHO ALIEN

The BBC website have some great pictures that you can download.  All you need to do (providing you have a colour printer) is download the pictures, save them and print. 

Tip: To save toner if you have a software package that will allow you to take out some of the background colour, reduce the image size and crop, then it may be worth your while to edit the pictures in this way. 

We used a roll of cheap lining paper and cut a piece large enough to stick on 12 pictures with blu tack. 

Don’t forget to write out labels with the characters names on as well.

There are two ways you can play this game.   Either get the children in two groups to identify, from scratch, the names of the characters and see how many they get right.  The group with the most right obviously win.

Or, give them the labels and again in two groups time them as to how quickly they can match the character label with the character picture.

Tip:  To save any unfair advantage, while one group has their turn, don’t let the other group watch.

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Nodding Dogs, Ducks and Buckets of Stress Part 2

So where was I . . . . oh yes, so we now have a temporary accountant, which is better than none at all.

Friday was spent building a TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space in case you’ve ever wondered what it stands for) in our porch.  Why, because if you’ve read my blog before you may recall I agreed to organising a Doctor Who themed party for my eldest son’s Birthday party.

I’d bought some cheap lining paper and duly spent Friday morning painting loads of paper blue.  I then covered up all the windows in our mainly glass porch, added a few windows and the police notice and hey presto a TARDIS.

Okay so it was my interprepration of a TARDIS and I had comments ranging from "what’s with the blue porch" (my next door neighbour), to people who guessed it was a TARDIS (but only when they got up close).

I didn’t take any photos of it unfortunately or maybe fortunately, but my son loved it, so I didn’t care.

My son and I came up with some cracking games for it which I’ve put under articles if you’re ever interested in doing a Doctor Who party.

I have to say the party was great, the girls were much better than last year and overall the whole event went well. Even the weather was brilliant.  In amongst the very wet weekend, somebody in the heavens was being kind to us and ensured that neither the party nor the rest of the day were wet.

I have to say though with all the preparation for this party, plus my son had some friends stay over and we had relatives visit the next day to say I was tired for work Monday was an ‘under exaggeration’.  (New term there, not even sure if it’s in the dictionary!).

I’ve been carrying out a job that involves spreadsheets and over 900 records that need amending on the computer.  During the afternoon I could feel my eyes going.  As I face a window and there weren’t many people in I just closed my eyes for a couple of seconds.

Trouble is I must have gone out like a light in those milli seconds because the next thing I know my head is jerking upwards in that nodding dog kind of way.  It happened a few times and each time I sneakily looked around in case anyone thought I was having some kind of seizure.

I pretended to be looking around and made a few movements in an exaggerated way so that it seemed normal!  What was I thinking?  There is nothing normal in your head lolling around while you’re at work now is there?

This has never happened before and thankfully no one seemed to notice.  I did have to get up from my desk and walk away just to liven myself up.

You can tell how tired I was.  When I was settling the children down for the night one of them asked for a cuddle, so I said "just 5 minutes then".  Two hours later I woke up.  Hey Ho!

And finally, the next morning we had a duck land in our garden.  This seems to happen this time of year and previously we’ve had a pair of ducks waddle down our road looking for food.

Anyway I threw some bread out and took a photograph of him.  But, as I didn’t know how to turn the flash off, he was entirely unimpressed with me trying to act like paparazzi that he flew off. 

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