Here are some great tips on throwing a firefighter themed Child Birthday Party.
Put Out the Fire
Create targets that look like fire and have kids throw water balloons at it to ‘put out the fire.’
Supplies:
- 1 large cardboard box and strong scissors
- Red and orange paint to create the look of the flame
- 2 oversized waterproof buckets
- Duct Tape
- Enough water balloons so each kid will have three to toss
1. Create a homemade target with a large water bucket and faux cardboard flames:
- Use scissors to cut out enough “flames” to duct-tape onto two large buckets. You want two sets of flames for each bucket: tall flames that will be duct-taped to the back of the bucket (make the ‘flames’ twice as high as the bucket) and one set of flames to be duct-taped on the front of the bucket (make this set of ‘flames’ only as high as the lip of the bucket so the water balloons will fall in).
- Paint the cardboard cutout flames with red and orange paint to make them look like fire, then allow the paint to dry completely.
- Use duct tape to attach the taller set of flames to the back of the bucket, and the short set of flames to the front. Repeat for the second bucket, and now you have two sets of targets.
2. Line kids up into two teams ten – twenty feet away from the buckets (each team should have its respective bucket).
3. Give each kids 3 water balloons to throw at the fire targets.
4. Keep tally of how many times the team hits the fire bullseye, and whichever team hit’s the fire the most with water balloons wins.
