7 Overlooked Birthday Party Venues
Activity:
Each child is paired with a Merle, Howard or Bernadette for a card game of their choosing. "Go Fish" is always a good place to start.
- When the game is over, children and their elderly friends make their way to the Main Living Area to share an Ensure shake while watching a soap opera on a fuzzy television;
- Everybody comes back together in the Game Room for a wild game of Bingo (creativity is encouraged).
- Goodie Bag: dentures, Depends, Lysol
#2 SEWAGE PLANT
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#3 CONSTRUCTION SITE
Activity:
- Buy a taco from the taqueria truck
- Baseball with 2 x 4's
- Pin the nail on the donkey
- Goodie Bag: tire repair kit (the parents will need it after picking their kids up), quick guide to Spanish, hard hat, sunscreen
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#4 GREYHOUND BUS STATION
Activity:
- Get each child's taken with a random (sometimes toothless) stranger
- Pose in the bus driver's seat for another picture
- Go crazy on the vending machines with the allotted $2
- Take a lap around the block on the bus
- Goodie Bag: a gallon of antibacterial gel, complimentary bus ticket, toilet seat liners
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#5 ELECTRICAL YARD
Activity:
- Hide & go seek (main objective: don't touch any structures)
- Release balloons & watch them sizzle as they touch the wires
- Goodie Bag: $$$ towards any ER co-payments, spark-resistant umbrella, the game "Operation" (the zapping sound will bring back good memories of your little boo's party)
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#6 DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES (DMV)
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**The party hostess (who looks a lot like the lady on the right) will call out the numbers for the angry people waiting to have their licenses renewed while lighting your child's birthday candles with her cigarette lighter.
Activity:
- Get your child's vision tested
- Quickly & secretly decorate the State Trooper's windows with shoe polish
- Pass out lollipops to irritable strangers
- Goodie Bag: fake ID (be sure to have the parents bring a small picture of their child to the party), lollipops, gargantuan container of antibacterial gel
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#7 AUTO SALVAGE YARD
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Keep in mind that these ideas can be tweaked to celebrate anything- retirement, a newborn baby, etc. We just know you will have unforgettable celebration at any one of these fine establishments.
Lastly, I like for this blog to be INTERACTIVE. I feed off of your creativity & feedback (yumyumyumyum). So, please, add any venues I may have missed, add items to the goodie bags, etc. I will then put together a comprehensive guide & sell the heck out of it on Craig'sain'tgonnalikethisList.
Lastly, I like for this blog to be INTERACTIVE. I feed off of your creativity & feedback (yumyumyumyum). So, please, add any venues I may have missed, add items to the goodie bags, etc. I will then put together a comprehensive guide & sell the heck out of it on Craig'sain'tgonnalikethisList.