Caden's 6th Birthday Party

For Caden's 6th birthday he had a Super Hero party. We started with the kids decorating their own super hero masks (from walmart) and power bracelets (strips of foam from walmart) with stickers. They also got capes which I made out of those cheap thin plastic table cloths from walmart. Then they played Save the Citizen: we blew up a whole package of balloons (from walmart, of course. That's all we have in Rolla!) ahead of time and put them into an area we kind of coralled off with furniture. The blue ones were citizens, which needed to be put outside of the area. The green ones were kryponite, which they had to avoid because of course it would sap their powers and possibly kill them. The rest of the colors were super villains, which they had to beat up and destroy by punching, kicking, and then finally popping. The older kids helped by holding onto the 3-6 year olds so they wouldn't kill themselves trying to kill the villains. (Picture a 5 year old jumping with both feet onto a filled balloon. Definate possibility of bonkage there.)
Then they each got a supply of super spidey-web (can of silly string). Posted around outside were pictures of super villains which they had to Get with their webs. We also played rescue the kitten from the tree. Everyone wanted several turns climbing the tree to rescue the pink stuffed kitten. Also, Judd took them into the field behind the house and let them help launch a rocket, which had nothing to do with super heros but everyone thought it was cool. It went a couple of hundred feet high and came down on a parachute. The third time it got lost in a tree. Oh, well. A couple of the little girls who came told their moms, "It was actually fun!" (They apparently weren't really planning on enjoying a super hero party!)