Twenty-One-Twelve Creations: Nerf War Party

This year Mr K decided on a Nerf war party for his 9th birthday. I was a little hesitant to plan it because I was unsure of how parents would react, but I did it anyway because what boy wouldn't love a nerf war party? I had lots of things planned that I wanted to do and then I ran out of time and money so I kept it simple and guess what the boys still had a great time.

Here is his invitation I made using photoshop. I was so excited that I made the darts all by myself. I know it wasn't very hard, but it is the fact that I did it, instead of using clip art.

I was able to use my ward building for the party which turned out better because you need a lot of room for boys and nerf guns. This was the Tin can knock down. I planned on spray painting the cans orange and I totally forgot my signs dang it. They each took turns seeing who could knock down the most cans.

This was our target practice. I taped targets to the boxes and let the practice shooting.

This was our "Moving targets" each boy had to shoot three balloons.

Each boy was given a dart gun and 6 darts, that they got to take home as the party favor.

You can't have a Nerf war without safety glasses, so each boy was given a pair of glasses.

After we did the 3 stations we divided the boys into two teams and they had a battle.

each team used boxes from our target practice as extra shelter

Daxton using the box as a shield to walk up and shoot one of the boys.

After their battle, we had them do a relay starting from point A they had to crawl under the table shoot the target (taped to a box) run to the next stop shoot a balloon (moving targets) then knock down at least one can, run back and tag their next team mate.

Cake

This was his "smash cake" but since we were at the Church we decided that he could not smash his face into it. I know I know mean parents. I apparently forgot to take pictures of the cupcakes. We used icing to make targets on each cupcake.