So Pam and I have been wanting to post pictures of the idea we came up with for Noah's fourth birthday. We asked Noah what kind of cake he wanted and he was adamant that he wanted an Angry Bird Cake. We also thought it would be fun to have a scavenger hunt and so we brain stormed for ideas of what we could do. Here is what we came up with. When Noah and the other kids woke up in the morning all of Noah's presents were wrapped and laid out in the family room. After a little bit of fondling we had some breakfast and got read to go to the spray park. Once the kids were all in the van ready to go. I ran back inside and took away all of Noah's presents and replaced them with a note that Pam had prepared:
I'll explain the note and other preparations we made before we left for the spray park but first here are some pictures of a great morning we had at the departure bay spray park
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| Mady |
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| Katie |
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| The birthday boy |
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| Gaby and Olivia sound asleep at the park |
So after spending the morning at the park Noah was excited to go home and open up his presents. He ran in the house and found the above note. This was the start of the scavenger hunt, which lead to cup towers (picture below on the left). These had been placed in and around the house (out of the wind!!) with more clue behind them. So before we started the scavenger hunt we told Noah to come to our bedroom, where we had planted three present eggs (Pictured below on the right). We put these out while the kids were out in the vehicle (don't worry an adult was in the vehicle with them!).
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| The note with the egg presents |
These eggs contained three (as we had three kids participating) plush angry bird toys, which we had gotten Noah for his birthday (we were just going to use random balls but got these on sale). We sat the kids in a circle to open the egg presents one at a time. We turned on fun kids music. Each time the music stopped the child had to pass the egg to the right.
If you look at the above picture of the cup tower you'll notice that we tapped pictures of pigs to some of the cups in the tower. We got these pictures of angry bird characters from a dollar store colouring book. We coloured and cut out the characters. I guess we could have used stickers as well.
Back to the scavenger hunt! So behind each tower was another note with another clue, which they could only access after knocking the tower down with their plush toys. This lead us around the property until we got to the last cup tower in the basement that was extra large and had the presents behind it. They knocked this down and then Noah opened his reclaimed presents.
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| Finding another clue in Mady's room |
Noah really wanted the cake to be an angry bird cake, but then at the last minute a day before the party after everything was in place he wanted an orca cake. Pam made this delicious cake that was a big hit!
All in all it was a really fun day. It took a few hours of prep and the cups, wrapping paper and almost everything else we were able to get at the dollar store. Noah still talks about how fun it was... I think Pam and I had more fun planning everything though!
