Fear Factor 8th Birthday Party!

So, David wanted a Fear Factor birthday party, and we did just that! Our first game, no hands, plunge your face into the bowl of goop and retrieve the piece of gum, the first to blow a bubble wins! For dinner we had black pasta that is dyed with squid ink...many kids wouldn't eat just for the look. It is no different than spinach or tomato pasta..it tastes normal, just a different color. I am sad I don't have a picture of David's birthday cakes..Machiel was in charge of the camera while I ran the "show"...needless to say, he doesn't like to take pictures. But David had a NY style vanilla bean cheesecake with raspberry coulis and I also made a "dirt" cake, with crushed choclate cookies for dirt, chocolate pudding for mud and candy worms and rocks..this was a huge hit..and it was good I made 2 kinds of cake as only 2 other children besides David liked cheesecake. This was a really fun party! We didn't have an obstacle course outside due to crap weather...no thanks!

I know this is a random kid..but Machiel is not good a t taking pictures...and I can't do it while I am leading the party...so here is a pic of the jelly bean game we did. I got some boxes of the Bertie Bots every flavor beans, put them all in a bowl, and had the kids pick papers with colors written on them and they had to eat the jelly bean of that color. Some got skunk spray, some rotten egg, some vomit...while others lucked out with toothpaste, pear or tuttiefruttie. This game was a much bigger hit than I would have ever imagined! The kids wanted to keep on going all night! It was really fun! And some of those kids have iron stomaches! Obviously, fear is not a factor for them!

Find your prizes in the Muck! I made this bowl full of muck and the kids had to be blind folded and put their hands into this goo to find their prizes. It is funny...it was all ordinary things that I am sure most of them eat every week. Spaghetti noodles, rice, canned creamed corn, canned cream of mushroom soup, and some food coloring with a few fake (but real looking) worms. As youcan see David is holding his nose...a lot of the kids did that...it didn't smell bad really...the whole mind over matter thing!