Planes birthday party for a 5 year old is soaring into the sky!

Now that we had all this stuff, we were ready to soar into the sky and have some fun! Here is my cheat-sheet for the party!

1. 1. Decorate your plane Supplies: various party crafts; star stickers, flower stickers for the girls, multicolored duck tape for everyone Music: soft

1. Flight school Everyone flies in the circle. Fly fast, slow, high up, low, make a turn Music: fast (like Beatles, “Roll Over Beethoven)
2. No sight of the critter here! Let’s fly all around the world with a plane race and search for him along the way. Supplies: Big map. Just like in a cartoon, we started in New York, so we pointed to the North America and decided to go south, to South America.
3. South America: sort out the animals that live in a rain forest. Supplies: big box of stuffed animals (you can borrow some from your friends, if you don’t have enough variety, or print out some pictures).
4. Australia: red light-green light at the coral reef. Help the clown fish and his friends get passed the big shark. Supplies: toy shark? We had a toy dolphin, but kids imaginations are terrific.
5. Antarctic: encounter the penguins… and, join their locomotion dance! Everyone forms a train and walks in line like a penguin, jumps, crawls, kicks feet sideways, waves hands, flaps wings, runs, flies like a seagull, swims like a whale… Supplies: none Music: Locomotion
6. Africa: Animal charades. Split up into teams, each team decides what African animal they want to show and the whole team starts acting that animal out, while the opposing team guesses! Supplies: none
7. Europe: Freeze dance. Head to UK, the land of Winnie The Pooh, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins… and English Queen! Everyone is getting invited to the ball, puts on a beautiful cape (colorful scarves), gets to hold his partner’s hand in a beautiful processions into the imaginary throne room, and joins the special dance. When there is music, everyone is dancing, once the music stops, so do the dancers! Again, no losers, no winners, just fun! Supplies: scarves tied as capes and skirts (optional) Music: Anything your kids like to dance to. Ricky Martin’s “La Vida Loca worked great!
8. Crossing Atlantic Ocean: parachute. It was fun to get to fly in a colorful plane from country to country, but this last flight was absolutely spectacular: they’ve got to fly over the “waves of the parachute (thanks for other parents for help) Supplies: parachute (if you don’t have one – a large curtain)
9. North America – Obstacle Course Race to New York! To navigate, we gave each kid a radar: a ball that starts blinking when you kick or throw it. Turned down the lights. – fly around the circle – fly high, low, slow, fast – fly in between the skyscrapers (other parents were utilized again – this time they were the long line of obstacles-skyscrapers and planes had to maneuver between them to reach to the other side) – The best: in a tunnel – under a parachute, throwing “radar- ball ahead, to light up our way through Supplies: other parents, parachute, radar.
10. Finish Line! Tied to a toy plane, the lost critter “flies into the room.
11. Honorary celebration for all the winners in our race: every pilot gets a trophy for winning the race and a pilot licence for navigating his plane so well!