I was in charge of the elementary school's Halloween Carnival for a few years and my husband and I created some games! Now that I don't have elementary kids, I'm having to find other places to use these. Q did all the woodworking for each of the games after we finalized a design. Then he'd pass the bones on for me to paint. The favorite game has got to be life sized Operation because of the extra electronics. Q did all the inner workings and even computer programming to make the game actually light up and play. There are winning and losing sounds and the thermometer bubble lights up different colors. Seriously cool. Life Sized Operation: Player presses the digital pad to begin and it shuffles through all the pieces and chooses one. Player must then use the tongs to pick up that piece before the timer runs out. Hamster Hazards: electronic hamsters roll around in balls and last not in a hazard hole wins. 9 can play at once. Pig Racers: 5 electro
My 12 year old Slytherin girl is an exceptionally picky eater. She won't really eat cake, won't eat ice cream unless it is homemade vanilla. She lives on bread and cereal. I actually had to say yesterday, "No, you can't make brownies, you didn't eat dinner. You only ate twelve rolls for lunch!" and then laughed for five minutes when I realized what I said. That story being said, she wouldn't want cake and ice cream for her birthday party. For her last bday party I made her a giant Reece's Peanut Butter Cup which she adored. This year her friend party is a bonfire with smores. She made a side comment, "I want a candle on a marshmallow. That can be my birthday cake." But that stuck with me and I saw in my head this whole round marshmallow tier for a cake. Then as I was developing it in my head I decided it needed a graham base and chocolate layer. Thus, Marshmallow Cake was born! No pic of the graham layer, but here's the