Sunset of the Sabertooth Party Ideas

The Magic Tree House book series is an all-time favorite for many kids.  They are so imaginative ways that you can create a party them from these inspiring tales. 

As an example, Sunset of the Sabertooth is a story where the characters are whisked back to the Ice Age.  Lots of fun can be had around having your birthday child and his guests time travel back to the Ice Age too.

Make a batch of fossils for your party:

1 cup of used coffee grounds
1/2 cup of cold coffee
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of salt
Wax paper
Mixing bowl
Small objects to make impressions in the dough
Cookie cutter

Stir together the coffee grounds, cold coffee, flour, and salt until well mixed. Knead the dough together and then flatten it out onto the waxed paper.  Cut pieces for your fossils using cookie cutters. Let the fossils dry over night or place in a low heat oven for a few hours.

For some simple activities, try the following:

• When the kids arrive, hand out winter caps, gloves, and scarves to wear as they adventure back to the Ice Age.
• For a craft, have the kids make flute-like instruments (just like the Cro Magnons) out of Mammoth Bones.  Using paper towel tubes, have the kids wrap them in white butcher paper and decorate with any materials you like, markers, yarn, glitter glue, etc.  Anything goes!
• Use a closet (or some other dark space in your home) as your own time-traveling Magic Tree House and place a sign on the door that says, “Magic Tree House”  You can play the role of a time traveling scientist.  You will take the kids back to the ice age   Before they enter the machine give each kid a malaria pill (jellybean) and a toy shot injection first. 
• When they come out from the time travel machine, have the party room decorated with everything covered with white sheets and even the carpet too.  If you have any stuffed animals from the era or any animal things around your home place them in the room.  Of course, the ice age was rather sparse so you don’t need to do too much here.
• On a wall or a table, have one large piece of butcher paper that the kids can make Cave Drawings on when they arrive.
• Have a Woolly Mammoth Bone Hunt, using the fossils you made before the party.  Hide them throughout the party area and have the kids search for them.
• Organize a Caveman Obstacle Course…this is a great idea if you can have the party outdoors.  The kids can have a tug o’war, stone hopping, disc throwing, running around a set path of obstacles, jumping into a small pool of water (which hasn’t frozen yet!)
• Using an elephant (woolly mammoth) cookie cutter, cut out sandwiches, Jell-O Jigglers, cookies, etc. for the kids to enjoy.  Also a tiger cookie cutter would work well too. 
• Bake up an Easy Glacier Cake (inspiration from the movie Ice Age, but works well for this theme too.)