"Giant" birthday party for 8 year old

kayleee

My son is turning 8 soon and I?m planning him a ?giant? birthday party. I?m making giant invitations and we?ll have a giant cupcake cake. The only activities I have planned are having the kids make giant shoes for them to wear and smashing the pi?ata with giant hands which will be oven mitts.

My son thinks this is such a cool idea, but I can?t think of any activities to go along with the GIANT theme.  Any ideas for food, games, or activities? Thanks!

Magdala9

There is book called Dooley the Giant where a young giant who hasn't quite grown into his height goes around roaring at people.  Could you have the kids pretend to be giants and give prizes for the biggest roar.

could you do a variant on pin the tail on the donkey and get the ring on the giant's finger.  Cut up a couple of plastic cups, put a giant drawing of a hand on poster board.  Use a school pushpin to pin the hand to the wall and then try to put the ring on the finger.

As for food, all I can think of is beans Jack and the Beanstalk keeps coming to mind. 

MaryWithoutSound

For food, it might fun to do mini versions of everything so the kids feel like they're the giants!

Aunt Lula

I am thinking of the movie "Iron Giant"  If money allows, you could give a copy of the DVD to each kid as a favor (buy one and see if you could copy it and reprint the covers). Instead of tiny /mini foods to make them feel like giants (I do like that idea though!) -- Decorate the party area with huge flowers/leaves so it looks like the kids are in the land of giants. (Check out "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" for ideas) Serve huge monster cookies and drinks from BIG cups.  You could make huge shoes out of paper mache and hide them in the corner.  Some novelty places sell giant toothbrushes and pencils. (I know- we are talking a lot of money now- just tossing out ideas)

Arez16

This could be a fun game and keep them occupied for a little while. I remember doing something similar to this in training when I was a resident assistant in college. 

http://wilderdom.com/games/descriptions/GiantsWizardsElves.html

 

The idea of mini food is cute. It would be hard to do all food giant so you could just focus on a few things being giant and everything else being min or baby. Giant Cupcake as you said, Giant Bowl of kid-friendly punch, giant veggie/dip tray (use veggies that can be cut into long, thick sticks) etc..

KScarlet

I've seen some plain white giant mugs at craft stores like Micheal's and Hobby Lobby. You could buy one of those for each of the kids to have them decorate with. 

There are also a lot of giant candy oriented things you could use:

Hershey's syrup bottles  
http://www.amazon.com/Giant-Hersheys-Syrup-Bottle-CHOCOLATE/dp/B004DP2WTK

Gummy worms
http://www.perpetualkid.com/the-worlds-largest-gummy-worm.aspx?utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=cse&utm_content=GUMI-0401-XX&utm_campaign=googlebasecse&gclid=CJa9vdeWzaoCFRkq2godzVlM8A

Gummy bears 
http://www.vat19.com/dvds/worlds-largest-gummy-bear.cfm

Boxes of Nerds
http://shop.itsugar.com/Exclusive_Nerds_Cereal_Box_p/is-1793.htm
*This has a bunch of little boxes inside it, so at the end of the party you could give them to all the guests. 

 You could make a sheet of rice krispy treats and say that it's one giant rice krispy treat. I've also seen molds for giant donuts. They also have those really big jaw breakers in most candy stores.