Superhero birthday party (ages 2 to 10)

Activities

• Make 'Power Portraits'. On thick craft paper, trace and cut out two body outlines of each guest. Have the children decorate the outlines - one as a front and the other as a back - using felt-tip pens, crayons, scraps of fabric, poster paints and glitter. Staple the sheets together, leave an opening at the top. Stuff the 'bodies' with newspaper then seal the head and prop up around the party room.
• Make your own action hero comics. Have each guest draw and colour a panel featuring his or her favourite action hero character.
Assemble the panels to make a funny story.
• Make fabric capes. Have the children decorate the capes with glitter and stars.
• Persuade an adult friend to come to the party dressed as your child's favourite superhero for a surprise visit.

Food ideas

• Add various food colourings to fruit drinks for a super hero thirst-quenching energy formula.
• Build a superhero sandwich. Cut two baguettes length-wise and fill with layers of meat, cheese, tomato, and lettuce.

Bake an action hero cake:

1. Bake a sponge cake; cool.
2. Decorate the cake with an emblem from your child's favourite action hero's costume using coloured icing.
3. Set small action figures all over the cake.

Party bags

• Send the guests home with small plastic action figures and comics.
• Hand out the 'Power Portraits' and capes that the kids made.

Copyright 1997 by Penny Warner. Reprinted from The Kids' Pick-a-Party Book with permission of Meadowbrook Press.

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