Please help with any ideas for a michael jordan/basketball birthday party for 6 year old.?

Question

the party will be for children and adult both. all ages...2.tweens..teens..and adults. basketball, jordan theme. need help with..activities, prizes, gifts etc. it will be a bbq party style in late july. please help with any ideas you may have. I live in a rural area..so renting any gyms etc..is out.

Answer 1

make b ball cupcakes,just make regular cupcakes dye white icing with orange food coloring,and a couple of the little things of black icing for the lining

Answer 2

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http://www.coolest-kid-birthday-parties....

http://www.orientaltrading.com/applicati...

http://www.party411.com/basketball_party...

Answer 3

orange cream soda shots, use little shot glasses and fill them with a orange cream soda. not only r they delicious but kids love doing adult things.

another idea would be to dye things orange. including food, kids would love eating vegetable colored orange, its just more fun!!

Answer 4

2 cakes, on in the shape of a 2 and the other in the shape of a 3.    If you have a trampoline and a basketball net, move the trampoline under the net and have a dunk contest.

That's all I have.

Answer 5

Well the cake can easily be shaped like a basketball :) I would decorate with the Bulls colors, maybe have a basketball video running on a TV for people to watch in passing. Have people dress up in their favorite team's colors.

Some game & activity ideas:

- go to www.wikipedia.org and make a trivia question sheet about MJ - give a prize to the person who gets the most right

- Have guests cut a piece of string that they think will fill the length of his shoe. (Before the event, find out his shoe size and make a footprint that will match to bring out to compare) Give a prize to the person who comes closest. You could do this with his height too.

- Do the classic networking game: Write the names of basketball teams on index cards (or players if your guests are knowledgeable in the sport) and when each guest arrives, tape one card to their back without showing them. They will have to ask other guests yes or no questions about their team/player to find out which one they have.

- Of course you'll have to have a basketball contest (I assume you have a hoop or could borrow one?) Play HORSE and have a slam dunk contest too.

- Is there a swimming pool where you could play basketball in the pool too? If you don't have one built in you can get a cheap inflatable one (would be a good prize too).

- Play sports related music at the party - you can find CDs like this at amazon.com or in party stores.

Keep track of the winners of each game/contest by creating a "leaderboard" or scoreboard and post updates.

Prizes can be anything basketball related - you can find some stuff at party stores or sporting good stores. What about tickets to a local college basketball game (if they will be on sale by that time)? You could also give away basketball DVDs like Hoosiers and Coach Carter.

Have fun!

Answer 6

I would decorate in the colors of the bulls, black and red and add some white, balloons, streamers, etc. you can do that in clusters, etc.  You can also get some posters and I'm sure a stand up of Michael Jordan and put that up in the party area.  The stand up is that cardboard cut out, if the b'day boy doesn't have one already, you can do a search online just put in "michael jordan cardboard stand up" and use if for the party and make that part of his gift after the party, I'm sure being he's a big fan, he'll LOVE it!

For games, you can do hot potato, but with a little basketball, and make it like "hot basketball", play it the same way as hot potato, but with a mini basketball.  You can go anywhere and get a ball that's a basketball, but smaller.  I just saw one this past week in Walgreens in the toy section.  So you can get the basketball and use that.

You can also do pass the mini basketball with your chin.  The kids sit in a circle and put the ball under their chin and their hands either behind their backs or at their side and they have to pass the ball to each other around the circle with only their chin, whoever drops it is out and whoever is left standing wins.  That game usually gets LOTS of laughs and I know my teen niece and her friends wanted to keep playing it over and over.  LOL

You can also do pin the basketball in Michael Jordan's hands.  Maybe get a poster of MJ and cut out some basketballs and blindfold the kids and instead of the traditional pin the tail on the donkey, you can have them get the ball in Mike's hand.  The one who comes closest or gets it in wins.  OR you can do, get the ball in the basket, same thing, only you hang a picture of MJ and a basket and they have to get the ball IN the basket and the one that comes closest wins.

You can do regular relay races, potato sack races, water balloon fights, three legged races, wheelbarrel where they hold the other person's ankles and race to the finish line.  You can also do the egg on the spoon race.  Go outside, give them a raw egg on a spoon and whoever gets to the finish line first without breaking the egg wins. etc.  

For prizes, being you have different ages, I'm not sure if you have boys and girls, or just boys but you can do a few things:

matchbox cars

lipgloss/nail polish, etc

Candy, those huge lollipops

a real basketball

a whiffle ball and bat

frisbee

Go to the dollar store, you can get a lot there that the kids will love.  You don't have to go broke giving out the prizes.  Go up and down some of the aisles and get a few things you know they'll like.

You can also set up an ice cream bar for the kids.  Get chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream and some toppings.  Sprinkles, whipped cream, chocolate syrup, cherries, etc.  At the dollar store they have the tall plastic sundae glasses, get them and let the kids make their own sundaes.

I hope these ideas help and that you have a GREAT party!

Answer 7

Have a NBA pinata, check this website for more ideas http://www.pinatas.com/NBA_Pinatas_s/479...

Answer 8

Does he even know who Michael Jordan is?  How about Kobe Bryant?  (since he's going to be MVP this year:).....obviously a free throw shooting contest has to be included:),  H-O-R-S-E, and a slam-dunk contest for the adults and older teens.....If you could find a basketball pinata, that would be great!   You can even buy little chocolate candies wrapped in foil that looks like basketballs .....