Games for Sweet Sixteen Candy Land Party
- Choose games that highlight the Candy Land theme while keeping sixteen-year-olds entertained.candy image by cherie from <a href='http://www.fotolia.com'>Fotolia.com</a>
Candy Land makes a wonderful theme for an extra-sweet sixteen party. Teens will enjoy the throwback to childhood nostalgia, and the board game opens up a range of tie-ins for games, decorations and even costumes. To keep sixteen-year-old guests entertained throughout the bash, plan a several structured games and alternate them with some unstructured time for socializing. - For a memorable game of giant proportions, set up the party venue to resemble a life-sized game of Candy Land. This game works especially well for an outdoors party or an especially large venue. Lay out sheets of colored cardboard or poster-board as the spaces winding through Candy Land. Enlist volunteers, hire acting students or provide costumes for the guests to play each of the roles. Decorate a refrigerator box, cut to shape, for the "Crooked Old Peanut Brittle House" and use red, noodle-shaped pool floats for the "Peppermint Stick Forest." Wrap them with stiff wire to achieve a cane shape, and apply spirals of white masking tape for a striped effect. Construct extra-large playing cards from poster-board.
- While Candy Land has its nostalgic charm, the simple game itself won't hold the attention of many teenagers. After using the giant Candy Land model for a regular game, use it for a cake walk-inspired game. Set baked goods or candies along various squares of the game. Play music as the guests walk along the game's colored squares. When you stop the music, all the guests must freeze, or they are called out. You can award candy (or cake) prizes to the last guest standing, or to whomever freezes while standing next to a goody. For more musical fun, the giant candy canes you've made double as perfect limbo sticks.
- To really engage your teen guests, prepare a game that's half Candy Land, half Clue. Invite guests to come dressed as their favorite Candy Land characters, or provide simple costumes when they arrive. For example, a simple crown or skirt will identify Princess Lolly. Hang a Candy Land board game and present the mystery: King Kandy has been kidnapped, and one of the guests present is the culprit. Model the mystery game on Clue, providing each guest with partial information and requiring that they interrogate one another to ultimately solve the case. Once the case is solved, let the guests find the real King Kandy, a friend or hired actor, bound and gagged in another room. Upon his release, naturally, the King decides to thank his saviors with a Candy Land-themed cake.
