If you are familiar with the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series, you know about Camp Half-Blood. For those who don't, it's the secluded camp where all demi-gods live and train (these are the half-human, half-god children of the ancient Greek gods). So....
Heather wanted so badly for her birthday party to center around mythology and the Percy Jackson series that we created our own Camp Half-Blood. This was the first week that we could celebrate Heather's birthday in this very fun fashion (her birthday was in July), and all of her party guest were Percy Jackson experts. The photos below show some of the fun had during our camp experience...
These awesome camp t-shirts were created by my genius husband, otherwise known as Hades. The registration forms were collected, the children divided into Cabins (cabin choices resulted in a cabin for Zeus, Athena and Poseidon according to the registration forms). Then the camp t-shirts were distributed and the activities began!
The happy campers pose for their camp photo.
The activity schedule began with combat skills. Here is the sword training...
and the archery practice.
Hades (Kelly) jumped in and became the target for the archers.
The Quest to retrieve Persephone's Pearls began in Medusa's lair.
Then on to a lush garden where a Fury was waiting to ambush the children.
And finally to the River Styx where the children had to cross to retrieve the last pearl.
After retrieving all three pearls, they were smashed (a.k.a. water balloon fight), and the children returned to camp. The next activity was a game of Capture The Flag over at the park.
We had many determined campers on both the Red and Blue teams who were out to win.
Unfortunately for the Blue team, the Red team was victorious...
in all three games played.
All the campers were great sports, and the activities ended with a feast in the Great Hall.
After some super fun present opening, we continued to feast on Heather's Pegasus cake, an Oreo creation from Dairy Queen that was out of this world!
Happy 11th Birthday, Heather!
5 comments:
Yay! Looks like fun. You were very creative with the party. Gavin is so glad you could have fun with it.
I want to visit Camp Half-Blood too, but can we ask Pierce Brosnan to be there to dispense advice and handsome, brooding looks? You outdid yourself, as usual, and it looks like everyone had a blast. You are quite the fun mom, you know . . . :)
by the way, the word I have to type in is "plumpsup." What is the computer trying to tell me this morning? I mean, really!
Wow you really know how to throw a party!
You are SUCH a fun mom!!! Love it.
Such a great party! Love that she wanted a Percy Jackson party.
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