Scooby Doo Party- Games & Activities

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This party was for a five year old boy.  It was held outside.

Games & Activities

As the children arrived, they jumped in the Bounce House until everyone was there.

We then ate lunch and as they finished, the children got to pick out stick on tattoos.

Once that gang was fed & had their tattoos, they were told that the phantom had stolen all of Scooby's dog bones!  Could they help find them?  We had hidden about 60 milk bones around the back yard for them to hunt. The four & five year olds LOVED this.

Next we told the kids that ghosts had stolen Scooby's treasure as we lead them to the "Ghost Garden".  Here we had white balloons that I had inserted quarters into before inflating.  Then I drew faces on each balloon with a black sharpie.  The children had to pick a ghost and pop it to get the treasure back.  They got to keep the quarters.

By now, the table was cleared of the lunch food, and we returned to pick out stuffed puppies from "Scooby's Adoption Center".  The kids each picked out their puppy and then made a beaded collar for them.  They were also able to make a matching bracelet for themselves.


The stuffed dogs, beads & elastic string were all purchased from Oriental Trading.  We kept with the blue/green/orange/purple color theme.

This activity was great for reinforcing the patterns that they had been learning about in school recently.





We sang happy birthday and had cupcakes.

 Then it was time for the pinata.

I made the conscious decision to get a pull-string pinata, since I couldn't see beating up a Scooby pinata with a stick!

We've tried pull string pinatas in the past where each child took a turn pulling one string... and it never worked (we always ended up just ripping it & dumping the candy out from above their heads).

This time we had all of the kids select a string and pull at the same time.

This worked so much better!  The pinata opened, and all of the children were centrally located under it, so everyone got to scoop up goodies.






I made little orange & blue "Doggie Bags" for them to hold their treats in.











The party wrapped up with children returning to the bounce house for a bit.

Additional ideas

-"Mummy Wrap"- Split kids into teams and have them pick one person to be the Mummy.  Give them a roll or two of toilet paper and have them race to make a mummy out of the selected team member.  This could roll right into a game of "Mummy Tag" where the mummies are "it".

-There are lots of ideas online for making a scavenger hunt, putting rhyming clues at each game/activity.

-We did a Doggie Bone Hunt, but you could also do a "Doggy Bone Toss", where the bones had to be thrown into a doggy bowl placed a few feet away.  Or, if really ambitious, you could make a carnival-style sign of Scooby with a hole for his mouth that the kids could throw the bones through!

-"Scooby, Scooby, Phantom"- Played just like Duck, Duck, Goose!

-Pin the tag on Scooby

-"Velma's Glasses"- One child is selected to be "Velma" and closes their eyes & counts to ten.  Meanwhile the other children are given a pair of glasses to pass behind their backs.  Velma then has to guess who has them.

Add your ideas in the comments below!

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