Hunger Games 16th Birthday Party – Favors & Games

My youngest niece LOVES The Hunger Games (books and movies), and I really like them, too.  Last year, she was talking with a friend of mine about how she would like to have a Hunger Games party.  So since she turned 16 this year, I threw her one.  The party was this past Saturday at a park somewhat close to where she lives.  Thankfully, the ridiculous heat wave broke a few days before the party so we weren’t dealing with triple digit weather.  Almost everyone (except the few of my friends who came) were about 2 hours late to the party. Ugh!  I\’m just going to forget about that and focus on the crafts and party itself.

I was in a mad rush to get everything done since I had been also working on a Minion party for Munchkin #2, but since I’d been brainstorming since last September, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do.

First, the goody/favor bags:

Semi-Completed bag

These bags should have been filled it, but with 50 to make, I ran out of time and was only able to get the outlines done.

The bags were purchased on eBay, I first printed and cut the Mockinjay image from cardstock and used this as the stencil.

Stencil

Then I traced the image onto the bag with a pen (use whatever will work for your bag).

Pen tracing

Then I went over the lines with Tulip brand dimensional fabric paint in Metallic Gold.

Arrow Pencil Favor

Finished Arrows

I found these 18\” black plastic straws on eBay.  I filled with 2 Pixy Stix straws (purchased at my local Dollar Tree) in each black straw.  These straws could have held 3 Pixy Stix each, but I felt that two was more than plenty of sugar.

Carefully seal the straw by melting the plastic.

This creates quite a professional looking seal.

Sealed straw

I traced a fletching shape onto black cardstock. Then attached using my ATG.

Cardstock fletching.

Other favors:

District 11 Fruit Snacks

Catching Fire Balls

District 4 Fish

District 2 Warheads

District 1 Ring Pops

Name Badges (Lanyards purchased on eBay)

I also made some notepads for District 7 as seen here.

Quote Fans:

Effie Trinket Quotes

Peeta Mellark Quotes

Katniss Everdeen Quotes

More Katniss Quotes

Johanna and Finnick Quotes

Expecting a much warmer day, I made some fans to keep everyone cool.  I had quotes from Katniss, Effie, Finnick, Peeta, Cinna, Boggs, Johanna, Gale, and President Snow.