Super Bowl, is all about Football!
Of course, it is also about food and games. Super Bowl is one of the best get-together party days of the year. Besides watching the game, Super Bowl party calls out for good food and commercials to watch. People at the Super Bowl Party, will crave for dips and salsas, lots of pizza and wings, and beer and soda.
If you are hosting a Super Bowl party, below are some suggestions for Super Bowl activities, to keep the kids safely entertained.
A) Plan a Super Bowl-Themed Party
The kids love to party. As you are already planning to watch the Super Bowl, invite other families and make it a fun filled party.
The best Super Bowl activities, you can have is a themed party, as it brings more fun and excitement to the party. Few of the ideas for a themed party are:
- You can design the Super Bowl-themed invitations, using the colors of the participating teams, with your kids.
- Decorate your place in the colors of opposing teams.
- Plan a menu, that incorporates the colors of the teams in the foods.
- Bake football and helmet-shaped cookies and decorate them with the team colors. Have your guests dressed up wearing football jerseys.
- Decorate the football-themed cupcakes with green for the grass, and decorator’s icing for the white field lines. You can even draw or buy pictures of footballs or mascots of the teams.
- Your preschooler can have great fun at the party. Allow him/her to buy balloons and streamers in the colors of the two teams that are playing and help you hang them around the house.
- Get into the football-themed spirit by grabbing some face paints in the team colors, to let the kids gear up for the game in style.
- Have your kids create homemade cloth and ribbon football banner. Older kids can help the younger ones with the hand stitching, and gluing.
B) Super Bowl Arts and Crafts
Another fun way to get your kids in the spirit of the Super Bowl, is through Arts and Crafts.
- To create T-shirt uniforms, for your favorite team, use fabric paints.
- Another idea, is you can also decorate socks or other white pieces of clothing.
- Create a football team program in the shape of a helmet or football.
- Let the children design team logos out of construction paper and other materials.
- Children can use some of the craft ideas such as football necklaces, football cookies, team flags, and paper pom-poms.
- Cut a potato or sponge, into a football shape and use it as a stamp paint onto a plain white or green tablecloth.
- Another craft idea for Super Bowl activities, is to make paper chains using your favorite team’s colors.
- The kids love to play with fun dough. Make brown dough and shape them into footballs.
C) Super Bowl Learning Activities
Super Bowl is also a good time for learning. Kids can build up their word and math skills by participating in Super Bowl activities.
- Create or find a word search with football, and Super Bowl words, including football terms, team colors, and team names.
- Let the kids take a football quiz to solve, and have the older kids create a football themed crossword puzzles, for the younger kids to solve.
- Use a map, and ask you preschooler about the city, in which state it is found and what the city is known for.
- Allow the kids to do basic internet research to learn simple facts about the home city of each team.
- During the game, learn simple maths, such as counting on your fingers, or help your preschooler add points every time a team scores a point.
D) Super Bowl Games
Try these football games, when it is time to get active.
- One of the best ideas for a Super Bowl Party, is to play football charades or Pictionary. The kids can act out various football terms.
- Let all the participants, write a football cheer and perform it. You can even vote for the best performer.
- Play balloon football. You can enjoy playing this game, by blowing up a balloon in each of the team colors. Try to keep the balloon in the air. Make sure it does not fall down. Whenever a balloon touch the ground, the opposite team gets points.
- Create a football toss by hanging a hula-hoop from a tree branch. The players should try to get the ball through the hoop.
Other Super Bowl Full-time games for a Super Bowl Party are: Super Bowl Team Bingo Cards, Football Tic-Tac-Toe and Hot Potato; Commercial Counting. Super Bowl Party Games for the adults include Touch or Flag Football, Super Bowl Prop Pool, Football Toss.
For the kids, a list of Super Bowl party games just for the kids, are Indoor Football Toss for Kids, Football Coloring Pages, and Flick Football.
Halftime provides a great break in the activities. Head outside for a backyard football game or just toss or kick a ball around, if it is warm outside. You can set up a craft station with some football crafts, if it is too cold outside.
You can even use your half time to sneak peek on your kids crafts, if they are making them. Other game activities for a half-time break are: Game trivia, Crab Football and Sunday sundaes.
E) Super Bowl Party Food
The food is half the fun of the Super Bowl. You will definitely have a plenty of Super Bowl snacks at your party gathering.
Set up a dessert station with the cupcakes or ice cream. Add frosting for the cupcakes, whipped cream and syrups for the ice cream and an assortment of sprinkles and candies in team colors.
Try any of the Super Bowl Party food ideas to keep everyone full of energy, and to cheer on your favorite teams.
By Supraja
