Batman Birthday Party
RECIPES

Super Hero Obstacle
Course Everyone can challenge their “Bat Skills” as they try to make their way through an obstacle course! This activity is best done outside or in a large room. Use household items such as chairs, pillows, sleeping bags, or anything you can find to create a challenging course. Old tires, logs, bicycles, ropes, tools, and sports equipment from the garage can help make the course full of adventure! If you wish, keep track of everyone’s time and award prizes to every child.

Poison Ivy Punch
Create a drink only true super heroes can handle! Before the party, purchase plastic ivy from a craft store, and cut it into pieces. Then, make some lime Kool-Aid® and pour it into ice cube trays. Add a piece of ivy to each ice cube compartment and freeze. On the party day, add green food coloring to your child’s favorite beverage (white grape juice, apple juice and lemon-lime soda work well.) When it’s time to serve the punch, add a few poisoned cubes to each child’s glass. Your guests will be delighted with this dangerously fun drink! Joker's Jell-O® Jigglers Purchase your child’s favorite flavors of gelatin and follow the directions to make Jigglers. Purchase a bat-shaped cookie cutter and any other theme-related shapes you can find. After the gelatin has set, cut it into shapes to make this popular treat even more fun!

Bats in a Blanket
Your guests are sure to love these tasty treats. To make them, first purchase your favorite brand of hot dogs, cheese, and refrigerator croissants. Slice hot dogs lengthwise and cut cheese into strips. Unroll croissants and stuff with hot dogs and cheese. Roll croissants back up and bake as directed, or until golden brown. For fun, add tiny red cinnamon pieces to make eyes for the bats! Serve warm. Fruit Kabobs Cut your child’s favorite fruits into chunks and place on trays. Pass out wooden skewers, with the sharp tips broken off, and let the children create their own fruit kabobs. They’ll be fun for the kids to make and will make parents happy because they’re healthy too! Suggestion: Ask another parent or older sibling to come help out if young children will be attending the party because skewers can be very sharp.

Bat Cookies
Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe or purchase pre-made, refrigerated cookie dough. Roll out the dough and use a bat-shaped cookie cutter (or make your own template) to form bat shapes. Bake according to directions and cool. When cooled, frost with dark-colored frosting and let the kids decorate the cookies with sprinkles or candy. Red cinnamon pieces make great bat eye!

Bat-Cream Sandwiches
Use the recipe above for Bat Cookies to make sugar cookies in the shape of bats. After they’ve been baked and cooled, set the cookies aside. Leave them unfrosted, without any decorations. When the cookies have cooled, soften a half gallon of your child’s favorite ice cream. Spread a thick layer of ice cream between two bat cookies and return to the freezer. Freeze cookies until party time. Enjoy!

Batman Birthday Party
GAMES

Batman Cake Hunt
Some Joker has stolen the cake! Send out your throng of little crime fighters to find the Caped Crusader’s cake. Children love to hunt for surprises, so on this special day create a treasure hunt for the Batman birthday cake! Separate your guests into teams and give each team a set of clues. Make sure that each child has a bag to carry party favors, which will be hidden throughout the hunt with the clues. Make sure the clues and favors lead them to the cake. We recommend keeping the cake close to home, under adult supervision. Excited children running through the house with a cake can be messy! Serve the team who finds the cake first.

Super Hero Obstacle
Course Everyone can challenge their “Bat Skills” as they try to make their way through an obstacle course! This activity is best done outside or in a large room. Use household items such as chairs, pillows, sleeping bags, or anything you can find to create a challenging course. Old tires, logs, bicycles, ropes, tools, and sports equipment from the garage can help make the course full of adventure! If you wish, keep track of everyone’s time and award prizes to every child.

Batcave Bombers
Before the party, decorate a large cardboard box with brown, black, or grey construction paper so it resembles the Batcave. Make paper airplanes for each guest out of the construction paper, or let them fold their own “Batplanes.” Turn the box on its side so the opening is facing the guests. Mark an “X” on the floor with tape. Challenge each guest to fly their Batplane into the Batcave, while standing on the X.

Over and Under Relay
Separate your guests into teams and blow up a balloon for each team. Tell each team to form a single-file line, and give the first person in each line a balloon. When the game begins, the first person must pass the balloon over his or her head to the player behind. The player who receives the balloon must pass it between their legs to the next player. The pattern continues, alternating over and under, until the balloon reaches the back of the line. When it reaches the last person, the players reverse direction and the balloon is passed the opposite way, from back to front. The first team to finish wins.

Unlock the Batmobile
Before the party, make a side-view drawing of the Batmobile on a large piece of paper or posterboard. Make the door handle and keyhole large enough to be obvious to your guests. Cut out a cardboard key for each guest and attach a piece of tape to the back. Explain to your guests that the object of the game is to place their key closest to the keyhole in order to unlock the Batmobile. Blindfold each guest in turn, and spin them three times. When they are facing the Batmobile, let them go. Award a prize to the child who is closest!