Detective Party

This year for school, Big J read a book with two of his friends. It was a book about being a detective, so after the boys finished reading the book, we had a party. The boys had to go through "Detective School" and at the end they became "real" detectives. They were quite excited. The girls enjoyed watching and participating when they could. One of the activities was trying to shoot a target:

They then had to put blind folds on and try to identify items just by smelling them:

Another activity was trying to sneak up behind a person and remove a piece of felt without them noticing:

In the end, they received a backpack with special detective gear (compass, flashlight, magnifying glass and notepad):

One final game we played involved some of the kids trying to stay frozen while the other kids try to make them move or laugh. Purple Girl, try as she may, could not keep herself from laughing.

However, her cousin did a great job and was able to keep a straight face. Her brother won with the boys too - being the only one not to laugh.

Here is Busy Bee's face as she tries to make them laugh.

Busy Bee enjoyed watching the babies.