Spy School Activities
Hold a recruitment briefing when all the guests arrive, and tell them that they need to
refresh their skills and attend spy school.
Resources
Hold a recruitment briefing when all the guests arrive, and tell them that they need to
refresh their skills and attend spy school.
- Let them play with spy gear: Have a spy-scope available as well as walkie talkies,
a voice scrambeler
- Give them a lesson in Forensics. The CSI Detective Mini Science Project Kit for Kids
s shows how to lift finger prints that are hours or even days old. Kids also learn
the importance of analyzing fingerprints, and the key characteristics used in
doing so. Wipe a cookie jar clean and have a Dad or a sibling finger print the
cookie jar, then see if the kids can determine who in the family ate the cookie jar.
- Get them inked. Set out an ink pad, paper, and some pens and turn the little
detectives into artists with thumb print drawings. Ed Emberley's Great
Thumbprint Drawing Book, pictured right, provides the inspiration. Keep baby
wipes handy for cleaning messy fingers.
- Set a course for adventure. Create an obstacle course for secret agent spy
physical training. Split kids into team and reward the winning team with a small
prize and allow them to take the first whack at the pinata, then line them up by
birthdays, youngest to oldest.
- Send them clues. Send kids on a mission for their favors using the Secret Marker
kit, pictured left. Write a secret message with the special pen and it remains
invisible until the developer pen reveals it. Send kids on the hunt with clues to
take them to four or five locations. (The dryer is an ideal location to stash the
favors for the final clue.)
- Decode a birthday message from cupcakes: Create a message for kids to
unscramble, such as "Happy Birthday Agent Mikey" or "Thanks for coming to my
party" by using one letter on every cup cake. For less mess, have kids first
decode a message on homemade cupcake picks, when they've successfully
uncoded the message. Lay out the cup cakes wheel of fortune style with the
appropriate word spacing. Enlist adult help if the kids are too young. The event
will be exciting for everyone.
Resources
- Get the secret agent handbook. Follow the clues, go undercover and explore the
intriguing world of secret agents. with "The Everything Kids' Spies Puzzle and
Activity Book," pictured left. Learn what it takes to be a spy, go underground to
learn special spy language and codes and discover super-secret spy hangouts,
cool gadgets, gizmos and more.
- I Spy Party Supplies: Spy your eyes on hard to find Spy Party supplies at the Spy
Museum Store.
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Spy Party Invitations and Thank You Cards
Food for spy party
How to Decorate for a Spy Party
Top Secret Agent Favors
Your secret birthday mission, if you choose to accept it, is to create a spy kit favor
pack. Here are some items you might include:
- Go to the top with a Top Secret invitation: Head to the Spy Museum for Top Secret
invitations, pictured left, or craft your own using a top secret rubber stamp.
- Pressed for time? Just press thumbs. Invitations couldn't be easier for a spy
party when you make a thumb print with black ink, scan it and enlarge the
image on the computer or use a copy machine. The thumb print is a clue that
says it all.
- Spy party invitation wording ideas:
- You've Been Issued a Secret Agent License to Party
- Mission: to celebrate Caleb's Eighth birthday!
- Please report for duty: Saturday, August 22 at noon
- Crime Scene: 123 Main Street
- (Security clearance required to attend.)
- Please RSVP Agent 99 Tiffany at 867-5309 to receive clearance.
- Spy party thank you card wording ideas:
- "Mission Accomplished! I had a terrific day. Thank you for coming to my
party."
Food for spy party
- Da-Bomb cake: Bake a sphere shaped cake and use sparklers instead of candles.
- Spy-cial cookies: Bake the magnifying glass shaped cookies, pictured right, or
detective cookie cutters both concepts from CopperGifts.com.
- Spyscope sandwiches: Simply lavash roll ups with your favorite sandwich fillings
(mayonnaise, roast beef, lettuce and tomatoes).
How to Decorate for a Spy Party
- Make it a crime scene: Stencil a body with chalk in the driveway or sidewalk.
Wrap crime scene tape in the shrubs and trees. Crime scene tape is also an
effective way to demarcate your picnic space or for the gift display, or cake
table.
- Set up a Dummy Camera. The surveillance camera pictured right, looks
convincing enough and would look terrific near the gift table.
- Decorate the kids. Create instant Spy kids by divvying out black gloves and a
black ski hat. Kids will also adore a Fidora, pictured left. Or give each kid a
unique identity with glasses, wigs, hats and moustaches.
Top Secret Agent Favors
Your secret birthday mission, if you choose to accept it, is to create a spy kit favor
pack. Here are some items you might include:
- Truth Detector cards, available from the Spy Museum, pictured right,have a heat
sensor finger print pad that changes color: green indicates telling the truth,
blue if it's unknown, and red is a lie.
- Magnfiying glasses, kaleidoscopes, and spy scopes and glasses.
- Carabiners, compass whistles, pen flashlights, finger flashlights
- Police party favors, such as plastic handcuffs, squirt guns and badges:
Secret Agent Spy Party
How to have a spy party for kids
Go incognito with a spy party for kids! A secret agent spy party combines a bit of
Sherlock Holmes with James Bond, Nancy Drew, and Kim Possible with a dash of the
Spy Kids, the Pet Detective, and Mission Impossible. Here's how to plot a day of
mystery and intrigue for the little spy who loves you:
How to have a spy party for kids
Go incognito with a spy party for kids! A secret agent spy party combines a bit of
Sherlock Holmes with James Bond, Nancy Drew, and Kim Possible with a dash of the
Spy Kids, the Pet Detective, and Mission Impossible. Here's how to plot a day of
mystery and intrigue for the little spy who loves you:
- Make it "Code Birthday": Send birthday spies a lanyard with an ID badge or
provide them with a secret code word for the party. Then require them to recite
the code for entrance to the party.
- Initiate new recruits as they arrive with the secret agent pledge: "I cross my heart
and hope to spy." Then hand them their special agent secret folder, or briefcase
as pictured right. Tuck inside a surprise, like rear view spy glasses, pictured left,
which will be all the rage at the party, along with an identity sheet, a notebook,
an ink pad and pens for various games and finger printing. Or make a hunt of
finding their briefcase right off the bat. Get a ball of yarn and make them follow
the yarn to get their prize.
- Laser Tag: Take your spy party on location to a laser tag game. A spy needs
training after all. Alternatively, a good old fashioned squirt gun training session
will be enjoyed by just about everyone.
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