Boys Night

[2chatter]

If it rains tomorrow my plans to have ten six year olds swim (we are hosting boys night) will not work. What can I do with ten six year old boys for two hours? Pizza will happen but I need ideas to contain the chaos.

Desperate y’all. This week is too much.

My best idea currently is “scavenger hunt! My black suit jacket is missing and I need it for a meeting on Tuesday! Find it!”

[mae0111]

Big bin of Legos to build?

Will they sit for a movie?

Nerf gun fight?

[rere]

Any trampoline parks, skating rinks or something close by and cheap? In my experience, boys are harder to entertain with low key activities.

[2chatter]

We can’t transport all of them - it would be chaos. They have these at least quarterly and I was informed it was our turn to host — I wanted to say go to HE$& because three kids and work and dealing with my mom and DD being sick (she’s missed 25% of the school year and they are threatening court - which I thought that was why we had a medical 504!?!) and DH traveling still and puppies and we host Halloween and NYE so really??

I like the LEGO idea and we have 800 million legos and a dining room table.

Anyone have minute to win it games I can use to break up chaos?

[mommyatty]

Building competitions. Coolest Lego car, tallest tower that can stand on its own, fastest Lego car to go down a ramp. Best Lego ramp that can support a Hot Wheels car race.

Let them play camping. Build tents or forts with sheets. Build a tent village. Bring out marshmallows and let them have a marshmallow fight from their forts, seeing who can lob the most marshmallows over the other side’s walls. (You can color code the marshmallows with a marker dot on the end.)

[waverly]

I am not creative, but the last birthday party we went to was in their garage. They had sports games set up- foozeball, basketball, and they decorated parents as mummy's I think, and they had the game on in the background.

[186momx]

Water balloon fight?

You don't have time or energy to host another party with everything else you having going on

[mustardseed2007]

Play outside in the rain....

Seriously, I would not want to host this with your life schedule.

[sdlaura]

I’m with mustardseed2007 - puddle jumping? Muddy flag football?

Rain is a novelty here so my kids would love to play outside in it.

Also if not thunderstorms you could still swim right?

[erbear]

That is the recipe for movie night

[sandandsea]

Do not do marshmallows inside. They squash and are a mess and impossible to clean up. Especially with 6yo boys. I have one and they do a marshmallow shooter thing at cub scouts and it was a disaster. If you do, make a safe covered zone where no one is walking to shoot them into.

[HeartofCheese]

Cancel. You don't owe anybody anything. Promise to host a pool party when the weather is good.