When going tailgating you don’t always get to leave the children at home. These football party games for kids will get the little ones, fans or not, excited to watch the big game.
Download the game pieces by clicking on the image below. Print and cut out the boards then mount them onto a piece of 6-1/4″x4-1/4″ cardstock. Choose a team color when picking out the cardstock.
Let the kids play Tic Tac Bingo while watching the football game. Everytime a play or event happens that is on their game card, they get the place a marker on the square. Once they get three in a row, they call “bingo” and win a prize!
Cheer for the home team! Let the kids get creative during half time decorating football jersey cookies in your favorite team’s colors.
Roll out cookie dough to the desired thickness. Instead of using a cookie cutter, trace the jersey with a knife. You can download the jersey template by clicking the download image below.
Cook the cookies according to your recipes directions. Gather up cookie decorations, candies, frosting and sprinkles that match your team’s colors. Once the cookies have cooked and cooled, let the kids frost and decorate to their heart’s content.
No football game would be complete without a #1 foam finger. Make these easy diy foam fingers for kid sized hands. And as a bonus, they can decorate these themselves.
Download the #1 foam finger template by clicking on the download link below. Print onto a standard size 8-1/2″x11″ piece of paper and cut out the template. Using 2 pieces of 12×18″ craft foam (found at a local Michael’s Craft Store) cut out two of the #1 foam finger templates. Use a hot glue gun to glue the two pieces together around the edges, everywhere except the bottom of the hand. This is intended to fit a child’s hand.
Now you can pass the foam finger to the kids to decorate. You can use either permanant or washable markers. To make the white #1 design, use a white oil based Sharpie paint pen.
These cupcakes are a little on the gory side, but the cuteness of the tiny hatchets offset anything too scary about them. Any flavor cupcake or icing will work perfectly. We used chocolate, but red velvet with cream cheese icing would be delicious too. Presenting… So I Married an Ax Murderer cupcakes.
You will need: 1 batch of cupcakes, 1 batch of white frosting, Black Foil Cupcake Liners, Hatchet Toppers, baking tray lined with a slip-mat or parchment paper, 1 batch of Red Candy Coating
RED CANDY COATING RECIPE
1 Cup of Sugar
6 Tablespoons of water
¼ cup light corn syrup
½ teaspoon red food coloring
In a small saucepan bring the sugar, water and corn syrup to a boil. Add the food coloring and reduce to a simmer. Stir on and off for 20 minutes. To check if your candy is ready drop some of the liquid into room temp water, if it holds its shape you’re good to go.
DIRECTIONS:
1. Bake your cupcakes. While your cupcakes are cooling, prepare the candy coating.
2. When your candy is ready, use a spoon to drop tablespoon size splotches of candy on the parchment paper or slip-mat. Let the candy dribble and pool to the sides like blood at a crime scene.
3. Quickly dip each hatchet in a little bit of candy coating, and then nestle the hatchet in the center of a pool of candy. This will hold the hatchet upright.
4. Let the candy cool.
5. Once your cupcakes have cooled ice them with an offset spatula or butter knife.
6. Gently pick up a splotch of candy coating and press it into your frosted cupcake.
7. Use the extra drops of candy as little blood drops on your serving platter.
Looking for a dessert to double as décor at your Halloween bash? These ruby slipper cupcakes are the perfect treat. They’re surprisingly simple and you can use any chocolate cupcake recipe and whipped frosting you like—even if they’re not from scratch, your secret’s safe with the witch.
1. While your cupcakes are baking, draw a pair of tiny shoes (about 1/2” tall) on the back of your glitter foam for each cupcake. Cut out the shoes.
2. Each paper straw will make two sets of legs. Cut each straw in four equal pieces, to make as many legs as you need. With a dab of hot glue secure each shoe to the front of each straw leg.
3. Prepare your icing by adding 4-5 drops of electric green food gel. Put your frosting in a pastry bag, or plastic bag, fitted with a petal tip.
4. With the thin side of the petal tip pointed toward the edge of the cupcake, make overlapping ruffles and fill the cupcake. Don’t worry about making them perfect! She’s a crashed witch.
5. Sprinkle the frosting with matching sanding sugar for your witch’s sparkly skirt.
6. Insert the straws about 1/2” apart.
7. Add a second liner around your cupcake to give the witch’s skirt a billowing effect.
