Birthday Party Theme Details - Great Play

Birthday Party Theme Details

Pick a theme and then we fully customize it for your child's ages and interests!

Themes

Championship Day

Ages 3-5 and 5-10
Championship

If you enjoy sports, this party is for you! It's like the Super Bowl, World Series, and World Cup combined!

Choose from single sport football, basketball, baseball or soccer, or a multisport party. Each party is customized, based on the particular interests of the birthday star and the ages of the attendees, and programmed into our patented Interactive Arena in advance.

Here are a few samples of the activities for some different versions of a Championship Day party:

Football, Baseball, Basketball or Soccer Championship Day Party (single sport party - for ages 5 to 10)

Games are custom-selected for the sport of choice. Here's an example for a football championship party:

  • 90 minutes of non-stop fun!
  • Arrive to a custom photo-greeting of the birthday star projected on our 100+ sq ft scoreboard.
  • We'll get the players going with some football free play.
  • Then the party gets rocking with our stadium introductions, playoff style! Each player gets introduced into the cheering stadium with their live image projected on the rear scoreboard. Then the lights come down and music starts pounding for the star of the show to enter the Arena!
  • We'll play a series of Great Play's favorite football activities, including
    • Running back obstacle course relay
    • Wide receiver pattern challenge
    • Offense-defense flag-grab tag
    • QB target passing mania!
    • Our patented interactive walls will test the QB's and field goal kickers' skills!
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make all the participants feel successful regardless of their football expertise.
  • A gold medal awards ceremony closes out the games, and we finish with time for pizza or cake.

3 to 5 year old Multisport Championship Day Party

  • 90 minutes of non-stop fun!
  • Arrive to a custom photo-greeting of the birthday star projected on our 100+ sq ft scoreboard.
  • We'll get the players going with some sports free play.
  • Then the party gets rocking with our stadium introductions, playoff style! Each player gets introduced into the cheering stadium with their live image projected on the rear scoreboard!
  • We'll play a series of Great Play's favorites, selected based on learning the birthday star's interests, and each supported and enhanced by our amazing Arena technology, such as:
    • Sports obstacle course
    • A high-energy group game with Buddy, our animated mascot, such as locomotor hide and seek, with running, jumping, hopping, skipping, etc.
    • Balloon volleyball
    • Soccer hot shot
    • Sports scavenger hunt
    • Stations with sports throwing walls (our amazing patented technology) plus sports stations for the stars favorite sports!
    • Group soccer challenge
    • Football relay race
    • Pin ball - a favorite high energy team game to end
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!
  • A gold medal awards ceremony closes out the games, and we finish with time for pizza or cake.

5 to 10 year old Multisport Championship Day Party

Choose any combination of baseball, basketball, soccer and football, or all four! A typical set of activities might include:

  • 90 minutes of non-stop fun!
  • Arrive to a custom photo-greeting of the birthday star projected on our 100+ sq ft scoreboard.
  • We'll get the players going with some sports free play.
  • Then the party gets rocking with our stadium introductions, playoff style! Each player gets introduced into the cheering stadium with their live image projected on the rear scoreboard. Then the lights come down and music starts pounding for the star of the show to enter the Arena!
  • We'll play a series of Great Play's favorites, selected based on learning the birthday star's interests, and each supported and enhanced by our amazing Arena technology, such as:
    • Sports relay race / obstacle course
    • Offense-defense flag grab tag
    • Basketball bucket relay
    • Stations with sports throwing walls (our amazing patented technology), such as baseball strike zone, football field goal, bottle breaking contest
    • Soccer/Basketball hot shot and dribble tag
    • Fumblearooski relay race
    • Base running relay
    • Etc.
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!
  • A gold medal awards ceremony closes out the games, and we finish with time for pizza or cake.

We have many customization options to make the party perfect for your child's interests!

Olympic Party

Ages 5-10
Olympics

Compete with your team in our unique Olympic-style events: races, capture the flag, triathlon, etc. And everyone winds up a medallist! We fully customize each party based on the birthday star's particular interests and pre-program the event into our patented Interactive Arena.

Sample activities for an Olympic Party might include:

  • 90 minutes of non-stop fun!
  • Arrive to a custom photo-greeting of the birthday star projected on our 100+ sq ft scoreboard.
  • We'll get the players going with some free play and warm ups.
  • Then the party gets rocking with team selection and our unique introduction of the Olympians! Each player gets introduced into the cheering stadium with their live image projected on the rear scoreboard. Then the lights come down and music starts pounding for the star of the show to enter the Arena!
  • We'll play a series of Great Play's favorites - as teams and individuals compete for the gold! We select the particular games based on learning the birthday star's interests, and each activity is supported and enhanced by our amazing Arena technology. Sample games might include:
    • Balloon Blitz - team coordination game - working to paddle a blizzard of balloons to your goal
    • Trapezoid pull - a game of strength and teamwork
    • Stations, including our amazing patented throwing walls
    • Pin ball - a favorite high energy team throwing game
    • Capture the Flag
    • Teamwork games including Survivor and Stacker Mania
    • Etc.
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!
  • An Olympics-style gold medal awards ceremony closes out the games, and we finish with time for pizza or cake.

Super Hero Party

Ages 3-6
Superhero

You (and Buddy) are on a mission to save the world! Play games to get clues to gain super hero power to save us from evil! The super heroes work together being transported through the magic of our Interactive Arena to different settings to play games that uncover clues, eventually leading them to the golden discs that give them the power to save the world from evil!

We customize the games for each party based on ages and interests. A sample super hero party might include:

  • 90 minutes of non-stop fun!
  • Arrive to a custom photo-greeting of the birthday star projected on our 100+ sq ft scoreboard.
  • Introductions of the super heroes, Buddy, and their mission
  • Obstacle course - searching for clues in the jungle.
  • Finding Buddy with locomotor hide and seek - to help guide us to our next clue
  • Balloon Hockey - scooping and finding the next clue in the winter wilderness
  • Stations and interactive throwing walls
  • Break-the-code roulette - with hoops, balls, bean bags, etc.
  • Stacking relay, with a journey to outer space to find the next clue.
  • This leads to the castle where we hunt for the golden discs to save the world!
  • Celebrate the victory over evil.
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!

Fun and Games Ages 1-5

Ages 1-5
Fun and Games

An age-appropriate selection of the "best of" our younger Great Play games, customized for the birthday star's interests. Guaranteed smiles for all!

A Fun & Games party for children turning 1 or 2 might include:

  • Arrive to a 100 sq ft scoreboard greeting with the birthday star's photo and welcome message!
  • Introductions and Meet Buddy (our beloved animated mascot, projected on the Arena walls, who will help us play some of the games!)
  • Obstacle course, Great Play Style, customized for your child! (e.g., "swimming" through an underwater world, climbing in the snowy mountains, etc).
  • Buckets and bubbles.
  • Stations and interactive throwing walls (e.g., players find Buddy hiding in different secret places by throwing colorful balls into an interactive scene, using our patented wall technology).
  • Beep beep ride-on games.
  • Freeze dance: the music comes on and Buddy dances on the walls with the guests! The cameras show a live feed of the dancers on the rear scoreboards, and freeze the action for everyone to see their funny poses!
  • And much more, such as - Balloon Bin; Gold Coin Treasure Hunt; Gold Medal Ceremony for excellent participation; and time for food/cake and photos of the smiling faces!
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!

A Fun & Games party for children turning 3 to 5 might include:

  • Arrive to a 100 sq ft scoreboard greeting with the birthday star's photo and welcome message!
  • Introductions and Meet Buddy (our beloved animated mascot, projected on the Arena walls, who will help us play some of the games!)
  • Obstacle course, Great Play Style, customized for your child! (e.g., exploring a magic castle, or climbing in outer space, etc).
  • Buddy Hide and Seek - Buddy, our beloved animated mascot, appears (and disappears) on the screens for a running, jumping, skipping, hopping version of hide-and-seek, at an energy level you've never seen before!
  • Individual selection of games such as parachute games, musical hoops, treasure hunts, freeze dance, etc!
  • Stations and interactive throwing walls (e.g., players pop virtual balloons on the wall or uncover secrets hidden in the mountains by throwing colorful balls into an interactive scene, using our patented wall technology)
  • Another individual selection of games such as Buddy red light green light, scavenger hunts and potato sack tag.
  • And much more, such as Great Play's original Arena-supported versions of: balloon volleyball/tennis/hockey, soccer goal challenge, traffic lights, Arena red light green light, potato sack tag, scavenger hunts, and more.
  • We close with a Gold Medal Ceremony for excellent participation; and time for food/cake and photos of the smiling faces!
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!

Fun and Games Ages 5-10

Ages 5-10
Fun and Games

An age-appropriate selection of the "best of" our Great Play games for older Players, customized for the birthday star's interests. High energy and tons of fun!

A sample fun and games party for ages 5-10 might include:

  • Arrive to a 100 sq ft scoreboard greeting with the birthday star's photo and welcome message!
  • Introductions: Players enter the Arena in style, with spot lights, cheering fans, a music and light show, and live cameras projecting the whole thing up on the score boards.
  • Obstacle course, or relay races, Great Play Style!
  • Pin Ball - a high energy throwing and blocking game and a Great Play favorite! (Think dodge ball, except rather than players getting out, they race to knock over the other teams pins - all the fun, with none of the sitting on the bench!)
  • Individually selected games such as potato sack tag, stacker mania, soccer dribble tag, scavenger hunt, etc.
  • Stations and interactive throwing walls (e.g., players break virtual bottles on the wall, knock crabs off the beach, pop virtual balloons, etc.)
  • Another round of individually selected games like survivor, flag grab tag, parachute games, musical hoops, base running relay, and more!
  • Freeze dance: the music comes on and Buddy dances on the walls with the guests! The cameras show a live feed of the dancers on the rear scoreboards, and freeze the action for everyone to see their funny poses!
  • Survivor: players cooperate in a team effort to build a path to cross out of danger!
  • And more: we draw from dozens of options for each party to get the perfect mix for your child.
  • We close with a Gold Medal Ceremony for excellent participation; and time for food/cake and photos of the smiling faces!
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make it a special event for all involved!

Dance Party

Ages 3-5 and 5-10
Zumba Dance

A rockin', high-energy party inspired by our Zumba class - packed with kid-friendly dance routines, and age-appropriate Great Play games. A blast!

Dance parties combine specially choreographed, kid-friendly dance routines; dance-related games; and some all-time Great Play favorites to mix it up. A sample dance party might include:

  • Arrive to a 100 sq ft scoreboard greeting with the birthday star's photo and welcome message!
  • Then the party gets rocking with our stadium introductions, red carpet style! Each player gets introduced into the cheering stadium with their live image projected on the rear scoreboard. Then the lights come down and music starts pounding for the star of the show to enter the Arena!
  • Next we'll keep the kids moving with a non-stop mix of custom-selected games. Games might include:
    • Specially choreographed, kid-friendly dance routines
    • Fun obstacle course: through a tunnel, over a hurdle, under a limbo, then balancing items on their heads.
    • Freeze dance, Great Play style: the music comes on and Buddy dances on the walls with the guests! The cameras show a live feed of the dancers on the rear scoreboards, and freeze the action for everyone to see their funny poses!
    • Dance-related games like Musical Red Light Green Light, Dance Roulette, and Musical Hoops.
    • Stations and interactive throwing walls (e.g., players break virtual bottles on the wall, knock crabs off the beach, pop virtual balloons, etc.)
    • And more: we draw from dozens of options for each party to get the perfect mix for your child!
  • As always, our highly-trained coaches and specially crafted games will make all the participants feel successful regardless of their dancing expertise.
  • A gold medal awards ceremony closes out the games, and we finish with time for pizza or cake.