So I started by watching the movie again and the very first thing that came to me were giant peppermints!! So here is how I made them. You can see one of them in the corner of this pic.
These were made with 2 Styrofoam plates stapled together. You could glue them if you don't want the staples showing. But I didn't mind and it was faster for me just to staple them. Then used a marker to draw and color in the red part. I also made some with green. Wrapped them in cellophane and tied the ends in ribbon. I think I made about 15 of these and just put them all over the walls around the party area.
Next... Oompa-Loompa's! I drew all of them and colored them in with marker. And I placed them randomly throughout the party area. Since Willy Wonka is such a quotable movie I placed some of E's favorite Oompa Loompa quotes with each one.
In this pic you can also see all the pom poms I made for the party. I make pompoms for every party. It is just easy, fun, colorful and festive. For this one I made purple and gold pom poms. Here is how you make them.
In this corner, I just bought some material, sewed it into a bag, filled it up with random clothing (just needed to stuff it with something and I didn't want to BUY stuffing) and marked them as "SUGAR". Also used extra boxes from the garage, taped them shut and printed off some wonka labels to glue on.
Also each one of the kid characters got a center of sorts. This is where we put up Augustus Glup's picture. I figured he would want to be where all the sugar and boxes of candy bars would be!! :)
This is Veruca's area with the educated eggdecator. This is just my food scale with a back taped to it that I drew. Filled with purple cellophane and a gold foil covered chocolate egg. I actually ordered this form a chocolate shop cause I wanted the kids to be able to eat it. But the next plan was to just wrap one myself over a styrofoam egg from the craft store.
Mike Tv and Violets area. Made the tv out of an extra box in the garage, with aluminum foil rabbit ears. Printed of a wonka bar and a tiny Mike from the computer and glued them on.
Violet's part is just a bowl of blue candy with Wonka's quote attached.
This is were we usually put a HAPPY BIRTHDAY sign but instead I just drew W with the wonka had and put up this cute candy garland that I found at Hobby Lobby.
O.k. This was a huge hit with the kids. I use a half moon piece of styrofoam and a block piece for the mushrooms. Sprayed them with spray paint and glued them together. Cut out some holes in the top, glued in cupcake liners and filled with mini marshmallows. The kids LOVED it!! Also filled the bottom of the tree with mini candy bars
Had a tree full of bagged cotton candy and large gummy bears!
We also had a Wonkavator. It certainly didn't turn out like I hoped. I'm not giving you instructions on this cause I just winged it and I'm sure anyone could do a better job than this! But the kids loved it and that's all that matters.
Pained a sign for the front of the door. It seemed appropriate. And lined the entrance with balloons and wrapped the posts in gold ribbon. This wasn't planned but I had this stuff in the craft box so I used it. Also if you look closely in the top pic you can see an oompa loompa looking out the window, waiting for kids to arrive!
Our game was pin the hair of the oompa loompa. I had one drawn oompa looma and hair pieces for al the kids. The oompa loompa is saying "oompa loompa do ba da dee, you have my hair now give it to me!"
I also lined the wall with candy paper. The kids could go up and pick the dots off the wall and eat it.
I lined the table with a cheap purple vinyl table cover and taped it under then wrapped the legs with gold wrapping paper. On top was lollipop plates I found at hobby lobby, and colorful pails and cups that I found at Target for a dollar each. Filled the buckets with labeled candy and then threw random pieces of candy around the table. Also the made some oompa loompa hair and glued a stick onto them so each kid could hold it up to their face and have oompa loompa hair. Oh there is also a syrofoam tree that is holding all the lollipops.
Our game was pin the hair of the oompa loompa. I had one drawn oompa looma and hair pieces for al the kids. The oompa loompa is saying "oompa loompa do ba da dee, you have my hair now give it to me!"
I also lined the wall with candy paper. The kids could go up and pick the dots off the wall and eat it.
I lined the table with a cheap purple vinyl table cover and taped it under then wrapped the legs with gold wrapping paper. On top was lollipop plates I found at hobby lobby, and colorful pails and cups that I found at Target for a dollar each. Filled the buckets with labeled candy and then threw random pieces of candy around the table. Also the made some oompa loompa hair and glued a stick onto them so each kid could hold it up to their face and have oompa loompa hair. Oh there is also a syrofoam tree that is holding all the lollipops.
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