When everyone arrived we worked together to open "the safe." The safe was a piece of cardboard painted green with a paper plate on the front. I had cut the cardboard the same size as the opening in our entertainment center. I listed the names of 10 former U.S. Presidents on the plate and attached it with a tack. I had some random presidential trivia and we worked together to answer the questions and get the correct combination to the "safe lock." When we cracked the code and opened the safe everyone got a pile of money to pay for their dinner and games.
Before dinner we made birthday year badges. I got five rolls of pennies and we all worked together to find a penny with the year of each persons birth. Five rolls did the trick. We got a penny for each birth year, ranging between 1974 and 2010. We glued the pennies onto a round piece of felt and put them on with a safety pin.
Our dinner had a presidential theme. Well, kind of. The signs read...
Dinner: Compliments of Grover Cleveland=Cleveland Reds=Indians=Navajo tacos.
Cost-1 Alexander Hamilton.
Drinks: The James Bu"can"an. Free with purchase of meal. (Can of juice)
Dessert: The John Adams=Adams Apple=Apple Crisp! Cost- 1 Abe Lincoln
After dinner we had a few games. The names of our games were the Lincoln toss and the Herbert Hoover. We set up the Lincoln toss with a big tub full of water. I had a few small tupperware containers floating in the water. Each person got 6 pennies to toss. The person with the most pennies in the containers won. Jeff P. won that one, but I was a close second. The Herbert Hoover was the best game of all. We dished up equal portions of jello and everyone had a straw to suck up their jello. You know, Hoover=vaccum=suck up jello with a straw. The Peterson boys were especially fond of this game, but Jeff was the winner.
Who knew that President's Day could be so fun.
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