Hobbit Party

August 2013

Decoration Ideas: Bag End front door at meeting room entrance (see picture on Pinterest), Sign- No admittance…, Maps, Dark green fabric, Walking sticks, Wooden dishes, Unlit candles

Refreshments: cheese cubes, pretzel sticks, pickles, sausage balls, brownies, jam sandwiches, strawberries, grapes, E.L. Fudge cookies (to represent the Council of Elrond), Life Savers, M&M's, root beer, ginger ale, and green tea

Games & Activities:

• Hobbit Name Generator

• Riddles

• Write Your name in Elvish

• Hobbit Hunt 

• Make a Hobbit Relay

• Hula Hooping Contest

• Ring, Ring, Who’s Got the Ring?

For pictures and more details, visit this blog post.

September 2018

Refreshments:

• Cheese Cubes

• Walking Sticks (Pretzel Sticks)

• Pickles

• Jam Sandwiches

• Council of Elrond (Elf Fudge Cookies)

• The One Ring Candy Assortment (Life Savers, peach rings)

• Gummy Beorns

• Root Beer

• Ginger Ale

Games & Activities:

• Name Tags

  • Hobbit Name (printable name generator)

  • Dwarven Runes

  • Write Your Name in Elvish

• Trivia & Riddles

• Backyard type games

  • Egg & Spoon Race

  • Make a Hobbit Relay

• Scavenger Hunts

  • Hobbit Hunt

  • Riddles in the Dark

  • Dwarven Treasure

• Spiders & Dwarves Tag (Find a description here.)

September 2023

Décor:

• Signs on Meeting Room Doors (Hobbiton Brush Hand from dafont)

  • No Admittance Except on Party Business

  • Speak Friend and Enter

• Refreshment Table

  • Green tablecloths

  • Tulle

  • Owl, Rabbit, and Bird figurines from home

  • Autumn leaves garland

  • Framed signs (Now Serving, Blunt the Knives and Bend the Forks)

  • Above the Table (Free Printable Library Card Tolkien Quotes Wall Art from Rose Clearfield)

Refreshments:

• Cheese Cubes

• Walking Sticks (Pretzel Sticks)

• Pickles

• Council of Elrond (Elf Fudge Cookies)

• One Ring Candy (peach rings)

• Gummy Beorns

• Root Beer

• Ginger Ale

Games & Activities

• What’s Your Hobbit Name? Name Generator

• Write Your Name in Dwarven Runes (post-it notes)

• Poems from The Hobbit

• Trivia & Riddles

• Make a Hobbit Relay Race (copies, scissors, glue) (I modified the Gnome Game on page 84 of the 2013 CSLP Dig Into Reading Children's manual and used the template on page 101.)

• The Hobbit Scavenger Hunt (Characters & places from the Hobbit films)

• A Hobbit’s Adventure Digital Escape Room from Bedford Public Library