A fear factor birthday
Ashlee Martin, another family blog friend, says this:
"My dad's girlfriend just threw her 9-year-old daughter a Fear Factor birthday party. They had lots of crazy little challenges, and the winner of each one got a prize. They all had a blast.
They had a big jar with crickets in it, and the kids had to stick their hands in it and pull out 9 plastic bugs or spiders in so many seconds while crickets were jumping on their arms. (She said she wishes she could have had a video camera for that part because the kids were hilarious.)
They had to stand in big buckets of ice and water to see how long they could stand in there while barefoot.
They had a partner who was handcuffed (with toy handcuffs) to a chair. There was a bucket full of durt and worms, and the other kids (the ones who weren't handcuffed to chairs) had to dig through the dirt to find the key and unlock their partners.
They had clear jars full of cow hearts and kidneys, crushed pigs' feet, cow tongue and other things. The kids were told they had to eat the items in the jar. On a plate behind the gross jars were ground turkey and other actual edible foods that don't look as appetizing when they're messed up. The "cow tongue" they tasted was roast beef. (My dad's a butcher, so that helped for this part.)
There was an obstacle course that started with making a basket at the basketball goal, then ran through tires (like football players do in warm-ups). Then, they went through a maze made out of simple poles in the ground covered by dark tarps, and Jello was on the ground that they had to crawl through. They had to find their names on a flag in the maze. They had flashlights to find them. After the maze, they went through a slip-n-slide, then their partners went through.
Search the web for fear factor birthday party ideas, and you'll get loads of ideas!"