Are you sure you can't have Dorothy come? I know that Sutton's Costume rentals probably has a Dorothy costume (probably Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow too). Maybe you could check the phone book and see if you can find someone who dresses up for parties - sort of like the celebrity look-a-likes that sometimes do parties.
What about making some kind of 'game' with the yellow brick road? Or making a 'yellow brick road' that they follow through the house or through the yard to the different activities you mentioned? I know somone who did a thomas the train theme and they used black construction paper and created railroad tracks through the main floor of the house. You could do something like that with construction paper, or if you do it outside, you could get the rool of plastic yellow table covering and some of those garden stakes from the hardware store and you could lay it out in the yard and stake it down so it doesn't blow away. Or maybe use yellow sidewalk chalk and make it on your driveway. You could even take flower pots and fill them with dirt, and then use some painted yardsticks and use paper signs to make 'road signs' that point the way to the different activities.
Maybe you could set up at table where they could make masks of the lion, tin man, scarecrow and dorothy. JoAnn's sent me a spring & summer craft guide and on the front they had cute masks of a lion, monkey and zebra. They were cut out of that fun foam sheets and decorated with more fun foam, yarn, markers, and glitter paint and then thay had large popsicle sticks to hold them in front of their faces. (don't know if this is an all girl party or girls and boys, but if it's girls and boys, this would be okay).
This one would be more for girls, but you could buy red flip-flops at Joann's or Michale's and then buy that glitter paint and feather boas, and things like them and let them all decorate their own 'ruby slippers'.
Games - maybe you could do 'stuff the scarecrow' (in the movie weren't the monkeys pulling the straw out or something like that?) Or do something like a treasure hunt along your 'yellow brick road' and give them each a basket (like the one dorothy carries with toto in it) -- maybe get a stuffed animal dog that looks like toto and they have to find it.
Have fun and take lots of pictures and video!
-K.
Mom to the A team
Alex (11), Aaron and Aidan (2 1/2)
