My daughters and I are huge fans of the Divergent Series, by Veronica Roth.
My oldest wanted to have a Divergent birthday party and watch the movie in the backyard. It was her year to have a family or small party, so we didn't go elaborate on the decorations and she only invited her sisters and her two besties.
We decided to make matching shirts. We searched Google Images until we found what we were looking for. The images we found said you could print them off for tattoos. We printed them off onto iron on transfer inkjet paper, cut them out, placed them where we wanted them, and followed the directions included with the iron on transfer paper. I suggest using a ruler for placement of the images, so you can make sure they are lined up equally.
Of course, you could always use a vinyl cutter and cut out the design onto HTV (Heat Transfer Vinyl) and iron or heat press them on.
We ironed the images onto white t-shirts, but joked around that we should have printed them onto beige shirts so they would look skin color, since they are tattoos.
We always like to do crafts at our birthday parties, so we tried to think of a few more.
We have made these magnets many times with just scrapbook paper, and thought it would be fun to make one for each faction.
We took the same images we got from Google Images and shrunk it to fit. We just bought the clear flat rocks at the local $ store, but you can find them at any craft store. We traced the rock over-top the desired image, and cut them out to match.
We then covered the back of the rock with mod podge, we have done this before with regular school glue paste and it held great to. Place the picture side of the image on the back of the rock covered with mod podge.
When the mod podge or glue dries you should be able to see the image through the rock. We then hot glued a magnet to the back of the image. Make sure you get a strong enough magnet to support the rock and anything you want it to hold.
Divergent Bags
My daughter wanted some sort of party bag. We happened upon these orange bags at our local $ store, and thought it reminded us of the fire seen on the Divergent Faction logo.
We took the same image used before and blew it up to fit the bag and still be seen when the bag was closed. We cut it out of a large brown paper grocery bag with an exact-o knife. I would recommend using contact paper instead of the brown paper grocery bag. The paint seemed to spread a little under the edges, and from other projects we've made contact paper prevented this from happening.
We just used regular black spray paint to paint the design.
The kids thought it was so much fun that they each added their own created on the back of the bag.
Let The Games Begin
We played a game of capture the flag.
We bought two really bright yellow sheets of felt to use as our flags. We later thought we should have spray painted them to glow in the dark, and gave everyone glow in the dark bracelets and necklaces
Each team hides their flag. A few team members stay behind to protect the flag and a few members try to find the opposite teams flag. The team that finds and retrieves the opposite team's flag wins. We played it, where if the other team tagged you, then you had to go to jail, until a member of your team tagged you out. There are many variations to this game so come up with what ever rules fit your party. It might be fun to add squirt guns or Nerf guns.
We thought it would be fun to play
Candor or Dauntless aka Truth or Dare
We tried to keep the questions and dares PG rated, since the kiddos are underage! We also told them that if nobody chose Dauntless it wouldn't be any fun!
Decide on your questions and dares, type them out and cut them out. Fold them up and place them in a bowl to draw from to keep it fair. On their turn ask them "Candor or Dauntless?" Which ever they choose, have them draw out a folded paper from the corresponding bowl.
*See examples of questions and dares we used at the end of this blog post
For Dinner we ate Dauntless Hamburgers. For a drink we had
Orange Kool Aid and drank it through a children's medicine
syringe (has wide opening and NO NEEDLE). We bought the children's medicine syringes from the pharmacy for $.10 each. *Adults only prop-I would not recommend this for children, or anyone who might confuse real medicine and koolaid.
They
had a blast squirting it in their mouth.
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Adults Only |
We made Dauntless cupcakes using yellow, orange, and red frosting, in a star tipped frosting bag, by pulling the frosting up causing tips resembling fire.
We ended the night watching the movie in the backyard.
It was a simple low key party, but the kids had a blast!
Hope this gives you some inspiration for your own Divergent, Insurgent or Allegiant Party!
Examples of what we used:
Candor (truth)
- If you woke up one day and noticed that you were invisible, what would be the first thing you would like to do?
- If you win the lottery of 100 million dollars, what would you spend it on?
- Name five things you are afraid of?
- What was your most embarrassing moment?
- What embarrasses you most about your parents?
- If you could be invisible for two hours what would you do?
- Who do you think is hotter Jacob or Edward?
- Do you think piercings and tattoos are attractive?
- Would you ever get at tattoo? What and where?
- Would you ever get a piercing besides on your ears? Where?
- Who was the cutest boy in 7th grade?
- What actor do you have a crush on?
- Who's cuter Peeta or Gale?
- Tell a funny or embarrassing story that happened to you in 7th grade.
- Tell a story when your Mom or Dad embarrassed you in public.
- Tell a story when you sibling embarrassed you in public.
- Have you ever broken anything and lied about it? What?
- Who is the most embarrassing person in your extended family? Why?
- Have you ever cheated in school? On what?
- If you could be Katniss, Bella, Annabeth, or Tris, who would you be? Why?
- Have you ever killed anything (bug, spider, pet, PERSON)? What?
- Have you ever set anything on fire? What?
Examples of what we used.
Dauntless (dare)
- Sing every word you speak for the rest of the game.
- Speak in rhymes for the rest of the game.
- Show us your best interpretation of a cat.
- Eat a raw onion.
- Random cheer.
- Rip a band aid off your arm hairs.
- Pluck an eyebrow hair.
- Your new nickname is "Woody" and whenever someone yells "Andy's coming" drop to the ground.
- Eat one piece of dog food.
- Sing the Barney song.
- Sit on a wet rag for 5 seconds.
- Every time someone says your name do 10 jumping jacks.
- Perform a 30 sec dance solo to your own humming.
- Smell the armpit of the person to your left for 30 sec.
- Perform a 30 dance of a cat stalking it's prey.
- Give the person to your left a 30 sec foot massage.
- Write "Loser" on your head in red lipstick and take a selfie.
- Demonstrate a pickle mustache by holding a pickle between your upper lip and nose for 60 sec.
- Demonstrate and name a new yoga pose.
- Perform a 30 sec impromptu rap song.
- Perform a 30 cheer about another player.
- Smell the person to your left's breath for 15 sec.