Fear Factor Kids Party Games

Planning a Fear Factory Party

Fear Factor is a wildly successful game show on which contestants compete for a cash prize. They endure a series of gross-out food-based challenges and hair-raising physical stunts. The show is very popular with kids, and while you may not want to have the guests at your party walking on a tightrope from the roof of your house to your neighbor’s, you can easily take some inspiration from the show’s challenges to create some exciting activities for all of your little thrill seekers.

Before coming up with Fear Factor kids party games, a little bit of groundwork is required. Kick off your party planning by following these steps:

• Check with the parents of your guests to get the OK for whatever activities you have planned. Since some of the activities you’ll be doing will be food-based, get the all clear on any food allergies before serving up the challenge. Likewise, although you don’t want to plan any overtly risky physical stunts, whenever you’re playing games that go beyond the old “pin the tail on the donkey” standards, the risk of injury is ratcheted up a little bit. Make sure the parents know what you plan to do in case there any problems down the line.

• Plan some prize ideas for the winners of your challenges. You can award prizes to winners of each individual challenge, keep track of points for individual challenges and award one grand prize, or do some combination of the two. Of course, you’ll want to consider age and gender preferences when picking your prizes, but you can also save yourself some hassle by trying to pick a range of prizes that are fairly “equal.” That way, you won’t have tears and tantrums when some of the kids feel slighted that other kids got “better” prizes. Alternatively, you can skip the prizes altogether and simply set up your challenges as stations each child goes through.

Beyond these special planning requirements, you can prepare for your Fear Factor party as you would any other – send the invitations, buy the supplies, decorate the house and get ready to party!

Fear Factor Kids Party Games

To give your party guests a frightfully good time, put these Fear Factor ideas into action:

Food-Based Challenges

Stunts involving food are the easiest to put together and the friendliest for all age groups. Although contestants on the real Fear Factor show have to choke down things like real bugs, you should use food that isn’t scary to eat – but looks like it is!

• Blood Chugging – Take a red juice, like strawberry juice, and make it look bloodlike by adding extra red food coloring. Increase the gross-out factor by making it congeal with a little bit of gelatin – just don’t let it set completely.

• Baby Poo – Add a few spoonfuls of unheated hot fudge sauce, baby food or other pureed food to the center of a baby diaper and let kids unwrap and eat. For older kids, fill diapers with a few different kinds of foods and give prizes for correctly guessing what is in the diaper.

• Kitty Litter – A box of white cake mix and some food coloring can help you churn out a kitty litter cake. Use the food coloring to turn the batter gray and then bake according to package directions. When cooled, reduce the cakes to kitty litter like crumbs – you can even create “clumps” with a little bit of sugary syrup. Pick up a cheap litter tray and tray liner from the store and serve the litter up to your guests in the tray.

• Worms – Fill a bowl of pudding with gummi worms. Blindfold kids and have them dig out a worm and eat it. Of course, for the full effect, don’t let them know they’re gummi worms!.

For a food-related activity, a blindfold and a bowl full of goop holding things like marble “eyeballs” or plastic fingers and toes is always a kids’ party winner and can be adapted in many different ways.

Physical Challenges

Physical challenges are a little trickier to pull off and depend very much on the age of your guests. There are some fun ideas you can safely put into action, however:

• Scavenger hunt
• Balance beams
• Three-legged race
• Obstacle course
• Hot Potato

Fear Factor parties can be tons of fun for everyone involved and ideas for games are nearly limitless. Use your imagination to put more creepy, crawly ideas into action.