This year the boys had a combined party to celebrate their birthdays. After much debate they settled on a survival style party.

Pre-party silliness in their cool shark t-shirts from Gogo and Gramps

I made a campfire style cake, which was so much fun making. I tried a new cake recipe, an oreo vanilla cake which was super delicious!

Adam checking out the cake. He was a bit disappointed that the river didn’t flow around the whole cake but loved the candle in the campfire.

Duncan organised various obstacles with the boys. On arrival they all decorated sticks to make their own darts. Much fun was had adding feathers and wrapping them with insulation tape.

These two little dudes, Christian and Liam were the only two friends Adam wanted to come, so he was very happy they both could be there.

Duncan showing the kids how to do a Shear Lashing with their sticks!

Each child was given a bag to collect various scavenger hunt treasures!

After each obstacle they were given a bag with a tile in it.

No survival party would be complete without some rabbit droppings to eat!

Ziplining is always a hit

And a walk across the balance beam wasn’t as easy as it looked but all the kids kept at it until they succeeded!

I think besides the ziplining the garden darts was the most popular activity. They had to score 600 as a team.

To finish off they had to use their lashed sticks and make a plan to get the last bag out the tree. It was awesome seeing them working together and coming up with different ideas to knock the bag out the tree.

It was a great afternoon and fun was had by all! With all the tiles they had collected they had to decode the word “campfire”