Games and Activities

When your guests arrive, welcome them to Bikini Bottom by placing a lei around their necks.

Make a SpongeBob. Provide the kids with makeup or regular sponges, googly eyes, string, markers, crayons, glitter, construction paper, felt, and glue. Have everyone create their own SpongeBob with these materials. The kids can also use construction paper and cut it into the shape of the star to create Patrick.

Hold a Jellyfish Stomp. Similar to Musical Chairs, but place construction paper jellyfish on the floor. Play thematic SpongeBob music, and when it stops the kids must find a jellyfish and stomp on it. Whoever doesn’t land on one is out!

Play Pin the SquarePants on SpongeBob. Draw a large picture of SpongeBob on tag board in his underwear and draw Sandy, Patrick, and Gary around him for decorations. Take a couple more pieces of cardboard and cut out enough pants for each child to take a turn.

Play Sponge Toss. Purchase sand buckets and large sponges that are used to wash your car. On each sponge draw SpongeBob and in half of the buckets draw a picture of plankton at the top. Split the children into teams of two. One has a bucket filled with water and the sponge and the other teammate stands across with the empty bucket with plankton in it. When the whistle blows the person with the sponge has to soak the sponge and throw it to their teammate who then must squeeze the water into their bucket. Whoever soaks plankton and the chum bucket first wins.

Hold a Krabby Patty Relay Race. Create two teams. Set up 2 lines with TV trays set up at both ends of each line. On the far tables, place real hamburger buns and pretend burgers and cheese slices, as well as a set of oven mitts and a spatula. Each team member must run up to their table, make the Krabby Patty (bun with burger and cheese), put the mitts on, and then run with the patty on their spatula back to the starting table. Then, they must take everything off, set it down on the table, and the next team member in line must do the same. Keep going until everyone on the teams has done it. First team done wins!

Have some Bubble Fun. For an outdoor activity, hang a hula hoop from a tree and hand out bubbles and blowers and see who can blow a bubble that floats through the hoop from the farthest spot away. You can also judge who can blow the biggest bubble.

Play SpongeBob Trivia. If everyone has not seen the show, play one of the episodes for them to watch and have trivia questions for the episode, the characters, and the world they inhabit.