Wizard of Oz Party for 6-9 year olds:  My Daughter decided on a Wizzard of Oz Party. My daughter had to be Dorothy and she asked all her friends to come in costume (something to do with the movie - a witch, munchkin, scarecrow etc)     We made a big sign for our door that read "Emerald City - Welcome".  We had a witch's legs with red sparkle shoes sticking out from our garage, and a yellow brick road leading up to our house (Make from mural paper). When the children entered our house everything was decorated in green cutlery, crepe paper, table cloths, baloons etc.  Glenda the good witch welcomed them (me in my wedding dress.)The children then played freeze dancing to the wizard of oz sound track the winner took home a prize. The kids then cooled off with some witches brew (green Kool Aide).   The next game was find the poppies, the children gathered poppies (cut out of paper) but when the wicked witch touched them (a friend of mine) they had to fall asleep. Then the good witch (me in my wedding dress) sprinkled snow on them (little baking flour) they got to wake up and continue looking for poppies. The person with the most poppies at the end wins. We then played pin the heart on the tin man (same rules as pin the tail on the donkey) just the kids had to pin hearts on a life size drawing of the tin man I used the mural paper to draw the tin man).  We then had a pinata game.  The pinata was a crow, beside it was a scarecrow the kids had to break the pinata to save the scarecrow.    The wicked witch then surprized the kids by coming and stealing Dorothy and taking her to the witches castle (any room will do) the kids were divided into two teams, then given a map to find Dorothy.  The map showed points they had to go to in order to find Dorothy, when they reached a station they had to answer a question about the wizard of oz eg What is Dorothys dog's name. You can make the questions as hard or easy as you want.  Once the kids answered the question correctly they got a stamp on their map and they went to the next station.  Once they got all the stamps they went to save Dorothy.  They passed the map under the door of the room she was hidden in and the witch opend the door. The kids were armed with a bucket of confetti to throw on the witch who then melted dramaticly.  The kids took the witches broom and collected their prizes.    We then opened presents and ate our wizzard of oz cake. My husband then jumped in to the room and said I am the wonderful wizard of oz who has the witches broomstick!!! The team with the broom gave it to the wizard and he gave them medals of courage (made from cardstock).  Then the wizard told the kids to click their heals together and their parents would come and take them home. Parents soon arrived and the kids went home.  This party was alot of fun and my daughters loved helping make the decorations.  It is alot of preperation but worth the effort.