Fear Factor Party Ideas To Challenge Your Fears!

Fear Factor party ideas are based around the Fear Factor TV show where contestants have to compete in different stunts that test their fear factor to find the most fearless winner.

The main structure of the party should revolve around three main stunts to help you and your contestants overcome your fears. When choosing stunts make sure that the location of your party, usually your backyard, will be large enough to carry out these stunts in.

Unless you can find a larger location you will need to choose stunts that you will be able to carry out safely in your party venue.

After choosing a party venue you now need to choose a host for your party. This could be you or one of your guests who would rather not participate or it could be an older sibling or parent.

They will have to set up and explain each of the stunts so they will need to be involved in all aspects of planning the party.

So if fear is not a factor for you lets start with inviting some contestants to take you up on your challenges!

INVITATIONS

Fear Factor party ideas for invitations can either be of the bought variety or to totally freak out the future contestants make your own invitations to determine the scary cats even before they turn up!

The Pink Heaven Party Angels most gross Fear Factor invitation idea is to print out a postcard sized invite complete with a logo or some pictures of fearless tasks. Print the words:

"If fear is not a factor for you then become a contestant at (birthday girl)'s birthday party"

You can either write the rest of the party details on the front or back of the invite.

Next sprinkle a few plastic flies and bugs over the invite and place in a laminate pouch. You can even put this invite in a jar full of gummy worms or plastic bugs before delivering for the ultimate Fear Factor party idea!

Remember to state that each guest needs to wear old clothes, as they are going to get covered in slime or whatever, and to get their parents permission for any dangerous stunts. Make sure you get each guest to let you know if they have any allergies so you can then let them safely participate in stunts.

DECORATIONS

Decorations for Fear Factor party ideas are not really needed. All you need is a few props to set the scene for each of your stunts and to make them more realistic.

You can however add a few touches to knock up the scare factor:

Have a tape recording playing screams and other scary sounds
Use a 'Beware, Do not enter' sign over the party entrance
Skulls and bones of contestants that didn't survive!
Keep a few buckets of slime handy to throw over the losers in each round
Hang up Fear Factor posters along with birthday banners
For Fear Factor party ideas use yellow and black themed party ware

PARTY COSTUMES

Party costumes for Fear Factor Party Ideas need to be based around team colours. Once guests have responded to your invitations you can divide the confirmed contestants up into equal numbered teams.

You won't be able to do this before guests confirm their attendance as if people are unable to attend you will then have un-equal team numbers.

Next you can name each team and give them a team color.

You will then need to inform each contestant of their team name and color and encourage them to wear old clothes, or clothes they don't mind getting dirty, in their teams colors.

THE BIRTHDAY CAKE

The most obvious birthday cake idea for Fear Factor party ideas is a cake with the Fear Factor logo on. You can either buy these from your local bakery or supermarket or create your own using birthday cake recipes.

Other birthday cake ideas are:

A chocolate covered cake decorated with a spiders web and plastic bugs and gummy worms around the words 'Fear Factor' and the birthday girls name
An eyeball cake made out of a circular shaped cake and decorated to look like an eyeball
A worm, spider or rat shaped cake
A cake in the shape of a cage with the words 'Fear Factor' inside the cage
A yellow and black decorated cake
A tray filled with 'dirt and worm pie' (Oreo cookies and gummy worms) you can then place candles on top
You could also have a cupcake stand with a different fear iced onto each cupcake

FOOD AND DRINK

Fear Factor party ideas for food and drink should be normal party food on a table littered with fake bugs. You can then add some gross names to each of the dishes such as:

Eyeball onions
Lice rice
Hot dog fingers
Spaghetti intestines with mincemeat maggots
Eyeballs-cocktail onions
Eyeball trifle (trifle with cherries in)
Dirt and worm pie (Oreo cookies with gummy worms)
Blood bath brew (cranberry juice in a drinks fountain or large bowl, also put in a few fake fingers for full effect)

ENTERTAINMENT

The Fear Factor show comprises of three stunts which will make up your Fear Factor birthday party games.

The first stunt is a physical test, the second mental and the last an action stunt. When choosing Fear Factor party ideas for entertainment you can either follow these guidelines or just carry out as many challenges and stunts as you like.

Before you start you need to determine a scoring system and explain how people get eliminated. You also need to fully explain the rules of the game and let everyone know that if they opt out they are then eliminated!!

Star Jars - Make five wood or strong cardboard cut outs of a stars and place in five different jars (you can also use coins). Then place insects, worms, dog food etc in the jars making sure that you have something different in each. Each contestant then has to successfully collect all five stars. You can also do a similar game with boxes, this intensifies the fear factor as the contestant can't see what is in the boxes.
Marble Madness - Fill a bucket with ice cold water and put around 20 marbles in the bottom. Each contestant needs to see who can pick up the most marbles using their toes. You can also set a time limit as you don't want anyone getting cold feet!!
Mud Bath - Fill a large paddling pool with mud and place stars or coins in the mud. The aim of the game is for each contestant to get in the 'bath' and see how many prizes they can find or how fast they can get them all.

Olive Bowl - Fill a bowl with baby food (or something equally as yucky) and around 10 olives. Then place an empty bowl about a metre away. Each contestant needs to transfer the olives from one dish to the next by only using their mouth! Fastest wins.
Obstacle Course - Create an obstacle course with balance beams, pop up tunnels or buckets full of slime to crawl or walk through and a broken glass walk (blindfold the contestants and have them walk over crisps). Have the other teams throwing unboiled eggs and squirting water guns at them as they try and complete the course.
Diaper Dash - Fill diapers up with chocolate pudding and whoever can eat the 'baby poop' fastest wins.
Egg Catch - A simple game where two teams stand opposite each other and throw and catch unboiled eggs. The team with the most whole eggs caught wins.
Pool Dive - If you have a pool you can play some underwater Fear Factor party ideas for games such as diving for weights under the water or collecting the most coins off the pool floor. Another game would be to time who can hold their breath for longest.
Lock and Key - This game requires two people, one to be chained up and another to find the key. Start the timer and let the key finder find the key which is in a bucket full of spaghetti, bugs, dog food, hard boiled eggs etc. using only their mouth. Once they have got the key they need to unlock their partner, fastest partnership wins.
It Smells - Use around five dishes and fill each with a different smelly food e.g. rotten eggs, dog food, baby food, smelly cheese and pepper. Whilst blindfolded each contestant needs to try and identify each food. You can also add a bonus item such as a pair of smelly socks!

FAVORS

Fear Factor party ideas for favors should be put in a small bag full of plastic bugs. Here are some Fear Factor favor ideas:

A T-Shirt (or personalized chocolate bar) with 'I Survived (Birthday Girl)'s Fear Factor Birthday' on
A packet of Gummy Worms
A photo frame with a photo of each guest doing one of the challenges
Gumball eyeballs
A lock and key
A certificate

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