Roblox is the online game my daughter plays with her friends most of the time, so I wasn’t surprised when she asked for this theme for her birthday party. But, I had a hard time finding resources for making a Roblox party come to life. All I could find were basic decorations like tablecloths, banners, and balloons so I brainstormed with my daughter to see what online games could translate into real life games.
One thing that makes Roblox tricky as a theme is that there are so many different games within Roblox – that’s what makes it fun too! First we had to identify the different genres of games that my daughter and friends like to play. Then we narrowed that down to what would actually be interesting to do IRL (in real life).
We also found other aspects of online games that we could bring to life like dressing up your avatar and spending online money!
Spend Some Robux (Money in Roblox)
To make the game world come to life, we decided to make Robux (Roblox money) and the kids could choose to spend their money to upgrade materials for an activity or skip stages in the obby. You could also add activities to earn coins (like winning trivia or speed drawing).
We 3D printed 15 coins for each kid to spend. We also printed containers to store their Robux and take home. I added their initials to personalize their containers using vinyl letters.
Here are the designs for 3D printing the coins and box.
You can find many shops on etsy that sell Roblox coins also.
Skin Shop (Become Your Avatar)
Online games usually include making an avatar as your character. We added this to our real-life Roblox game by providing a “skin shop” for each kid to dress up. We went through our bins of halloween costumes and dress up clothes to gather all our hats, wigs, crowns, capes, etc. The girls had a blast taking photos with ridiculous outfits on.
You could have the kids wear their favorite costume pieces while playing the games too. You could also have this be another way the kids could spend their Robux.
Obby – Roblox Obstacle Course
Obbys are very popular in Roblox and there are many different themes for them. We took this as loose inspiration because most obbys involve the floor falling out from under you, which we couldn’t do in real life (for obvious safety reasons).
We created an obstacle course of multiple stages. It was a super hot summer day for our party so we added water to several stages to help the kids cool off. The stages were:
- Jumping on colored rings to cross an area
- Rubber chicken relay
- Trampoline water balloon catch
- Balance beam walk (while being squirted with water)
- Laser beams (crisscrossed ropes)
- Frisbee balancing (on pool noodles)
- Stacked cup knockdown (with water balloons)
In Roblox, if you can’t get past an obby stage, you are given the option to pay Robux to skip it. This was easy to add to our party too. If the kids wanted to skip a stage or didn’t want to retry it, they just had to pay a coin.
I relied on using materials we had at home to make the obstacle course. Several components came from pervious parties like our Survivor Party, Pirate Party, and Ninja Party. I strongly recommend looking around for what you have in your home already rather than buying a lot of specialty items – it’s one of my planning tips!
Build to Survive a Natural Disaster
The second big activity was based on the Roblox games called “build to survive”. In that game, the player has to build a structure before other characters try to attack them. We modified this game so the structures had to withstand natural disasters.
Each group had the same starting materials of random cardboard boxes and basic clear tape. They had 10 minutes to build before the first disaster struck. One key part of the challenge… all the kids in the group had to be inside the structure when the disaster hit.
At any point, the kids could spend their Robux to upgrade to better tape or buy more boxes. The groups had very different approaches for spending their money, as well as building their structure.
After each disaster, the groups had 5 minutes to rebuild or fortify their structure before the next disaster hit. The disasters we used were:
- Earthquake – an adult just shook the structures really hard
- Tornado – a leaf blower tried to blow over the structures
- Monsoon – a garden hose rained on each structure for a while
- Dinosaur – an adult in an inflatable t-rex costume tried to destroy the structures
Having the kids inside the structure made it more fun because they felt the effects of the disasters themselves! There was a lot of squealing and shrieking… in a fun way 🙂
