Advice Needed for 7 Year Old Boys Birthday Party (Game with Marshmallow Shooters

Most men are not much help with this kind of thing - don't frustrate yoruself with expecting that he'll be much elp with the details. It's not that he's bad (he may be but I don't think this is the indicator) they are jsut clueless with these kinds of details.

One balster is no where near enough. The minumum would be two - but 3 would be better - and how about water guns as party favors for the boys to use while they're waiting to use the marshmallow blaster? AS for points vs jsut shotting hte bad guys - I'd jsut go with shooting them - the points thing is tough to track, there will be errors, etc. All they want to do is shoot marshmallows anyway.

When my son was younger we had a few "supersoaker" birthday parties where the invitations instructed kids to bring their supersoakers if they had one - party favors were water guns from the dollar store and we'd spend the night before filling water balloons and load up a few buckets, wheel barrows, bins with water balloons. The boys had a riot - no rules - just running around the back yard having a ball. Now my son's birthday is in July so it was always warm - I don't know if that's an option for you.

Best of luck with this - remember, we moms tend to make these parties into bigger than life things, we fret about the details when all the kids really want to do is have some fun, eat cake and ice cream, drink some soda, get sugared-up and spend time with their friends.

With only 1 blaster, I can imagine that they might have trouble waiting their turns. What if you used a different color of marshmallows for each team, and had a target with a basket to catch the good shots(like a bean bag toss)?

We had a winter marshmallow-themed party for my son one year and did lots of crafts including snowmen, toothpick sculptures, and simple cardboard catapults to shoot marshmallows.

Ewww, use the same blaster? Are you talking about the style where they blow in it and shoot the marshmallows? I would say no to my kid if so. Make them out of PVC pipe. google it. It won't cost much to make a bunch of them and let them take them home as gifts.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Marshmallow-gun/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOyVOHudO8
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Marshmallow-Gun

Waiting for turns with the marshmallow blasters could be do-able if there are other activities going on at the same time. A friend of mine did a Star Wars party for her now-9YO son and a couple games that were a bit hit with a small budget were:
1. stormtrooper bowling - they saved a dozen drinking water bottles, painted them white, and added a scoop of sand for weight and put the lids back on. Each guest used a black marker to draw a stormtrooper face on it and then the bottles were lined up like bowling pins and the kids tried to knock the pins down with a soccer ball

2. pool noodle light saber battles: cut one blue or green pool noodle in half, use electrical tape to make "handles" at one end of the pool noodle. Two kids at a time would stand opposite each other on little step stools and tried to whack a black balloon (the boys called it the Death Star) that was dangling from the patio awning without losing their balance. Round ends when one kid has to step off his stepstool to regain balance.

She also had them dip thick pretzel sticks into red candy melts to make "light saber candy pretzels"