We were on vacation for Josiah's ninth birthday, a camping day at the tail end of our Canada trip. Considering that by the time he turns 11, birthday parties at home might be a thing of the past, we decided to have a party with the theme being the number (and word) ten. It began with an invite with a soldier saying "Your A10tion, please" and ending with thank you notes saying "Thank you for A10ding" and a picture of an A-10 warplane.

The ten theme continued when the guests, mostly Josiah's 4th grade classmates or soccer teammates, arrived. They were first given ten toothpicks and candies and invited to build something with them before eating them. They were then broken into groups who were challenged to name things that came in tens (such as bowling pins). The next challenge was to list as many words as they could that had the letters "ten" clustered inside, such as TENdon or inTENtion. Although Josiah's class is supposed to be among the sharpest students, no team got more than about a dozen words or any not on Gilbert and Winnie's list. Maybe you should try to think of as many as you can (no adding prefixes and suffixes to the same word, like TENdon and TENdons) before you click on the link.
The next game was to look at a page with a group of pictures and find what things had a "ten" in it somewhere. After you click the picture link, you can try to find them before clicking on the answers.
Following that was a challenge to name the Ten Commandments; one team couldn't get any, but was considering "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." After that, there was a brain relief of trying to pick up ten assorted items with your toes and put them into a box, and a water fight.

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