Who Stole The Cookies? Kids Mystery Party Game (Base Kit For 8 But Expandable To 104 Guests) – With Period Characters

What They've Said

Really Cute!

I am doing this as a play for a girl scout theater group. The girls are having a great time learning their parts. At this time no one knows who did it and it is driving them crazy!

17th Dec 2014 – imported from our previous shopping cart system.

Carlene McKinley, USA

Carleen sent in this feedback:

“Hi, Stephanie,

Thank you.

We really had a great time and will definitely do it again. We had about 20 people so we were able to mingle quite a bit.

Carlene”

Cheri Thomas, USA

“We loved this mystery so much! Our church did it, and had a ball!!! We had some fantastic costumes! Now we will be doing it with a large group from my college. Thank you so much! You guys are great!!!!

Cheri Thomas”

Jackie Overton, USA

“I just wanted to send a few pics taken at my daughters 50th birthday party……….What a fun time all had………we had 50 plus attend……..fun was had by adults and children……….thank you for a memorable party……..To save this memory, I took pictures and transferred them to material squares and I am having a quilt made. Thanks again for all your help to make this a memorable “50th” for our daughter….Jackie Overton

PS: I will highly recommend your parties to anyone !!”

Christan Martin, USA

Christan sent in this feedback about his party (see photo no. 3 above):

“I purchased this kit to use as a culminating activity for my sixth grade Honors students after they completed a long-term reading and writing unit on mysteries. The students had a blast dressing up and acting like their characters, eating from the fairy tale- and mystery- themed menu (Fairy Dust Caviar, Make-Believe Sushi, Red Herring Cake, and Mad Hatter’s Tea), and participating in the mystery. The students were able to have fun while using their knowledge about foreshadowing, red herrings, motives, and other characteristics of mysteries to help them solve the crime! The kids enjoyed the activity so much that they shared the experience with all of their friends, and I had to order another mystery to use with another class! Everyone loved “Who Stole the Cookies?” and we are all hoping to have another mystery dinner party before the end of the school year!”

Colonial Heights Public Schools

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Mia Marr, USA

Mia sent in this feedback about her “Who Stole The Cookies?” party (see photo no. 2 above):

“We had a lot of fun. We had 8 girls, I (Mia) was Sherlock Holmes, and a mom played Mrs. Bookworm. I wanted to have a food that represented each character so in one of the pictures we were toasting (sparkling cider) as if we were at Cinderella’s Ball. In another photo you’ll see our ‘cookies’ and petit fours (Alice in Wonderland) that some said “Eat Me” and a sliced poison apple (Snow White). The girls were laughing and had a great time. For prizes I wrapped giant candy bars and each one would say: Presented to Best… (actress, dressed, Who guessed it, etc). I also made a CD of music from the different character’s that we played between Act’s when they were snacking.

This was also enjoyable because the girls had never done this before so they really got into it.

Thanks!

Rosemary Muscolo, USA

Rosemary’s “Who Stole The Cookies?” party showing Peter Pan and Wendy in front of the books mural created with chalk on black foam boards (see photo no.1 above)

Rosemarie sent in this feedback:

“Hi – I would like to submit the photos from our Fall 2005 Girl Scout Mother/Daughter Mystery Event – Who Stole the Cookies.

This was the 2nd event we did using your games (Celebrity Celebrations the year before was such a big hit the girls wanted more!) which was attended by almost 70 people! We hold this event for our Girl Scouts in grades 6-12 accompanied by their moms and a Scholarship fundraiser.

The “library” backdrop was hand drawn with chalks by the very talented husband of my co-chair for the event, Marge Smith (who purchased this past year’s game).

The Girls and their moms had terrific costumes and we all had a great time! The photos attached show both the costumes and the back drops….We’ll keep our fingers crossed that we are winners….we are planning another event for the fall!

Rosemarie Muscolo
Community Director
Kings Ferry Girl Scouts“

Maarit Vaga, USA

Maarit sent in this feedback (see photo no. 4 above):

<em”>“I just sent the last of my characters back between the pages of her book. The Queen of Hearts put up quite a struggle but at least she didn’t steal the cookies, though I had my doubts about her….

“Who Stole the Cookies” was an enormously entertaining play enjoyed by sixteen young guests between the ages of 7-11. The party was in honor of our daughter Lydia’s 10th. birthday and she insisted on playing the Queen of Hearts.

I modified the characters slightly by adding the White Rabbit as a character to better suit one of our guests’ personality and our Sherlock Holmes was just fresh from the Outback, having solved a rather nasty crime Down Under. The Queen’s siblings added their help by playing both maid and butler for the Literary-guests. Unfortunately, Cinderella was prevented from attending the party due to an uncharacteristic temper-tantrum but Maid Matilda (5) stepped in to “read” the lines with some help from her literate friends.

I can safely say that each guest fulfilled their required reading assignments for the week after this party, but oddly enough, I heard no complaints about it.

Thank you MerriMysteries for an unforgettable birthday party!!

Yours literally,
Mrs. Bookworm (Maarit Vaga, purchaser of “Who Stole the Cookies”)
Albion, NY USA”