We had a Survivor Party for our 3 teens, ages 14,14 and 12 at a local beach. We sent out invitations with the Survivor logo that I downloaded that said "You're invited-to out wit, out play and out last at our Survivor Birthday Bash. Please wear your swimsuit and tennis shoes. Tribes will be picked at 10am sharp." There were 21 kids invited. I picked three colors and purchased bandanas for their buffs, bought grass beach mats at the dollar store for their teams and spray painted a design on them in the team colors. They picked their buffs out of a bucket and the birthday kids were their "captains". I had intended to let the teams vote people off and reward the the winner with cash, but most of them voted not to vote people off. So the winning team got to split the cash.  Our first game was a scavenger hunt (twenty minutes)-they had to find things like a gum wrapper, five different flowers, a candy bar wrapper, three different sized acorns, two pine cones, two different feathers, a shiny/smooth rock, an odd shaped leaf and the hardest was a six-pack ring holder, which only one team found. It was funny to hear how and where they found their items. The next game was a relay race-breaking each team up two people had to spin in a circle then jump over their team mat race to pick up two more team members and solve a brain teaser. Once they were done with that they had to race and pick up two more members and put together a small 50 piece puzzle.(which was bought as a 2 pack at the dollar store) The last step was to pick up the final team member and solve another brain teaser. The third game was another scavenger hunt (10 minutes)- a race for the rainbow. The teams had to find something from nature for the colors in the rainbow-yellow, orange, red, purple, blue and green. I printed the list and directions out at home and handed them to the teams, making sure I told them to read the directions which one team did not do. They came back with paper and cans, which isn't part of nature. Our fourth game was another relay race-again splitting each team up, the first set had to race down to the beach and swim a lap, the second set had to float a can (a can of veggies I brought from home) on a raft that they built out of anything but a float (I gave them 30 minutes to build it before hand) and the final set had to build a fire that was big enough to roast a marshmellow over. (I gave each team a disposable pie tin and 1 match) Our final game was a fear factor type game-each member of the team had to bet in minutes how long it would take them to eat what I put in front of them. The winning team received one point if they beat the set time or the other teams didn't finish theirs. I hid the food under paper plates, we had a plate of cool whip, a plate of gummy worms, half a lemon, beef stew in a cat food can, gummy rats and pieces of canned octopus. As favors they each got to take their buffs home, I made cd's with the birthday kids' favorite songs and made labels for them on the computer and of course they got candy bags. Everyone was talking about the party for days.