While kidified (I just made that word up) for fun party experiences, the above tasks are based on actual tasks those of us in the criminal justice system had to complete in order to qualify to even get on a waiting list for our future jobs in law enforcement. 

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You'll need to do some preparation to make the mission folders but I've made them easy and inexpensive to do and not overly time consuming. Note that if you have a couple of adult volunteers helping you, things will go a lot easier and smoother at the party itself.

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Materials you'll need:

LASER FIELD: Plenty of red yarn, red crepe paper streamers or red ribbon. You're going to set up a field of lasers using one of those materials and kids will be crawling under those 'lasers' so you want to set your field up where they have space to do that and where you have a place that you can easily tie the ends of the red yarn (for example) to create the 'lasers'. 

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There are 2 ways you can set up your laser field:

1. String all of the laser yarn before the party

2. Put up only the first 'laser' length of yarn. After each child gets under the first 'laser', add another laser the kids have to get under without touching the yarn, then add a third 'laser' and so on, making your laser field harder to get through each time. This was the way we did it and the kids loved this task so much we ended up doing it 5 times!

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COORDINATION: On your computer printer, print out at least 21 (you can go more if you wish) 8.5x11 sheets of a combination of handprints and footprints. As seen in the Coordination photo above, tape them to the floor in horizontal rows of 3 sheets across. This task is similar to the old game of Twister. The child must start at the first row of 3 sheets and work their way to the finish line putting their hands only on the handprint sheets and their feet only on the footprint sheets.

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To make the handprints and footprints, I copied online graphics of each, saved them as a jpeg file, then printed them out on my computer. You can use the links above to save and copy the handprint and footprint. Enlarge them if necessary before printing them out.

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DIFFUSE THE BOMB: You'll need a roll of string cut into lengths long enough to tie around your agents' ankles and 2 balloons for each child. Tie the string to the end of the inflated balloons, then tie the inflated balloons one to each ankle of your agents. You'll want to do this activity outside or in a large open area because utter chaos will ensue as your agents try to diffuse the other agents' balloon bombs by popping them while keeping their own 'bombs' from being diffused (popped).

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FIND A HIDDEN ITEM: You'll need one item to hide for each child. The item can be anything espionage or law enforcement related or even a picture of the item. 
What we did was purchase a Nerf N-Strike Elite Jolt Blaster (Green) ($10 each) for each agent and extra darts. We put an equal number of spare darts in an evidence bag with the agent's name on it so they knew which gun was theirs by their name on the evidence bag. Hide the guns and evidence bags (together) around your party venue for your agents to find.