Serve foods you can roast. Make a bonfire, or a small barbecue will work as well—if you can’t find a dragon to help start your fire you can use a lighter. Try marshmallows, pre-cooked hotdogs, biscuits, or any fruit or vegetable you might try on a kabob.

Hiccup, the hero of How to Train You Dragon, is a great observer and inventor. Give each of your guests a small booklet and pen to record their observations and ideas for inventions.

Hold an Invention Convention. Provide your guests with stuff to make their own inventions. Offer any of the following: boxes, paper towel rolls, glue, wire, toilet paper rolls, aluminum foil, lids from milk jugs and other drinks for buttons, pipe cleaners, phone wire, electrical tape, clean yogurt containers, small pie tins, old CDs, nuts, bolts and washers. You may also want to include some extra masking tape, duct tape, white glue and have a hot glue gun available. Paint the boxes or other items with silver, black or blue paint before the party—just because it looks neat. You can even get old electrical equipment from a thrift store—just cut the electrical cords off before using. Be sure to allow plenty of time and plenty of materials for this How to Train Your Dragon Party activity.

If you have to choose between a shield or a weapon, choose the shield. Create a Shield. Cardboard cut outs and decorate with dragons teeth or other shiny metal objects. I’d go to a craft store and find plastic bear claws or shark teeth or even cut some out of foam sheets. Then use mini aluminum foil pie tins. Attach with hot glue. Include markers for more fun.

Now Design Your Own Viking Helmet. Provide each guest with an aluminum foil pie tin or a metal bowl and have them add (with hot glue) fur trim and animal horns and claws (from the craft store) and other trinkets. Your guests should be appropriately attired at your How to Train Your Dragon Party.

Host Dragon Training to learn how to kill a dragon. Make a small boot camp for Vikings where they learn how to beat with a stick, roll and run and duck under their shields. Make an obstacle course and time your guests running through it while holding a shield and weapon.

Make an Eel. Make a braid with three strips of fabric, then add googly eyes to one end and a red felt tongue. Or, make a paper chain for an eel and add two googly eyes and a red paper tongue to one end.