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Star Wars Lego Party

Have I mentioned we are slightly, overly obsessed with Star Wars? Like…my kids can recite lines from the movies, my boys wear Star Wars underpants and carry the lunch boxes to school too. And you wouldn’t have wanted to hear their cries when I told them they couldn’t do the Jedi Training Camp at Disney because camp was full. I promised them next time. So my little Jackson turned 5 in the fall, and I was not surprised when said he wanted a Star Wars party. Well, I have already thrown a Star Wars party for his older brother which was a huge hit. But Jackson wanted to go with the Star Wars Lego party theme instead. I keep my leftover party supplies so I was still able to use items that I used for the Star Wars. And was able to reuse the printables I designed. For that, it was a pretty easy party to pull together, which I needed because his birthday is right during the holidays. As always resources are listed below. One thing I did was print up at the local print shop a huge bulls eye image for the backdrop. They were able to blow up the image large enough to cover my poster board. I used that same image in his invitations.

How cool is his cake? It’s one of my favorite and tastes better than it looks! 3-D Lego minifigure jedi brings the whole theme into play. I put my older son to work by having him build me a lego cake stand.

More 3-D mini figures for our cupcakes. We had the party after lunch so I ended up just serving cake and cookies. For the cupcakes and cookies, I found mini light sabers on Amazon and stuck them right next to the fondants.

No shortage on star wars minifigures at our house!

Straws are attached to the water bottles by little sticky dots.

So what activities did we do at the party? Well, I really wanted to keep cost down and honestly didn’t want to put too much thought into it. Remember, we were right during full holiday mode. So I purchased a few new Star Wars Lego boxes for the party and had the parts and instructions laid out on our table for the kids to build and play with. I checked into different Lego rental companies and even craigslist for old Lego kits, but the prices for Legos are quite expensive and going with new boxes just made sense. Jackson and his friends are at the age where they just sat and built the Lego kits the entire party. For those who weren’t quite Lego fanatics, I had our bounce house up and toys out. We also had a handmade Lego pinata to break up the party.

Party favors–a simple Lego Star Wars ship

Happy Birthday Jackson! May the force be with you!

Resources:
Star Wars printables: me
Bullseye poster board: image by me then printed at OfficeMax copycenter
Happy Birthday Star Wars garland: Target
Birthday Cake with 3-D Lego minifigure: Sugar Benders
Star Wars Cake Pops: So Sweet Pops
Lego Cupcake toppers: MJ Tabush Cake Designs
Lego guy and Lego yoga toppers: MJ Tabush Cake Designs
Star Wars lightsaber lollipops
Lego Cake Stand: we made it
Star Wars Republic Attack Cruiser Party Favors
Mini light sabers
Star Wars Lego Kits

Star Wars Birthday Party

It’s about time that I am finally posting the long-awaited Star Wars Birthday party for Lucas’s sixth birthday. I mean…it only happened over six months ago and we are in a whole new year and different season. But truth be told, I lost all his birthday party pictures. I was so sad and devastated. They accidentally got erased on our computer, and I’ve spent the last few months asking friends, who were at the party, to send me their copy of pictures. So I got a wide assortment, but think I got some pictures that captured the fun we had at the party.

We are big-time Star Wars fans, so I was really happy when Lucas wanted that to be his birthday theme. Can I just say that I actually love throwing boy birthday parties more than girls. There is so much imagination in little boys! Okay so I will try to remember everything I did. PS….excuse the glare in some of the pictures. It was a hot summer sunny afternoon!

PSS…this is a LONG post. Lots of pictures. Sorry!

Birthday table. The backdrop is actually a chalkboard. I got a large piece of wood cut at Home Depot and painted it with chalkboard paint. I wanted it to look like a starry night. Sorry for the glare!!

Jedi Training Kits–When the kids arrived, they each received a Jedi Training Kit gable box. Inside the box was their padawan training outfit, lightsaber, a little Star Wars squishy man and Star Wars pez candy dispenser. This was also their party favor box. Once they got their outfit on, I had them draw on another larger chalkboard Star Wars figures and stars, moons, comets, etc. We used that chalkboard as a photobooth to take individual pictures of the kids in their padawan outfit (but I lost all those pictures).

We also took pictures of the kids in Star Wars masks, which I used those masks as the birthday invitation. Resource below.

Birthday Table: resources at the bottom. Here’s the food list:

Fruit Lightsaber: fruit kabobs
Death Star Donuts: chocolate-dipped donut holes on a stick
Ewok Nibbles: pretzels, goldfish, wheat squares
Vadar Veggies: carrots, broccoli, snap peas
Skywalker Sugar Cookies: sugar cookies
Galactic Cupcakes: cupcakes
Obi-Pop Kornobi: popcorn
Leila Buns: small cinnamon rolls on a stick
Palpatine Pizza: pizza
Yoda Soda: green soda drink
Warrior Water: bottle water

Before the party started we set up our TV outside, so Star Wars could be playing. I threw some quilts down for the kids to lay on and strung some blue party paper balls on ribbon and attached to wooden sticks across the quilts so it would square it off from the other activities. It’s similar to what I did here. I lost those pictures and don’t have them. When it was time to eat, I had trays so the kids could carry their food without it falling everywhere. It was really good because it contained all the food without it going all over the blankets.

Jedi Training Camp–The main party entertainment was the Jedi Training camp. Originally, a friend of mine had recommended magician Jon Finch to be the party entertainment. I was really excited to have a magician as we’d never had one at a party before but then just before the party, the birthday boy had a sudden change of heart so we had to have a Jedi camp instead! I talked to Lucas’s Uncle Eric about dressing up as a Jedi Knight and training a bunch of wild boys to be Jedi Knights. He took this responsibility very serious and watched a lot of Disneyland’s Jedi training camp YouTube videos. It was awesome! He even spoke like a Jedi and the kids loved it. I did purchase the Jedi Knight outfit because I was short on time to make anything for him. But it could easily be made with a long white robe with a brown sash. Or if you like to buy the one I have, let me know!

Jedi Eric taught the boys how to use their light sabers, how to swing and properly act like a Jedi Knight. Then they had to go through an obstacle course and practice their skills. The best part was when there was evil in the force and Darth Maul showed up. You should of seen the looks on the kids’ face. It was awesome! I have to admit. I was scared, but they all ran and attacked him. But my ultimate favorite part was when Darth Maul and Jedi Eric went at it and had a pretty good lightsaber fight. I’m sure it brought back a lot of fond childhood memories for those too. Don’t worry…Darth Maul was Lucas’s daddy.

After we sang Happy birthday, ate the most yummiest birthday cake and then the kids pretended to be Jedi knights and played in our bounce house. It was such a fun party!

PSSS…I miss our backyard.

Party Resources :
cut wood and chalkpaint: home depot
adult Jedi costumes
padawan outfits: I bought brown fabric on sale at Jo-Anns to make tunics for each guest. So, you cut
out a rectangle piece and then cut a hole for the neck. I suggest cutting the holes not too big or the tunic
will fall off their shoulders. I also bought white fabric and cut long strips for ties. No sewing.
blow-up lightsabers
star wars pez candy
gable boxes
star wars printable masks: BessiePooh
party labels and food labels: me
black and white striped table cloth: my own but got fabric from Ikea and made into a tablecloth
star wars cookies: Sweet Treatz by Mary
star wars fondant cupcake toppers: Pastel Fiesta
party straws, cupcake holder, food cups, striped bags: Hey YoYo
star wars 3-d cake and cupcakes: Sweet Lisa’s

Paintball Birthday Party

Paintball Birthday Party

We recently celebrated my son Lucas’s 10th birthday party! How quickly time has gone by! No more cute, baby boy parties, he wanted a real paintball birthday party. Boys at this age have so much energy, so I knew I needed to find a paintball venue to host the party. His paintball birthday party was so fun! I really like actually hosting boy birthday parties because the guests get so into the party and the theme.

We held the paintball birthday party on a Saturday and the party took up most of the day, but the boys had a blast! The party guests were dropped off at my house, and my husband and I transported the kids to the paintball venue. My Husband has done paint-balling in the past on his Prague stag do many years ago! At the paintball venue, they were equipped with paintball mask, gun and paint balls. I bought two different color of bandanas for the kids to wear and break up into two teams. They wore the handkerchief around their neck for protection also from the paint balls. I also gave each guest their own labeled water bottle and made sure they had plenty of water and Gatorade, which I brought to the paintball venue. There at the venue, we had pizza and snacks. So the kids were playing and eating the entire time. At the paintball venue, they played different obstacle courses. Paintball can be dangerous if players are careless, but the venue was great with the kids making sure they were protected the whole time. Also I requested that they played with low-impact paintballs so when they got hit it didn’t hurt. After playing paintball, we came back to my house and had cake and the kids got to fill their party bags with the candy and Personalized Party Favors and gifts on the paintball birthday party table. I wanted to get a bouncy castle from somewhere like Junglejumps.com but I didn’t think it fit the theme, plus if one of the children shot it with paintball gun there would be trouble.

I listed all the resources below the pictures for the paintball birthday party.

Paintball Birthday Party Resources:

Paintball Venue: Paintball Atlanta

Paintball Cake: Miss Mamie’s Cupcakes

Paintball Cookies: The Bakesmith

Paintball Printables: Me (sorry, no free printable for this party!)

Waterbottles

Bandanas

Camouflage Drawstring Candy Bags

Gumballs

Gumball Tubes

Jawbreaker Lollipops

Camouflage Lining (for trays and background cut down to size)

Camouflage plates and napkins

Birthday Sign: Cricut Explore Air™ machine“>Cricut and cut out the letters

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Nerf Gun Birthday Party

Kids are obsessed with nerf guns these days, especially my own! My kids also love using BB guns from onlybbguns (under parental supervision of course) Even though we know that BB and nerf guns are safe, it is still important that parents are supervising so that no one gets hurt as we’re the ones hosting the party. For any other parents who are deciding to host a nerf gun party for their children, as stupid as it sounds, it’s important that you can tell the difference between toy guns and real guns. The best way to tell the difference is that Airsoft bb guns come in a two tone colour to distinguish from real guns so please bear this in mind before organizing a party. So anyway, I knew a Nerf gun birthday party was going to happen eventually. We celebrated Jackson’s 7th birthday the week of Thanksgiving so it was a little hectic squeezing a birthday party in, especially when I was hosting! But it was going to happen or not. Nerf gun birthday party he wanted! It turned out really cute. Since it was cold outside, we held all the birthday activities in my unfinished basement with cake and food upstairs. No pictures…it’s just not a pretty basement. But a nerf gun birthday party is really perfect for an outside backyard party. And since we couldn’t do that, we had to get creative. I was concerned with kids getting hit with the soft bullets in close quarters (after all the Nerf shotgun fires out the bullets really quickly!), so part of their party favors were the safety glasses, which I made sure everyone wear.

To make the nerf gun birthday party fair during games, instead of having party goers bring their own nerf guns, I instead gave each child their owe to make it fair and as a take home party favor. I put a variety of bullets in a plastic bag and used velcro so they could attach it to their “felt vests” when they are in battle. Once the children all arrived we headed downstairs and they warmed up with stretches and boot camp exercises. Then they practiced on target shooting bullseye boards that we painted in the party colors. Then they headed over to the shooting range, which was a large chalkboard that we had drawn body silhouettes prior. They used the suction bullets to try and shoot the vinyl squares that we taped for the body zones. After, balloons were hung from the ceiling and the children tried to shoot the balloons down. Last but not least, we had an obstacle course where the kids tested everything they had learn. After we came up for food and cake! And then the last 10-15 minutes, we bundled up and the children played capture the flag outside with their nerf guns. The felt vests worked great with the velcro bullets! Phew! It’s all about keeping 10 boys entertained!

All sources listed below!

Printables and Invitation: Delight Paperie

Nerf bullet cake: ME (don’t make fun. It was my first and last attempt to making a fondant birthday cake! Never again)

Table cloth: Ikea

Nerf Guns

Bullets: suction, velcro, basic

Safety glasses

Felt Vests: two felt rectangles and then sewed ribbon to make it a vest

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Laser Tag Birthday Party

Video Game Birthday Party

Star Wars Lego Party

Star Wars

Laser Tag Birthday Party

Laser Tag Birthday Party: We recently celebrated my son Lucas’s 9th birthday with a laser-tag theme. This party was similar to the last birthday party I put together–last minute and a lot of rummaging through my party supply closet. So most of everything I had on hand. This was also one of the cheapest birthday party I put together! I planned the party on a day that had a deep summer discount at our local laser-tag play zone. And then instead of eating there, I had all the kids come back to my house for pizza and cake. The printables are from Lulu Cole, who also did the video game party I did last year. I’m glad I didn’t have to do a lot of planning because the next day we flew out of town for three weeks!

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The party favors were a huge hit for the Laser Tag Birthday Party! I just found dollar buckets and filled with silly string, sparklers, gum balls, laser ring, 3-D paper glasses, light-up bouncy ball, pop rocks candy, Kre-O surprise toy.