A Lego Birthday Party Extravaganza

 

We sent out the Lego Invitations

And made the Lego goody bags

We made our Lego Cookies

And now we're ready to party!

We are fortunate enough to be able to have parties and craft days at my work (which we love).  Lots of running around (and lots of noise) and it's not in my house.  Yeah!

The decorations were simple.   I printed out these great Lego guys here and taped them onto cardstock.

The table of food was simple but fun.

Do you see the Lego box we made and filled with M&Ms?

I made these cute Lego men to top the cupcakes.  Simple and fun!

The juice boxes matched our invitations and party bags.

The kids had a blast playing Pin the head on the Ninjago guy =o)  (Yes, I made him green which I was told was the wrong color.  But they didn't seem to mind after the party started.)

I loved this idea for a game (I'm sorry I can't remember where I found it) and of course we had to do it.  The kids were hysterical.  I'm not sure what to call it so we called it The Lego Suck.  The kids had 2 plates.  One plate had Legos on it and they had to pick up the Legos and put them on the other plate using only a straw. 

We played Lego Bingo.  Kids love Bingo!  You can print out the bingo cards here.

I think their favorite part was the Nerf Gun War =o)  In an empty middle school!

All in all I think the kids had a great time.  My son's birthday always lands on the last day of school (or close to) which is my busiest time of year.  I wish I had more time to prepare but heck, they're 9.




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Lego Birthday Party: The Cookies

I had high hopes of making the world's coolest Lego cookies known to man. Well, that didn't totally happen but my kids were pretty happy with what I finally decided I could (and had the time) to make.

I found this idea over on Cake Central.  I think they're pretty cute.

I used Sue's recipe for her No Fail Sugar Cookies.  It's my favorite and I have been making it ever since I found it.  You can find it on my Stained Glass Cookies or our Corn Dog Cookies.  (Or, of course, Munchkin Munchies - that's Sue) =o)

The recipe makes a lot (which is both great and exhausting) =o)

We made them in rectangles.  I just winged it so they aren't all the same (or by any means perfect.)

I also used Sue's royal icing recipe and made it in yellow, red, blue and green.  Pipe the edges (holy smokes.  How do people have the patience for this?!?!

Then fill it in and add M&Ms of the same color. 

Cute, right?

I was told we couldn't have all those Lego bricks without a platform piece. 

That's one giant cookie!

Do they kind of look like Legos?  (Minus the wonky-ness of them.)

Don't forget to check out our other Lego posts:
Lego Birthday Party Invitations
Lego Birthday Party Goody Bags



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Lego Birthday Party: The Goody Bags

Goody bags are an important part of a birthday party (so say my kids.) I love making goody bags! And these were so much fun to make. (Although it's getting more difficult as my kids get older to come up with great ideas.) I don't like all the cheap, useless things in goodie bags. My kids come home with them and they just sit around for months before I throw them away.  (The goody bags, that is... not my kids.)  =o)

I found some primary colored bags at Michaels and added "bumps" to them with my circle cutter and dimensionals (to make them "pop".)  =o)  They look like Lego blocks, don't they?

We filled them with Lego chocolates that I made.

They don't even look like chocolate do they?  The topper was a free printable I found here.  (Thank you Amber from Crazy Little Projects.  Yeah for free printables!)

I found these fun containers at Michaels and filled them with Lego candy that I found at the candy store at the mall.  (I'm sure you can find the candy online too.)

I don't know about your kids but mine are totally into hand sanitizer.  Is that strange?  They love it and I'm okay with that.  It's better than mud, right?  =o)  But check out the name of this hand sanitizer - Dragon Blood!  So cool!

I'm pretty proud of our Lego heads.  I found the idea on obSEUSSed and loved it.  We just painted baby food jars and added faces with a sharpie marker.

Then we filled them up with M&Ms.  (Who doesn't like M&Ms?!)

We also put gum in the bags but that has nothing to do with Lego =o)  We just wanted to add one more thing.

My son is pretty happy with how they turned out.  What do you think?

Other Lego posts:

Lego Birthday Invitations

 

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Lego Birthday Party: The Invitations

My son is crazy for Legos!  He always had been (which is a great thing.)  I hate it when they love something for one holiday and then as soon as it's over with, and they have a ton of the toys, they decide they don't like it anymore.  Ugh.  But not with Legos. They are classic!

I started planning last year, in fact.  Then at the last minute my son decided to have a Pokemon party.  (You can see our Pokemon Party posts here, here, here and here.)  But I've been keeping all my Lego ideas (and pins on Pinterest) because I was hoping this year he would want a lego party.  Sure enough!  We're having a Lego party!

Here are the invitations we made.  Pretty simple but pretty darn cute.  And I didn't have to buy a single thing to make them!  I had the paper (except I only had red at the time) and a circle punch.

Didn't they turn out cute?

I used dimensionals to raise the circles so they would look like Lego "bumps".

The inside was easy too.  I found this free printable here.

Cute, right?

We're off to make more Lego creations.  Wait until you see the goodie bags =o)

 

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