Last year we hosted an Army Themed Birthday Party and he originally requested another Army Themed party THIS year. I said NO. Not doing it again. But secretly I was already planning ways to change up way we did everything last year. A few weeks ago, he randomly said "I want a Star Wars Themed Party."... My thoughts? This should be easy because of the new Star Wars Movie that just premiered.
With that, I immediately went into planning mode.
Kroger had plates, cups, and napkins on clearance for $0.20 each. I spent about $2.00 on these I just went ahead and cleared the place out. Later I went back to actually buy groceries and we ran across some cake topper, little candy pieces. Bought those on clearance as well and spent about $1.20. So far, Doing good.
Food:
Cupcakes. I have the mask candy toppers we bought at Kroger, and I purchased some light sabers from Amazon. The rest will probably just have some bright funky icing colors. Red & Blue perhaps, for Light sabers
Of Course I had to make Red & Blue Cupcakes. There were even convenient little colored cupcake mixes at the store.
Ice Cream. Can't have cake without Ice Cream.
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| Yoda Soda |
Yoda Soda: Green Fruit Punch with Sprite, maybe some Lime Sorbet. It actually ended up being mixed berry kiwi fruit punch, Sprite and Lemon sorbet with berries. Wasn't too bad. But not quite what I was going for. The boys were all like "OH MY GOD! YOU KILLED YODA!" They drank all the Yoda Soda though.
Princess Lays: Lays potato Chips
Edible Ewoks: Gummy Bears
Light Sabers: Pretzel rods coated in candy melts
Thermal Detonators: Cheese Balls
Wookie Cookies: Birthday Cake Oreos
Games/Events:
I've made a death star Pinata out of tissue paper. It was time consuming and gross. We will see how well it actually works. I plan on getting a light saber to use to hit it with. - For the record, don't use tissue paper. They actually had my pinata demolished before it was time for the pinata. I was a little heart broken, but I tried to make it work.
Bingo. A friend volunteered to make me some bingo boards using characters from the movies. -Okay, this is exactly why I don't ever count on others. He never showed up with the bingo boards or anything else he volunteered to assist with. I was SCRAMBLING last minute to get everything printed up in time. Luckily he at least sent me a proof of the boards, so I didn't have to make them from scratch. -I was still quite pissed.
How many star wars micro machines figurines are in the jar? -Yep, didn't even play this game.
Photo Booth- The same person who was supposed to help with the bingo boards volunteered to assist with a back drop for this. Last minute I got a teacher friend to bring me some butcher paper and I made the boyfriend buy some glow in the dark stars. VIOLA! Last minute back drop. It looked cheap but it works.
Masks that I've ordered off of Amazon
Catch Phrases, on a stick!
Princess Leia Buns
Yoda Ears
Light Saber Pool Noodles!
Yes, in case you were wondering 84% of the party was nothing but boys beating each other with light saber pool noodles.
Star Wars Movies
My coworker was so kind enough to lend me these:
Overall, the party was a success. It was very tough having that many little boys at my house and trying to keep them all under control.I did make prize cups for the boys. Target and the dollar store had Star Wars cups, for around a dollar each. I found some glow stick jets, Star Wars Stickers, candy, and star wars fake tatoos to fill the cups with. I also put things like rubber bouncy balls and balloons in the cups.
I hope my baby had a great birthday party!!
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