Star Wars Birthday

Star Wars Birthday

You can never go wrong with a Star Wars birthday.  This is what my son asked me for this birthday and I LOVE Star Wars so, of course, I said yes.

I had my son dig up a Luke and Darth Vader Star Wars Lego figures to use as candle holders. He happened to be turning 11 so this played right into having both figures hold a candle like their lightsabers and still look like an 11.  I did have to whittle down the ends of the candles to make them fit into their kung-fu grips. And before anyone asks, yes, that is Darth Vader in a Christmas sweater, my son said the only Lego Vader he had was from a Christmas set.

The cake was another cupcake cake in the shape of lightsabers. Pretty easy and I used candy pieces for the "buttons" on the handle.

The best thing I found were these extra large glow sticks that I could use to "light-up" the lightsabers. With the lights out they looked pretty cool. 

I tried to make a paper Mache  Death Star piñata ala this post but it was a complete failure so I won't be doing that again. I'll stick to my cardboard piñatas.  It was SUPER time consuming, small and did not hold up to any hitting.

I actually bought these pool noodle lightsabers from Target as a cool fun toy for the kids but as you can see the adult found them pretty fun also.  There are a lot of ideas on how to make these and I was going to go that route but I found these on clearance so...

Lego Party

I recently had my son's 7th birthday and he choose his favorite current thing as the theme....Legos!  I'm going to post a few of the decorations that I came up with.

I just had these laying out as decorations...they were harder than they looked and only turned out so-so....don't think I recommend making then

Favor bags.  I used different colored bag and used a small foam mount to add two circles to give it a two-block Lego effect

I cut little Lego men from yellow (because that's what I had) wrapping paper to tape up around

I found Lego style wrapping paper at the party store and used it to "wrap" my front door and the cake platter.

pattern found from Pinterest for the Lego men

These were a cute printable that I found that I attached to streamers

The Lego cake....I used my loaf pan for this and made various "bricks out of it.  The peg portion of the Lego was made from mini muffins.

My son's name spelled out in Lego....I actually had fun with this one

another piñata....red Solo cups, a box and red wrapping paper...coundn't be simpler.