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...

Minecraft party

For my son's 8th birthday he told me he wanted Minecraft.....after I said "what?", I looked it up.....

 This is what I came up with

Creeper balloons, put in odds places to give everyone...well, the creeps. I just added the black electrical tape.

Spiders out of balloons, streamers and red construction paper

Large wall decoration. I used dinner sized plates from the dollar store with a foam backing (DH would have had a fit of I'd have tried to mount it to the wall like I saw people do on Pinterest). With the foam backing I could prop it against the wall. It ended up being pretty large. For smaller areas maybe use dessert plates?

TNT licorice bundles 

 

Creeper cake. I am by no means a baker so I needed simple. I used green jimmies, green sugar sprinkles and coconut (died green with food coloring) to give it the appearance of being pixelated.  Hershey bars gave me the "face" 

I used this video to make a Steve head pinata.  My Son's birthday is in November so I just buy Halloween candy on clearance and stuff it full.