Jurassic World Party

I took my son to the newest movie edition to the Jurassic franchise, Jurassic World (I really did want to see it too, Chris Pratt...yum) so it should have come to no surprise to me when the usual question "what kind of birthday do you want?" was answered with JURASSIC WORLD!  So off I went...

I started with the cake, or as it turned out cupcakes. I'm pretty lacking in the cake decorating arena, fondant what? So, although, I saw some super cute ideas I decided to keep it simple. I got these dinosaurs to go on top of the cupcakes and I think they turned out pretty cute.  I did have trouble finding green only sprinkles so I suggest getting them on line somewhere.  The dinosaurs were pretty reasonable and if you can't find them in your local Party City like I did, the store will order them for you with free shipping to the house if you go in.

I wanted to keep the dino theme slightly mature, he's 10 not 5 years old, think scary not cute but the trend seems to be more Barney than T-Rex at the store so I decided to make my own decorations.  I got a cheap brown table cloth from the dollar store and used this dino foot-print printable to build a theme through out the house

I was able to just use static to stick them to the wall and I made a foot print "path" through out the whole house, going through all of the major rooms.  I am definitely not allowed to use an adhesive on the walls, hubby no-no.

 

I made dinos out of balloons also using these templates . They turned out pretty cute but I think they would have been cuter hanging as I saw others do.

A piñata always goes with out birthdays and once again couldn't find what I wanted so I made it.  It's supposed to be a T-Rex skull, not sure that it's too recognizable but my son was good with it.  My piñatas are always made out of cardboard, which I split the layers to make thinner (learned for the Mickey Mouse head mistake when no one could break it).  I then covered it with white crepe paper.

 

 Treat bags for the piñata were super were super easy.  The dino foot print again, traced on paper lunch sized bags.

 

He looks pretty happy with the whole thing, but then again he sitting in front of cake!

 

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.