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.
