Lego Party!

I did not plan this party but I wanted to share a few things I did for it and a few cool things about it.

My "nephew" loves Legos so he had a Lego theme birthday party.

My Aunt (his grandma) asked to borrow my cupcake tree. When she told me Lego themed I started looking and found lots of awesome party ideas.

Here are the instructions for the Lego Cupcake tree I made:

 First I built some risers for the Cupcaketree rounds out of mega-blocks

Next I gathered everything to cover it. One plain rectangle table cloth covered all the rounds. 

The top level was used upside down when it was covered with wrapping paper. the tape ripped off some of the white cardboard. 

 The tablecloth is too thin and the ugly cardboard shows through so I cut a circle of white cardstock to cover it.

To make the circles look like the green lego bases, I decided to stick circle stickers all over them. 

I found a Lego logo on the internet and edited it in Paint to be green. 

Next, I used Avery.com to print the logo onto each sticker. 

This was me estimating how many sheets I needed to print. 

Next we peeled and sticked, trying to keep them in even rows. Ellie helped., 

 All assembled. We stuck doublesided tape onto the Mega-blocks to prevent shifting. 

 Close up

 I cannot take credit for the cake or cupcakes. My Aunt and cousin made them. 

 Something I saw when I was looking at Lego Party inspiration were Lego Head Pops

I assembled one regular marshmallow and a mini marshmallow onto candy sticks. 

 I had a feeling the yellow food coloring wouldnt work in the white candy melts. I was right. The candy seized up and was all lumpy. I did my best to smooth out the faces.

For the faces, I used edible markers.  

 The markers didnt work so great after a few faces. I think the cold or moisture was a problem.

I also made some chocolate ones. 

For the display base, I took a cardboard box lid and covered it with leftover green plastic table cloth. I took styrofoam floral disks and covered them also. They were taped on and the sticks were poked into them. 

I also made some red candy treats. I made a 9 brick, (which I was later told doesnt even exist  and a red Lego base. I had leftover red melting candies from Ellie's ladybug pretzels. The mini marshmallows tried to melt in the warm candies, so I had to be quick.

For a game, all the guests guessed how many Legos were in the jar. 

My aunt also made this awesome pinata out of a gift box and cut up oatmeal canister. It is a 6 brick because my nephew was turning 6.

Strawberry Shortcake Party

I was sooo excited when my Sister-in-law asked for my help planning my niece's 7th Birthday party. 

On the front door

Strawberry balloons at the end of the driveway.  I got this idea and some other inspiration, from PartyPlanningMom

 

Gift table early before many guests arrived. The giant strawberry was a random find at our local Party City. 

For favors, we made strawberry boxes using this template . inside were some strawberry candies, some fruit shaped silly bands, some stickers and a tattoo. They were tied to SS coloring books from Dollar Tree. The boys got more boy-ish coloring books. My sister-in-law put together some prizes for the Orange Blossom game with SS bath products.

The birthday girl made this little strawberry family. On the back she wrote Dad, Mom, and her and her siblings names in order of age. 

The kids table. We bought the table runner here. We took some fresh strawberries, poked them on to skewers and inserted them into vases full of greenery.

Balloons the girls (birthday girl and her sister) drew seeds all over tied to bushes in the yard.

Honeycomb strawberries tied in various places

Sign the birthday girl made. She is quite the artist.

Strawberry chandelier and banner. 

Dessert table

Strawberry punch. I cut hearts out of leftover black sticky vinyl with my Cricut, cut them in half and stuck them to my drink dispenser. On top is a flower design cut out of green cardstock for a stem. Under the strawberry is some grass cut from a few different colors of green cardstock. 

The girls drew seeds all over red Solo cups. I cut stems out using a templet from the strawberry boxes. 

We bought a few licensed products to tie in the theme. We supplemented them with some leftover pink and green plates and napkins I had. 

we served chocolate dipped strawberries and Oreo truffles. 

For the green and white stripes, we put out a vase of mints (with a ribbon around it)

And of course we had to have classic strawberry candies. Under the vases I put a little scrap of strawberry fabric that came pre cut into squares with a set in the canning aisle at Wal-Mart, intended to be used over the top of a jar. 

Strawberry Shortcake House Cake by Pink Princess Cakes

The girls helped decorate heart shaped strawberry cupcakes.  I had some heart shaped silicone cupcake cups but not enough. for the rest, we used these instructions I wanted the tip a little pointier so I pulled a bit of the paper away from the cake, inserted a white chocolate chip and frosted over it. 

We served fresh strawberries of course. I found the felt strawberry clips at Michael s  In the background you will see we had some strawberry Twizzlers too. 

The strawberry labels were in the canning section of Wal-Mart with the jars. 

This darling white dessert holder was my sister-in-laws. We put leafs from the floral arrangement under the truffles. The next level had red paper under it and the bottom had some green and white wrapping paper my sister-in-law used for gifts. 

 Strawberry Shortcake has some friends. To have some variety in the crafts, I designed a craft or activity with some of her friends in mind. The girls decorated plain pink bags using a strawberry stencil and some Sharpies. We used more canning labels for to give each one a name tag. In this picture you can see the kitchen counter (conveniently red) with a table runner and some SS confetti.

 There was Huckleberry Pie's skateboard design station, since he rides around on a skateboard.

Her friend Angelcakes is a cake decorator. I got some coloring cupcake magnets from Oriental Trading company and put one in each cup of a muffin pan, so it was like you take the cupcake out of the pan and decorate it. 

I downloaded different fonts for the different friends' signs and got images from wikipedia of each friend. 

The most popular activity was Gingersnap's Cookie Decorating 

 I got some clearance gingerbread cookie decorating kits and added some stickers from my collection. Everyone loved making paper gingerbread cookies. 

We also had a table for "Strawberry growing" which was a felt strawberry and gem seeds but most of the kids just took that craft kit home with them so I didnt get a picture of them using it. 

 Strawberry Shortcake has a friend name Orange Blossom. I got some ping pong sized oranges and we had an Orange Blossom's Orange Balancing race. The kids got 2 rounds, they balanced the orange on a plastic spoon along the driveway to a finish line. Most of the kids got strawberry shortcake theme prizes.

Another picture of the dessert table. 

 I love the look of wonder on Sophia's face. We got the SS tiara party hat at Oriental Trading Company.

Everyone had a great time. Sophia says it is the best party ever.