Lego Birthday Party - Games - Part 2

The party was a hit and the kids had a great time!  I had plenty of games, in fact we didn't have time for one of them and there are a couple I wanted to do that I left out completely.  As the party goers arrived they went into the kitchen to decorate a Lego Figure Head.  It was just the head on yellow paper.  I did have this picture up on the computer to give them some face ideas.  These would be used later in the game of pin the head on the Lego Man.  After they did that they made a guess of how many Lego's were in this jar:

I had slips of paper with their name on it (in Lego font of course) so they just needed to write their estimation on it.  This jar and an empty jar to place their slips in were on the party table.  After most everyone arrived we played the hit of the party, especially among the boys!  

It is similar to Pictionary and they do sell it as a Lego game called Creationary.  I spent some time on YouTube checking it out.  First of all I wasn't going to invest more into this party (the game isn't cheap) and second, the reviews weren't great.  They said the idea behind the game was good, but there weren't enough bricks.  So I decided to create the game myself.  First we sorted our Lego bricks by color.  I used a party tray (veggie tray) to store them in.  Next I made the cards.  I made 9 cards in five different themes.  We had animals, nature, vehicles, buildings, and food.  I printed the pictures off on white paper and then I printed number cards on colored paper with each number having its own color.  I cut all the cards out and glued a picture to a number card keeping all the same theme with the same number/color of paper.  For example all of the nature themed cards were on green paper with the number 5 on the back. I then laminated the cards for durability.

These are the building cards.

When it came time to play I was able to let the kids know what numbers/colors went with what theme.  Nature is green 5, vehicles are purple 3, buildings are blue 6, etc.  We divided into two teams.  Each team rolled one die.  The number on the die was the card they picked.  So if they rolled a 5 they picked the card with a five.  Their team could guess as many times as they could in two minutes.  After two minutes the builder had to stop building and each person on their team got one guess.  If they guessed correctly they received a point.  If they didn't the other team could guess it correctly and steal the point.  The cards were numbered 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.  I left out 2.  If they rolled a 2 they got a chance for double the points and the other team got to pick the category.  Amazingly enough 2 was the only number that wasn't rolled.  The boys REALLY loved this game and wanted to keep playing it.  We let each person go once and that was all we had time for.  If you want to use the cards I made, you can download them at the bottom of this post.

I didn't give the winners anything special.  Instead after each child played each game they were able to go pick a Lego Crayon Man:

Sorry this isn't the best picture.  I went a little crazy in the crayon prep and made a whole bunch of these cute men.  We laid them out in rows of color and wrote their color at the bottom of the row. After each game was completed they picked out a new crayon.  So far two games were played - guesstemation (being a little creative with the words - estimate/guess) and the creationary game.

Next we played pin the head on the Lego man with the heads they created:

Using a projector at work I traced a Lego Figure onto a large piece of paper.  I brought it home to create our Lego Man.  First I took wrapping paper in red and blue.  Using spray adhesive I adhered the paper wrong sides together so it became double sided.  I cut out the pants out of blue, shirt out of red, and the hands and head out of yellow paper.  I drew on some details.  We gave the front of our Lego Man a face, but left the back blank.  I hung him on the glass door and taped some balloons in his hand (it turned out to be a VERY windy day so the balloons ended up getting taped in several places).  When the party goers came to the door our Lego Man was there to great them.  When it came time for the game you could still see him on the inside minus a face. If you look at the collage above you can see some of their artistic abilities.

We announced the winners of the guessing game and then had cake, ice cream, and presents.  Then it was back to more games.

For this game you had to use a straw and move all your Lego pieces off of your plate and onto the floor using only your sucking power.  You could also spread out Lego pieces on a table, set a timer and see how many pieces you could put on your plate using a straw and sucking in a set amount of time.  The birthday girl liked the first idea so that is what we did:

To make it more fun I took yellow square plates and drew Lego faces on them.  We also added the top part of the head by cutting it out of construction paper and gluing it on.  I used polka dotted straws and hot glued a Lego head to it.  I forgot to take pictures, but they are the same heads I used for the juice straws.  We put equal bricks on the plates, same size and amount on each plate.  They formed a circle with their backs to the center.  On go they moved those bricks off their plate as fast as the could.  After the game they could keep their plate and straw if they wanted.

The next game was memory.  I had a friend save baby food jars. I painted them like I have seen on various blogs.  I used spray paint, but it has been cold, wet, and windy here.  Unfortunately I don't have a garage so I tried to cheat and many of them didn't turn out well.  So I switched tactics (wish I thought of this first) - I put some yellow paint inside the jars, swirled it around and then dumped out the extra.  They were nice and smooth and pretty.  To make the faces I wrote on the jars with a sharpie. The jars that had paint inside were actually easier to write on.

On the bottom of the jars I put pictures of Lego pieces.  I had two of each picture.  The kids played just like memory.  Inside of the jars I had Lego Mini Figures.  I was going to use them for the next game, but we ran out of time.  

The last game ended up being fun.  We played it on Date Night.  (To see how we do Date Night see this post). 

This was an idea floating around Pinterest, but it was just a picture, no game.  I wanted to play the game so I created it.  You need one die, a mini figure (one per player), a board, and Lego bricks.  Above the kids used a 2x4 Lego block but a 2x2 or 2x3 would fit a little better.  I made a couple options.  I chose to print the first link (it used less ink) and trim it down.  I then glued it to colored card stock and laminated.  To play you roll the die and follow the instructions.  They always have one base block and can never lose that one.  They loved the game and played it several times. 

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Lego Matching/Memory Game

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Lego Birthday - Part One

 

For the first time in our lives we are into Legos.  Not sure why it took until right before my baby turned 9, but it did.  And we are hooked.  She is especially so we went with Lego for the birthday party theme.  There are SO many things you can do.  It was awesome!

There are a few other posts to check out what we did.  Questions just ask.

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Lego Games
Set-up {Coming soon}

The Teen's 'Stache Bash

The oldest is just a teeny tiny obsessed with mustaches.  And while I told her last year that that was her last birthday party (until 16), I got a little excited with all the mustache items out there.  While most parties I viewed were little man parties, I knew we could pull off the teen party with similar items.

First the invitations:

We began with the invitations.  And while I type this I find out I didn't take pictures of the invitations, oops.  I do have a copy of the front of the invitation (because of course it will be available to download).  I cut blue card stock in half and on the front I glued:

On the back I put in the party info and I designed it subway art style.  I can't share it though because my computer crashed and I lost all my fonts.  Now it doesn't show up the right way since I didn't save it as a PDF. 


I used my Cricut to make most of the accessories/gifts.  I ordered the mustaches and glasses from the Cricut Craft Room.  I cut out a bunch of mustaches and made a curtain with them:

The colors of the party were black and white highlighted with blue and pink.  I cut most of the mustaches out on black paper with a few on white, pink, and blue.  Here is a close up of my son being silly, but you will also be able to see what I did.

I took two of the same mustache, some clear beading line, and a tape runner.  I attached the mustaches together with the tape runner, securing the clear line in the middle.  The pattern on each string was: two black mustaches and then a different color, two black, another color, etc.  I tied the strings onto an inexpensive tension rod and hung it in a doorway.  The kids LOVED the curtain.

The supplies I purchased for the party included a large mustache mold, a mustache ice mold, finger tattoos, adhesive mustaches, and chocolate sucker molds:   

 Oh, and I forgot to add the mustache sandwich cutter:

 Let's start with the gift bags:

Here is a close up of the tag on the bag (well all except one word, read on):

I actually saw this idea here.  I emailed her and she sent me her creations, but then I needed to change the colors to match the party.  So I used the same saying and created my own.  After I did so my daughter wanted it to say I instead of we.  You see the original was used at a one year old party so it was a gift from the parents and child.  My daughter wanted it to be just from her.  So I changed the we to I and we used the tape runner to put them on the front of black and white bags.


Inside there was a 12 inch mustache magnet (see below), an adhesive mustache (see picture collage above), a mustache glass filled with m&m's/reeses pieces and chocolate mustaches on a stick.

To make the glass I cut out mustaches on black vinyl and adhered them to the glass.  They now are hand wash only.  I put them where I thought it would look like they were wearing a mustache when they took a drink.  If I had to do it again I would put it a little lower.

Mustache Suckers: I also made a bunch of chocolate suckers.  The light brown ones are peanut butter, the dark brown ones are mint, and the black ones are milk chocolate with black dye.  You have to use an oil based dye for chocolate.  Each glass has three chocolate suckers in it.  I had two molds (as you see in the above collage).  One mold made four of the same thing and one made three different ones.  We ended up with lots of the one style, but that was also the style we used the most throughout the party.

12 Inch Magnet Mustache: With the cricut I also made jumbo magnets.  I bought a roll of adhesive magnet and adhesive felt.  I cut a mustache out of both at 11 inches and stuck them together.  Here is what I learned: You can't put them together before hand because it is two thick and will slice up whatever item is on top.  The cricut does not cut through felt well, but if you use adhesive felt put the paper backing up.  It will cut through it and part of the felt.  You will have to trim it up, but it is a lot easier that way.  I didn't take a picture figuring I would take one of my daughters.  Well guess what, she doesn't know where it is.  Funny since that was her favorite thing!  When it turns up I will add a picture.

With the extra material I also made some small magnets and some stick on mustaches to go with the ones I purchased.


We had lots of Mustache shaped food.  

We had a large Jell-o mustache, large Rice Krispy treat mustaches, large mustache cake, I used the mustache sandwich cutter (pic above) and cut out thick sliced ham, bread, and cheese.  The kids then assembled their own mustache sandwich with the toppings they liked best.  There was a platter of chips, and water bottles for them to 'wet their whiskers':

But we also had glasses with mustache straws:

To make the straws I used the good ol' cricut again.  I cut out mustaches, punched a hole in the middle and then slid it on a blue or pink straw.


I also made some some cup cakes to go along with the mustache cake.  I didn't take a picture of the inside of the cake, but it was a zebra striped cake - black and white to go with the color theme.  I frosted the cupcakes in white and added a chocolate mustache on top.  To make the chocolate mustaches I put some melted chocolate in a squeeze bottle.  I laid mustaches under wax paper.  I outlined the mustaches with the chocolate squeeze bottle and then filled it in with chocolate.  I also dragged the tip through the chocolate to give it texture.

I kept cutting out mustaches on the cricut.  This time I hot glued them onto dowels:

We used these for our photo booth.  I spray painted a large frame pink and they held the frame in their pictures.  We went outside with the woods as the background and took pictures of the girls with their mustache disguises.

Games: As the girls arrived they decorated shirts.  I tried the bleaching the shirts idea.  I bought, shirts, bleach pens, some letter stencils and then I made mustache stencils and set the girls loose.  I had cardboard or thick newspaper in between the shirt.  I also put a plastic table cloth on my table.  The girls were very creative.  Some things to note: we bought black shirts and when bleached turn more of a rust color.  I would recommend a lighter colored shirt.  Don't use too much bleach.  I think the girls thought they needed a lot and they piled it on.  That only presented problems when we washed it.  Since they had so much extra it got on other parts of the shirt.  We started with this activity so I could wash them during the party.  Sorry no pictures I was a little occupied at this point.  

The next game we played is like Headbandz (I'm assuming this is how you play Headbandz anyway).  I used to play it where you put a character or item on your back and you would walk around asking yes or no questions until you figure out who you are.  It is a good mingling game.  Well, the oldest wanted to play it where you put the character on your forehead and went around in a circle asking yes or no questions.  We chose to play it Mustache Style of course.  All the cards had a character from a movie that had a mustache.  To make it easier we mainly used Disney movies or similar animated movies(but not all the Disney movies were animated).  I had the name of the character and the name of the movie to help the girls answering the questions.  The movies in blue are Disney movies and the ones in pink aren't. Again, no pictures of the girls playing the game, but I do have it for you to print and use.
The last game was Truth or Dare.  I HATED this game as a kid because everyone chose mean/evil things.  To prevent this there were questions made up ahead of time for them to draw out of a truth bag or a dare bag.  I used the internet for ideas and then printed them out.  Some of the dares below: wrap yourself in a roll of toilet paper, eat a teaspoon of mustard (three choices she went with mustard), have the person on your left do your hair, have the person on the right do your makeup while wearing a blindfold, take one bite of a sandwich that has one ingredient picked out by each member of the group.  They had a blast.  I had this game last so they could play until parents came.

Here are your downloads:

Truth Questions

Dare Questions

Mustache Characters Game

Mustache You a Question - Invitation Front

Wet Your Whiskers Water Bottle Labels

We Hate to See You Go Treat Label

I Hate to See You Go Treat Label

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Summary of the Night Owl Party

This is a summary of Boo's 8th birthday party.  It was a sleepover spa night owl themed party.
The invitations were owl cards made on the cricut and were delivered with a sleep mask:

The goodies:

Owl topped treat bags filled with spa items: bracelets, rings, nail polish, lotion, an eraser shaped as a spa item (you know the fun ones that come apart), and homemade lip gloss.

Owl pillow boxes filled with M&M's (also doubled as the prizes for Bingo).

Sundaes, but not an ordinary sundae, one made for the bath.

Owl S'mores - graham crackers, marshmallows, yellow candy melts, chocolate chips, and a candy corn.

Bottles to hold their drinks.  They had owls on the front, holes drilled in the lids for straws, and their first initial on the back.

The owl cake:

and blowing out the candles (can you tell the flames are colored?)

Bingo:

And the sad part: I didn't take pictures of the spa part.  I was busy finishing the cake & s'mores.  I put my oldest & her friends in charge of the pedicures and manicures.  We had a foot bath using the ingredients from the Sundaes pictured above.  The girls picked out their nail polish and they were all decorated up.  We had started the party with a pizza dinner, had manicures/pedicures, played bingo, had cake and ice cream, unwrapped presents, and then watched a movie.  That filled up the night from 6:00 pm until 10:23 pm (but who was counting?). 
To see more detail about the party, for tutorials, and printables, click HERE (Part 1) and HERE (Part 2).

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Sundaes too Good to Eat (Spa Sundaes)

,This is a tutorial of how to make some Sundaes you enjoy in the bathtub. I found the idea here. I have to warn you thought that I just estimated. The good thing is that you don't have to be exact and you can alter it to your liking.
First step, the ingredients:

You need Epsom salt (found in the pharmacy section), baking soda, Vaseline bath beads, bath poufs, sundae glasses, and we used Crayola color bath drops for the cherry.  You also can use food coloring to dye the Epsom Salt, but I didn't.

The poufs and glasses I bought at Ikea (they come in larger sizes too).   They weren't expensive at all.  However, since I bought those things before I read the recommendations by others I didn't realize that you can get some cups from Dairy Queen that look nice as well.  I like that they can use these glasses again (they just have to be careful since it is glass in the bathroom).

The Epsom salt I bought at Cotsco (it is under the pharmacy window when you drop off prescriptions), but you get a lot more than you need that way.  I purchased the bath drops and bath beads in the bath section at Wal-mart.  Others used bath beads for the cherry.  If you can find them they look great, but they serve the same purpose as the mix you are making.  I thought the kids would like the color changing drops best even if it doesn't look much like a cherry.

Take a large bowl (I ended up using two bowls to hold it all) and pour the Epsom salt in. Add about 1/2 box of baking soda to each bowl. I just added the Vaseline beads as I saw fit (a little more than half the box). We stirred the three ingredients until they were well mixed.

My girls scooped up the mix into the cups, placed a straw, a pouf sponge, and a color drop on top.  I wrapped some celephane around them and attached this tag (I printed them on color paper):

They turned out cute:

If you want to use the tags you download them HERE.

Night Owl Spa Party - Part 2

To see Part One click here.
This is what party favor table looked like (a couple days before the party):

I did tutorial for the middle owls here (owl pillow box) and here (owl bag toppers).  Now onto the rest of the fun stuff we made for the party. 

First we made Sundaes, but these aren't any kind of sundaes.  They are nonedible designed for the bath sundaes.  I found this idea here.  I actually bought the stuff for my daughter Candyland birthday party (yet to finish the post on that one), but we had so many things already and Boo wanted a spa party.  In the end I decided to save the supplies for this party instead.  Step by step instructions & printable are HERE.

The other fun thing we made was drink-ware for each girl.  I believe I saw a picture on Pinterest, but I didn't pin it or click on it or see the source so I can't give anyone credit -  I just saw it in passing.
I had a friend & coworker gather Starbucks bottles for me from her boyfriend.  I have seen so many fun things to do with these bottles, but don't drink anything with coffee in it.  When I mentioned it to her she said she could get me some.  My problem is that I don't know what I originally wanted to do with them - I have to find all those cute ideas again.  But I did figure out this cute idea.  

What better way to give girls' at a sleepover drinks without worrying that they will end up all over the floor?  It was perfect.  Here is what we did.  We screwed the lid on a bottle (we used the same bottle for all the lids so metal bits would be collected in one place) and then took the drill to it.  Actually Bugs did the best job at this.  For some reason his came out nice and smooth while my holes left bits of metal.  So it became his job to do the drilling.  We used a drill bit just big enough for our straws.
Then I took the cricut back out and cut out some owls.  I made them small enough to fit under packaging tape.  I used glue dots to adhere the pieces together then taped them on with clear packaging tape.  I'm hoping this will waterproof it somewhat.  If you don't have a cricut some other ideas: print something off the computer and use the packaging tape or print onto a clear label.  All the owls had a brown background and then they were two other colors: green, pink, or purple.

There were three different styles of owls too.  To the top of the lid I used a circle punch and punched out a piece of pink vinyl.  Before I took the backing off I held the circle (back down) over the lid.  I traced the hole onto the paper backing.  I used my crop-a-dile to punch a hole in the vinyl where I marked it.  After taking off the paper I placed it on the lid. If you don't want to use vinyl you could just spray paint it.  That would have been fast too, but I did like how the vinyl kept the straw in tight and covered up the drilled hole nicely.

On the back I cut out the initial of their first name out of the same pink vinyl.  We had a couple E's and a few M's.  I made sure the owls on the front were different colors & patterns and the straws were different colors.  This helped the girls' know which bottle was theirs.

To add a final touch we tied green and purple ribbon around the top.  It added a little more color to the pink.  Since we had a pizza dinner the girls selected Sprite or Rootbeer to fill their bottles with.  They were limited to two sodas and then it was refilled with water.  I think they turned out well.  I had all the supplies on hand and it turned into another party favor they could take home.  One last picture of them all filled up.

I haven't had a party since I started working (except for the two who have summer birthdays) and I wasn't thinking about the day of the party.  I agreed to a sleepover and planned it for 6:00 since we were having dinner.  The day before it hits me that I get off work at 4:00.  That does NOT give me much time to get things ready.  So most of that day was spent cleaning.  Before I knew it the party was almost here & I hadn't made her cake or s'mores yet.  We had decided on the cake already and I had the supplies.  The morning of the party (before work) I made the cupcakes.  Ooops, running a little late?  I had less than two hours to get home, set up for the party, and make cake. 
I was so busy making the cake that I didn't take picture of The Spa, but here is what we did.  We set it up in the basement.  We had two comfy chairs with foot baths (we used the same stuff in the Sundaes for the foot bath), there was a bench for them to sit while getting their pedicures, and a table for the manicures.  Of course a sheet was under everything with towels under the foot bath, and a pink table cloth on the manicure table.  My oldest and a few of her friends were in charge of painting all the nails.  They had lots of colors and detail brushes.  They did a great job and the girls loved their nails.  We decorated the ceiling with light up balloons and lanterns.  The balloons had something in them that made them glow.  You pulled a tab out and blew it up.  It was supposed to glow for something like 15 hours, but they were glowing for several days.  I have a picture, but it isn't very good.  Trying to get a decent picture of something glowing isn't the easiest thing to do:

While the girls were getting their nails done I was working on the cake.  I found a few options and Boo picked out the cake found here.

It turned out pretty close to what their looked like.  I was going to type up the instructions, but it will save me so much time if you just clicked on the link above.  I used Oreo Fudge Cremes for the Cookies on the cake and Grosshoppers for the cookies on the cupcakes.  I used a peach ring for the eyes on the cake and yellow candy melts upside down for the cupcakes (I purchased jelly lifesavers to use, but couldn't find them.  Not sure if they are the right size or not).  The store I went to didn't have the circus peanuts so I cut up some of the peach rings for the beak & talons.  I think that is all I changed.  Oh and an FYI, you don't need nearly that much blue & purple coconut.
Here are a couple more cake pictures complete with colored flame candles.

The other goody I made were owl s'mores.  They are very simple, but don't always melt quite how you want them.  

You need 1/2 of a graham cracker, one large marshmallow cut in half, two yellow candy melts, two chocolate chips, and one candy corn for each s'more.  First take the graham cracker and place the marshmallow halves on top.  Add the candy melts.  I did two at once and set the microwave for 20 seconds.  Keep an eye on them because the marshmallows will start to puff up.  I let them puff up a bit or the candy melt won't melt.  You don't want the candy melt to melt completely.  It just needs to be soft enough to hold on the chocolate chip.  When it is done add a candy corn beak.  You can actually make these the day before if you would like.
After their nails were done they played bingo (see part one for the printable).  When everyone finished up we moved to cake & ice cream followed by presents.  They had so much fun!  They after pumping them full of sugar the girls got ready for bed, set out the sleeping bags and settled down for a movie.  The movie ended just before 10:30.  A couple of the guest left and I told the others it was time to settle down.  They were quiet, but I did finally have to go down at midnight and tell them to go to sleep.  Turns out during that hour and a half of quietness they had two pillow fights.  I couldn't tell and I wasn't that far away.  I wish my other daughter's sleepover party went as smoothly!  
All in all I would call it a success! 

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