The Birthday Party Summary and a Card!

Happy Sunday to you! I hope you've had a great weekend!  Ours has been a busy one.  We had Nathan's birthday party on Friday night which was a lot of fun!  I will say it was tiring, BUT it was so much fun having 6 little boys running around screaming having a great time!  Thanks to Emma she helped keep everything under wraps.

To begin the party, each of the boys had to dress the part!  The theme of the birthday was a Jedi Training, so they each had a jedi cloak (SUPER easy to sew....I didn't finish any edges and I got the fabric from Joannes last week in Cleveland for a great price).  Then each of the boys needed to have a name badge with a check list on the back.

On the kids' name badges I had a picture of Yoda, then it said "Jedi in Training".  On the back was the checklist that included:

• consume galactic pizza and Yoda soda
• build a light saber
• save the galaxy
• destroy the death star
• final test

When the boys arrived we watched part of a Clone Wars episode (an easy way to keep the kids entertained while we waited for everyone.)  Then they came upstairs and made their own pizzas and decorated their own light sabers.

After dinner, we headed outside for a great play!  The boys battled one another with their light sabers, and they had to complete some mini Jedi tasks (in other words...burn some energy!)  While we were outside Emma hid some punched out stars in the basement for the boys.  They had to come in and using glow sticks (and the force of course!) they had to work together to find the 30 stars.  This was fun as they wanted to find them all so it took a fair amount of time and they really didn't want to come up until they found them all:)

Then they had to play "keep it up" (or in Jedi term...Destroy the Death Star).  Another Jedi test was to bounce a balloon off their light sabers as many times as they could.  Our last game was "FORCE" (a "younger" version of BINGO)  All the cards had the numbers 1 to 24 and I didn't call a letter, just a number.  They all ended up winning, which of course was fun:)

The cake was version two.  Don't get me wrong...I do love Cole...but there are times he is a LOT of work!  I had started my first cake (an ewok) and I then turned my back to get Cole's lunch and he decided to have cake instead:)  So, I put Cole to bed while cake number two was baking.  And I had to do something a little quicker and made this little light saber cake.  He was thrilled so really, I'm thrilled too! 

And the final touch was the grab bags.  As I'm sure you guessed, all the projects (invites, games, name tags, grab bags) were done using none other than MDS!  Fun stuff!!

ANYHOW, I did a great job of rambling on their about Nathan's birthday (and you'll see an MDS page I'm sure in the next few days too!)  In the meantime, wanna see a card?

This was a fun card to make!  It is in Melon Mambo, Wisteria Wonder and So Saffron!  It came together very quickly (yes, even with the sewing!)  The butterflies were punched with the SU hand punch.  I then sewed them on the Whisper White, layered it on some DSP (I think this is from Domestic Goddess) and then layered onto the Wisteria DSP (again, not 100% sure which pack this came from.....sorry:)  

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a GREAT day!!!

Take care,

Heather

Comments

[Alanna]

Totally amazing! You never cease to inspire!

[alyse davidson]

wow this is a great party would love more details like how to make the robes and what was in goodie bags, my grandson & his Dad would love this party for number 7 coming up can you send details?
Alyse D

[stacia]

Great party - where did you the jedi robes? or did you make them?

[Libby]

LOVE THIS!! Bookmarking it - may need to do this for my son's 7th bday. Great job!! Pretty card too. :-)

[Taylor]

Are you kidding me! This is SOOOO excellent!
Listen its not only the little ones that go crazy over SW - I got some full grown friends that would love this, lol!

REALLY NEAT!

[Sandra Farrell]

Oh Heather, when I read this post I chuckled as I am in the process of planning a Jedi Training party for Connor. I found a pattern for the cape and an idea for the padawan tunics. Now if I can survive 2 hours with 8 five and six year olds, all will be well.
:)
Sandra

[Lynda Fraser]

Where do you find the time woman? You never cease to amaze me! Sounds like the best Birthday Party ever!! Way to go mom!!!! xo

[Anna]

Sooo cute! May have to case this one, so I went in search of the DSPs!

The butterflies are from the Flirtatious DSP
The Wisteria at the back from Berry Blossoms
The Saffron is Domestic Goddess

[Maureen]

Heather you are amazing. 4 kids, Stamping Up, Blogging daily, and making lunches daily. Plus making little sweet notes to your husband and fantastic birthday party themes and cakes for the kids. You had better not get a dog or you will really be stretched to the limit.. I'm going to show my daughter Nathan's birthday party theme as we have a 4th birthday coming up for our "Cole" (my grandson) in April.
You inspire me daily and I've cased at least 3/4 of your projects. My family thinks I'm a genius!!! Have a great day and I look forward to more pics of the party..

[Amanda]

That sounds like a pretty awesome party! The wisteria dsp at the back is from the berry blossoms dsp! x

[Lyn]

you are such a special and fun Mom - even MDS is considerable work; and two cakes! We're always happy to hear ALL about it, can't wait for pics!

[B.J.]

WOW -- what an out-of-this-world birthday party!!! Nathan is so excited about Star Wars. You did a great job, Heather and Emma, making it so special for him. I'm sure everyone had a wonderful time! Gramma

[Anne Granger]

Wow, that is amazing birthday party..Nathan must have been over the moon excited! Can't wait to see photo's.

[Barb Dean]

WOW! That a birthday Heather incredible!!! I had no real theme, for ours just a mish-mash! I can't wait to see pics from his party I bet you got some good ones!

[Birdie]

I bet the WOW factor was in full force! Haha

You truly are amazing!

Love the card too..