On my birthday, August 20th, we hosted eight, 4, 5, and 6 year old boys at our house for Henry's Star Wars birthday party. It was a our first drop off party, so most of the parents were not there, but some decided to stay and help. So it was fun to just focus on Henry and his friends. Ever since last spring Henry has been engrossed with Star Wars, especially since he and his daddy watched all six episodes last summer. So it was fitting that his birthday party be full of light sabors, darth vadar, and mastor yoda.
We started decorating a week or so ahead of time just so I would not become a mean mommy the weak of the party. We laminted star wars characters for the wall that we found on the internet.
Then we bought balloons from party city to help make it festive. I decorated the white balloons with sharpy to resemble storm troopers. Very simple...
When they kids arrived the each got a star wars tato and colored a picture of a star wars character or space ship. They really got into it when we told them they could win a prize for the best drawing.
The next activity was "Pin the Light Sabor on Mastor Yoda". I printed Mastor Yoda off from clip art on the computer, and then blew it up and laminated it. Then Henry and I made light sabors out of tonge depressors, markers, and construction paper. He made sure we had green, red, blue, and purple ones, because each charactor in Star Wars has a different colored light sabor depending on who you are.
Charles Tucker got the closest, so he won!! Daddy made a big deal out of his victory...I think Tuck had mixed emotions about all the attention brought to him...
The next game was Star Wars Bingo, which I printed off from this website called,
Henry was anxious to play this with his friends after our family played it as a trial run.
Chad, Andrew, and Jonathan...such cuties...
Daddy was obviously taking this very serious....
Mary Taylor watched from the counter with Nana...
Her and Charles Tucker don't like to be in the middle of the action at first, it takes them some time to warm up.
After the star wars bingo game it was time to go down stairs for Pass the Death Star, which is the same as hot potato, but with star wars music instead. The boys really got into it and they were pretty good sports about getting out, expect the birthday boy.
Then they each got a light sabor to keep, but also for a couple of more games before cake time. Definitely a boys heaven....at least for most of the boys.... So starting from left to right we have, Sam, Henry, Jonathan, James, Dexter, Chad, Charles Tucker, Mary Taylor, Andrew, Dominick, and Jac decided to venture upstairs after things got too intense.
The little munchkins even joined in the fun!
Like I said some boys thought this was pure joy and some were not too sure, like Sam, but he was definitely holding his own....
The next game was keep the balloon off the ground with your light sabor. I was a little worried, someone would get wacked, but they did great and loved this activity too!
And then the moment all the adults had been waiting for, while the boys were thoroughly surprised to see Darth Vader pop out of the bedroom. Oh my gosh...they went wild! Dee really got beat up, but loved it! The kids thought it was a blast! And my dad kept creating more stories involving Darth Vader and then he would pop out again and scare them...
Henry was having the time of his life as well as all his buddies...
My dad had the best time watching this caous!
Watch them in action...
After fighting Darth Vader...we took the party upstairs for 'galactic pizza' and 'yoda soda'....
The kids love the pizza, apples, and spirit with green food coloring in it... The 'yoda soda' was a hit!
"Happy Birthday to Henry!!" I had to sneak a kiss in...I won't be able to get away with this much longer!
My sweet boy...
I made him a Light Sabor cookie cake, which was very simple...
My sister Amelia was amazing to make these Princess Leia cupcakes! Aren't they adorable? Everybody loved these!
I also made Master Yoda cookies for each child to take home. I ordered the star wars cookie cutters from William Sonama and then used slice and bake sugar cookies and then added green food coloring. Extremely easy...
And lastly I made Light Sabor pretzels which I dipped in white chocolate that was colored blue with food coloring. Yes, food coloring can be your best friend when baking for a birthday party!
Had to take a picture of all the food...Thank you to my sister Amelia for making the food labels for everything! I don't know what I would do without you! Thank you so much for your help, hopefully one day I can repay you when you have kids! :) (all these ideas were influenced by the internet)
After the kids were full of sugar they were ready to run around outside!!
And of course T.J. was right there creating more adventures....
It was such a fun party! Henry I hope you had a great time! Happy Birthday again, two months late, but better late than never! Love you buddy!
We started decorating a week or so ahead of time just so I would not become a mean mommy the weak of the party. We laminted star wars characters for the wall that we found on the internet.
Then we bought balloons from party city to help make it festive. I decorated the white balloons with sharpy to resemble storm troopers. Very simple...
When they kids arrived the each got a star wars tato and colored a picture of a star wars character or space ship. They really got into it when we told them they could win a prize for the best drawing.
The next activity was "Pin the Light Sabor on Mastor Yoda". I printed Mastor Yoda off from clip art on the computer, and then blew it up and laminated it. Then Henry and I made light sabors out of tonge depressors, markers, and construction paper. He made sure we had green, red, blue, and purple ones, because each charactor in Star Wars has a different colored light sabor depending on who you are.
Charles Tucker got the closest, so he won!! Daddy made a big deal out of his victory...I think Tuck had mixed emotions about all the attention brought to him...
The next game was Star Wars Bingo, which I printed off from this website called,
Henry was anxious to play this with his friends after our family played it as a trial run.
Chad, Andrew, and Jonathan...such cuties...
Daddy was obviously taking this very serious....
Mary Taylor watched from the counter with Nana...
Her and Charles Tucker don't like to be in the middle of the action at first, it takes them some time to warm up.
After the star wars bingo game it was time to go down stairs for Pass the Death Star, which is the same as hot potato, but with star wars music instead. The boys really got into it and they were pretty good sports about getting out, expect the birthday boy.
Then they each got a light sabor to keep, but also for a couple of more games before cake time. Definitely a boys heaven....at least for most of the boys.... So starting from left to right we have, Sam, Henry, Jonathan, James, Dexter, Chad, Charles Tucker, Mary Taylor, Andrew, Dominick, and Jac decided to venture upstairs after things got too intense.
The little munchkins even joined in the fun!
Like I said some boys thought this was pure joy and some were not too sure, like Sam, but he was definitely holding his own....
The next game was keep the balloon off the ground with your light sabor. I was a little worried, someone would get wacked, but they did great and loved this activity too!
And then the moment all the adults had been waiting for, while the boys were thoroughly surprised to see Darth Vader pop out of the bedroom. Oh my gosh...they went wild! Dee really got beat up, but loved it! The kids thought it was a blast! And my dad kept creating more stories involving Darth Vader and then he would pop out again and scare them...
Henry was having the time of his life as well as all his buddies...
My dad had the best time watching this caous!
Watch them in action...
After fighting Darth Vader...we took the party upstairs for 'galactic pizza' and 'yoda soda'....
The kids love the pizza, apples, and spirit with green food coloring in it... The 'yoda soda' was a hit!
"Happy Birthday to Henry!!" I had to sneak a kiss in...I won't be able to get away with this much longer!
My sweet boy...
I made him a Light Sabor cookie cake, which was very simple...
My sister Amelia was amazing to make these Princess Leia cupcakes! Aren't they adorable? Everybody loved these!
I also made Master Yoda cookies for each child to take home. I ordered the star wars cookie cutters from William Sonama and then used slice and bake sugar cookies and then added green food coloring. Extremely easy...
And lastly I made Light Sabor pretzels which I dipped in white chocolate that was colored blue with food coloring. Yes, food coloring can be your best friend when baking for a birthday party!
Had to take a picture of all the food...Thank you to my sister Amelia for making the food labels for everything! I don't know what I would do without you! Thank you so much for your help, hopefully one day I can repay you when you have kids! :) (all these ideas were influenced by the internet)
After the kids were full of sugar they were ready to run around outside!!
And of course T.J. was right there creating more adventures....
It was such a fun party! Henry I hope you had a great time! Happy Birthday again, two months late, but better late than never! Love you buddy!
