tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50585675355656016952024-03-23T03:13:53.702-07:00Creative and Cheap - Fun and FabulousI love to create things-whether it be planning parties, making family photo books, re-doing my kids bedrooms, or just experimenting. However, I am on a tight budget, so I try hard to find good deals. Some things work and some don't-but I love to try. Many of the things I have done are ideas I have picked up from others, and some are ones I have created. I am always looking for ways to do things, inexpensively. I really enjoy planning parties and want to share those ideas with others.Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-37464859413848946652013-02-24T23:05:00.000-08:002013-02-28T14:32:50.388-08:00Just Dance Party<div style="text-align: center;">
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son wanted a Dance party for his 11<sup>th</sup> birthday. The problem was
coming up with a party that was fun, yet not too grown-up. I wanted it to be
cool, but not like a high school dance party. We made sure to have games because
the kids were still in elementary school. I invited 50 kids, and we had 25 that
came to the party. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I wanted the invitations to be like VIP passes so I ordered lanyards and badge
holders from ebay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I created the
invitations on scrapbook max, printed them at Walmart as 4 x 6 prints, them cut
then in half and slipped them into the badge holders. My son handed them out at
school. The kids loved them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There were several things my son asked for: a disco ball, black lights, and a piñata.
I chose to create a red carpet to make it look like a VIP Dance club and velvet
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We already own several black lights and my mom has several mini strobes that
she uses in her class. We hung these up. We found the mirror ball on clearance
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Red Carpet: We used red gossamer and duct
taped it to the ground. I have ordered the Red carpet kits before online and
that is basically what it is, but the gossamer, doubled over worked better. Red
Ropes: My mom sewed red velvet into tubes, and then we stuffed them with cotton
batting. We made tassels from gold embroidery yarn and I hooked them to our microphone
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Strobe Area: My mom created this wall that she puts up every year for
her classroom party-so it was already pre-done and perfect for this party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> It
is simply black plastic stapled to a long 2” wide board on one end. She took crumpled
tinfoil and cut into stone shapes and spray-glued them onto the black plastic. It makes
a great wall, but also an amazing effect when the strobe lights reflect off the
tinfoil. She carefully takes it down and rolls it onto the board to save it and
use it year after year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Black Light Area: My mom uses these circles in her
science class. She printed them onto neon paper and we just put them on the
wall. They look so cool under the black lights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Piñata: I usually buy the
piñata, but with 5<sup>th</sup> grade boys, I wanted to make sure it would withstand
them. We took a punch ball balloon (3 for $1 at the $store) and blew it up to
the size we wanted. I covered it with a flour/water paste and newspaper strips,
and tied yarn around it to make a way to hook it up.</span></div>
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Then we spray painted it silver. We cut a hole and added the candy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We then cut squares of tinfoil and spray glued
them onto the piñata.</span></div>
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Drop: We took a light blue piece of gossamer and tied it up to the celling to
make a large bag. We filled it with 200 neon balloons. We took a string from
the center and ran it to the DJ table, to release at the end of the party.</span></div>
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When the kids showed up they got to walk the red carpet and enter. They had to
bring their lanyard VIP Passes to get in. My brother, a large man, wore a black
t-shirt and was the bouncer and had a clipboard with the kid’s name on it and
checked to make sure that they were on the VIP list. I had printed the Hard
Rock Dance Club and Birthday Event of the year onto iron-on paper and put them
onto white T-shirts. I got 5 packs of Hanes T-shirts at Walmart.</span></div>
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flipped them onto the kids shirts. The shirts glowed really cool under the
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The kids went into the dance club area, where there was the piñata disco ball,
the strobe lights, disco ball, and black lights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a DJ booth set-up my brother-in-law was
the DJ for the party. We also had our Wii and Projector set-up and the kids
play Just Dance on the Wii. We did the Limbo, Cupid Shuffle, Gangnam Style, and
Macarena. They also did the conga line and got in a big circle and kids took
turns doing dance moves in the center. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took a break once the pizza was delivered and we also served cans of soda pop. After
they ate they did more dancing. The DJ did lots of funs things and we gave inflatable
guitars to the kids who did dance offs. Then we did the piñata. After the piñata,
towards the end of the party we did the balloon release. It worked perfectly. The
kids played with the balloons and then popped them all. Then they ate cake pops
and opened presents. We then took all the kids to the red carpet and took group
pictures (we were the paparazzi!) while we waited for the parents to arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a crazy fun party. The only hiccup was when the pizza was 45 minutes late.
The kids thought they were starving! But it was so much fun! Rock on!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-16526397869295444832013-02-24T21:59:00.000-08:002013-02-28T14:38:20.435-08:00Dora/Diego Party (second time)<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This is my second time
doing this party. I had to change some of the games and create a few news ones since
I was doing this party inside since it was winter, but many of the things are the same as the 1st party. We did this party for my 4
year old son and 3 year old niece. We held it in our performing groups practice
rooms. We had about 20 children at this party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">EARLY PREPARATION:</span></u></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> We downloaded Dora and Diego music beforehand to play through-out
the party. My husband downloaded it to his iphone and hooked it up to speakers.
I bought white backpacks from Oriental Trading Company and dyed them with rit
dye, purple and orange, for Back Pack and Rescue Pack. I printed their faces of
Back Pack and Rescue Pack onto Iron transfer paper (Ebay 10 sheets for about $7) and ironed them onto the
backpacks. We handed these out at the beginning of the party and used them to collect
their prizes and goodies. I also made video watches for the boys. My dad cut
little square pieces of wood, I spray painted them black, and the mod-podged an
animal onto the front. I hot glued them onto yellow ribbon and then added Velcro
so they would stay on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> For the girls we made bracelets like Dora’s. We used
yellow pony beads and elastic, and a pretty flower. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">For the Map I printed the 6
places we were going and glued his face onto it. I rolled it up and it looked
just like Map.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> I printed 1” round pictures of the characters and hooked them
onto toothpicks for the cupcake picks. I ordered the cupcakes to save time.</span></div>
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invitations for the boys. I used a template that was found online typed the party
information onto that template and printed them onto purple or orange paper.
This invitation involved a lot of cutting, as I cut out the mouths, eyebrows,
and backpacks. I hot glued googly eyes on them.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">ARRIVE:</span></u></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dora and Diego theme
songs are playing.</b> I printed the template for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>star pocket from the Nick Jr. website. </span></div>
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markers and stickers for the kids to decorate their stars. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">ADVENTURE BEGINS:</span></u></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> Music plays <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">baby tiger
cry</b> for help. We had pre-recorded a tiger cry and we told the kids that an
animal is in trouble. I said, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Oh no that sounds like an
animal is in trouble. We need to find out who it is.” I asked the kids,
"Who can help us find out which animal is in trouble??" They respond,
"Click the camera"(the kids say) We <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">play the Click the Camera Song.</b> I pulled out a Click the camera I
had printed. On one side it was zoomed in to show just the fur of an animal.</span><br />
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said “we need to Zoom out to see which animal needs our help.” The kids yelled
"ZOOM ZOOOM!" and I turned it over and it clearly showed the picture
of baby Tiger. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">"Now we know what animal we are going to rescue, but we
need to get ready for our adventure. (We hand out back-packs and rescue packs,
video watches for the boys, and Dora bracelets or the girls.There were mini flashlights, telescopes in their backpacks)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Play rescue pack and backpack songs</b>
while we get ready.) <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tiger cries again</b>.
‘Oh no we need to hurry baby tiger is so scared. Oh wait a minute we don’t know
how to get there." I say, "Who do we ask for help when we don't know
where to go??" and the kids say, "The map!" (I <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">play the map song</b> I then pull out a map
that I created that show the way to go, 6 places, and we go over it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The 1st place we have to go
is Lollipop Field. We walk around, and the kids follow me. I say “I see
something, but what do we need to help a see far away?" and the kids say,
"A telescope" They all pull out their telescope, which was in their
backpack, and we look over the fence. There is the Lollipop Field (I have the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lollipop, Lollipop song</b> playing.) For
this area I bought a 100 pack of bamboo sticks at Walmart for $1. I took straws
and pushed them onto the sticks about half way and taped them on. I then spray
painted them green. I printed some leaves, cut them out, and stapled them on. We
had large Styrofoam blocks that we covered in green butcher paper. We then
stuck them into the green covered styrofoam and then put small dum dum suckers
into each straw top. I painted the stick of one sucker blue. I had my niece and
nephew dress-up as the bobo brothers and dance around the lollipops and pretend
to mess with them. When the kids saw them through the telescope, I cried
"It is the Bobo brothers we need to stop them?" and all the kids
yell, "Freeze Bobo Brother Freeze!" The Bobo brothers looks up and
say, "oh, sorry" and run off. We are now at Lollipop Fields and I
explain to the kids that we need to find the lollipop with the blue stick
because that is baby tiger's favorite and that will make him feel better once
we find him</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">After
the kids find the blue stick. I pull out the map and say, "The next place
we need to go is the Grumpy Old Troll Bridge.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> We created the bridge using 2 benches pushed
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As the kids approached the bridge,
I started playing the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">grumpy old troll
song</b> and my sister (who had been hiding) jumped out, dressed as a troll,
and pretended to sing while dance around to the song. After the song she read
them the riddle that they must answer in order to cross his bridge. The riddle
was super easy because they were 3 and 4 years old. The riddle was: <i>What is
a yellow treat that monkeys like to eat? </i>After they answer the riddle then
the adults help the kids cross the "bridge." When they get to the
other side, I pull-out the map again and say, "We have been to lollipop
fields, we have crossed the troll-bridge, now where to we need to go???"</span></div>
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Cave" But along the way we see the stars hanging from the clothesline. I
say, "We need to stop and catch stars along the way." I had printed
stars from the Nick Jr.com onto bright colored paper, cut them out, put googly
eyes onto them, and attached them to curling ribbon with a paperclip and tied
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I played the music for catching stars and the kids reached
up a grabbed the stars. They came right off and they put them in their star
pocket, they had made at the beginning. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Catching
stars song</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BEAR CAVE:</span></u></strong><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">We then saw the bear cave. To create the bear cave we took 2
fridge boxes (got them from Sears) and duct taped them together. We covered it
with black plastic sheeting. We made it so it was dark, but so they could
walk-bent over through the cave, in one end and out the other.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> I peek into the
cave and say, "Oh, it is dark in there! What can we use to help us see in
the dark??? The flashlights, Right!" They all pull out their flashlights
and peek into the cave. We had a large stuffed bear laying inside. I said,
"There is sleeping bear. We need to go past the sleeping bear without
waking her up. Sleeping bear likes the song twinkle, twinkle little star, so is
she starts waking up, then we need to sing her back to sleep." As the kids
walk through, my husband reached in and started moving the bear, as if she was
waking up, The kids start to sing and the bear goes back to sleep. (Some kids
were too scared to walk through and walked around it instead. After the bear
cave, we pull out the map and say "now where do we need to go?"
"To the Silly Snake pit"</span></div>
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pit, we see there are no snakes in the pit. Silly snakes are our friends. Just
then the kids spot Swiper the fox, trying to swipe all the snakes. We try to
stop him, but we are too late. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(Swiper
the fox plays) </b>We say ‘Swiper, no swipey,” My oldest son was dressed as Swiper,
and said, “You are too late. Swiper throws all the snakes over a wall into the
other room where we had lots of green balloons blown up. The snakes fell and
were hidden under all the balloons. The kids got to rescue a snake and take one
home. (I got a dozen 14” snakes for $6 on Amazon.)</span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">SINGING BRIDGE:</span></u></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> I then ask the kids, "Where so we go
next?" “The singing bridge" We had another bridge set-up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had music notes taped all over it. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Singing Bridge sings
silly songs. Earlier my husband had recorded himself singing “Row Row Row your
boat” wrong (life is but a bowl of spaghetti) and then another one of him
singing it right. We played the wrong one first and I say “That's not right; we
have to teach him the right words. Let's sing the song the right way. Everyone
sings the song the right way and then crosses the bridge) “Ya! We made it
passed the Singing Bridge!</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">”</span></span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">STAR PINATA:</span></u></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Once they
are done, they pull-out there map and look to see where to go next. We need to
go to the rain forest. Along the way we see the star pinata, (bought at Walmart) where we realize
the evil witch has trapped some of the stars. So we need to rescue them. I filled the pinata with treats and foam star stickers. The
kids take turns hitting the pinata and get to put the treats into their
backpacks or slings.</span></div>
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<strong><u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">RAIN FORREST:</span></u></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> We then make our way to the rain forest. I hung green streamers from the ceiling and had lots of
ficus trees and greenery to create a jungle. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I brought all the jungle animals,
snakes, monkeys, etc from my sons toys to create the look. I had hidden a large
stuffed tiger in the trees and the kids had to look for baby tiger. They were
so excited to find him! Once they found him, we played the song "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We did it!"</b> and all the kids
danced around so happy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This was was another fun party, easier since I had already done it, but a little different. I hope you can use some of these fun party ideas. </b></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia;"><em>Momma</em></span></strong></div>
Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-29710543498553307482012-05-25T13:37:00.000-07:002012-05-25T13:37:28.964-07:00Fun GiftsI made this candy boquet for my son for kindergarten graduation. I think it turned out so cute and it was super easy. It took about 10 minutes.<br />
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Here is what I used:
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-vase (you could also use a basket or a mug)
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-floral foam
-shredded paper
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-bamboo skewers
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-1 or 2 ballon weights
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-candy
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-ribbon<br />
-glue gun<br />
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I got all the stuff at the $store. The Congrat Grad thing is a gift card holder and worked perfectly.<br />
I can't wait to make more. I am going to try some holiday themes like Halloween and Thanksgiving. Don't you think they would make a cute Chrstmas gift???
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I made these as thank you gifts for my son's teachers for the last day of school. </div>
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I hope they like truffles. These are my favorite.
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Thanks to Bon for the card front!!! <a href="http://gorgfabgoodies.blogspot.com/">http://gorgfabgoodies.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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Thanks - Momma</div>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-48800741307794644832012-04-11T23:54:00.000-07:002013-02-28T14:41:32.027-08:00Mad Science PartyWe just celebrated my oldest son’s 10th birthday. About 6 months ago I started thinking of ideas for a party that would fun and exciting for a 10 year old, and we decided to have a mad scientist party. It was very fun to plan and the kids had a blast!!! <br />
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<strong><u>EARLY PREPARATION</u></strong>: I believe that early preparation is KEY to planning a party. Not only did I have 6 months to plan – it helped me to spread the cost out, rather than having it all at once - which was good since I spent more on this party than on most. Another key to starting early is being able to get good deals. Since we knew we were doing a science party we were able to keep our eyes open for things that would be good for our theme. Here are some things I found months before the party:<br />
-2 microscopes at the local thrift store for only $1 each. They made awesome decorations.<br />
-24 bottles that looked like science bottle at the thrift store. They were brand new and we filled them with colored water. They looked really cool when we added dry ice to them.<br />
-10 pack of test tube powdered candy at the dollar store. I attached these to the invitation.<br />
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This also makes it so you can search for really good deals online and have time to get them to your house before the party. I wanted to get lab coats and goggles for each child, so I spent weeks looking for the best deal. I was able to get them both for $1.75 per child. This was an awesome effect and the kids loved wearing them. I am glad I chose to buy them.<br />
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Another advantage is finding several ideas them making them your own. I loved researching science parties online and tweaking the ideas to what I wanted to do.<br />
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<strong><u>INVITATIONS:</u></strong> I made them on <em>SCRAPBOOK MAX</em>. This is what I printed on the envelope front and each child that was invited had their name printed on it. The test tube candy was attached to the envelope. <br />
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Here is the invitation I made. <br />
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The fun part was how we delivered them. We took them my son’s school class. My mom is a science teacher at the middle school and she came with us. She talked to the kids about the scientific process (we worked this into our birthday experiments since the science fair was coming up and each child had to do one) and then we did some fun science experiments. While the kids went outside to do some fun experiments, we put an invite on each child’s desk. Outside we did Diet Coke/Mentos rockets and let off an air hog rocket that shot 40 feet in the air. The kids were jumping around and were so excited. The huge smile on my son’s face was priceless. I heard several kids say, “This is the best school day ever!” My son's grandma was a big hit and we got the kids excited to come. I sent out 55 invites, invited 62 children, and we had 32 kids show up. Crazy to some – but I loved having that many kids come.<br />
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<strong><u>DECORATIONS:</u></strong> I did many things to decorate with so I am going to break it into sections.<br />
1. Drop cloths: I used drop cloths to wall off areas in my house. We have half walls in our LR and music room, so we hung the drop cloth so it blocked the rooms from the entrance. Over the walkways we cut it so the kids could walk through it. It really gave it a laboratory feel.<br />
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2. Signs: I printed several signs – danger, restricted area signs to put on doors that I didn’t want them to go in, restroom signs, radioactive signs, the individual labs signs, and several science clipart pictures to post everywhere. When the walked in there were large letters that said, “Ethan’s Mad Lab!” I also ordered a birthday banner that we put out front that said,” Ethan’s Scientific Laboratory of Cool Science Experiment’s and Smokin’ Birthday Fun!”<br />
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3. Lab Equipment - Since my mom is a science teacher, we had lots of thing to decorate with. My sister is an explosive scientist and she had donated several real glass science equipment to my mom, so we used those as well. We had several glass jars filled with colored water, a brain floating in water, orbies in glasses, microspcopes, magnifying glasses, etc. Hopefully the few pictures I got will help you have a better idea. We put tin foil on one of my shelves and used a mini strobe which gave it a mad scientist feel. It was real cool. <br />
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4. Tables- We used white sheets for the table coverings. This worked out so well as it gave it a real lab feel. I read that some people used silver tablecloths, but I couldn’t find any, and I like this look better. <br />
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<strong><u>THE PARTY:</u></strong> We have a large house, so we could set-up several lab and party areas. On the invitation, we asked that the kids come with mad scientist hair, so the kids looked real cool when they arrived. Upon arrival there was a check-in process. <br />
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<strong><u>CHECK: IN:</u></strong> We had a table set-up with my laptop and speaker and a small toy that had a fanned out plastic piece and made some cool sounds. We used it to do a “retinal scan, and them the computer said, “Welcome Doctor Smith, your retinal scan had cleared, you may now enter the laboratory.” We did this by using a text to speech website, and we had all the words typed in before-hand and then changed the name as each child check-in. The kids though it was so cool!! We had one person doing the retinal scan as another typed the child’s name into computer. They then walked through the plastic drop cloth into our music room, where we had another table set-up and they got their supplies. Before-hand I printed a name badge for EVERY child invited. They got their name and added their fingerprint to it, and then we slipped in into a plastic badge cover so they could pin it on. I also had printed up lab schedules, which I color coded, so we could have about 6-8 kids in each lab. The child got a color sticker to know which lab group they would be with, a lab schedule, a radioactive stick (glostick,) a biohazard bag to collect their specimen samples (party favors,) a lab coat, and safety goggles. Then they walked through another doorway of plastic into the first lab.<br />
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<strong><u>MOLECULE STRUCTURES:</u></strong> Everyone did this one together, while we waited for all the kids to arrive and get checked-in. I had 4 tables set-up with a box of toothpick’s, small red paper plates, and a bag of mini colored marshmallows. They got to build marshmallow structures any way they want. The kids made some really cool ones.<br />
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The kids then moved to their individual groups and rotated labs, based on their lab schedule. Each lab was 10 minutes and we use an air horn (from the $store) to end each lab.<br />
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<strong><u>ERUPTIONS:</u></strong> This was in our kitchen. I had 4 cookie sheets laid out, with 2 large red solo cups on it. There was one cup for each child. Fill each cup about ½ full with hot water. Have the kids drop a few drops of dish soap into the cup. The adult then takes small chunks of dry ice and drops them into the cup. It immediately starts erupting bubbles. When the kids grab them or poke them the bubbles pop and out comes the fog from the dry ice. The kids loved playing with this. They only have small amount of soap on their hands, and it isn’t even sticky. Just have them rinse their hand before the next lab. Each child was given a necklace or keychain to put into their bag. I bought small ampule bottles off ebay, filled them with colored water and seed beads, glued on the cap, and hooked them to a necklace or a key chain. (Looking back – I wouldn’t do this again. I ordered the bottles off ebay and was hoping they would be big enough to fill with oil and water, creating a lava lamp look, but the bottles were too small. Although I already had the leather necklaces and key-chains, the ampules were a big expense and not the theme I was going for)<br />
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<strong><u>OOZE AND GOOZE:</u></strong> I had saved my baby food containers for this activity. They had snap on lids. I added some white school glue to cover the bottom of the container and added a little water. I stirred in neon green food color and some glow-in-the dark-paint. I made cute little radioactive slime labels to cover the gerber words and the food item words on the sides. This activity was done at my craft table downstairs, which was right next to the bathroom, which was the radioactive room. We put a black light in there so the kids could tell if it was radioactive (glowed under the light). I set one food container for each child and I gave them each a wooden craft stick to stir it. I had mixed borax in water and I poured a little bit into each child’s container and they stirred it until it turned into slime. Then they looked at it under the black light. They got to take home their slime.<br />
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<strong><u>SMOKIN:</u></strong> My mom made an air cannon by taking a large black plastic garbage can and cutting a 6 inch round hole in the bottom. (You can make a smaller one using a 5 gallon bucket, but the larger one is cooler. We had both.) She used the plastic you get in the fabric department, and duct taped it around the top of the garbage can, really tight. You then smack the plastic and a huge burst of air comes out of the hole. We tied a strap onto it so you could hold it and aim. The kids loved trying to aim it at certain things and try to hit it, like making hair move or leaves from a plant. We then filled it with fog from a fog machine and little burst of fog and air burst out the end. Really fun!!! They each got a perfume bomb to put into their bag.<br />
<strong><u>MAGNETIC ATTRACTION:</u></strong> I bought some petri dishes online. (Ebay) I filled them with a small amount of magnetic powder (got this from my mom, not sure where she got it) and glued the petri dish closed. I bought little magnetic buttons (Walmart) and the kids got to play with the magnetic petri dish and take it home. I also had snake eggs, magnetic rocks, and lots of magnets for them to experiment with.<br />
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<strong><u>NOW THAT”S COLD:</u></strong> We bought some instasnow from the Family Dollar. (It was $2 for a tub and we only used ½ scoop per child – It grows a lot! We didn’t even use ¼ of the bottle for 32 kids!) You can also buy it online, but it is more expensive. I have even seen it at the $Store.) Each child got a small amount put into their hand and they used pipets to add drops of water until it turned into snow. I gave them little Ziploc snack-size bags to take their snow home.<br />
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<strong><u>BLAST OFF</u></strong>: We used little diabetic canisters that my uncle had saved for us, but if you can find them, film canisters they work too. We filled them with a little water and gave each child a packet of 2 alka-seltzer and let them break them into 4-5 small pieces each and they put them in the canister and watch the lids pop off again and again. We did this activity outside. They got to take home the canister in their bag.<br />
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<strong><em>Next we had the kids come in and open presents and do the exploding molecules, while we set-up the sundae lava bar.</em></strong><br />
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<strong><u>EXPLODING MOLECULES:</u></strong> I wanted a fun way to give the kids the candy, but in a different way than a traditional piñata. So we decide to create a balloon molecule structure and fill the balloons with candy. This was done in trial and error. I searched all over online and I couldn’t find anything. We used punching balloons (3 for $1 at the $store). These work well because the neck is thick and long and the balloon is thicker than most. We chose several different colors. My husband would hold the neck open and stretch it to provide about a 2 inch opening. I would stuff the candy in until I could fit no more. We then used an air compressor to fill it up. We then opened the neck again and as quickly as I could, I would stuff in more candy. The blowing up of the balloon would make it so we could add the rest of the candy. We filled each with 50 small pieces or 25 large pieces into 2 balloons. Once we had the desired amount of candy, we filled them with air and tied them. Do not overfill with air, as we lost one balloon and had to refill the candy. My husband attached them to some dowels crisscrossed. We filled the balloons different sizes and he hooked them so that the dowels were balanced. We hung this from the ceiling. Then when the kids were ready, he popped the balloons with a push-pin. Once he had popped 2, it seemed to cause a chain reaction and then they popped by themselves and caused the candy to explode out and onto the floor. It was really cool.<br />
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<strong><u>VOLCANO CAKE:</u></strong> My mom made a cake using 3 different cake pans to create a volcano shaped cake. She frosted it in a dark black frosting and sprinkled crushed Oreos all over it. She used red melting candies and dripped on the lava. We used a tall skinny glass vase and it slipped perfectly inside the cake. We filled it with water and then dropped dry ice into to create the volcano exploding. She then used red cellophane and put it inside the top of the vase to complete the look. We did this while the kids sang Happy Birthday, but saved the cake for later that night for the family party. (It was his brother’s one year birthday family party)<br />
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I also took petri dishes and filled them with yellow jello and small gummy circles and gummy worms, so the kids each got their own “grown bacteria” to eat.<br />
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<strong><u>SUNDAE VOLCANO</u></strong>: I made labels for the sundae volcano bar – volcanoes, ash, rocks, lava, smoke. We bought small clear plastic cups and added a scoop of ice cream in each. These were the volcanoes. The kids would get theses and then add what they wanted on their sundae. We had crushed oreos for ash, chocolate chips, toffee bits, and pop rocks for the rocks, and strawberry syrup, chocolate syrup, caramel, and hot fudge for the lava. We added whipped cream if they wanted it. We then took larger red plastic cups and fill them about 1/3 with water. We dropped in a small chunk of dry ice and then dropped the small plastic cup filled with their sundae into the larger one. This created the exploding volcano effect and looked so cool. <br />
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<strong><u>H2O WATER BOTTLES</u></strong>: I made labels for water bottle that said h20 and had the h2o molecule picture on it. I taped these to the water bottles. I gave each child a water bottle and a single koolaid packet so they could create a “chemical change” of their own, by making their own punch.<br />
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The kids went outside where I had tables set-up to eat. Then, while we waited for the parent’s to pick up their children, we had a fog/bubble machine set-up and let them pop the bubbles and play with the fog.<br />
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<strong><u>TAKE HOME GOODIES:</u></strong> I made an experiment manual that said, “Thank You for coming to Child’s birthday” and had the experiments that we did at the party, so they could do them later if they wanted too. They also took home: Lab Coat, Goggles, Glo-stick, Name Badge, Biohazard Bag, Lava lamp Necklace, Slime they made, Alka Seltzer Bomb canister, Perfume Bomb, Petri dish magnet, instasnow, and candy.<br />
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Lab Manuel: I printed these on 8 x 11.5 paper, cut them in half and stapled them together. Super easy!<br />
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AND All the kids loved it! – especially my son!</div>
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<strong><u>INVITATIONS:</u></strong> I made invitations with all the party info on scrapbook max and handed them out with little mini playdohs. I got them at the dollar store (an 8 pack for $1 - awesome deal.) I printed a little label that said, "Please come to my party! It also had the playdoh logo printed on it. </div>
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<u><strong>PARTY FAVORS:</strong></u> I wanted to so something different for the goody bags. I wanted to make cans that looked like the playdoh tubs. My son is on a special infant formula and I had been saving the cans, so we had a lot and they worked out perfect. My husband spray painted the cans yellow, and the lids red, blue, and green. Use whatever colors you want or something you already have to save money. I printed the playdoh logo, cut them out, and spray glued them onto the cans. They turned out exactly like I wanted. I filled them with candy and more mini playdohs. I used the ones from the dollar store as well as some I got on clearance after Halloween. Halloween Candy on clearance is a great way to fill goody bags and pinatas!<br />
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<strong><u>DECORATIONS:</u></strong> We used red, yellow, and blue helium balloons and put them up all around the house. Everything we used for the party was also put up to decorate with - treat cans, tubs of playdoh, balloons for the games. You can use any bright colors to decorate with! <br />
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1. <em><strong>Play doh Cookies:</strong></em> The first thing we did when all the guests arrived was to make playdoh cookies. The day before I made playdoh sugar cookie dough. I doubled the batch, divided it into 4 parts and used Wilton frosting dye - red, blue, yellow, and green-to dye the dough. It was very bright and looked exactly like play doh. We let the kids make there own cookie creations. We baked them while they started the next activity. Here's the recipe I used:<br />
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2. <em><strong>Play doh Free Play:</strong></em> I purchased several packs of playdoh, which is relatively expensive. Next we let the kids choose some playdoh and just play with it - creating whatever they wanted to. I had lots of cookie cutters and other play doh tools for them to use. I also made each child there very own rolling pin. <br />
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<strong>ROLLING PINS:</strong> We bought 1" PVC pipe - Only $3 for 12 feet at Home Depot. We cut it into 6" pieces and painted them orange, blue, and green. I used tole paint- because I had it, but it might be easier to use spray paint, because they took several coats. We bought 1" wooden dowels, painted them yellow with tole paint and cut them into 2" pieces. We glued them into the PVC pipe, using clear PVC pipe glue. They turned out so cute. The kids got to take them home.<br />
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3. <strong><em>Competition Play Doh: </em></strong>We wrote different things on scraps of paper, like ice cream cone, Christmas tree, telephone, etc. and put them in a bowl. We had the kids draw out a piece of paper and then gave them 10 minutes to complete what was on that paper. We then judged them and gave out prizes. Everyone got a prize and we had little medals (6 for $1 from the dollar store) for the top 5 winners. The kids were so creative. <br />
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4. <em><strong>Balloon Freeze Dance</strong></em>: We had blown up several different size, different colored balloons and spread them all over the the living room floor. We played music. The kids got to dance in the balloons until the music stopped, then they were suppose to grab one balloon and freeze. I called out a color and whoever was holding that balloon color won a prize. We did this until everyone had a prize.<br />
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<strong><u>CAKE AND PRESENTS:</u></strong> We didn't do a cake. Instead we made funfetti cookies, frosted them, and put 2 together to make an oreo-like cookie. We served it with punch. Then the kids opened presents. Each kid went home with their play-doh can of goodies, rolling pin, and their Play-doh Cookies.<br />
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-7407729256331593862011-11-29T08:35:00.000-08:002011-11-29T08:35:37.648-08:00My Party Ideas are Winners!!!<div style="text-align: center;">I am excited to say that my Star Wars Party idea was awarded</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <strong>R</strong><strong>unner-up for October 2011</strong></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">at <span style="color: blue;">birthdaypartyideas.com.</span> Who-Hoo!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Previously my Zhu Zhu Pet Party got an <em><span style="color: red;"><strong>honorable mention</strong></span></em> and my </div><div style="text-align: center;">1st Harry Potter got a <em><span style="color: red;"><strong>special mention</strong></span></em>. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Have fun partying!</div>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-24652606829761336302011-11-08T22:42:00.000-08:002013-02-28T14:44:10.481-08:00Lego PartyThis party was for my oldest son's 9th birthday. We had about 30 kids come, including 5 preschool kids. (We used large building blocks for the little kids, rather than the small legos, and they participated in all games using these large blocks.) <br />
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<strong><u>DECORATIONS:</u></strong> I cut large rectangles and smaller ones from bright colored cardstock. My mom used a die cut machine to cut several 1" circles from the same colored cardstock. I cut small square foam pieces and hot glued them onto the circles, and then glued the circles onto the rectangles to make them look like legos. The foam pieces made the circle pop out. I used a hole punch and tied a piece of curling ribbon onto the lego piece and hung them from the ceilings. I also printed several lego logos and lego heads and hung them as well. They turned out so cute. <br />
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Because we had about 30 kids, we put them into groups. We let them draw for groups – there were Team Red, Team Blue, Team Green, Team Yellow. They each got their team badge.<br />
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We put 22 legos into a snack-size baggie to give to each child. <br />
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These were to use for the game, not to keep. My husband, mom, sister, and I each took a team and rotated the games. Each group will do each game. The child will earn one lego after each mini-game is passed off, and they put them into their baggie. After all the games they would end up with 30 legos at the end for the building competition.<br />
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<strong>1. LEGO COUNT</strong> – Have the kids guess how many legos (blocks) are in the jar. Whoever guessed the closet won a prize.<br />
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<strong>2. LEGO DROP –</strong> I had 2 #10 empty cans. Each child uses 10 of their LEGO pieces. The child had to put the LEGO piece up to his chin and drop it trying to get it into the can. (If time allows or if they do this game really fast, have them stand on a bench and do the same thing.) <br />
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<strong>3. RING TOSS -</strong> Beforehand, I took my younger sons Duplos legos, and made them into 3 different sized towers, and hot glues them to a large board. I had 6 large plastic rings. The kids toss the rings onto the towers of DUPLOS. Each turn they had to take a step backward to make the game more difficult. <br />
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<strong>4. LEGO HOP RACE -</strong> Have each child's baggie of Legos to the end area, past ths finish line and have them dump them into a pile on a bench past the finish line. Each child gets into a potaoto sack at the beginning of the race. Say go and they jump down to their own pile of LEGOS, get out of the sack, pick up their pile and race back to the start. If they drop any legos, they have to hop back and get them. Note; You can buy potato sacks at IFA or other country stores.<br />
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<strong>5. LEGO ON A SPOON RACE</strong> – There will be 2 bowls at the end line. Have the kids dump their legos in the bowl. The kids race down to their bowl and put as many LEGO pieces on a spoon and walk back to the start. The kids must get all their legos back into their bags. If they spill any legos on the floor, the Legos get put back into the bowl. Complete this until each child has a turn. <br />
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<strong>6. PIN THE MISSING LEGO</strong>- I found a picture of a huge stack of Legos and made it into a 11 x 17 print. I cropped one of the legos and made pieces for the game. I laminated the game. The kids are blindfolded and try to get the Lego to the missing piece. (kinda like pin the tail on the donkey.)<br />
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<strong>7. LEGO POP – This was the whole group. </strong> I blew up lots of balloons and hid a lego piece in each one. The kids have to pop the Balloon to find the LEGO. Give each child 1 balloon. They must pop the balloon, without using their hands or feet to get the next LEGO piece. <br />
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<strong>8. LEGGO MY LEGO- This was the whole group.</strong> (Lego Musical Chairs) I used the large duplo blocks, and put them into the middle, with one less block than their were kids. The kids sit in a circle around the blocks. When you blow the whistle the kids scramble to the center to get a lego. If they don’t get a lego, they are out. once they are out they get one lego from their leader. Keep going till there is one kid left. That person wins 5 extra legos. <br />
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<strong>9. PINATA-</strong> Break open the large Lego to reveal treats. My husband made this from a rectangle box He took 6 plastic cups cut in half, and glued onto the box. He then painted it blue. It worked so well,<br />
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<strong>10. BUILD WHAT’S ON THEIR CARD –</strong> Beforehand I had printed up cards that has an object on it (car, phone, lady, etc.) The kids each drew a card. They take their baggie of legos and have 10 minutes to build the object on their card. After completion they move them to the judge table where they will be judged. <br />
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This is the little kids creations.<br />
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Here are some of the older kids. We gave each child a number, so the judges didn't know who's they were.<br />
<strong>11. CAKE-</strong> The kids then go over and have their cake and Capri suns. During this time we have 2 people judge the creations while they are eating. My husband and mother-in-law made this cake. We were running late so we didn't get the frosting colors as dark as we needed to.<br />
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<strong>12. AWARDS -</strong> Certificates were given to all the MASTER BRICK BUILDERS and prizes awarded to the top 3 that most resembled their card. Also prize is awarded to person who guesses closet amount of legos in a jar.<br />
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<strong>13. TALLEST TOWER -</strong> We didn’t have time to do this, but it would have been fun. All Lego creations are dismantled and put into large bucket (after pictures are taken of course) and then divided into the 4 teams. The 4 teams then compete to make the tallest tower. <br />
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<strong>GIFT BAGS -</strong> These turned out so cute. I made them just like the decorations. I used red and blue colored paper sacks. I printed a cute lego topper and stapled in on the top. It was filled with candy and party favors.<br />
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-87387677238694383582011-11-06T15:28:00.000-08:002013-02-28T14:45:30.534-08:00Zhu Zhu Pet PartyMy 3 oldest sons love the new toys, Zhu Zhu pets. I decided to throw a Zhu Zhu pet party for my son who was turning 2. After searching the internet, I found almost nothing on this, since they are relatively new. I did find some fun ideas and came up with even more. This is how my party went, and it was so fun. We had about 20 kids ages 2-12 at this party and they all had so much fun. We had each child bring their Zhu Zhu pet if they had one. If not, I brought some of my son’s extra ones. We made sure each one had their name written on it. Because it was for a 2 year old, (but mostly because I was 7 months pregnant, I had just moved into my new house, and it was the week of Thanksgiving) I didn't do any decorating. And really it didn't need any. The kids had a blast. <br />
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<strong><u>Invitation:</u></strong> I created this on my scrapbook max program, and personalized it with a picture of my son. I make them 4” x 6” and save it as an image. I send them to Walmart to get printed as a 4 x 6 print and it is only 9 cents an invite. The invitation has the Zhu Zhu hamsters on the bottom and it said, “It’s a Zhu Zhu party with lots of fun things to do, please join us on this special day as <strong><em>child's name</em></strong> turns 2! Zhu Zhu zoom on over”-and then the party details. I personalized it with a picture.<br />
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<strong><u>GAMES:</u></strong><br />
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<strong>1. Hamster Naming:</strong> The kids get to decide on a new name for them-selves. They choose a name that starts with the first letter of their real name. Then write their chosen name on a name-tag. This is what they are called the rest of the time at the party. <br />
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<strong>2. Find the Hamster’s Food:</strong> We took a large box with shredded paper. We took mini carrots and mixed them into the paper. The kids took turns trying to see who could find the most carrots. The older kids thought they would find a lot, but it was much harder than it seemed, but the kids had a lot of fun anyways. <br />
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<strong>3. Pass the Zhu Zhu Pet:</strong> This game is played just like Hot Potato, but instead we used a Zhu Zhu pet.<br />
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<strong>4. Pin the Party Hat on the Zhu Zhu Pet:</strong> I printed a large picture of Num Nums Zhu Zhu pet and laminated it. I printed 20 party hats and laminated them to. This is played just like pin the tail on the donkey. We blindfolded the older kids.<br />
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<strong>5. Hamster Dance</strong>: We downloaded the Hamster Dance song and put it onto a CD. We just let the kids dance to it. All the kids loved to dance to this song. It just makes you want to get up and dance! <br />
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<strong>6. Zhu Zhu Pet Race:</strong> This was a <strong><em>HUGE HIT</em></strong>! I took long 8' Styrofoam pieces, (could use 2 x 4 boards) and made 4 or 5 lanes by just laying them on the floor. Each person uses their Zhu Zhu pet and they race to see who hamster makes it to the finish line first. We had to do this in 4 rounds and then the winners of each round raced again for a top winner. It was so fun because each hamster has a mind of it’s own. The zhu zhu’s would take off and be winning and them all the sudden stop and turn the other way. <br />
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<strong>7. Zhu Zhu Battle:</strong> This was the <strong><em>ALL TIME FAVORITE</em></strong> game of the night. After the races, we moved the Styrofoam piece to form a large square. All the kids sat around the square and when we said, “Go” they pushed the button on their Zhu Zhu and stepped back. The kids were not allowed to touch their Zhu Zhu once the battle began. All the Zhu Zhu’s would move wherever they chose to. They would run into the others and knock them over. Whoevers Zhu Zhu was the last one up was the winner. It was so fun as the Zhu Zhu’s would get knocked over, then another Zhu Zhu would run into it and tip them back upright. Sometimes the Zhu Zhu would stop and another Zhu Zhu would run into it and make it start again. It was really like watching a demolition derby and never knowing what was going to happen. We played the hamster dance music while the battle was going on. The kids cheered their Zhu Zhu pet from the sidelines. We had to do several battles.<br />
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<strong>8. The Hamster Ball:</strong> My mom had a large inflatable wheel where the kids sit inside and hold on while someone rolls it. <br />
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<strong>CUPCAKES:</strong> I had my local bakery make cupcakes that looked like some of the Zhu Zhu pets. They colored the frosting with pink, chocolate, vanilla, and yellow frosting. They piped on ears, eyes, and mouths. The looked exactly like a hamster. They could also be made at home using mini m & m's or candies.<br />
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<strong>GOODY BAGS:</strong> I used a brown paper sack as the goody bags filled with treats and little prizes. I printed a topper with the Zhu Zhu pets and it said, “Thank You for coming to my birthday party!” on it. I stapled it to the top of the bag.<br />
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-19073447220299747782011-10-12T22:26:00.000-07:002013-02-28T14:35:37.659-08:00Surprise Princess Party for my sisterSo I always wanted to do a princess party, and since I have 4 boys, I realized it just ain't gonna happen. So I decided to do a surprise princess party for my oldest sister. I loved spending almost 3 months in planning, but it was hard not sharing all the good deals I was finding with her. As the party got closer, it was much harder to make sure she didn't find out. I think she was really surprised, and it turned out exactly as I had pictured it. A special shoutout to Jenn for her awesome catering skills-be sure to see all the fun goodies she made for the luncheon! <br />
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<strong><u>INVITATIONS:</u></strong> I made scroll invitations. I lucked out and found 24 wooden candle holders at our local thrift store, then I bought dowels to fit into them. I glued them together and then spray painted them gold. I printed the invitations on clear vellum paper. It read:<br />
“By royal summons of the kingdom of Cedar, (the town we live in I had this next to a fancy letter C) Princess Stephanie Lynn Harris of Westview (Example name ) your presence is requested at the royal banquet hall on DATE for a royal surprise celebration in honor of Princess Clarissa Jane Jones of Lake Mountain, the royal chariot will pick you up at TIME. (I arranged for a limo to pick up each of the 12 guests) Please come dressed in you finest regal attire. Your crown and jewels will be sent to you. (More on this in costumes) Please acknowledge your acceptance by calling PHONE NUMBER.”<br />
I personalized eac invitation with the names for each lady who was invited, the older ladies were queens and the younger ladies were princesses, and they were the princess of the street they lived on. <br />
I cut the dowels to 12” and glued the wooden candle holders on each end. Then I taped the paper invitation across the top and rolled it around the dowel. I tied it with a pink ribbon. My husband dressed up in a tux complete with cumber-band and bow tie, and we hand delivered the ones we could and mailed the rest.<br />
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I made a separate invitation for the birthday girl, it read:<br />
“Princess Clarissa Jane Jones of Lake Mountain, (example name)<br />
Your presence is hereby requested<br />
at the royal banquet hall,<br />
for a royal birthday celebration<br />
in your honor.<br />
The Royal driver will pick you up at<br />
Approximately 1:30 PM<br />
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<strong><u>COSTUMES:</u></strong> Each princess was to come dressed up. I had sent "save the date" emails a month earlier so they could start looking for a dress. I wanted every princess to have a crown tiara, rhinestone necklace and bracelet, earrings, and a large rhinestone ring. I bought all of them on eBay. The tiaras I got were real, not the kid party kind and they were cheaper too. (under $3 each) </div>
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I went to the shoe-store and got kid size shoe boxes, spray painted them gold and glued jewels on them. I cut some foam to fit the box and covered it in red velvet material. I placed the jewelry inside the box, on the velvet, and made a label with each princess’s name on the top of the box. I forgot to take a picture of the inside with the jewelry.<br />
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<strong><u>DECORATIONS:</u></strong> I wanted this to be super fancy. We have a dance studio, and we had our “royal banquet hall” here. We had 2 large banquet tables. I covered them with white satin tablecloths and used pink squares and cloth napkins. I used my china with gold rim- plates and cups. Silver platters and tiers held the food. I draped pink fabric (bought pink sheer curtains from the thrift store) from the ceiling. I had some other pink fabric with flowers on it that we draped as well. I bought diamond confetti (1000 pieces for $1.45 and free shipping on eBay) and sprinkled them all over the table. We had a throne at the end of the table for the birthday girl. We got an old chair at the thrift store. It had intricate designs all over the wood back. We spray painted it gold, then sprayed gold glitter on it, then glued rhinestones (I bought lots of rhinestones from eBay for 1.50) all over. We took the cushion off and covered it in gold material. It looked real nice. </div>
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<strong><u>PICKUP OF PRINCESSES:</u></strong> As this was a surprise party for an adult, we didn’t play games, but we wanted each lady to feel like a princess. One hour before the party, I had my son and husband, again dressed up, deliver the invitation scroll to the birthday girl. We gave her a dress, shoes, and jewelry so she could get ready. Of course my memory card was full so I missed a perfect picture opportunity. My sister was so surprised! Right after we pulled away I got a call from her wondering what was going on. We had a limousine pick-up each princess at her home.<br />
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Each princess was dressed as a real princess. We took pictures of each princess and my husband handed them their jewelry box. <br />
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The limo pulled up to the “castle.’ I had a large sign printed with the Cedar Crest I created and it read, “The Kingdom of Cedar.” We hung it on the side of the building. I had a red carpet leading from the front door to the parking lot.<br />
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My husband ran our speakers out the front door. We downloaded the royal fanfare onto his iphone and he played the music loudly and announced each princess, "Princess Stephanie Lynn Harris of Westview," as they walked the red carpet. We had some family there to take pictures. <br />
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The limo picked up the birthday girl last. It brought her back to the royal banquet hall. All of the other princesses (guests) were there lining the red carpet as she was announced and walked the red carpet.<br />
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The princesses then went into the royal banquet hall. We took pictures with the birthday girl.</div>
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<strong><u>FOOD:</u></strong> Our party started at 1 PM, so we had a luncheon. We had chocolate covered strawberries, chocolate eclairs, cream puffs, chicken salad croissants, chips and ranch salsa from Chili’s, bacon and cream cheese pinwheels, and cream filled cupcakes with a pink chocolate butterfly on top. This was set up right before we picked up the princesses so it was ready when they got there. The food was made by my totally awesome cousins’ wife, Jennifer, who should be a caterer. She really outdid herself!</div>
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The cupcakes had a Delicious frosting and were filled with white chocolate.</div>
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<strong><u>GOODY BAGS:</u></strong> I bought satin organza drawstring bags for each princess to take home and filled them with real rings, earrings, necklaces. (I got 50 assorted rhinestone rings for $8 and necklace/earring sets for $1.25 each) I ordered several lots of jewelry off eBay. Each princess was able to choose the rings she wanted and I had enough for them to have several. I bought 12 little crown pendants that said “princess” on them (.99 cents) and a chain for them to go on (2.33 for 30) rolo candy, and candy bracelets, rings, and necklaces from the dollar store. I placed the goody bags on the plate along with name tags.</div>
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We just visited while we ate and then the birthday girl opened her presents.</div>
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Each princess got the royal treatment! (Surprising note: Of all 12 princesses who came 7 of the guests had never ridden in a limo before, so it made it extra special) </div>
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Momma!</div>
Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-89168877880599716012011-10-05T20:48:00.000-07:002013-03-05T22:24:35.059-08:00SpongeBob PartyThis was the party we did for my son's 5th birthday. We did it in August, so we had a party with water games. The kids were asked to come in there swimsuits. <br />
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<strong><u>INVITATIONS</u>:</strong> I made these invitations on my computer on Scrapbook Max. <br />
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I bought message in a bottle invites from orientaltrading.com. They came with an invite(which I threw away) sand, little shells, little sunglasses, and a small umbrella. I put this invitation inside the bottle.<br />
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<u><strong>DECORATIONS:</strong></u><br />
We bought blue plastic tablecloths at the $ store and stapled them along the whole front of our carport. We slit them into strips so it was like the kids were walking into the water, or under the sea. I had purchased a lot of Spongebob toys on Ebay and we used these to decorate with. I also found some Spongebob and Patrick stuffed toys at the DI that we hung around the carport. I bought fish and crabs cutouts from the party store. We used blue tablecloths on the table. I bought real colored starfish from oriental trading and we used the small ones as confetti on the table, along with seashells I got at the $store. We hung fishing nets from the ceiling. We downloaded a Spongebob music cd from amazon.com and we had it playing throughout the party. <br />
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<strong>PATRICK’S DOORPRIZE</strong>: Upon arrival I had the kids write their name on a piece of paper and put it in for a door prize drawing. I had a basket of toys from the $store that they could choose from.<br />
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<strong>SPONGEBOB PASS:</strong> I bought some cheap sponges at the dollar store. I had a bucket of water. The kids are in a line, the one at the front of the line dips the sponges into the bucket and passes it over their head and hands it to the child behind them. The next child passes it through their legs and passes it to the next child. We had music playing. The object is to not be holding the sponge when the music stops. <br />
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<strong>MR. KRABS TUG of MONEY:</strong> I got a piece of rope. I printed a large dollar bill and laminated it and then hooked it to the rope. The kids were divided into 2 teams. The game is played like Tug of War and they try to bring the dollar bill that was hanging on it, to their side. In the middle, there was a kiddie pool filled with water. <br />
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<strong>SQUIDWARD'S BALLOON SQUISH:</strong> I filled green and orange balloons with water before the party. We put the kids into 2 teams. We tied the green balloons to one team's legs & the orange balloons to the other team's Legs. The teams try to pop the other team's balloons without getting theirs popped. The team with balloons left wins.<br />
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<strong>JELLYFISH FIELDS:</strong> This game was lots of fun. I took pink balloons and filled them with helium. I took pink streamers and taped them down from the balloon to make them look like jellyfish. We tied the balloons to ribbon and different lengths to make them look like they were floating. Once the game begins we turned on the sprinklers around them. The kids were given nets to try and catch the jellyfish. <br />
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<strong>BUBBLE BABIES:</strong> We gave each child a small container of bubbles and let them blow bubbles. <br />
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<strong>PATCHY the PIRATE TREASURE HUNT:</strong> For this game I used common nursery rhymes for the clues. I wanted to do easy ones since the kids were young. Here are the Clues I used:<br />
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<em>One two buckle my shoe, three, four shut the _______. </em><em><strong>DOOR</strong></em><br />
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<em>(on the Pail) Here we go round the mulberry _______________. <strong>BUSH</strong></em><br />
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<em>(on the Bush)Baa Baa black sheep have you any wool, yes sir, yes sir, _______ Full.<strong> 3 Bags</strong></em><br />
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<em>( on the 3 bags) Rock a bye baby on the ______ top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock. <strong>TREE</strong></em><br />
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<em>(on the Tree) Little _____ blue come blow up your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's in the corn. <strong>BOY </strong></em><em>(I had this clue taped to my older son’s back)</em><br />
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<em>(on the Boy) A little boy with wooden spade </em><em>Went digging, digging in the ______ </em><em>(Sand)</em><br />
This is a lesser known rhyme, but the kids got it right away as we had a large sandbox. I had buried a treasure chest piñata in our sandbox-attached to the piñata was a note from Patchy the Pirate to say, “Arr Mateys, Ye have done it – Ye have found me treasure. ENJOY!"<br />
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We served pizza, cake, and capri suns to drink.<br />
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<strong>CAKE</strong>: I ordered a “Crabby Patty” Hamburger cake from the local bakery and my husband put the spongebob drink topper on the front. It was so cute. <br />
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<strong>Goody Bags:</strong> For the door prizes I bought these SpongeBob backpacks from ebay. I filled them with misc. candy, gummy crabby patties, SpongeBob lollipop rings, and real colored starfish from oriental trading (These were Patrick’s friends.) They also put their candy from the pinata in their bags. <br />
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We opened presents and I also drew for the door prize .<br />
Here is another game idea, one that I didn’t use, but liked:<br />
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<strong>Mr Krab’s Money Pit</strong>-Put a bunch of pennies/nickels into the sandbox. You can also put some seashells and ONE gold coin. Let the youngest kids go first and set a time limit of 2 minutes to dig for money. The older kids can do this blindfolded. The gets the gold coin can get special prize.<br />
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-58201664735563106592011-10-05T10:04:00.000-07:002013-03-05T22:26:25.635-08:00Star Wars PartyWhen my son turned 7, he was a Stars Wars fanatic. We did his room in Star Wars , (I did a post on that,) wanted anything Star Wars, and he wanted all the movies. I on the other hand, knew absolutely nothing about Stars Wars so I had to do a lot of research. This post is to help other mom's like me.<br />
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I used a galaxy background and added the words. This is not the actual invite, just a PDF with my personal info removed. The real one looked better. It was printed on glossy paper and put in business size envelopes. I made a personal label for each child . (example - "Padawan Derik)<br />
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When the kids arrive we have the Star Wars Theme music playing. I made a Jedi Academy Training Poster on a large piece of Science Project cardboard. Once all the kids are all there, we welcomed them. I said, <em>“Welcome to the Jedi Academy. We are grateful that you have all chosen to come and train with us as we are in great need of future Jedi Knights as we have recently felt a disturbance in the force, generated by the dark side. We will have several tasks that we need to accomplish in order to receive your certificate and title of Jedi Knight. In order to train like Jedi’s, however, we need to look like Jedi’s, so each of you must first get a Jedi tunic.”</em><br />
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My Mom made tunics from a light tan material and dark brown sashes. We helped each child get one on. The birthday boy also wore a Jedi robe.<br />
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<strong><u>DECORATIONS:</u></strong> My oldest son’s birthday is in the late winter, and because our house is so small, we always enclose our carport in plastic sheeting. This year we used black plastic and painted white stars all over it. It was pitch black in there when the lights were off. We hung some black lights to give it a galactic feel. It was so cool; it really felt like you were in space. I downloaded the Star Wars sound track to play throughout the game. The theme music, imperial march, imperial attack, throne room, and the light-saber music are the most recognizable.<br />
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After the kids were all dressed we were going to start the games. I said, <em>“Being a Jedi takes a lot of work. We must work together and we must listen to our instructors as we train. We will now head into a secure galactic domain, where our first challenge awaits.” </em><br />
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<strong>1. ASTEROID TOSS: </strong>I said <em>“To begin with we need to test our reflexes as we watch for the giant asteroid” </em>My mom had a large squishy orange ball. Everyone lined up in a circle. We passed the asteroid around like a hot potato game. We had Star wars music playing. I said,<em> “Do not be caught with it as the music stops. The asteroid can drain your energy, so do not hold it for very long.”</em> We played this game for awhile it was real cool because the orange ball fluoresced under the lights.<br />
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<strong>2.</strong> <strong>POWER CORE BALLOONS : </strong>Next I said, <em>“Good job you have all passed the first challenge so let’s move onto the next. These are the power core.</em> (I had blown up white balloons and added small glow things inside some of them. I got them at the $store. They were 6 in each. I think they were the earring one’s.)<em> “You need to help each other put them out of commission. You can only destroy the ones with the core loose inside them. The rest are decoys. Use whatever means you can to remove the power core.”</em> We then had a loud alarm go off when the last power core is done, (the last balloon was popped.) They have air horns at the $store.<br />
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<strong>3. LIGHTSABERS:</strong> <em>“Great!!! You have completed two challenges so you have now earned the right to a weapon. “This</em> (Show light-saber and start light saber music) <em>is the weapon of a Jedi Knight-It is not as clumsy or random as a blaster, this is an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. Please line up to receive your Light-saber. </em>We handed one to each child and wrote their name on it in black markers. We made light-sabers for every child. We bought pvc insulation – it looks like swim noodles, but is gray. We got the 2 in. thick. We cut it into 3 ft. pieces. We bought a couple of the 3” pvc insulation and cut them into 4 in. handles. We pushed the smaller one into the larger one, using gorilla glue to glue them together. They fit inside pretty snug. We spray painted them in red, blue. I used black electrical tape on the handles. I wrapped the handles in black electrical tape. They look awesome, were safe to hit each other with, and were inexpensive to make. You could use the smaller swim noodles if you get them on clearance after summer. The large one shown was made just for fun out of a swim noodle. It was too big.<br />
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<strong>4. LIGHTSABER TRAINING:</strong> (Light saber music plays again) I said,<em> “We will now have an exercise to train you how to use this weapon. You will need all the training you can get, for who know when we will have to use them against the dark force. Listen carefully as I tell you the rules. You may not hit ANYONE with the sword-only hit sword on sword, unless otherwise instructed to do so. Failure to do so will result in the loss of your weapon- IF there is a time when you must use your weapon against the dark force YOU MAY NOT HIT ABOVE THE NECK- WHICH MEANS NO HITTING IN THE HEAD OR FACE.”</em> (We had blown up lots of 9” balloons so the kids could try and keep them from touching the ground, using their light-saber.)<em> “You need to keep these galactic spheres from ever touching the ground, as they are very sensitive. Use only your light-saber and try not to use your hands.”</em><br />
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<strong>5. DESTROY THE DEATH STAR:</strong> We had a death star piñata. We bought a soccer ball piñata (any round one will work). We pushed it in to create the crater. We spray painted it silver and added a ring of black electrical tape around the center. We painted it to look like the death star. I said, <em>“USE THE FORCE TO GUIDE YOUR WEAPON. A DIRECT HIT WILL TRIGGER A CHAIN REACTION, AND DESTROY THE DEATH STAR.” </em>We had the imperial Attack music playing, while the kids broke open the piñata. We used my sons real light saber as a piñata stick.<br />
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<strong>6. ATTACK OF THE DARK SIDE:</strong> (We had downloaded some R2D2 beeps that sounded like he was communicating with us, a Darth Vader clip, and had 2 walkie talkies. I had one with the kids, and my husband had the other in the house. The kids were facing away from the door. ) I have a walkie talkie in my hand. The R2D2 beeps come through the walkie talkie. I say<em> “It is an incoming message from R2D2.”</em> I ask R2 what is happening. He responds with a bunch of beeps. I exclaim. “Jedi’s, R2D2 has been monitoring the Sith communications network. He has recovered an important message. We must listen. My husband then says, in a dark voice, <em>"Vader! Yes my Emperor. I sense a disturbance in the force. A rebel force has been discovered on the planet Earth. They have been training young padawans to bring up a resistance against us.”</em> Then my husband plays this recording we found online. It is Darth Vader and he says <em>“Leave them to me; I will deal with them at myself!”</em> (at this point, we have my husband dressed as Darth Vader, and 2 other guy in dark hooded robes and they are walking quietly into the carport) I jump up and yell <em>“We must prepare immediately. Grab you gear. Jedi Knights- You are in command.”</em> Behind the kids we hear Darth Vader breathing. (The breathing was part of the mask we had) I say, <em>“It is Darth Vader and other members of the dark side, we must stop them-use your training Jedi’s -ATTACK THE BAD GUYS!” </em>The kids then attack the bad guys with their swords. They had so much fun, and their swords didn’t hurt anyone. Once the kids got in a few good hits, the bad guys drop to the floor and I say,<em> “Jedi’s we have defeated the dark side.”</em> The kids loved this!<br />
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<strong>7. JEDI KNIGHT CEREMONY:</strong> We played the Throne room song here. I say, <em>“Young Padawans you have proved yourself worthy to have earned the title of Jedi Knight. You have proven that you can defeat the dark side. Please line up and kneel as we present you with your certificate of training."</em> We used the light-saber to knight them. I had printed Jedi Knight certificates for each child. We presented them with the certificate. <em>“May the force be with you!!!!”</em><br />
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<strong><u>PRESENTS & CUPCAKES:</u></strong> We then open presents and had cupcakes and ice cream cups. I made cupcakes for each child. I ordered little red star wars figures online and put on on each cupcake, so the kids got to had a little character to take home. We made took a round ball and covered it in tinfoil and used electrical tape and a marker to create the look of the death star that we wanted. I took a round tube, a small platter and a larger platter and covered them in a silver holographic gift wrap paper. I glued them together to make a cupcake holder tier. We used my sons star wars figure around it to attack the death star. We hooked 4 little light sticks to the sides that looked like light-sabers. We put the cupcakes on the bottom platter. It looked real neat under the black lights. I think it turned out real cool. <br />
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<strong><u>GOODY BAGS:</u></strong> I bought some 5” x 7” canvas drawstring bags on eBay. (I used the ones I had leftover for the Dora/Diego party) I bought some iron-on paper and printed a Yoda picture on them that said, “May the force be with you,” and “Thanks for coming to my party” and ironed them on each bag. They looked so cute. They were filled with misc. candy and toys.<br />
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I bought 5 different buttons at the craft store. I used sunglasses for relaxation, smiley faces for happiness, cars for wealth, pencils for knowledge, hearts for health.<br />
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I bought little craft boxes for each player to collect their items. For the game pieces I bought little 2 craft buttons of each- I glued one to the craft box and the matching other one was used for the game piece.<br />
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On the game board box, I took several pictures I had printed and then mod-podged them all over the box.<br />
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-4032998553014538932011-09-18T20:41:00.000-07:002013-03-05T22:31:34.105-08:00Pirate PartyWe just had my son’s 6th birthday party and it really was a lot of fun. We had a HUGE rainstorm the night before, but luckily the weather was perfect during the party. We had 23 children who attended.<br />
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<strong>INVITATIONS: </strong>I wanted a message in a bottle invite. I used small glass bottles (again I used the ones from Cracker Barrel-their small syrup bottles) You can also use large glass bottles, but since I was doing so many, I chose to use the smaller ones. I took masking tape and ripped it into small 2 inch or so pieces and covered the entire bottle. I then took brown shoe polish and wiped it all over the tape. I printed “yer invited” onto a small treasure maps and mod-podged it onto the bottle. <br />
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I also used mod podge all over the entire bottle. I printed the invitation details onto the treasure map, rolled it up, and put it into the bottle. My husband dressed up as Captain Hook and delivered the invites to my son’s kindergarten class. He had the music, “YO HO YO HO, a pirates life for me,” playing on his iphone when he went into the classroom. The kids loved it!!<br />
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<strong>DECORATIONS:</strong>I bought plastic that looked like a ship from partypro.com. It was actually the barn one, but it worked perfect for our ship. My husband took a roll of wire fence that we had and wired it around to create a ship, with a point at out basketball hoop and another point at the fence, and we covered it in the plastic. I bought some “creepy cloth” from the $store and we hung it around to look like fish netting, and I had a fish netting from OTC that I had left over from our Spongebob Party. I bought these large foam fish at the thrift store and we had them hanging in the large fish net. I also bought a ship wheel at the party store and put it at the front of the ship. I bought 12 plastic pirate flags (US Toy) and hung them around the outside of the ship. I labeled each game section with signs. My husband strung white sheets in the middle of the ship to look like a large mast and we used my mom’s large pirate flag right in the middle. We had red and black balloons all around the entire ship. I printed 3 signs and took them to Staples office supply store to have them printed on 24” x 36” paper. One said the “Black Pearl’, the name of the ship, one said, “Pirate Cove” which was where the ship was docked, and the last sign said, “Welcome Aboard for Captain Aiden’s party” and was out front where the guests arrived. I also bought a pirate sign that said “Beware of pirates” that was out front. I had a stuffed parrot on the ship and a stuffed monkey hanging. The kids had to walk down the stairs to our back yard and at the bottom we had several ficus trees and it looked like the ship was docked. We played pirate music throughout the whole party that we had downloaded from Amazon.com.<br />
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<strong>COSTUMES:</strong> Once the kids arrive to the party, they have to get into their pirate costumes. They got to get a red or black bandanna for their head and a sash to tie around their waist. My mother-in-law made these. They got an eye patch, a black chain with a parrot charm on it, and a beaded necklace. The girls also got a pink earring and bangle bracelet.<br />
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<strong>TREASURE CHEST:</strong> Next the kids each get a treasure chest and we wrote their name on it with a black marker. I made this using a pattern my mom had. She had printed them on yellow paper. We spray glued the yellow patterned paper onto brown paper, because we wanted to have a “gold” inside, and be brown on the outside. (If I were to do this again though I would just print them onto the brown construction paper – it kept coming apart.) We cut them out and I hot glued them together. I added gold ribbon and a pirate sticker gem on each chest.<br />
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<strong>GAMES:<br />
WALK PLANK</strong> - After each child was dressed as a pirate and had a treasure chest, we played games. The first game was walk the plank. We used one of our benches that we use for seating for our performing group. They are real sturdy for the kids to walk across. The kids each took turns “walking the plank” and trying to avoid falling off and being eaten by the large stuffed crocodile that was lying underneath. <br />
<strong>CANNONBALL TOSS</strong>- We used my mom’s large inflatable pirate ship. It is quite large, large enough that 3 kids could sit in it. I had these colored soft play balls and we gave one "cannonball" to each child. My husband brought the ship in and I said,” Oh no, it is an enemy pirate ship- they are trying to steal our treasures and we need to defend it from the other pirates. The teams throw the balls at the ship and try to get their balls into the ship. If we get enough balls into we can sink their ship. This game can be played several times as kids love throwing the balls. I gave a prize to each child for playing. I had large rings for the girls and sticky wall walker men for the boys. The kids put their prizes into their treasure chests.<br />
<strong>CROWS NEST</strong> – We split the group into 2 teams. We had a bowl of pretzels. 2 kids wore plastic hooks on one hand and 2 more kids were at the top of the balcony (the crows nest) with small pails attached to a long length of yarn and a bowl. The object was to scoop a pretzel with the hook, put it in the pail, and the kids on the deck pull the pail up over the balcony and put the pretzels in the bowl. Whichever team got all of their pretzels in their bowl up on the deck first won. We always give prizes to every child. The prizes were party stencil rulers for the boys and cute birthstone earrings for the girls. (The earrings were $1.36 w/free shipping for 6 pair from eBay)<br />
While the kids were playing this game, we took the kids treasure boxes and put them onto a cookie sheet. My husband who dressed up as a pirate came down and STOLE the kid’s treasures. He made a big deal of it and the kids were shocked.<br />
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He “dropped” a note, and the kids were all excited and pointed to it. This started our treasure hunt.<br />
<strong>TREASURE HUNT</strong> – (These clues were found on birthdaypartyideas.com)<br />
1st CLUE to read:<br />
<em>Ahoy me hearties-Your "treasures" have been plundered. Just follow yer clues and the treasure chest ye will have won. Jack me monkey may have a clue. He's just hangin' round waitin' fer you.</em><br />
(I had the next clue attached to a stuffed monkey we had hanging from the ships mast.)<br />
2nd Clue:<br />
<em>To figure out where your next headin' There's somthin' ye have to assume. What should ye use to swab the poop deck. Is it a vacuum, a mop, or a broom?</em>(The next clue was on a mop we had just hanging around in the ship area)<br />
3rd Clue<br />
<em>Arrrr I be hungry-me stomach's a growlin'-Better catch me some grub or there'll be some howlin'</em>(The next clue would be have to be CAUGHT as the kids went fishing like at a fish pond.)<br />
My son, stood on the other side of the ship. We gave the kids a fishing pole and the kids threw the line over the ship. They got little bags of Swedish fish. The next clue was attached to the last kid’s package. (Could also use goldfish crackers)<br />
4th Clue<br />
<em>Yo ho ho yer getting' closer Hurry before ye end in Davey's Locker Go find the cannon balls- Don't forget to pop them all.</em>Earlier we had blown up black balloons and hidden one of the clues inside. My son dropped them off the balcony, and the kids squealed with delight, as they popped the balloons looking for the next clue.<br />
5th Clue<br />
<em>All pirates abide by the code Alast we're sometimes too bold. We stole some gold - it might be cursed We better find every last piece or things'll get worse.</em>We have a very large sand box and we had hidden jewels and gold in there. The kids loved finding all the jewels and we gave them little snack-size ziplocs to put them in. (I bought colored stones at the $store and little pebble rocks. I painted the rocks with metallic gold spray paint and they looked like gold pieces. ) I also printed a Treasure Map, and it was buried in there as well.<br />
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<strong>Treasure Map:</strong><br />
It had clues like” take 3 giants steps forward, turn to the right, jump forward 10 times, etc,” until the kids got to where they needed to be which was “Blackbeard’s Treasure Cave.” We took a small section under our deck and enclosed it in black plastic. Inside the “Cave” we had a gold throne, (from my sister’s princess party), gold plates and cups, colored gems, some of the gold rocks, gold coins, and beaded necklaces draped everywhere. (I got a large bag of beaded necklaces from the thrift store). We had a piñata treasure chest I there too. This is where my husband hid all the kids treasure boxes.<br />
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The kids went into the cave and retrieved their treasure boxes as well as more gems and gold from the floor.<br />
<strong>PINATA</strong>-My husband hung up the piñata ad the kids took turns breaking it open.<br />
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<strong>CAKE & CUPCAKES</strong>- My mom made a pirate ship cake for the family to eat, and I made cupcakes for the kids. They also had pirate punch (Capri Suns.)<br />
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We then opened presents.<br />
<strong>GOODY BAGS & SWORDS</strong> – As the kids left they got an inflatable pirate sword (I got these from US Toy) and a goody bag. I bought pirate goody bags at US Toy.com and filled it with: Blow-up squeaking lizards, compass, sticky foot, noise blower, pirate sucker, bouncy ball, candy bracelet, gum balls, pirate tattoo, pirate gummy teeth, and gold and silver gum coins. Most of the stuff I got at the $store. I also printed the Thank You card and put it inside the bag.<br />
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The party lasted 2 hours and the kids had sword fights while they waited for their parents.<br />
The kids had a blast!<br />
This was such a fun party to plan!<br />
Thanks Mateys!</div>
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-88622949716439479942011-09-06T12:27:00.000-07:002011-09-06T12:50:34.127-07:00Jungle RoomMy 3 year son has a jungle-themed room, along with some of his favorite characters right now-Dora and Diego. I wanted to create a fun-whimsical jungle grass to go behind the jungle animals on the shelf. This is something the kids would not be touching (hopefully), and isn't seen up close.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVpl9lb0UdzvhpEv1utzVSNmus8qe__u6VBRBAkPfZ3uZ0MyRr8LmYJjPGt1HLo0zR24jOt9G11ifdnJeo9qQ4I7UOIbIEph1GonAYnel7uhyphenhyphenaOi2OCiEGw3xaxeY588pWMTyReprV_evH/s1600/DSCN3307.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649332988555106754" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVpl9lb0UdzvhpEv1utzVSNmus8qe__u6VBRBAkPfZ3uZ0MyRr8LmYJjPGt1HLo0zR24jOt9G11ifdnJeo9qQ4I7UOIbIEph1GonAYnel7uhyphenhyphenaOi2OCiEGw3xaxeY588pWMTyReprV_evH/s320/DSCN3307.JPG" /></a> I bought green and yellow wispy things (not sure what they are called) in the flower section of the dollar store. I had my husband cut some particle board into 3 inch x 4 ft pieces. I used green craft foam and stuck the "grass" into it. I then glued moss over the craft pieces to cover it. I glued the entire piece to the particle board and put up on the shelf.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrmg4YzaDR4oadxfbx4d5SoQFvIvgtyXwxW6iR9vMthBHfYspZteANwSOmxFqo4Y_EkJhJ3veAA7r_BkXUpB0vE4Juv0UvGMhywsTvFcpR1x7bp3yBQuhN_sHtyuAPlIF06lno2jBvQB9/s1600/DSCN3311.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649332993472028098" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrmg4YzaDR4oadxfbx4d5SoQFvIvgtyXwxW6iR9vMthBHfYspZteANwSOmxFqo4Y_EkJhJ3veAA7r_BkXUpB0vE4Juv0UvGMhywsTvFcpR1x7bp3yBQuhN_sHtyuAPlIF06lno2jBvQB9/s320/DSCN3311.JPG" /></a> I really like how it turned out. I decorated the rest of the shelves with jungle animals. I got the ceramic ones at the dollar store, and the plastic ones at Walmart. I glued some cute wooden animals onto the shelves with hot glue. These are available at most craft stores.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlGo0Ti19M5tgBwNSAAAAlw_AtezQas5WwRuanfBNNh16fYt2U5A2FPXHnzz3I42wax6oCl1EtAGmVkTtzRUDUodFEVbI6u9QQTJcTr2zgERY4G4pX-BzkEtVdX7UsZlmY2eZukyLhHeF/s1600/DSCN3308.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649332990674035666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlGo0Ti19M5tgBwNSAAAAlw_AtezQas5WwRuanfBNNh16fYt2U5A2FPXHnzz3I42wax6oCl1EtAGmVkTtzRUDUodFEVbI6u9QQTJcTr2zgERY4G4pX-BzkEtVdX7UsZlmY2eZukyLhHeF/s320/DSCN3308.JPG" /></a> I put a tree in the corner and hung animals in the tree. I used lots of stuffed snakes and intertwined them in the branches.<br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5EWsW5OnFGq0dPAt2O1-4CHm9xvB0CSMvQk1Dz6NWfWeLmiYBzVCmXJoEV2DBpOuAeGGVUblhZdQEr_DANsOc8rCWUQ342pmAoM7_Lj-tPpFZgnBy9woFcg8Y4NDq1N4SkkGAXUoAtSG-/s1600/DSCN3306.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649332980355134130" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5EWsW5OnFGq0dPAt2O1-4CHm9xvB0CSMvQk1Dz6NWfWeLmiYBzVCmXJoEV2DBpOuAeGGVUblhZdQEr_DANsOc8rCWUQ342pmAoM7_Lj-tPpFZgnBy9woFcg8Y4NDq1N4SkkGAXUoAtSG-/s320/DSCN3306.JPG" /></a> I have monkeys hanging from the shelves. I like to use wall stickers that come off easily when you are done and don't leave marks because what kids like change so fast. (The Jungle/Diego stuff use to be his older brothers theme until I was informed that Diego is for babies - he is 5!)</div><br /><div>I lucked out and got a fabulous Diego set on eBay for .99 with $2 shipping. It worked out great because I could use them on the dresser too. He has Diego sheet set and comforter to to complete the room. I used the leftover stuffed animals from the Diego/Dora party to also decorate the room. (That birthday party idea is coming soon!) </div></div></div>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-7409096897905515432011-09-05T19:24:00.001-07:002013-03-05T22:34:17.036-08:00ANOTHER Harry Potter Party - Adults and ChildrenSince the final movie of the Harry Potter series just came out a month and half ago, and because my mom is a huge Harry Potter fan - or "Potty" as we call it, I decided to throw her a Harry Potter Party. I did one for my son and also helped my sister throw one for her older son, but his one needed to be different. We had invited adults and children so it needed to be fun for both. I decided to go on the premise that everyone coming would be Hogwarts Alumni, rather than the tradition house sorting and Hogwarts classes. The wizards and witches would arrive by floo powder rather than the Hogwarts express. So here is a breakdown of the party.<br />
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<strong>INVITATIONS:</strong> I found examples of the Daily Prophet online and turned it into my own. Icreated it on Scrapbook Max.<br />
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Since my mom was going to be going as Professor McGonagall, the headline read: Professor McGonagall celebrates 60th birthday! It then read like a newspaper article on a celebration dessert feast at Hogwarts, and invited everyone to come to the bi-centennial Hogwarts Wizarding Tournament, and included the time and date. I found a great article about the heros who lost their lives during the final battle with Voldemort and I used that as the second page. The 3rd and 4th pages were made of of little articles I found online as well as classifieds. It was 11 x 17 and printed double-sided and folded.<br />
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I then used some small glass bottles (syrup bottles from the Cracker Barrel, washed out) and made a floo power label and mod-podged it onto the bottle. I made some gray sugar candy to fill it with.<br />
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Sugar Candy Recipe:<br />
Put 1 cup sugar into the blender and blend on high until it is a fine powder. Add 1 koolaid packet, and blend in. (I used grape because I wanted a grayish powder ) Add a few drops food coloring to get the desired color. (I used 3 drops od red and 3 drops of blue.)<br />
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<strong>DECORATIONS:</strong> Because we wanted people to arrive by "floo powder" we built a fireplace to the side of our house. We covered it in stone plastic, added a mantle (a wall shelf we had) and put books, candles, and a cauldron on the mantle. This was the entrance to party and the guests walked into the fireplace. I used the Hogwarts sign I had made from my sons previous party. I printed a large banner for my mom's party. It read, " Happy 60th birthday to a truly magical lady."<br />
We had invited the guests to dress up in their favorite Harry Potter Characters. Upon their arrival we took pictures of them in front of the fireplace. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMFU0YzIyUUtf9BbNhAXz54D4g6dHMAhKdk7Bg8Gpz67LbQy42x6KYUwgzbvF3bSyn15vP5yu-XZco3IsMCaoK2Utunz3DvBFMdpfI46i2a5LvckBLI0dwdodhNuvLaPO2x_XMf38mTYaO/s1600/DSCN3172.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649100865715270306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMFU0YzIyUUtf9BbNhAXz54D4g6dHMAhKdk7Bg8Gpz67LbQy42x6KYUwgzbvF3bSyn15vP5yu-XZco3IsMCaoK2Utunz3DvBFMdpfI46i2a5LvckBLI0dwdodhNuvLaPO2x_XMf38mTYaO/s320/DSCN3172.JPG" style="display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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We took some more of the stone plastic covering and covered the entire fence, making it look like the grand hall. I printed some large house crests and glued them on colored butcher paper to make the house banners, and hung them on the stone. We made 50 golden snitches and had them hung above (we used these for a game.) We had a broom that moved by itself. The tables were set up with benches, just like in the grand hall.</div>
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I made up 4 teams and crests for the party. They would be the owls, the centaurs, the dragons, and the thestrals. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO52q_ACzoNpCbH6V45DNytBGVvjkODr8D9rhr6u5U28WNZo-v7gBmxsN1uNQyO9R_90_0Ae057NNGFmODNU4t2R4iuzpu654e754vIVNgTp6ruHODQ6SDx6DesMh87q39-k-gnwC6Awt/s1600/Copy-of-Daily-Prophet-005-Page-2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649108531636016018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoO52q_ACzoNpCbH6V45DNytBGVvjkODr8D9rhr6u5U28WNZo-v7gBmxsN1uNQyO9R_90_0Ae057NNGFmODNU4t2R4iuzpu654e754vIVNgTp6ruHODQ6SDx6DesMh87q39-k-gnwC6Awt/s320/Copy-of-Daily-Prophet-005-Page-2.jpg" style="display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 247px;" /></a>Each team was a different color. Blue, red, yellow, and green. Each table was decorated in these colors from the tablecloths, to the cups, to the napkins. I created a crest for each team and printed up a large sign, along with badges for each team. After the guests arrived they were sorted into teams. I had 4 large glass steins with the team badges taped to them. This was to put marbles into to show who was winning.<br />
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I bought golden rod paper from Steve Spangler Science online. This is a special paper used for science experiments. I cut them into small pieces and I wrote the first letters of the 4 teams on each of the different pieces of paper with wax. The guests drew a pieces of paper and squirted it with a spray bottle mixture of water and baking soda. The paper turned red, but where the wax letter stayed white, so the team they would be on "magically" appeared. I put a badge on them and they went to their team table.</div>
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1. Hogwarts Test - I printed up a Hogwarts test. It had listed the letters A-Z. They were to think of something from Harry Potter that began with that letter. Each person who completed it won a marble for their team. </div>
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2.Door Prizes - I came up with words and scramble them (potions, wizards, and spells) whoever could unscramble all 3 was entered into a drawing for a door prize. They worked on the Hogwart's test and the door prizes while other finished getting sorted.</div>
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3. Costume Contest: I made ballots so that each person could vote on the costumes. We had funniest, most authentic, best overall, best couple, and best group. My family went as the Weasley's. </div>
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4. Bertie Botts Challenge - I bought 8 different flavors of "jelly belly" jelly beans. 6 people from each team had to eat the jelly bean and guess which flavor it was. They got marbles for each correct guess. Then we moved on to the Russian Roulette Challenge. I bought the real Bertie Bott's every flavor beans. Anyone who was brave enough to reach into the bag and try one, got an instant point. If they got a gross one, they got an extra point. We were lucky (or unlucky) enough to get pepper, soap, grass, and vomit.</div>
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We then opened up the Honeydukes store and The Three Broomsticks Inn. This is the dessert feadt buffet that we had prepared.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZCxh3K3d1gAB8bfvbbiyvfBQGfYWpRnG-WfwZovtHt2lnFIfeqmZh2A1zRvriLTwySjPgMuinSUXvpl0R11wOm1vp1GsnnQSvS1fX27JbF2UVdnrdF7aRKqg4enzJGkwsQNfOVbjL_Yl/s1600/DSCN3285.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649100857490513378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWZCxh3K3d1gAB8bfvbbiyvfBQGfYWpRnG-WfwZovtHt2lnFIfeqmZh2A1zRvriLTwySjPgMuinSUXvpl0R11wOm1vp1GsnnQSvS1fX27JbF2UVdnrdF7aRKqg4enzJGkwsQNfOVbjL_Yl/s320/DSCN3285.JPG" style="display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>My cousin's, Jennifer, is super talented and awesome. She made all the food, authentic from the books and movies. We had Butter Beer, Pumpkin Juice, Hagrid's Rock Cakes, Treacles Tarts, Pumpkin Pasties, Cockroach Clusters, Butterbeer Cupcakes, Cauldron Cakes, Treacle Fudge, Ton Tongue Toffee, and and assortment of candy.<br />
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I purchased several glass jars at the thrift store, labeled them, and filled them with the candy.</div>
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I tried to find candy that was a close to possible as the real stuff. Some candy I made up fun names for. We had chips and salsa, popcorn, and gilly -water on the table too. I bought these cute mini cauldrons from partycity.com and everyone could fill them with the candy.<br />
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<strong>COSTUME CONTEST AWARDS and SILVER CUP WINNERS:</strong> We had someone tally up the votes for the costume awards. I had printed up award certificates and presented them to the winners. They also were able to pick a prize for the prize table. Then I drew 10 names for the door prizes and awarded those prizes as well.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8fU-fU6rqLRsKe-6GQ0SM8a_JxuxXq4C2wQQ42RNEyNyO7jXcdHgkd2Ks9IKOeprY-z6xzVVVEQXEMhdoIU-9TvxIU-1OtIgVdtzp8TpACAYHYma13GRbMpbFI8pWpJDOZVfboxFK4M1/s1600/DSCN3305.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649271133620203858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz8fU-fU6rqLRsKe-6GQ0SM8a_JxuxXq4C2wQQ42RNEyNyO7jXcdHgkd2Ks9IKOeprY-z6xzVVVEQXEMhdoIU-9TvxIU-1OtIgVdtzp8TpACAYHYma13GRbMpbFI8pWpJDOZVfboxFK4M1/s320/DSCN3305.JPG" style="display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a>We made these with directions from this cool site.<br />
<a href="http://alisonswonderscraporium.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-make-harry-potter-wand-tutorial.html">http://alisonswonderscraporium.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-make-harry-potter-wand-tutorial.html</a> </div>
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I hope you can use some of these ides to make a fun party of your own!<br />
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Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-83467629255672263492011-02-08T09:41:00.000-08:002013-02-28T14:40:19.122-08:00Ultimate Harry Potter Party<div align="left">
<span style="color: black;">I am a total Harry Potter fan. So when it was time to figure out my son's 6th birthday party, I went all out planning this one. I started several months before hand, so I could order things online for cheap. I orderd most things off Ebay, and this gives me time to watch things and get things for really good deals. This was my favorite party of all. Luckily my family are all Harry Potter Fans as well, and I have a VERY CREATIVE mother. Oh, and the weather was perfect since it was a winter's day, we were lucky to have it outside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">INVITATIONS:</span> <span style="color: black;">I made the invitation to go in a business size envelope. I printed 2 invitations on an 8 1/2 x 11 page and cut them out. I made them to look as authentic as I could, on older parchment-type paper and the used the same fonts as the ones from the movie. I make all my invitation, sigs, etc., on the scrapbook program Scrapbook Max, and love it. Under the logo it read: HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE. Order of Merlin, First Class,Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards. Under that it read: Dear Tom, We are pleased to inform you that you have been invited to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Celebration in honor of our newest Head Boy, BIRTHDAY CHILD. This 6th Birthday Celebration will be held DATE. Students are required to arrive promptly at TIME at the muggle location ADDRESS, Magical delights and surprises await, including shopping at Diagon Alley, introductory Hogwarts classes, and a grand feast, (cake & ice cream) ending at approximately TIME. We await your RSVP by owl or by muggle phone at PHONE NUMBER.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienSDVlEnCy6SWtHUrlEmO0QDGtXxU9FAYKFLbyEmF6YVDFn5rvRjntl2gQSAZ58ggcODRD-L_VFeKqTr2kcpk5a46riCKZEGgv2UIhiE3f56L99vMlV7TP5828zq7mIKaI0DXh-_ldLOj/s1600/Harry-Potter-Invitation-000-Page-1.jpg"></a><span style="color: black;"> The envelope had the Hogwarts Logo in the top right corner and I printed a sticker seal of Hogwarts to close the envelope with. My son handed them out at school, and we mailed some.<br />
</span><span style="color: red;">DECORATIONS: </span><span style="color: black;">I turned our entire carport in the Grand Hall. I bought some plastic wall stone cover online, and covered the entire wall, making it look like stone. I printed large house banners and hung them on the wall. I blew up a large Hedwig Balloon. I had electric lit candles hanging from the ceiling.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLiX-5rFR2us4N8zeORmBQEZChlk5h4k4K-I9DF_DUsBm-UoMO5OHnT_7mopSnUqpnUOB3YAVOgtKyeuhmPE4lCLSJ4_TBzDLqHmWXPsj-b0CRKIAFueZEmf7TQ7jvpgHe8PslKMHTxhSK/s1600/100_0664.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571385578113225042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLiX-5rFR2us4N8zeORmBQEZChlk5h4k4K-I9DF_DUsBm-UoMO5OHnT_7mopSnUqpnUOB3YAVOgtKyeuhmPE4lCLSJ4_TBzDLqHmWXPsj-b0CRKIAFueZEmf7TQ7jvpgHe8PslKMHTxhSK/s320/100_0664.JPG" style="display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a> I printed a sign that said King’s Cross Railway Station 9 ¾. This is where the kids lined up to get on the Hogwarts Express. I also made signs for each class, so the kids knew where to go. We had music from Harry Potter playing.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">THE HOGWARTS EXPRESS</span>: We have a barrel train and we made the Hogwarts Express logo and put in on the front. When the kids arrived at the front of the house they boarded the train which took them on a train ride, and around the back of the house to be dropped off at Diagon Alley.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">DIAGION ALLEY</span> <span style="color: black;">– This is the first stop where the kids get off. There are 2 shops here. Ollivander's Wand Shop and Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">OLLIVANDER'S WAND SHOP -</span> <span style="color: black;">We took dowels and cut them into wands, complete with spirals and points. We painted them. The all looked different. The student’s would hold up a wand. If that wand picked that student a sound would go off. (My sister had a noise maker in her pocket and would push the buttons.) The kids faces grew so excited to think that the wand picked them. We also gave each student a gallon-size Ziploc bag with their name written on it. This would hold all the things they got throughout the party and what candy they got from the piñata.<br />
</span><span style="color: red;">MADAM MALKIN’S ROBES FOR ALL OCCASIONS-</span><span style="color: black;"> Student’s get their robes. We used large 33 gallon black garbage bags. My mom figured out a way to cut them into robes, complete with hoods. We had them pre-cut before the party and helped the kids put them on.<br />
</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqs9GxGvA4wGd-LUDkh-9au_jAnL7zDXOQKAYuFWWZey4iJ5bRyKvIVFb3bzscjylcV9EkZI0f5JzY26UHmOEACyfFFwl722CqIblMDI3jyZOZTC4iCCFtrbqUKsls2ofc1SWFUISdf56f/s1600/100_0579.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571408472014424162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqs9GxGvA4wGd-LUDkh-9au_jAnL7zDXOQKAYuFWWZey4iJ5bRyKvIVFb3bzscjylcV9EkZI0f5JzY26UHmOEACyfFFwl722CqIblMDI3jyZOZTC4iCCFtrbqUKsls2ofc1SWFUISdf56f/s400/100_0579.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="color: black;"> The robes we made. This one was cut tiny for little kids. Most were longer.</span> <span style="color: black;">Then the kids moved into the Grand Hall for House Sorting.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSBKbjLKJ95CVo9Fxrih-yOaPqHJGrnb3LTZJRazu0l2tAgxBp3ruJSvjhAHfjJy5yDjJgocp24BdEd1FCMyjVCSiXVTj22HFbtZGbzjSar13arqafl_S7euK70NN4McSTi5IUuPvWUQR/s1600/101_2565.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571387848894101586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOSBKbjLKJ95CVo9Fxrih-yOaPqHJGrnb3LTZJRazu0l2tAgxBp3ruJSvjhAHfjJy5yDjJgocp24BdEd1FCMyjVCSiXVTj22HFbtZGbzjSar13arqafl_S7euK70NN4McSTi5IUuPvWUQR/s400/101_2565.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> This shows the kids with their robes, wands, and bags. They are being welcomed by "Dumbledore"and getting ready to be sorted into houses.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZC-JOP_lrZZFc6wnkkozB_k-WA243ToAviHoawZLF5yXeq0k2JjxUu3AiUgJK-X9Q3gf5Tvpf8WKRmTdOU0v6-FSA2ytiz2CQ1nRF1guY-ppolfBwkBjAXEwEYvzpBvL9t4Ld8tbRkXZ/s1600/100_0621.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571411762240966242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixZC-JOP_lrZZFc6wnkkozB_k-WA243ToAviHoawZLF5yXeq0k2JjxUu3AiUgJK-X9Q3gf5Tvpf8WKRmTdOU0v6-FSA2ytiz2CQ1nRF1guY-ppolfBwkBjAXEwEYvzpBvL9t4Ld8tbRkXZ/s400/100_0621.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <span style="color: red;">HOUSE SORTING:</span> My husband was dressed as Dumbledore and welcomed all the students to Hogwarts. We bought a sorting hat and had it sitting on a stool. We had a voice thing inside the hat and my brother-in-law in the other room called out houses. So it seemed like the sorting hat was talking. We had all the kids names written down beforehand and already sorted into house to make them about the same size.<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571388515746665554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWgrS5-V4boC6WUmoJSMEFhIC8-1cViM-HGUtQFJRd8EXIgBK727Qw-AGSWOXV54-hKtEPTCjtNfOJnEZCyrjbX3aKxLsf5A0bdn7Y6PYW67dDBEFwYuqP_iRzQPz8juwpeA5_1gQcv5HR/s400/101_2564.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><br />
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<em>"Oh you may not think me pretty, but don't judge on what you see, I'll eat myself if you can find a smarter hat than me. You can keep your bowlers black,your top hats sleek and tall, for I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat, and I can cap them all. There's nothing hidden in your head, the Sorting Hat can't see, so try me on and I will tell you where you ought to be."</em><strong>Depending on which house the kids were going to be in, my brother-in-law said the following different things.</strong><br />
<em>"I know… Hufflepuff! "<br />
"I know just what to do with you!"<br />
"Hmmmm… Difficult, very difficult."<br />
"Plenty of courage I see. Not a bad mind, either."<br />
"There’s talent, oh yes, and a thirst to prove yourself… But where to put you?"<br />
"Gryffindor!"<br />
"Slytherin!"</em>I had printed sticker badges from each house and we put them on their robes. I also had printed class schedules for each house to rotate to. This way we could have each class (activity) going on simultaneously, since we had over 30 kids there. We also had 4 older kids get to be prefects and they got a prefect badge. Of course, the birthday child was the Head Boy. One thing though was nobody really wanted to be in Slytherin, but it worked out ok.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Next we moved on to Classes:</span><span style="color: black;">The first class was done all together.</span><span style="color: red;">POTIONS:</span> <span style="color: black;">My brother-in-law was dressed as Snape. We had a cauldron and we made homemade root beer. I took the root beer extract, and all the other ingredients and replaced the labels. The Root beer extract was <em>Basilik Venom</em>, The Dry Ice was <em>Frozen Dragon’s Breath,</em> the water was P<em>hoenix Tears,</em> and the sugar was <em>Crushed Horn of Unicorn.</em> Snape read the recipe card and told them how to make the potion, as he made them. The kids loved it when he added the dry ice for the cool effect it made. Each child got their own potion card to take home. The recipe was for Felix Felicis, the lucky potion. This was what the kids would drink later.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsXPgqryW8CNdyKBMVchUenPkWs1k_YpOIE36YJ2_wgFBdEP2PypK5hyphenhypheno2Qtub9HhjcruA_lEcq7UpsCjvFReqiYjvZ-xkg9z60BYBOp0Izaxx4T3yyu1-00vP1YF-n0mAqIYspAggsJh/s1600/101_2624.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571405683555838194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsXPgqryW8CNdyKBMVchUenPkWs1k_YpOIE36YJ2_wgFBdEP2PypK5hyphenhypheno2Qtub9HhjcruA_lEcq7UpsCjvFReqiYjvZ-xkg9z60BYBOp0Izaxx4T3yyu1-00vP1YF-n0mAqIYspAggsJh/s400/101_2624.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgagrcmSH348Hr1VtfiBGrb4fqDFFODGIxn1V05S_R1H5TZd7EZMIfkT3xyEBZdg3Pz29sHFpPdN7MRGCQ1f90Ya3U78IAhngiNUO5GPYywK3aeXtyBwcfs5r8j-MOwh3MyzeWzI6FH4Far/s1600/101_2581.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571403078844227250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgagrcmSH348Hr1VtfiBGrb4fqDFFODGIxn1V05S_R1H5TZd7EZMIfkT3xyEBZdg3Pz29sHFpPdN7MRGCQ1f90Ya3U78IAhngiNUO5GPYywK3aeXtyBwcfs5r8j-MOwh3MyzeWzI6FH4Far/s400/101_2581.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="color: red;">TRANSFIGURATION:</span> - <span style="color: black;">My mom was dressed as Prof. McGonagall – She taught each student a few spells that she made up and had them practice turning into the animals she called out as she pointed her wand at them. It is kinda of like charades and the kids love pretending to be different things.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1onmBFudZGYcWwTlEKDGkuGilshjBphzQI2UagPXryuIFHdGgvJ0tod-0QtO5YjiDy_xGVLcmbkAWBpr1FRuBM3AOcOS3X17kHS-w24OWWt63YG-LTMA4etoTtd_hKGAQlEIRMSUBgeHR/s1600/101_2593.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571403843209397858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1onmBFudZGYcWwTlEKDGkuGilshjBphzQI2UagPXryuIFHdGgvJ0tod-0QtO5YjiDy_xGVLcmbkAWBpr1FRuBM3AOcOS3X17kHS-w24OWWt63YG-LTMA4etoTtd_hKGAQlEIRMSUBgeHR/s400/101_2593.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a> <span style="color: red;">MAGICAL CREATURES –</span> <span style="color: black;">My dad who is 6’ 5”, was dressed as Hagrid. My mom, who is a science teacher, taught me how to make homemade slime using borax and some other things. I bought miniature silver pewter dragons off eBay and put them in the slime, inside a plastic Easter egg. The kids we taught how to take care of a baby dragon before trying to hatch one from their own egg. Each kid got to keep the egg, slime, and dragon.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxc3t4C92uDAdCGAqYPTlODnUGl3TnTOQtLX46g8MGeqChaUeg3DqnIc6ngjw1Zarn95S8SQVI9daZFHifw4jB7BchymkVVYKILXjF49JW8Onm9iTKYZlKcgkBQbZhmfEv4GPqBoCqNs2R/s1600/101_2583.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571403360717075506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxc3t4C92uDAdCGAqYPTlODnUGl3TnTOQtLX46g8MGeqChaUeg3DqnIc6ngjw1Zarn95S8SQVI9daZFHifw4jB7BchymkVVYKILXjF49JW8Onm9iTKYZlKcgkBQbZhmfEv4GPqBoCqNs2R/s400/101_2583.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a> <span style="color: red;">CHARMS -</span> <span style="color: black;">In this class we played music and the kids got to dance around. When I pointed my wand at them and said, <em>“Immobulus”</em> They had to freeze in whatever position they were in. It was real funny.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDXdo0jjVHHMRaXLV_ZJWyV9IPMb60w0I7lUz6gxrjfGvJJh25_y-eB5_iwsJsvMqGBnV9nobSHuRgMxcoP77MvByN5_-HE3Uau2JbLixRWK6jTESlH3CXa0HhpNzD4EPZ_iaqNE5sBbe/s1600/101_2591.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571406827248529826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFDXdo0jjVHHMRaXLV_ZJWyV9IPMb60w0I7lUz6gxrjfGvJJh25_y-eB5_iwsJsvMqGBnV9nobSHuRgMxcoP77MvByN5_-HE3Uau2JbLixRWK6jTESlH3CXa0HhpNzD4EPZ_iaqNE5sBbe/s400/101_2591.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a> <span style="color: red;">BROOM TRAINING –</span> <span style="color: black;">My sister was dressed as Prof. Hooch. I had 2 witches brooms from Halloween. After teaching them how to mount their brooms and how the game is played, the kids had relay races on the brooms.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidW6kjgDPLiR1sd7IFVlpJrXMoxGDRfW4EOesAubqRmZDBOq0ALB5kvg-4jFukD0HpaCgkX3ogVHC7_q93If9-KTIk4yqqY-0Ipjsj1Sbbb9rrDPrnGMHNMxntxLMzXDe_qXMj6wJYa8RY/s1600/101_2614.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571406168266900482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidW6kjgDPLiR1sd7IFVlpJrXMoxGDRfW4EOesAubqRmZDBOq0ALB5kvg-4jFukD0HpaCgkX3ogVHC7_q93If9-KTIk4yqqY-0Ipjsj1Sbbb9rrDPrnGMHNMxntxLMzXDe_qXMj6wJYa8RY/s400/101_2614.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a> <span style="color: red;">DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS –</span> </span><span style="color: black;">All the kids came together and we had a piñata that I bought on clearance after Halloween. It was a large ghost with flowing streamers. We said it was a dementor. We played scary music from the movie while the kids got to break open the piñata.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1kiIs-_0KvjW-zx6yAWtzr6H-SWQZbDY7JbAMnxS2ncIoG699BcQItYX1si97-Mi4YQKzNDkUC-9Xt_gmr6USIv6pP5eonPBSV8ryIu9bqeVSBtq7rpHeYZ7qFtD3oVe9SW-LLQd6wmr4/s1600/101_2639.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571405152178508498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1kiIs-_0KvjW-zx6yAWtzr6H-SWQZbDY7JbAMnxS2ncIoG699BcQItYX1si97-Mi4YQKzNDkUC-9Xt_gmr6USIv6pP5eonPBSV8ryIu9bqeVSBtq7rpHeYZ7qFtD3oVe9SW-LLQd6wmr4/s400/101_2639.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <span style="color: red;">PRESENTS:</span> <span style="color: black;">After this we opened presents.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">THE GRAND FEAST:</span><span style="color: red;">SNITCH CAKE-</span><span style="color: black;">My mother-in-law made a giant snitch cake for display (this was the family cake since his actual birthday was the next day) and snitch cupcakes for each child. She used a soccer ball cake pan. It was decorated in gold frosting and I ordered gold decorating flakes online and we sprinkled it over the cake and cupcakes. My mom made snitch wings from transparency paper and we cut them and taped them onto toothpicks and inserted them into each cupcake and the main cake. It turned out so cool.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBkjQo52EIlrOQuGVa2Zju_wZ8xQ8LTvBmQdtCqpRKzyYBaVjsQFOR-wowy5nqyz_KWGTfFB7ya7SuLFr8W1S-ZyaISBkV4wr6qrrmK4Y8uKbShclXWIsrUwc63wWcPed0T69CwhuHpO7j/s1600/101_2607.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571407083080506642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBkjQo52EIlrOQuGVa2Zju_wZ8xQ8LTvBmQdtCqpRKzyYBaVjsQFOR-wowy5nqyz_KWGTfFB7ya7SuLFr8W1S-ZyaISBkV4wr6qrrmK4Y8uKbShclXWIsrUwc63wWcPed0T69CwhuHpO7j/s400/101_2607.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a> <span style="color: red;">BERTIE BOTT'S BEANS</span> – <span style="color: black;">I bought gourmet jelly beans and put them in little plastic bags .I made label toppers that said Bertie Bott’s Bean’s and stapled them across the top. They turned out so cute.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikabOH7MNDW4DHI-IeMtttnh0SM0YrN6qnb8sMC2FBFDSC5KsoLAP7T9tSsNHFm9mdVrLtTO0-wzXdEc9AePZBCw-h075bw6XioMKbP-C_mEM6_Mc1ORGe1O0gHsK7C1YqvMSPKGRv9BZr/s1600/101_2556.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571406467850348786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikabOH7MNDW4DHI-IeMtttnh0SM0YrN6qnb8sMC2FBFDSC5KsoLAP7T9tSsNHFm9mdVrLtTO0-wzXdEc9AePZBCw-h075bw6XioMKbP-C_mEM6_Mc1ORGe1O0gHsK7C1YqvMSPKGRv9BZr/s400/101_2556.jpg" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></span></a> <span style="color: red;">CHOCOLATE FROGS-</span> <span style="color: black;">I bought a frog mold online and melted chocolate chips into the molds. I bought gold foil and wrapped each frog. I printed trading card with the characters on them, just like the real trading cards, to go with each frog.</span><span style="color: red;">FELIX FELICIS</span>: <span style="color: black;">Homemade root beer made during potions.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">ICE CREAM CUPS-</span> <span style="color: black;">Easy and less mess.</span><span style="color: red;">GIFT BAGS:</span> <span style="color: black;">Since his birthday is only a few months later, I buy lots of Candy on clearance from Halloween too to fill the piñata and gift bags too. It works great as long as it regular candy, like skittles, smarties, suckers, etc., not chocolate. I buy that right before the party. But since it was a Harry Potter party, I used some cool Halloween candy and if fit right in.<br />
</span><span style="color: red;">OWL REPORT THANK YOU CARD </span>- <span style="color: black;">I made an Ordinary Wizarding Levels report card for each student. Of course, each student got an "Outstanding" This was the thank you card. At the bottom it said that you for coming to my party and for the wonderful gift. Sincerely, Birthday Kids Name, Head Boy. My son signed them all beforehand.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5BpCR7Wuv5n0lOcViZlPEAQbCnWrHcY2c2VQnLJY-1klntCfzb6DbOP5YzRRjL_ClMcMbQ-SVXXxnzxVPDmE9Fb7nUTW5DbORp4N_8vLMcBP2va0UsWE508DyGR0lVUESGDnAghsquaG/s1600/Harry-Potter-Invitation-000-Page-1.jpg"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571409997141900898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5BpCR7Wuv5n0lOcViZlPEAQbCnWrHcY2c2VQnLJY-1klntCfzb6DbOP5YzRRjL_ClMcMbQ-SVXXxnzxVPDmE9Fb7nUTW5DbORp4N_8vLMcBP2va0UsWE508DyGR0lVUESGDnAghsquaG/s400/Harry-Potter-Invitation-000-Page-1.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 309px;" /></span></a><br />
<span style="color: red;">WHAT THE KIDS TOOK HOME:</span> <span style="color: black;">Wand, robe with house badge, class schedule, potion recipe, dragon egg with slime, Bertie Bott’s Beans, Chocolate Frog with trading card, snitch cupacake(if they didn’t eat it), bag of candy from piñata, goody bag, and OWL report card.<br />
</span><span style="color: black;">If you need something else while waiting for the parents play</span> <span style="color: red;">MOANING MYRTLE:</span> <span style="color: black;">Blind fold one kid. Everyone else cries and moans. Blindfolded person find them and the guesses who it is.<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571384366397435570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienSDVlEnCy6SWtHUrlEmO0QDGtXxU9FAYKFLbyEmF6YVDFn5rvRjntl2gQSAZ58ggcODRD-L_VFeKqTr2kcpk5a46riCKZEGgv2UIhiE3f56L99vMlV7TP5828zq7mIKaI0DXh-_ldLOj/s320/Harry-Potter-Invitation-000-Page-1.jpg" style="display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 247px;" /></span>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-66915723114456147762010-03-01T16:07:00.000-08:002010-03-17T21:37:45.698-07:00Easy Gumball FishbowlSo I saw this cute idea of where this lady took a real gumball machine and turned it into a fish bowl. I have been looking at the DI for one. Instead of finding a real gumball machine, I found this! It was painted totally cute and LOOKED like a gumball machine, but SOOOO not for a boys rooms, which is where I wanted to put it.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4feY1WlM3FT4CmvaDH4D-bYEbSr3ZC19nKZheLRxMd91_H7GubUKFeXQLs80nuronaapSIDlii4mQX7KGe10xWyRwUWT8FNQb6hB_Q22CO5ghwJiKfK4bSUTXNasLTE6D-e3CbgAIS2z/s1600-h/DSCN0180.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443920389741882146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4feY1WlM3FT4CmvaDH4D-bYEbSr3ZC19nKZheLRxMd91_H7GubUKFeXQLs80nuronaapSIDlii4mQX7KGe10xWyRwUWT8FNQb6hB_Q22CO5ghwJiKfK4bSUTXNasLTE6D-e3CbgAIS2z/s320/DSCN0180.JPG" border="0" /></a>So I decided I could paint this and use it for my son's room. I painted it black and re-painted the knobs silver. I found a cool aquarium plant, added blue round marbles(they look like gumballs and I got them at the $store. Much cheaper than at Walmart), added a beta fish and here is the finished project.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWqZG8gdkflv8J1KlRx6mT3MSzIqo3-F4pxow5WpFzw_PZTQBJNgxDxhtsShoZAFDXsATlsnXxjNaZOGqZOWKOQ0rtkAF8NRGu86bvhxCw7-soPcXdyHovyOcfP763gmaC1XOVnON8jL8A/s1600-h/DSCN0201.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443919606619799938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWqZG8gdkflv8J1KlRx6mT3MSzIqo3-F4pxow5WpFzw_PZTQBJNgxDxhtsShoZAFDXsATlsnXxjNaZOGqZOWKOQ0rtkAF8NRGu86bvhxCw7-soPcXdyHovyOcfP763gmaC1XOVnON8jL8A/s320/DSCN0201.JPG" border="0" /></a>We put a push button light underneath for some cool lighting.<br /><br /><br /><div align="left">It was so cute we decided to make one for my niece. They are super easy. <strong>The first step is to buy a round fish bowl.</strong> We found ours at the DI for $3. Walmart usually has them, but they didn't have them in in the size we wanted.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaQM0MpRdRXU0VMAU0BOTgSntIa0Gnnnl-A2xtaVk1ksaI63NDml2lO39zRxTFB9wUK-wpJ7M6IMou6HkPpvoUYyk-xHTk18tGNbq9GVd990TOYqRKQWeZWkbAg3zXp90g2Ym0Oc6lXjE/s1600-h/DSCN0192.JPG"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443917943606237154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaQM0MpRdRXU0VMAU0BOTgSntIa0Gnnnl-A2xtaVk1ksaI63NDml2lO39zRxTFB9wUK-wpJ7M6IMou6HkPpvoUYyk-xHTk18tGNbq9GVd990TOYqRKQWeZWkbAg3zXp90g2Ym0Oc6lXjE/s320/DSCN0192.JPG" border="0" /></strong></a><strong>Buy a tera cotta planter with the base.</strong> The planter becomes the Gumball machine bottom and the planter base become the top. It is important to take your bowl with you to make sure they fit. Ours cost $2 for the planter and the base.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Sz3u9YDT8mKec8T0Y2-KjrcaAz0Nbp_qCLGmKLqnQ-gViveCmZ9AEIb04mZUfTG-yZpWi1Ku1TzzjIxolHSX_geURg8ZYtD_0d0RIs-eESVA8gXo3lgD-9CnDM74Z4Xrm3CuDg2IyNAo/s1600-h/DSCN0190.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443917928781768194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Sz3u9YDT8mKec8T0Y2-KjrcaAz0Nbp_qCLGmKLqnQ-gViveCmZ9AEIb04mZUfTG-yZpWi1Ku1TzzjIxolHSX_geURg8ZYtD_0d0RIs-eESVA8gXo3lgD-9CnDM74Z4Xrm3CuDg2IyNAo/s320/DSCN0190.JPG" border="0" /></a><strong>Paint your terra cotta base and planter the color of you choice</strong>. Get a round knob and an oval knob. Paint them if necessary. We used a round knob(2 for $3 at Walmart) for the top and painted it black. The first one we had used a round ball knob which I like better. For the coin slot look we found some oval knobs. (2 for $6 at Walmart) These looked really cute and we didn't have to paint them.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DOOnvwLCPbCcYggsZ8SZb2o1zfuewlzdzh8lwgGthMwIiilS3huCPsQmkP7hi9sovmUyUmR6ako-1Ax37y8o0SszF-CQI_fE-d2_G78NJIxIMPJJIw8zojXuGWbUKJ9F_F4hIyWPA4jC/s1600-h/DSCN0193.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443917952871096994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DOOnvwLCPbCcYggsZ8SZb2o1zfuewlzdzh8lwgGthMwIiilS3huCPsQmkP7hi9sovmUyUmR6ako-1Ax37y8o0SszF-CQI_fE-d2_G78NJIxIMPJJIw8zojXuGWbUKJ9F_F4hIyWPA4jC/s320/DSCN0193.JPG" border="0" /></a> <strong>After the paint has dried glue the glass bowl to the bottom of the planter.</strong> We used Gorilla glue-it makes a huge mess, so be careful not to use too much so it drips-but it is a strong glue. <strong>Glue the round painted knob on the planter base bottom, and glue the oval knob on the middle of the painted planter.</strong> Add marbles or stones and the fish. (We chose to use the round marbles because they look like gumballs. We chose a beta rather than a goldfish because they are so pretty.) <strong>Here is the finished product, without the coin slot- </strong>(Sorry I took the picture BEFORE we added it, and my niece took it home before I could take another)</div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNAfrmgEmuYVWDBHG1cndDcEgp6TykhIk8mnqVGiT_YcRd5SKrEWHRthn9__Jviv7HJEYfqZzufDhmkU4629KULXnGhD6ZdjIxG-3tPEiLifI3WUHzbbSgrpSariqGV-zApab01WPnX0ie/s1600-h/DSCN0200.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443922769337739378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNAfrmgEmuYVWDBHG1cndDcEgp6TykhIk8mnqVGiT_YcRd5SKrEWHRthn9__Jviv7HJEYfqZzufDhmkU4629KULXnGhD6ZdjIxG-3tPEiLifI3WUHzbbSgrpSariqGV-zApab01WPnX0ie/s320/DSCN0200.JPG" border="0" /></a>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-73563006098196071492010-02-25T23:10:00.000-08:002010-02-26T09:14:52.844-08:00FUN RE-DO'S FROM THE DISo we made a trip to the DI. I found lots of good deals. Here are two of my re-do's.<br /><br />I found this AWESOME lamp and it was nice to begin with, but the color isn't what we are going for for our bedroom. It was $10, but it is so heavy and in such good condition that I thought it was worth that price. I love how tall it is. Here is the before Pic<br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGPl3QgEXShK5AIsYJMvfFwLdEkrBGq9mNB0NqL1vbpMDx-UkIcxZrpQcvBRy4NaWn_4JgMibh3imickG-wi9CjIU-Q9P3lFtYrRrPeVS3DGwWFW4rOzNxv2Wcf1WHFRjpZIyicpO8pKk/s1600-h/DSCN0179.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447640307107394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEGPl3QgEXShK5AIsYJMvfFwLdEkrBGq9mNB0NqL1vbpMDx-UkIcxZrpQcvBRy4NaWn_4JgMibh3imickG-wi9CjIU-Q9P3lFtYrRrPeVS3DGwWFW4rOzNxv2Wcf1WHFRjpZIyicpO8pKk/s320/DSCN0179.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNILE3eo2cJoClBQWVBn9nrsLH8vdpLwTijsDI-sGMwTgA8YGRxEZynh-82rHiybMAKDb-20USSxgjKe2uRytGyOqvS7_l46-Xd0RelgUGe9ccOj8p1mTfRZG4OtXM-JZwogpYnutJjvo/s1600-h/DSCN0178.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447631581044162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyNILE3eo2cJoClBQWVBn9nrsLH8vdpLwTijsDI-sGMwTgA8YGRxEZynh-82rHiybMAKDb-20USSxgjKe2uRytGyOqvS7_l46-Xd0RelgUGe9ccOj8p1mTfRZG4OtXM-JZwogpYnutJjvo/s320/DSCN0178.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />I painted it black with tole paint. After it had dried I sanded the edges for a distressed look. It is gonna look SO COOL in our bedroom. I am using the original lamp shade. We just cleaned it up.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaSZtRwbTfUpMHekkHKjcyt7rXEe71ZQYrcEMZXqVyA-INuMQepGqLH9B9D6G1BtHwQkHYyHvZpW2gJVvtqua6gLbP4qUBQSwxZjHrTPilpRRJ6Hz3SRsRgqBNICVkWYHhyk0ZYgdnOaT/s1600-h/DSCN0185.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442447660207575618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAaSZtRwbTfUpMHekkHKjcyt7rXEe71ZQYrcEMZXqVyA-INuMQepGqLH9B9D6G1BtHwQkHYyHvZpW2gJVvtqua6gLbP4qUBQSwxZjHrTPilpRRJ6Hz3SRsRgqBNICVkWYHhyk0ZYgdnOaT/s320/DSCN0185.JPG" border="0" /></a> You can't tell, but this lamp is quite tall.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrMuQT43DjqRXRUAo9PTsEbkXyvvu7bwT7T3SQJunOPK8GVnxC2xZC1oHwkNM20KBRyoEIIZapXbb2wqHkrRPLEOXl0y6Atd_csxE4VgWxokzymoZWAHcXD5StYMF-MdnHEfcA7OjGPhO/s1600-h/DSCN0184.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442450349128410722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrMuQT43DjqRXRUAo9PTsEbkXyvvu7bwT7T3SQJunOPK8GVnxC2xZC1oHwkNM20KBRyoEIIZapXbb2wqHkrRPLEOXl0y6Atd_csxE4VgWxokzymoZWAHcXD5StYMF-MdnHEfcA7OjGPhO/s320/DSCN0184.JPG" border="0" /></a> My other fab find was this little trunk. It is a sewing basket and made of hard plastic. I saw this little trunk and it called out to me - "BUY ME" I paid $4 for this.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjimuBt4h_n7PntxC4ohCl5cjuDZL2FlD9SHWLHDhQjXNzHfPFBzRyTHfG4RIrZGH5uF_z7JARHiEL-zKc9Ybd1r5qiad0dkNsf4B30-h0Q61PTn9QUUfbVdotg24a66OqNBF0GmC64Hz/s1600-h/DSCN0176.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442448927241595090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjimuBt4h_n7PntxC4ohCl5cjuDZL2FlD9SHWLHDhQjXNzHfPFBzRyTHfG4RIrZGH5uF_z7JARHiEL-zKc9Ybd1r5qiad0dkNsf4B30-h0Q61PTn9QUUfbVdotg24a66OqNBF0GmC64Hz/s320/DSCN0176.JPG" border="0" /></a> I painted it with black tole and sanded the edges. This little trunk looks fabulous in our bedroom. BONUS: Hidden storage too!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisaNk2VKKMJJ1Iz47_dMCLUm7SWkQHif9XB-vk4w2wnxaOhmhZLVex6MSeItOwvkBOiCjNkTelktcw94kxum4k_t3KmTl5A162PVa3qcF54zxUdmEI6gqqFrV6z7B_4iG-WUHx3KBgp6iu/s1600-h/DSCN0188.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442448952333281810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisaNk2VKKMJJ1Iz47_dMCLUm7SWkQHif9XB-vk4w2wnxaOhmhZLVex6MSeItOwvkBOiCjNkTelktcw94kxum4k_t3KmTl5A162PVa3qcF54zxUdmEI6gqqFrV6z7B_4iG-WUHx3KBgp6iu/s320/DSCN0188.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHZRlijmPy8ndia94DFz-MHd8ceZsJ3JaieqLWAzPiL7GSO-XnUdGuhZgey4eGukvu_X7w0soowZagrAuZxS5rfkTLHLdbWCDazPz44ru5ZNV_k-Q7kV_9Kb_bnoqoUkvG3NThwkuw9yp/s1600-h/DSCN0187.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442448939406908306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFHZRlijmPy8ndia94DFz-MHd8ceZsJ3JaieqLWAzPiL7GSO-XnUdGuhZgey4eGukvu_X7w0soowZagrAuZxS5rfkTLHLdbWCDazPz44ru5ZNV_k-Q7kV_9Kb_bnoqoUkvG3NThwkuw9yp/s320/DSCN0187.JPG" border="0" /></a> </div>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-33029456844252966732010-02-18T22:49:00.001-08:002010-02-18T22:56:43.254-08:00Totally Awesome and EASY Crockpot Creamy Potato SoupI make this about four hours before. It is so easy and good. I leave out the leeks(what's a leek?), the chives, and I use 2 cans of cream of chicken soup instead of cream of mushroom and cream of celery. I do this because I always have cream of chicken soup in the house. Next time I am going to use 1 can of cheddar soup, to make it a cheesy soup. There are lots of possibilities - you can add ham, clams, corn - whatever you like, because is is so creamy, so easy, so good. If you make it let me know what you think!!!<br /><br />6 potatoes<br />2 leeks<br />2 onions<br />1 carrot<br />1 stalk celery<br />4 c. water<br />1 1/2 tsp. salt<br />4 chicken bouillon cubes<br />1 can cream of mushroom soup<br />1 can cream of celery soup<br />1 tbsp. parsley flakes<br />2 tbsp. butter<br />13 oz. can evaporated milk<br />Chopped chives<br />Cut all to bite-size. Put all ingredients except milk and chives, in the crock pot. Cover and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours or high for 3-4 hours. Stir in evaporated milk during the last hour. Serve with chopped chives.Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-40500715447243475842010-02-13T07:45:00.000-08:002010-02-13T09:07:22.650-08:00My Favs - Ways to save money(oh yeah)There are so many things that I like and the first is A GOOD DEAL. I like to search for and find the best deal out there. Whenever I need something, I usually can find a good deal. For instance when my son needed new church shoes. I went to Walmart.com-there were the black shoes I wanted for $2!!!!!I was so thrilled I bought his size now, and his next size too. My total came to a little over $6 with tax, since I paid $.97 each to have them shipped. But what a good deal. I always looks for the best rates when planning a party, or a trip to Disneyland, or for making color copies. Here are some of my favorite sites.<br /><br /><b>www.zennioptical.com</b><br />This it the best website ever for saving on prescription glasses. You must have a current prescription from you eye doctor, but glasses here start at $8 each. I always buy our glasses here. We get the $8 pair and then add $5 for the anti-glare(if you wear them outside) I only wear mine at night so I only spent $8 for mine, I ordered 3 pair!!! Shipping is only like $5 for the whole order. LOVE IT!!!!<br /><br /><b>www.ebay.com</b><br />Some things are good deals, others are not. I usually compare with amazon,com or walmart.com to make sure, but I have found some fabulous deals. Another ting that I love about this site it is is so safe to buy because of the protection of PayPal. In the rare instance that I don't receive an item, Paypal issues me a refund. I always make sure the price I want to pay includes the shipping costs. I always look for themed toy lots when I do a party. Last year when I did the star wars party I found little 1.5" star wars characters to go on the cupcakes. I spent about the same ($4) as I would have if I had bought the cupcake rings-and each child got to have a toy to take home with them. (They looked new, but I ran them threw the dishwasher just to be safe. Ebay is place where you find unusual item that you won't find elsewhere.<br /><br /><b>www.craigslist.com</b><br />I check it nightly for deals. Here is one of my good deals. I was wanting to buy the new book "The Undaunted." It retails about $25 new. I found it on Craigslist for $10 brand new- and just in time to give it to myself for Christmas!!!! I also have sold things as well and IT'S FREE!!<br /><br /><b>Freecycle</b><br />This is available in most areas. It is a yahoo group that you join in your area. Then you offer things that you no longer need, and then once you have made an offer, you can get things for free that others are giving away. I usually post really nice things that I don't need, but would rather not send to the DI, because then I no someone who truly needs it can have it. The downside to this would be that making arrangements and waiting for people to come and get it can be more time consuming then just taking it to the DI. But, when I received a nice email thanking me,from someone I have just given a bag of nice winter jackets-it makes it worth it.<br /><br /><b>Deseret Industries</b><br />This is the goodwill thrift store in our area. Sometimes they have AWESOME DEALS!!! The one here in my hometown is the most overpriced one I know. They try to sell cheap pictures in large frames(the cheesy kind you see in cheap motels)for $75. I am sure it didn't cost that much brand new. BUT sometimes (and most the time in larger cities) they have fabulous deals. I like go here to buy things to re-use. Like when I a making a personalized games(see other posting for these) I look for games that have a box that I can use. I look for ceramics that can be re-painted, clothes and hats for costumes, furniture that can be repainted, etc. My best deal was a snowsuit for my son for $4. It was brand new with the tags on it for $30. Although it was a size to big-it fit perfect the next year.<br /><br /><b> bountifulbaskets.org</b><br />I love this site so much I dedicated and entire post for it. The best place for getting a good deal on fresh fruits and vegetables. Check it out.<br /><br /><b>lakeside.com</b><br />I love this site because you can get fun gift or things to decorate your home with a relatively great price.<br /><br /><b> birthdaypartyideas.com</b><br />This is the first place I head when looking to plan a themed party. People from all over share their ideas of what they did and what the kids liked. They have hundreds of themes and most individual themes have several ideas posted. I usually take the ones I like most and "borrow" several ideas to make it my own.<br /><br /><b>stores.ebay.com/circuitoffice</b><br />I used to buy my printer ink from <b>inkjetsuperstore.com</b> - they have a great selection, great prices, & low shipping. BUT for my printer, I found a better deal here AND it is the same as I got before only much cheaper. I pay $23.95 for a 10 pack of ink (4 black, 2 magenta, 2 blue, and 2 yellow) I have never had a problem and I PRINT ALOT!!!<br /><br /><br /><b>mothergoosetime.com</b><br />This is curriculum for pre-school. It is so AWESOME!!! Me and 4 other mothers do a rotating pre-school for our children. This program provides EVERYTHING you need to teach the kids and comes with all supplies too. The only things we need to have on hand are scissors, crayons, etc-All the things you normally have at home. It is a good price too. We each pay about $14 a month!! We each teach once a week, and our kids get pre-school 4 times a week. It comes with LOTS of teacher supplies-To name a few:posters, a CD of songs, newsletters for the parents, a weather puppet, a calendar, and tons more. We just put everything in the box and pass it on to the moms who teach. The crafts are all high-quality materials-things you normally couldn't get very cheap-and most of the things are pre-cut so there is little preparation for the teacher. SOOOOOO COOL!<br /><br /><b>mycolorcopies.com</b><br />When I make history books or family photo books I do a lot of double-sided printing. The printing places in my hometown charge $ .49 a copy for single sided! So I did lots of online research and found this place. It is in my same state of Utah. It costs me $ .34 a copy for DOUBLE-SIDED copies and includes free-shipping to my home. It saves me MORE THAN HALF of what I used to spend!!! And there are so nice to work with!Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-28397765498723320622010-02-12T23:19:00.001-08:002013-03-05T22:37:26.380-08:00Scrapbook for DummiesMany people spend hours and lots of money on scrapbooking supplies. I am just not that creative. I wish, but, *sigh* I am not. But as a mom, I have TONS of pictures that I needed to find out what to do with. I started by gluing them on a piece of cardstock, labeling them, and adding stickers. This was my extent of scrapbooking. I did make a binder covered with material and lace, and threw my pages into plastic sheets. I now have about 25 THICK, scrapbooks. They take up so much space--- AND then I got a digital camera. I HATED printing them at Walmart, cutting them out, gluing them, and labeling them. SO I looked at my options and came across scrapbook max. Now I think I am pretty computer illiterate, but this was sooooo EASY. They have a trial period and I fell in love with it that first night, and purchased it the next day. I LOOOVVVVEEE IT. It comes with predone templates, and lots of cute embellishments. I do everything with it, not just my scrapbook pages, but invitations, primary handouts, bulletin boards, gift certificates, games, ---anything I can think of. <br />
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Birthday Invites<br />
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Baby Shower Advice Card:<br />
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Light Switch Cover:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgpboXg-OtP6FMN-wSiSEBJe8AEOqZUcv1MfostwQzEYTMWLjn5XCWtT9GQEEBTLvsq6L0vazQWnS-2DHIQYjSeMpHpDNyr_UDyI77fW9_TfdV9B7L_uGwDw6q0VpiF6TKvjKhy6kZt7P/s1600-h/Diego+Light+Cover.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439090033233239602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgpboXg-OtP6FMN-wSiSEBJe8AEOqZUcv1MfostwQzEYTMWLjn5XCWtT9GQEEBTLvsq6L0vazQWnS-2DHIQYjSeMpHpDNyr_UDyI77fW9_TfdV9B7L_uGwDw6q0VpiF6TKvjKhy6kZt7P/s400/Diego+Light+Cover.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 257px;" /></a>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-70691783532607328402010-02-12T23:03:00.001-08:002010-02-12T23:45:39.936-08:00Oganization IdeasI live in a tiny house, so I have to have EVERYTHING, in it's own place at all times, otherwise it would literally overflow my space. Here are a few things I have done to make life easier. <br /><br />The coat closet (AAAAGGGGHHHH) I hate it when I open the door and little mittens. hats, and scarfs come down on your head. So I put an end to it. I took a shoe organizer, a cheap cardboard one and put it on the top shelf. <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0sma7etclnvvsl0KtHVucVD9RIKfDDJ_4oEqlgPAF0Y3UanjJC-nY7eGc3fsw4xZlyawJwXMk4SaPVcnaSSZJg_ktO1tcmXZSY4HI0YDfFBc9e-aCu7v4fPNwgLBE1FQQqj4ijQx6HFH/s1600-h/100_2746.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0sma7etclnvvsl0KtHVucVD9RIKfDDJ_4oEqlgPAF0Y3UanjJC-nY7eGc3fsw4xZlyawJwXMk4SaPVcnaSSZJg_ktO1tcmXZSY4HI0YDfFBc9e-aCu7v4fPNwgLBE1FQQqj4ijQx6HFH/s320/100_2746.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437620990985720450" /></a><br /><br />I now have a place for everything! I labeled each cubby-kids gloves, mom;s gloves, scarves, baseball hats, umbrellas, etc- It is so easy to put them away now.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjXBAWIANVRh6SoFsAw6k-L8qDY66qsN7r_8kZ0e-cjzFN37tQjf-dMwyIFNV9ZK8KEs79NjjUNLe6ypt7DJD9sIjk9kZJ0h1xVOzURbRe8zHYnVWa5Os6_-MmXJZHkpSO5q2_hDBS5mL/s1600-h/100_2748.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRjXBAWIANVRh6SoFsAw6k-L8qDY66qsN7r_8kZ0e-cjzFN37tQjf-dMwyIFNV9ZK8KEs79NjjUNLe6ypt7DJD9sIjk9kZJ0h1xVOzURbRe8zHYnVWa5Os6_-MmXJZHkpSO5q2_hDBS5mL/s320/100_2748.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437621922229185698" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWtNLqhSm2xJhjQ65ydVVznw2Y58DXgKKYbc755xl3z8EDrCAx41jiWNgEcrQT6CgxhroniOVyRtTgxxKAdXJVV0Y6yMxkl-NVYi1uJ-gPCtvj74IFGKsrW5nb6u-P4GdUW32s8EACN2a7/s1600-h/100_2747.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWtNLqhSm2xJhjQ65ydVVznw2Y58DXgKKYbc755xl3z8EDrCAx41jiWNgEcrQT6CgxhroniOVyRtTgxxKAdXJVV0Y6yMxkl-NVYi1uJ-gPCtvj74IFGKsrW5nb6u-P4GdUW32s8EACN2a7/s320/100_2747.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437621916537855890" /></a><br /><br />Another big mess are my medicine/toiletries/whatever closet. I wanted to keep my adult meds up high, but other things that my kids need continually,(like band aids) down low. I bought a shoe organizer that hangs on the door, and now I am able to put TONS of stuff in the little pockets for quick and easy organiztion. I loved it so much I bought one for my coat closet too. It makes an easy place for extra toothbrushes, travel soaps & other supplies, band aids, razors, etc. I printed labels too so my hubby and kids can find things easily. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnthraeB84PpfLrcXIKOLY4693ZQ4GMgyQ7Zxkgl9Esi8UVt6PPWMDufIrtlIr_aNsSCn-UzDYYPxg7TC_ZxRsJQgD7yKLiE-YkbEIehJBw9gZuht-vJB2_WSBSXZS2lKhReCmaStf2yD/s1600-h/100_2743.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnthraeB84PpfLrcXIKOLY4693ZQ4GMgyQ7Zxkgl9Esi8UVt6PPWMDufIrtlIr_aNsSCn-UzDYYPxg7TC_ZxRsJQgD7yKLiE-YkbEIehJBw9gZuht-vJB2_WSBSXZS2lKhReCmaStf2yD/s320/100_2743.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437623509635370530" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivd_ExIkQ3ao0Jq1oU534X-l_9EvkMsnwtLU4K6HTgL20Y2plFCc3epNvCLydPFuhAqt-5SrgD7VJ-hi7gTHuKTo-BcT9U_Jxf6YHeWKRneR9I-cptj13E4zQNOow8MvyahRvBHgTz-YYH/s1600-h/100_2744.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivd_ExIkQ3ao0Jq1oU534X-l_9EvkMsnwtLU4K6HTgL20Y2plFCc3epNvCLydPFuhAqt-5SrgD7VJ-hi7gTHuKTo-BcT9U_Jxf6YHeWKRneR9I-cptj13E4zQNOow8MvyahRvBHgTz-YYH/s320/100_2744.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437623495476981554" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZt13bXT3GKS8DTqyD9ottCXs0jmN4xa5K4z-YBC739nlGdklY-AUgl0ndr8ZHf1tK1yiJ8aB8DS5eX0RcV1ipuQ3OUEhFIV0YCJAz5eIJedinoeupTPyIXEoX5WBEGyt5D6mDH3FTrp1f/s1600-h/100_2745.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZt13bXT3GKS8DTqyD9ottCXs0jmN4xa5K4z-YBC739nlGdklY-AUgl0ndr8ZHf1tK1yiJ8aB8DS5eX0RcV1ipuQ3OUEhFIV0YCJAz5eIJedinoeupTPyIXEoX5WBEGyt5D6mDH3FTrp1f/s320/100_2745.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437623487086952834" /></a>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-21881592104438329162010-02-12T22:49:00.000-08:002011-09-08T16:20:08.628-07:00Cheap Fruits & VeggiesSo a lady at my hubby's work told him about this AWESOME local place to get fruits and veggies at a great price. http://www.bountifulbaskets.org<br />They have sites in Arizona, Utah, Idaho & Washington. You pay online and then you pick up your food at a local place, usually a business, in your area. It cost $18 for the first time, and then is $15 each time thereafter. I cannot believe how much food you get!!! This is what we got one time.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-7EnANEjsDFkrMDz8GqRt-fcweXS3v3gHEQ_u_TZ1y_70dGVU_054AiRDZy1gMpXbHiLwgPGsuF7E8Kzk-tAsxRfqDc1iGlXe2_mqeGYU6K7n8lw64mmP9cRQ8TYYx9Bp7qUTuU5dk0x/s1600-h/100_3185.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437618255678040946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-7EnANEjsDFkrMDz8GqRt-fcweXS3v3gHEQ_u_TZ1y_70dGVU_054AiRDZy1gMpXbHiLwgPGsuF7E8Kzk-tAsxRfqDc1iGlXe2_mqeGYU6K7n8lw64mmP9cRQ8TYYx9Bp7qUTuU5dk0x/s320/100_3185.JPG" /></a><br /><br />As you can see there is a LOT of food.<br />*8 Apples<br />*6 Oranges<br />*3 mango<br />*a squash<br />*3 avocados<br />*11 Kiwi<br />*2 broccoli<br />*1 cauliflower<br />*20 red potatoes<br />*6 corn on the cob<br />*6 Bananas<br />*1 romaine lettuce<br />*1 cantaloupe<br /><br />Each time the fruits & veggies that you get are different, but everytime I am amazed how much there is. It had gotten so popular that since I have been getting it they have added 2 more sites to my area. There are also options of other food you can add to your basket, such as breads. I think it is totally awesome!Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-87586219099521742312010-02-12T22:35:00.000-08:002013-03-05T22:39:28.989-08:00Star Wars Bedroom Makeover<div align="center">
So my son is getting older(8 years old now!!!) and he doesn't want his "little brother always getting into his things", so we decide it is time for his own room. Their room was done in Spiderman, until I was informed that, "I no longer like Spiderman" and it was time for a new theme AND his own room. His new interest is Star Wars so I started out by painting all the molding and baseboards black. I used tole paint(eek, I was not sure if that was ok or not, but it looks so cool, flat black, and it dries super fast) I had bought these craft boxes at the $ store for 2 for a $, and I have used them in my sons room since he was a baby. They were painted red, but now are spray painted black. My hubby hung them up right next to each other to create a long shelf. </div>
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<strong>EASY SHELVING: (Craft boxes painted and hung-up-super Easy)</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPDVUqMy5RZ74lEMu91Aj0Q7GtYb1XLBiJfk0LC4OuTJouUoc_7wjvHQuG1ACO__LJeqs2d8JpAvXImimL6UFjLqj7SjVIQl6eOU1E2uU0lf_oJ9z_A3sYHJyLT-QYhIOtrE4ev7ElQIQ/s1600-h/100_2602.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439092896603484274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPDVUqMy5RZ74lEMu91Aj0Q7GtYb1XLBiJfk0LC4OuTJouUoc_7wjvHQuG1ACO__LJeqs2d8JpAvXImimL6UFjLqj7SjVIQl6eOU1E2uU0lf_oJ9z_A3sYHJyLT-QYhIOtrE4ev7ElQIQ/s400/100_2602.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><strong>See the cute and different ways you use the craft boxes? </strong><br />
It is not shown here, but we have star wars figures on these sheleves.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4fUtZRQ0cC2NoRX-zCoPqt3UFNWWO5Q05JVoJfXCFgYz7olUjlJLnABw264Mn17Avnu9LKwAqO96FFrm84XaTnLFWKUg0vlBoU_XOYG_eKSf_mlptBK2-GF8PYnZrNJ1NeUmy-AxFt3Xa/s1600-h/100_2595.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439092909758882082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4fUtZRQ0cC2NoRX-zCoPqt3UFNWWO5Q05JVoJfXCFgYz7olUjlJLnABw264Mn17Avnu9LKwAqO96FFrm84XaTnLFWKUg0vlBoU_XOYG_eKSf_mlptBK2-GF8PYnZrNJ1NeUmy-AxFt3Xa/s400/100_2595.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a> <strong>I ordered some cute vinyl lettering Star wars sayings. They turned out so cute!</strong><br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439093185283917522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0NmjkxIomNSq-ciSgpYltVNkjrhU1xgwLYLeZcDsDtYWiLWfPdQbPWAJ-s81MeUdhFMdveWbP5AYXFGCIdEwqWqwyJzMe-e-aLd2rYE1FWbXYtMAafjGx5p_RcaTFvC9jdK7CrgqvkBD/s400/100_2591.JPG" style="display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><strong>MORE SHELVES-WALL DECOR-</strong>I bought some wood shelves at the DI and Painted them black. I found 2 light-up light sabers and spray-painted them red and blue and hung them on the wall. They make a clanging noise and light-up when you push a button. </div>
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I found the swords at the $store.</div>
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I made these pictures on SCRAPBOOK MAX. It was suggested that we have a picture of a temple in each child's room, so I made the a picture with the St. George temple and a galaxy. It says, "May the force be with you." I thought that saying went perfect with the temple. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 0px;"></span><span style="font-size: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 0px;">STAR WARS FIGURES<br />
I lucked out and won this whole set for $6 with shipping. I haven't had much luck getting anything else for cheap, which is why my others shelves are so bare at the moment. I found a Darth Maul figure at the DI and keep checking for more things.<br />
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LIGHT SWITCH COVERS-PLUG COVERS-DRESSER KNOBS<br />
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For the light switches and plugs, I found some cute pictures of the star wars characters, printed them to the right size, and mod-podged them to the light and plug covers. They turned out sooooo cute. I made my dresser knobs the same way. I bought some wooden knobs(cheap on EBay) and mod-podged the pics onto them. You can't see them very well in the pictures though. I painted the dresser black as well. You would think that all this black is too much, but it works.<br />
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His bed fram was red, so I painted it black. I chose to spray paint these. I bought a headboard at the DI for $10 and painted it black too. His bed was real short so we bought bed raisers at Walmart for $10. (REAL Cool- now I store my canned food storage under there) My mom sewed a cute bedskirt from black fabric that had tiny stars that looked like a galaxy. She also made fleece black throw pillows(about 6-my son LOVES his pillows.) They are not shown here. My mom found this cute, super soft star wars throw at Walmart. She sewed black fleece around the sides to make it fit a twin bed. Not the best pic, I know.</div>
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His closet does not have doors, so we found some great, heavy duty, black fabric at Walmart in the clearance bin and my mother-in-law sewed some great floor-length curtains. I found a great planet curtain with hanging glo-in-the dark stars at the DI. It fit my window perfect, but I had 2 windows-so my dear mother found matching material and made a second one. The window curtains provide the only color in the room as the planets are brightly colored.<br />
Everything else in black and white and I am loving how it turned out.<br />
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I made a door sign on SCRAPBOOK MAX, my favorite scrapbook program. I bought a wooden plaque at Walmart and painted it black, then mod-podged the picture onto it for a cute door sign.<br />
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<strong>THE CEILING</strong><br />
My favorite part of the room-and something that really pulled together the Star Wars theme- is the ceiling. You can see a little of it with the vinyl lettering picture, but I could never get a great full-shot picture. What we did was take black butcher paper and stapled it-YEP STAPLED IT- to the ceiling. This was much faster than painting, and will be easily taken down when my son decides "he no longer likes Star Wars." I bought glo-in-the-dark stars from Ebay, and we stuck them all over the ceiling, creating a beautiful nighttime galaxy.
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Overall the whole room make-over turned out great!! <br />
Thanks for looking, Momma!</div>
<strong></strong>Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18415668309842787871noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5058567535565601695.post-84714878106695725652010-02-12T22:28:00.000-08:002011-09-22T09:54:29.072-07:00Bakugan/Pokemon Party Ideas<div align="left">I LOOOOOVVVVE planning parties. I usually find a theme a month or 2 in advance and then I plan, plan, plan. Here is what we did for my son's 8th birthday party. The kids loved it.</div><br />
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<div align="left">My son wanted a Bakugan party so we headed to <a href="http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/">http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/</a> for ideas. We read the Pokemon VS. Bakugan idea and that’s what we decided to do, with a little tweaking. I used some of her ideas, but I needed more. However, once I got planning, I didn't know how to use both themes, but I had already mentioned it to my son, and there was no changing his mind to do just Bakugan. I found lots of ideas and I was able to incorporate both, but this party could be changed to fit ONLY Bakugan or Pokemon. I also purchased Bakugan party ideas from a lady on eBay. She had lots of ideas that I borrowed too, and they could be used for any theme.<br />
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For the invitation, I created a circle front that said “Birthday Brawlers, Let’s have a Ball” It was a picture from online. Underneath it said, Pokemon VS. Bakugan. (I used pictures that said Pokemon with the ball under it and the Bakugan Logo with Dan throwing a ball) I made another circle for the back. The top said “Let the battle begin” It had a picture of the Pokemon characters and then all the party details. I printed the front circle and the back circle on sticker paper and cut them out. I cut larger circles on yellow card stock on stuck the front and back circle on it. I used Blue CD sleeves for the envelope, so the front was showing through and I printed a round, “You’re invited” seal to close the envelope. </div><br />
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<div align="center"><strong>INVITATIONS:</strong><br />
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<div align="center"><strong>OBJECT OF THE PARTY:</strong>Explain to the kids that they need to get all 6 Badges to complete the training. The kids are all training to defeat the bad guys and to send the bad guys to the dimension doom. To begin, show them the Infinity Core and say we have this, but we need the Silent Core. For the cores, I used two snake magnets. I wrapped them individually, put them inside a small cardboard tube, and labeled them Infinity Core and Silent Core.<br />
I put the Silent Core into the piñata. Once the training is completed and they have earned all of their badges and all the bads guys are sent to DD(Dimension Doom), a star shaped bakugan(PINATA) is returned from the DD and the kids must open it to find Silent Core and reunite it with the Infinity Core and restore balance. (The Doom Dimension is an alternate dimension from the real world, possibly also in Vestroia. It is known that no Bakugan has ever returned from there until the brawlers and their Bakugan were released from here by the legendary soldiers. Bakugan Vestroia is a vast dimension comprised of 6 attribute worlds: Fire, Earth, Light, Darkness, Water and Wind.)The kids earn badges. Team Bakugan earns the 6 attribute worlds. I just found pictures off the internet of wind, fire, darkness, light, water, & earth. Team Pokemon earns 6 pokemon badges. I made Team Pokemon and Team Bakugan Badges for the kids. I printed the badges on circle label sticker paper. )</div><br />
<div align="center"><strong>These are the badges I made.</strong></div><br />
<div align="center"><strong>BAKUGAN BADGES- I found these pics of the internet of the energy attributes-wind, water, light, earth, fire, and darkness</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimo69IvATuKxq-KKQRemSfyxguScFoNveFEZjMKDogozqoJUmQ1zEn0KMmH3XAaoI85zC24_TvUv2olqXawwDOkRvt5fKWcxC1O1wF5VCaQyTp6VCZNoZGwFKb-nJ72pfqshbLgZP-jOcj/s1600-h/bakugan+Badges.jpg"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439086561758271570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimo69IvATuKxq-KKQRemSfyxguScFoNveFEZjMKDogozqoJUmQ1zEn0KMmH3XAaoI85zC24_TvUv2olqXawwDOkRvt5fKWcxC1O1wF5VCaQyTp6VCZNoZGwFKb-nJ72pfqshbLgZP-jOcj/s400/bakugan+Badges.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 309px;" /></strong></a><strong>TEAM BADGES<br />
</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtcV_oFuONFLm5bNqPhHe0sO9CQQ5zzjljpkvbhsYkady9M12Y9UOBP0VjmvSIyAgJiLd5493nUtxeyx0HUCIDm0RH_vtbPzWgo4ELO0pK9fUxTLMAYc9SkDvrr106_qp3YpI7_BV_H9e/s1600-h/Team+Pokmon.png"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439086817095210866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtcV_oFuONFLm5bNqPhHe0sO9CQQ5zzjljpkvbhsYkady9M12Y9UOBP0VjmvSIyAgJiLd5493nUtxeyx0HUCIDm0RH_vtbPzWgo4ELO0pK9fUxTLMAYc9SkDvrr106_qp3YpI7_BV_H9e/s400/Team+Pokmon.png" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 327px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 326px;" /></strong></a><strong><br />
</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEget_km1sew5tkUbpd_unZgEV-yodF-4M4mBTBiTNythrvjyUvpACD2xTYI36RW_i1sIVTWLKn92B8-ZB06Hn1Ol53mM2UDnFSJDSazXebnu47DjoRKnJ66xeQCiTXHaqO27H2lfVeDICg7/s1600-h/Team+Bakugan.png"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439086813871177890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEget_km1sew5tkUbpd_unZgEV-yodF-4M4mBTBiTNythrvjyUvpACD2xTYI36RW_i1sIVTWLKn92B8-ZB06Hn1Ol53mM2UDnFSJDSazXebnu47DjoRKnJ66xeQCiTXHaqO27H2lfVeDICg7/s400/Team+Bakugan.png" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 326px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 326px;" /></strong></a><strong> DECORATIONS:</strong></div><br />
<div align="left">I used my son's Pokemon and Bakugan cards hanging from the ceiling with streamers. I also had blue and red Helium balloons that were tied to crepe streamers and then tied to string that we had strung between two poles. Then there were the large character cards that were taped to the floor.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8yWCMC43EHG1bKW8yJ47BMWT3ApJ7S7YhnKTAzOklTPUhPRLWEDXBKsM-2yYSB8v6pIZZ6fQ0k9BckagZfZqR3qkkBx4fW3iRbdEohJtoEF4aOmWg18rpvHRDX6_d8sZuxyt6_G_v4DL/s1600/DSCN0030.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571540164088408594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf8yWCMC43EHG1bKW8yJ47BMWT3ApJ7S7YhnKTAzOklTPUhPRLWEDXBKsM-2yYSB8v6pIZZ6fQ0k9BckagZfZqR3qkkBx4fW3iRbdEohJtoEF4aOmWg18rpvHRDX6_d8sZuxyt6_G_v4DL/s400/DSCN0030.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></div><strong></strong>When the kids got there, I had them sign up for door prizes and choose a Team. Each child gets Trainer card(this is where they put their badges), a Team Sticker Badge, and Ziploc Gallon size bag(this is for prizes earned and piñata candy) with their name written on it. Explain about the training they need to complete to win the battle and that they are trying to save the world from the bad guys, find the Infinity Core and reunite it with the Silent Core to restore balance. I chose not to have the teams compete against each other, but instead complete each game(training) for their badges.<br />
<strong>GAMES: ( Training Exercises) </strong><br />
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<div align="left"><strong>1. Balloon Stomp:</strong> For this game I inflated about 60 balloons and hid Pokemon and Bakugan stickers inside them. (Enough so that there is 1 sticker for every child, but some balloons had nothing) The children have to pop the balloons and each child has to find their team sticker. When they find one, they earn a BADGE. They put their sticker in their Ziploc bag.<br />
<strong>2. Pokemon/ Bakugan Character Walk :</strong><br />
We had 10 Pokemon characters, 10 Bakugan characters, and enough blank cards taped onto the floor. ( I printed them onto cardstock. I had enough so that every child could be standing on one. I had 20 kids there). This is used for a game of musical cards(character walk) to the Pokemon theme song. When the music stops, whatever Character they are on, they get that character card (if it is the one they need.) I printed small pictures of each of the characters onto cardstock. They were about 1½ in. The object is for each child to collect all 5 of their team characters once they collect all 5 they receive their BADGE. They put the 5 characters cards in their Ziploc bag. I chose to have the first one (from each team) to get all 5 win a prize. The kids loved this game!<br />
<strong>3. Metal Gate Card Game:</strong>I put 3 Bakugan Metal Gate Cards and 3 Pokemon Cards on the floor (I created these cards on my ScrapbookMax Program, just using the logos with the characters, printed them on cardstock, and taped them to the ground.) I had the kids line up according to their team. (3 people from each team played at once.) The kids on each team one each got 10 pennies to toss(other team gets 10 dimes to show difference, if their toss is wayward) and they try to get the coins to land on their card. Go until all kids have a turn. They all will receive their BADGE.<br />
<strong>4. Stretchy Bakugan Card Find:</strong><br />
In this game the kids are told about the cards falling from the sky and that they need to collect them to play the game and improve strategy in battle. The kids are arranged in a circle. They are each given a large stretchy sticky hand (I got mine at Walmart for $1 each.) The cards are placed in the middle of the circle and they all try to get their Team Card using their stretchy hand. They must retrieve the cards with only the aid of the stretchy hand. I made Bakugan Cards Fronts, Pokemon card fronts, and Try Again cards. All the cards were blank on the other side) Each child took a turn to slap at the cards with the sticky hand. Once they got their corresponding team card, they won their Badge. We continued until every child won a badge. This game went very fast.<br />
<strong>5. PokeBall/ BakuBall Game:</strong>I bought a bag of 100 Soft balls for a ball pit from Walmart.($7) I chose the give Team Bakugan the Blue and Yellow Balls and Team Bakugan the Red and Green Balls. A line in the middle of playing area divides the two teams. The game is started and the kids throw balls back and forth trying to keep the opposite team's balls out of their area. After an allotted amount of time the team with the least amount of enemy balls wins. Every-one gets a BADGE. Kids love throwing balls at each other.<br />
<strong>6. Electricity Zap:</strong><br />
I bought an 8 pack of water guns at Walmart for $3, but then I chose to use water bottles instead and just bought 4 for $1 each. I printed pictures of the bad guys onto sticker paper and stuck them onto red and blue helium filled balloons. We tied them to tissue paper crepe streamers, and them tied them to a string we had strung between 2 posts. I used red balloons for Bakugan and Blue for Pokemon. I made sure we had enough balloons for each child. Each team shoots the water ("electricity" or "fire") at the tissue paper, until it comes apart, and the enemy balloons are released into the sky (DD-doom dimension) (We had the party during the winter, but luckily it was warm enough for this game. If weather is bad, just let kids release their balloons.) Everyone gets their BADGE. This game was by far the hit of the party. The kids kept saying how cool it was.<br />
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-At this point they should all have their badges and the Star bakugan(piñata) has been released from the DD. My husband lowered it down it the party area, while we were outside. -<br />
<strong>7. Pinata-</strong> We bought a star piñata from Walmart that looked like a Pointy Bakugan. We told the kids we had to break it open to release the Silent Core (It was inside the piñata.) After it was broken we let the birthday boy open it and he put them together and they snap together.(Since they are snake magnets) We all cheered and said that the Infinity Core is now reunited with the Silent Core and world is saved.<br />
<strong>PRESENTS: Open presents </strong></div><div align="left"><strong>TREATS: We had Cake, Ice Cream, Soda, Treat Bags.</strong></div><div align="left">We made 2 round cakes using a bowl with rounded bottoms to make 2 circle cakes. Once was a BakuBall and one was a Pokeball. We used a fondant icing to decorate them to look like the pokeball and one to look like my son’s favorite Bakugan. We put them on a round platter and decorated around each ball with bakugans from my son’s collection and a cheap lot of pokemon characters that I got off of Ebay and sent through the dishwasher. </div><div align="left"><strong>CAKES</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjciEuwLqISeA3W33gtBGvO05XBMN693axHA-x8P6xJ8bdbGy9qBZ2qrBAqOl-6n4Lmo4XX32WQPXipTlnq0uKgGWHYLY8H2x5sG0R7-E_0P8U-zgqELO-8htwXBurHhOrx_X4xEeoTcv7e/s1600-h/DSCN0012.JPG"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442312475705813570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjciEuwLqISeA3W33gtBGvO05XBMN693axHA-x8P6xJ8bdbGy9qBZ2qrBAqOl-6n4Lmo4XX32WQPXipTlnq0uKgGWHYLY8H2x5sG0R7-E_0P8U-zgqELO-8htwXBurHhOrx_X4xEeoTcv7e/s320/DSCN0012.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></strong></a><strong><br />
</strong><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtYfraPeVRbDYcBFuLSgPpX93ACgJB5XA4NVIAc6pGvYFTscKhjgGu9v2mp_3PZ11AybMDSb4RtMYPekdXCIGHo-1sUXmFS3iQE43QZtSwDZG9rTH72CdZJ3eB3Od6nzCMI9cnatNhbWb/s1600-h/DSCN0013.JPG"><strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442312464533314994" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvtYfraPeVRbDYcBFuLSgPpX93ACgJB5XA4NVIAc6pGvYFTscKhjgGu9v2mp_3PZ11AybMDSb4RtMYPekdXCIGHo-1sUXmFS3iQE43QZtSwDZG9rTH72CdZJ3eB3Od6nzCMI9cnatNhbWb/s320/DSCN0013.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></strong></a><strong> GOODY BAGS: </strong>I bought Pokemon treat bags and Bakugan treat bags and filled them with candy, 1 new Pokemon card, little poky balls, silver mirror ball on string, a pencil, 3 stickers, pop-it, and sticky hands. They also get to keep the 5 character cards and sticker from the games<strong>. </strong></div><br />
<strong>-IT WAS LOTS OF FUN-</strong><br />
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