Decoration was really simple. I got a plastic red table cover, chopsticks, and oriental items to decorate the table and walls.

Find some cheap items at the dollar store and you do no have to spend a lof on decorations for the party!

So once the invitations were delivered it was time to think about the food. We were going to have two parties. One was at the Taekwondo place and another one at the house, but I wanted the food to be similar. At least the treat for the kids.

Pretzel Rods covered in chocolate and joined together like nunchucks by decorating candy strings.

For the second party I got sick, so instead of the nunchucks I just made pretzel rods dipped in chocolate

My son likes the golden oreo cookies, so we used those. Dipped in the colors of the ninjagos. For the eyes I used fondant.

I found at the 99 cents store boxes of fortune cookies. I dipped them in chocolate

Cut the crust from the bread. Roll the bread until flat. Spread the peanut butter and jelly. Roll and cut like sushi rolls

Cake pops are easy to made in the cake pop maker. Then dip in chocolate and decorate

My son loves Legos, but I guess that is common among kids his age. Last year we had a Lego Hero Factory birthday party and for this year he wanted a Lego Ninjago party.

I work full time so I knew I had to look online for ideas, and things that were easy to make.
I found this awesome site for an idea for the invitation. The site is so great that it evens provides with the links to download the font for the invitation. That was pretty cool and convenient. 

Now, the assembly for the invitations took some time. You will need parchment paper, super glue, rod sticks, paint, beads and ribbon.

Now, I am glad I found the design already made, because making the scrolls is very time consuming.
First I painted the rods with Stain. Once they were dry, I glued the beads on the top of the rods.
Printed the invitation in Parchment paper, rolled in the form of a scroll and tied up with ribbon.

Please note that you either need hand deliver the invitations or get a special tube to send them by mail.
But the end result is very nice and everyone loved the invitations.

Next post will be about the snack foods for the party, so do not miss it.

This is the continuation of a series of post about a LEGO theme party. Part One was about the invitation, part two was about the goodie bags and today we will be talking about games and the food for the party.


We had the party at a local children museum so I planned activities and games that were short and easy, so the kids could go and explore the museum.

As the guests arrived, they were asked to write down their guess as to the number of LEGO bricks in the storage container.  Then we invited the kids to go explore the museum and free play.


After a while I had another game. I gave each child some Lego bricks and a straw. I then set up a timer and asked them to pick up the bricks using the straw, suctioning with their mouth. The winner was the one that was
able to move more bricks into a plate during the two minutes. The kids had a lot of fun with that game.


We had also Lego building contest, and free play with the Legos.


As for the food, I had pizza, veggies, and snacks for the kids. I also had chicken salad and tostadas for the adults. I had chips on the Lego container I made, and some nuts and dried fruit. I also made Lego shaped chocolates for the party.

 (Some of the pictures for the food and games got deleted from the phone, so I cannot post those... sorry)

For the cake I had the Hero Factory Cake made on edible ink, with my son’s name and I also had some cookies with his name, printed on edible paper with edible ink.


The party was a success and now I had set up the tone for next year, so wish me luck.


  

Lego Party (Part 2)
This the second part of the Lego Party for my son. In part one I explained how we started the planning and the
invitation.

Today I will be showing you the party favors, food and giving you some game ideas.

After we delivered the invitations,  I started making the party favors. I took ideas from many blogs and had
already gathered some supplies from Oriental Trading and Ebay

I got small red bags at Walmart. My son’s birthday is on the month of February so finding red bags was pretty easy. I added some dots to the bags to make them look like Lego blocks and printed on Lego font the names of the kids to add a personalized touch.

 I wanted to have as many things Lego on the goody bags, but I did not want it to be really expensive. I saw in other blogs that you can make crayons and soap with molds, I got the molds at Ebay for those. I also used the molds to make chocolates for the bags and to have available at the party.

I also included a little box with some Lego shaped chocolates.

I added some Mini-figures that I found on sale at the Lego shop online, popcorn and a coloring book printed at home so they could use their crayons.

As for the party decorations, I used Lego blocks (washed and disinfected) to build a container for the chips. I also found some really cool red plates to serve the meal. I had a platter with Lego shaped chocolates.

We had the party at a local Children Musuem and they had a party room so it was easy to decorate and serve

Next week on Part 3, I will be sharing the games, food and cake. Do not miss it...

LEGO party (Part One)

My son turned seven and he loves Legos. Well every boy loves Legos, but in my son case it is an addiction. I have Legos all over the house. I have so many storage containers and somehow I still step on them of find them under the blankets. *sigh*

He wanted a Hero Factory theme, but it was hard to find supplies so I convinced him to have the mean theme Legos and just the cake of Hero Factory. I researched a lot and found really cool ideas that I kind of incorporated into our own needs and I will be doing a series or post on how we planned for our party.

The first thing I did was research for ideas for a Lego party. I found a great website with ideas that you can incorporate in different parties depending of the age of the kids. Birthday party ideas have resources on invitations, decorations, games and food for a lot of themes.

For our Lego party I chose a classic, primary color Lego RED.  Since my son birthday is in February (yes I know I am a little late on posting), it was easy to find red supplies that were available for Valentine’s.

The first step was creating the invitation. I do not like to use plain invitations or those that you find at the store. I used the ideas from other moms and the final product was “Mystery” invitation. I used little plastic containers that I found at Oriental Trading. Inside the containers we included some Lego blocks with the party information on them and the invitation had the clue on how to put together the invitation to find out the place and details for the party.

One series 2 of the post I will be talking about party food, favors, decorations and food.