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Friday, September 30, 2011

Lego Birthday Party!

I think it's about time I get a post up here about Kid's Lego Party!

We had a blast! It wasn't complicated and it wasn't very structured. Basically the kids just played a lot between presents and cake.

The decorations were very inexpensive and simple but I loved how they turned out.

I went to the local dollar store and I bought a couple plastic, disposable table cloths, blue, green, yellow. I also bought packages of paper plates that were the same shades.

Then I hung the table cloths on the wall, all together, and taped the plates on so they looked like Large Lego's. I LOVED the effect and received a number of compliments. I only used a few plates for each "Lego" and was able to use the rest for the party food.



If I had a printer (How do I not have a printer??) I would have printed out the word "LEGO" in my Lego font and pasted it inside each plate.


For weeks before the party I was saving empty boxes. When we finished off the pop tarts or the spaghetti noodles or the cake mix I tossed the empty box in a basket for later.

I purchased two packages of construction paper (also at the dollar store) and a few rolls of tape. I then wrapped all of those empty boxes in construction paper. J's cousin came over one night and helped me cut out a staggering number of little circles and we taped those onto the boxes.

Viola! Lego's!


They're not perfect but they turned out really cute! I used the basic Lego colors, orange, green, blue, red, yellow and black.

It took a lot of tape to put these together, for a couple reasons. One, the tape I bought was cheap. Two, Construction paper is stiff. Three, I wanted to make sure it stayed together.



I cut out little pieces of thread, tied them in loops and taped those to the back of the boxes. This took a LOT of tape because the thread slipped right out of some of them. Here you can see the massive tape use in those pictures.

Anyway, I used the thread loops to hang the Lego boxes from the ceiling.



Again, I LOVE the way these turned out. They took a LOT of time and a LOT of cutting of little circles and taping them on but it was totally worth it!

The cake.

Originally I had intended to just make a basic rectangle cake and add either cupcakes, marshmallows or Oreo's to the top to look like a Lego. But, for some reason I wasn't really into that idea. Then, one day while surfing the web I had an epiphany.

I baked two box cake (Yes, I used the box) mixes in round pans. When they were cool I shaved off the rounded top so they were all flat. Then I piled them on top of each other with layers of frosting (That I made myself.) in between them.

I used the rounded pieces that I had cut off for the top. I simply cut a small circle out of the middle of them and stacked them as well.


Looking at it when it was done I sort of wished I had made another cake mix to make it a little higher. But, either way, I really like how it turned out.

While surfing Pinterest (I'm addicted) I came across what looked like a great idea! It was harder than it looked but totally worth it.

I purchased about ten stage 2 jars of baby food. The cheapest I could find was prunes at $.40 a jar. I also grabbed some applesauce. (Kid ate a couple of jars of the applesauce. Haha.)

Most of them I just poured out. I washed and dried the jars and then took half of them outside and sprayed them with yellow spray paint. It did not cover as well as I expected. After about fifty coats (OK, I exaggerate a bit, but just a bit.) I decided that spray paint wasn't really the way to go. The rest I (my SiL also helped) painted by hand.

I then drew faces on them with sharpie markers.


I had some sort of brain lapse with the one that's second from the left. Oops, sorry, upside down Lego head.

I filled them with Skittles and gave them away as favors. I didn't want to part with them, they were SO CUTE.

I had another use for the spray paint as well. I cut the top half of a pizza box out, made a stencil (I can't think of another word, ugh) type thing of a Lego head and taped it to the top of the pizza box. I sprayed (fifty coats, again) of paint on there. When the paint was dry I hand painted black around the edges and cut a hole in the middle. I added a stick so it could be held up.

Lego Kid!


All the kids had their pictures taken with a Lego head.

I acquired a couple boxes, taped them together in the middle, covered them with another table cloth (red) and pasted a few plates to it. One giant Lego.

I put it near Kid for a picture but later moved it outside to greet guests.


The orange thing on the floor is just another table cloth.

Well, that's basically the party. Very inexpensive decorations for a very cool effect.

Now, is anyone having a Lego party in the near future? I have a LOT of "Lego" boxes that I'm about to just toss out . . . It hurts a bit, they took a lot of work.

I'm not kidding . . . Anyone interested?

27 comments:

Call Me Cate said...

Wow, you did a GREAT job! I love the little baby food jar lego heads. And the cake was great too. Did all the kids love it? Because how could they not...

I Am Not Superwoman said...

How cool is that! Such a great idea and super cheap, just your time. Turned out awesome. I want you to do my decor for MY birthday...lol. I bet they had a blast!

Kendra said...

That is so awesome! The legos from the ceiling and the idea of the table cloths was great! Good job! Kid is lucky to have a mom like you! Leo gets store-bought decorations for his parties!

C. Beth said...

What FUN ideas--completely adorable! I bet Kid was thrilled!

Sandy said...

Wow! This is Amazing, what a great idea to use inexpensive stuff to create such a wonderful party, i will totally use this for my sons 8th birthday this year, again this is Amazing.

Unknown said...

This is amazing!! If you still have the stuff, I don't mind taking it off your hands. I have been searching the web and this is the BEST idea I have seen so far. Here is my email to let me know if you still have or not. And let me know where your located etc.. Smilietazz@yahoo.com
Again great job! :)

Cori Lavey said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am having a Lego party for my boys this coming weekend and was lacking ideas for décor. You just solved that problem for me, and it's not going to cost me an arm and a leg. Yay! Thanks again :)

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Unknown said...

wow what awesome ideas you had for decorating for the party. I used to do special theme parties for my sons too...and Legos was a favorite of theirs but they are now too old for a lego party...21 and 15. I'll bet everyone had a great time!

Wenni Donna said...

Bar parties are amazing! I did have one last time on my birthday. I will probably look for some event halls for rent this time because it is my birthday and anniversary celebration together. So, I kind of need a private party for that. Anyways, it was a nice post. Happy birthday to Patricia!

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Hi can i ask ? how did you attach the tablecloths to the wall ?

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