Happy Birthday to my special boy. He wanted to have a buzz lightyear party, so thanks to pinterest I found a lot of creative ways to make that happen. We set up a photo booth for all the kids to have fun dressing up as a character and taking pictures behind the etch a sketch.
For the food table I made a watermelon rocket. It was supposed to have melon balls put back in, but they didn't come out as nice, so we just displayed the melon rocket in front of the sliced melons.
The above cake was a pinterest idea. It came from
here. It is layered chocolate cake surrounded by kit kat bars held on by icing and filled with little chocolate candies on top. I knew I wouldn't get it round, so I went square. Notice the 'moon' pops (4 of them) around the cake.
For games we found a
free printable Toy Story bingo game. The kids loved it and Preston tied for 1st place. It was a fun way to gather the friends and get them in the party mood. For bingo chips we took the pieces from our connect 4 toy story game.
We also made a life size Mr. Potato head out of cardboard. We used this for 2 games. The first game was a bean bag toss. We had cut a hole out behind the nose so when we removed the nose everyone got 3 trys to get their beanbag in the hole. Everyone had a GREAT time. Prestons friend Andrew won this game.
Next we took off all the Mr Potato head parts and blind folded each child. They each got a turn placing the face parts back on the the Mr Potato. We then took a picture of each child with their recreated Potato Head.
Preston wasn't very excited about being blind folded, but loved seeing what his potato head looked like when the blind fold was off.
Finally I had spent days making a pinata with a balloon and newspaper. I would mix flour and water into a paste and then take little strips of newspaper and put it all over the balloon. I think I got 4 layers on it. I would recomend giving this project a week, I only had 3 days, so it wasn't as dry as I wanted it to be. When it was finished I used the rest of the wrapping paper we had to decorate the outside. I filled the pinata with candy and trinkets. All the kids had fun beating it and Tim managed not to get hit by any of the zealous kids.
Preston used his woody hat to collect his pinata goodies.
We all sang Happy Birthday and he blew out his candles. Afterward he opened up his presents. The kids all had fun and so did we.
To Infinity and Beyond
Before we knew it the day was over and we were exhausted.
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