My little Angel turned 7! Well, I guess he's not so little anymore. For his birthday, we went to a bowling alley and he wanted a Lego themed party. I did what any mom would have done...I got onto Pinterest! As those of you who frequent Pinterest know, there are a TON of ideas for practically anything you want to do. So I found some examples and started my projects. I made Lego invites, goody bags, cupcake wrappers, marshmallow Lego heads and built a robot for each of the goody bags. Just a warning...this post is particularly picture heavy, so I apologize in advance.
Here are the invites. I used 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock split down the middle (I split it down the 11" side so I had 2 long pieces when I was done cutting) then folded them in half.
My good friend Emily let me use her awesome Silhouette to cut out the Lego circles which I then attached to the front of my folded invite. In the picture above, I tried to get a shot of the tiny piece of foam that I used to raise each circle, but it didn't work. But, it's there. I cut out tiny squares of foam and glued them onto the circle then glued the circle onto the invite. It was tedious, but I think it turned out well :)
Here's the inside. I cut a contrasting color paper and glued it on the inside of the invite then glued the white paper with the info on it on top of that.
Next up, is the Lego marshmallow head that I did. It's a small marshmallow, a large marshmallow and a lollipop stick (I got these from Michaels - a bag of 24 for a few dollars).
Push it through...
Next was making the faces and the faces were made with the edible marker above.
It was really hard to write on. I found out that had I used real chocolate instead of the Wilton's candy coating, the pen would have worked properly. Something to do with the oil content in the coating vs. the chocolate. I had to go to a professional baker to get my tips. They didn't turn out like I wanted them too, in fact, I was really disappointed at how "homemade" they looked, but the kids didn't care. My good friend Sarah said that I should do one of those 'Nailed It!' photos!!! I died laughing when she said that and it put me in a much better mood! OH! I forgot to mention. Since the edible pen didn't work very well on my candy coating, I decided to use a gel icing...DO NOT USE GEL ICING! It will NEVER dry and you will end up with a face that looks like it's being melted off when you put the wrapper on it (cause the gel got stuck to the wrapper and smeared down the plastic - I was SO NOT happy). So, don't use gel icing...
The bags were bought at Michael's and the circles were cut from the same awesome machine, except this particular cardstock had a sticky back on one side. It was great!
By the way, the robots that we made for each of the goody bags ended up costing us less than a dollar a piece. I was trying to find a cheap but cute Lego toy to put into each bag, but didn't want to spend $4 a toy for 20 bags. So we went to the Lego store and thought 'What if we make a robot and then get enough pieces for 20 of them?' That way, all of the pieces fit into the large Lego cup, which was about $15 and we got an original Lego toy that the kids could use as a robot or take apart and add to their current Legos! WIN, WIN, Right?
The bowling alley...with bumpers :)
balloons
Party Participants :)
The Birthday BoY
birthday boy with his brother
A good time was had by all and the goody bags were a hit! I forgot to take pics of the cupcakes :( As a consolation prize, I am offering up a few free printables for your personal use!
I got all of my ideas from this blog. I pretty much re-created what her pictures were.
**Disclaimer** All of the printables are originals from me. I created them myself in photoshop. They are similar, but are definitely mine. Please use them for your personal use only. Thanks!
I am working on how to add my printables to my blog. Sorry for the delay!
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