Party Highlights

What People Ate

I love hosting kids parties but the challenge is always "What to feed them?". We stuck with all the favorites; hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken and fruit and veggie kabobs. I found inspiration from many sources on the internet and came up with a few fun food and drink names of my own. I added small little Lego characters to the cards; they are all featured in the Clone Wars. Food Labels Included: Chewbacca Chicken, Hutt Dogs, Bobba Burgers and Kenobi Kabobs.

What People Drank

Drink labels included: Jedi Juice, Yoda Soda, Dooku drinks and Windu Water.

Invitation

I created a Jedi Training Academy Logo which ended up becoming the focus of all the other decorations. I scoured the internet to get the right wording and was happy with what I managed to put together. Although I didn’t include anything Lego related other than the yellow writing for his name most of his friends knew he was a Star Wars Lego fan. We did include Lego into the party as you will see further.

Decorations

Once the Jedi Training Academy logo was completed for the invitation I decided to keep going and include it in the party banner and door sign. The challenge now, was to incorporate the characters he wanted (OB Wan, Rex and Cody). Anyone who has attended our parties knows there is always an element of cardboard involved. We decided to create 3D characters in front of the house out of recycled cardboard boxes. Even the arms and legs were designed so that we could change their position depending on how we would use them. I’d love to say that this is an easy DIY project but the honest truth is it took us a month to complete all of the characters.

Dessert

The cake was by far my favorite part. When I visited our local grocery store I discovered that they could scan any photo, add text, and somehow make an edible picture to be placed on the top of any size cake. I don’t bake and no other cake offered the Clone Wars theme with Lego. A specialty cake was out of our budget so this option worked was great. My son and all of his friends loved it!

Activities / Games

Light Saber Training: All of the kids were given a water stick toy I found at the Dollar Store and asked to try and keep a balloon in the air. Jedi Training course: The kids had to run through a tunnel, manoeuvre through an obstacle of strings, climb a play structure, slide down the slide, jump, flip or whatever over an air mattress (some got pretty creative), and run to the end where a Clone War water sprinkler sprayed you. Defeat Count Dooku: Each child took turns throwing water balloons at a chalk drawing of Count Dooku drawn on the driveway until it disappeared. Race your fellow Jedi: Sack races are always fun for kids! Defeat Cad Bane: I was so happy with this piñata. I had made a few before this one but it lasted longer than the others. The problem was that all of these 7-9 yr olds were strong and I wanted to make sure everyone had a turn. In fact my 9 yr old nephew warned me that this time he was going to destroy it! So this time I took out some string and actually threaded the head, arms and legs to the body. Everyone managed to get a turn and even he didn't completely break it apart. As the kids hit it, all the pieces loosened up and it looked like Cad Bane was dancing around. So funny!

Party Favors

This was the first time I found it difficult to find something on the internet. While there are lots of images of Lego characters, I couldn't find the look I wanted. I spent hours designing and drawing out each character. The originals were meant to be cut out in pieces using a Silhouette cutter and pieced together to form an image but after a rain storm flooded our office (we left the window open) I decided to just print them out and add them to the bag. I added favor tags with a little thank you message, a Jedi Training Certificate, a coloring book that I bought at Michaels, a Clone War writing pad I found at the Dollar Store, pencils erasers and crayons.