I searched the mighty interwebs for the perfect party touches, and Pinterest was a gold mine. Of course. I'm not the most creative person in the world, so I am eternally grateful to the people who have come up with amazing ideas for me to try to replicate for my own kid's party. Especially when Pinterest sends me to blogs with instructions. (I love to give credit where credit is due, so please let me know if I screw up!)
I've always made some pretty awesome birthday party invitations, if I do say so myself, and this year I don't think I really lived up to what I've done in the past. I'm not sure non-parents-of-young-boys got the whole Ninjago-eyes thing, but the design was Everett-approved, so I ran with it. Sensei Wu, holler!
My cake decorating skills need a LOT of work, but Everett requested a pink lemonade cake, which at least tastes pretty okay. We made the cake into (what else?) a Lego guy head (seen here):
We used the same banner idea from the previous year, but Lego-y instead of cowboyish:
We went with solid-colored (read: cheap) balloons, plates, confetti, and the like:
And of course, Legos everywhere! The gift bags were just plain with foam circles taped on (idea found here), and we just pulled out the zillion Legos the kid already owned for everyone to play with.
And since we can't do anything halfway, the inside of the cake looked like this:
My cake decorating skills need a LOT of work, but Everett requested a pink lemonade cake, which at least tastes pretty okay. We made the cake into (what else?) a Lego guy head (seen here):
We used the same banner idea from the previous year, but Lego-y instead of cowboyish:
We also went with the treat table idea from the cowboy party ... just even better. Notice the Pinterest pretzel-kiss things, jello, chocolate-covered pretzel sticks, etc, all in bright Lego colors:
...and even more treats hiding behind the cake:
And of course, Legos everywhere! The gift bags were just plain with foam circles taped on (idea found here), and we just pulled out the zillion Legos the kid already owned for everyone to play with.
And since we can't do anything halfway, the inside of the cake looked like this:
