Six year old Birthday parties at home are not for the faint hearted. We had 12 children to entertain (including our own) and with only two parents staying (the rest wisely making a ‘drop and run’) we had our hands full! Preparations started a couple of days before, with decorations to put up, loot bags to fill, and cup cakes to make. Saturday morning arrived and I sent Dan and the girls out so I could get seriously busy. The party started at 2.30pm and I only just made it out of my p-jays and in the shower before the first guests arrived. The lounge was transformed (with a lot of furniture rearranging!) and the party games prepared. Charli dressed up as Clone Commander Rex and Sophie as Anakin. I had no costume prepared, so quickly threw on a white shirt and yoga pants, with a scarf tied round my waist, hoping to look vaguely like Padme. Dan hired a Darth Vadar costume and did an awesome job of surprising the children – but after the initial heavy breathing he modified his voice to more of a Father Christmas tone, ‘Well children, lets play…’
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet I had got some great party game ideas and the plan of attack for our brave Jedi Padawans was as follows:-
Musical Jedi Bumps (when the music stopped they had to sit down, crossed legged, and say ‘OM’ in a Yoda style yoga pose)
Musical Star Wars Statues (freezing in their best Jedi pose)
Destroy the Death Star (Charli had earlier drawn a chalk Death Star on the drive way – which they then obliterated with water bombs)
Crossing the lava field (battling against another Padawan they had to cross the lounge with nothing more than two pieces of A4, and not touch the carpet – lava!)
Light Saber Training (teams of two had to keep a balloon in the air for as long as possible using their light saber)
Using the Force (blindfolded with a Princess Leia mask they had to pin the light saber on Darth Vadar)
Then there was the sit down party food (Dan and I being the waiters), a pause for present opening (this was the first year Charli could really read her cards and she absolutely delighted in all the messages and so many fabulous, cards from her friends) and then the cake!
The afternoon finished up with all the children (and Dan) squeezing into Charli’s dark bedroom with a load of glow sticks and thrashing them around in a victorious finale!
A resounding success and thankfully no rain meant some of the seriously high energy children could bounce on the trampoline and run around the garden! Next year, I think will be a little tamer… perhaps go out to the rec centre or the swimming pool!
Here’s a slide-show of photos (thanks so much to Logan’s Mum, Merri-ann, for staying and taking them… as we had very little time!):
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I love your ideas! Unfortunately, I need lots of bubbles (sparkling wine) to get through these parties.
Ha! Ha! I hear you! Unfortunately I don’t think we had much time to stop for a drink – but afterwards Dan certainly chilled out with a beer and a Sing Star session. I joined in the singing and chilled with a cup of chamomile.
Whow…what a fantastic time was had by all and as usual all your hard work and planning certainly paid off !!! The cake looked yummy and the look on all the faces of the guests certainly tell of all the fun and excitement that they all had. Loved the costumes and the grown ups looked pretty impressive too….well done darlings!!
I love Charli’s face when the cake arrives with candles ablaze (as you can see I was concentrating VERY hard so as not to drop it!). x
That is one party I don’t think people will forget in a hurry. Looks like all your hard work paid off!
It really was worth it. Now it’s over I’m already reflecting back and thinking, ‘I’m really glad we made the effort.’ Charli loved it and I’ve just ordered collage prints, through Snapfish, as thank yous for each of her friends. Awesome to see her so settled in school, a year on from starting, with such wonderful friends.
It looks like you had great fun – I wish my girls were into Star Wars! Its princesses all the way at the moment – hopefully its just a phase.
Ahh, good luck on getting past the princesses! Charli got into Star Wars last year, just after she turned 5. We were all ill for a week and Dan decided to give it a go and put the films on – well, much to his delight, she loved it! The interest has stayed and now she’s into science fiction in a big way. It sure is great having a tom boy in the house – and makes for some wild and fun play dates!
i have just remembered that my danny had a Star Wars party for his seventh birthday – my little woozie was Princess Leia with the three-year-old curly pigtails) and danny was luke i think. (heck, it’s nearly 13 years ago and brain is fuzzy lol).
it was marrrvelous. love that you had so much fun – the force is strong with this one X
Ahhh, happy memories indeed.
Wowee, you guys sure know how to throw a party. You can see that such a huge amount of thought, creativity and love went into the planning and the games looked like such fun, I wish I could have had a turn!!! Everybody looked like they had an absolute ball.
You have definitely given us inspiration for the years to come!
Awww, thanks Meghan. It was a lot of fun (and work), but so worth it – they are still talking about it at school!
I am so impressed by this 🙂 Im such a Star Wars geek and I never had a Star Wars Party. My dad did once make me an R2D2 cake though. The photos are just great 🙂
Awww, thanks Avalon and your Dad sounds pretty AMAZING to make an R2D2 cake! My baking doesn’t go much beyond scones and biscuits, so Charli’s cake was kindly made by the local supermarket – all I had to do was source the edible icing decoration. It would have cost me as much to make a cake like that as buy one – and it probably would have taken me three days of non-stop trial and error (and a few burnt cake tins!) before I got it right! I decided to forgo the stress that would have affected the whole family by not baking!
Anya says “Happy Birthday Doughnut Charli”! We love the party games, Anya thinks she would be good with the light saber training. I just think you’re great doing any party games at all!
Having just read your status on Facebook – I am dieing to see if my suspicions will be confirmed on here? Hurry up with your next blog!
LOVE IT!!! I only just found that you’d link up now, when i randomly decided to check if there were any new entries! What a great party; my son would LOVE this; he’s mad keen on Star Wars. Very impressive and what fun party games!
Well done, mummy!
xx