a lego movie birthday

I promised to share some photos of my son's 10th Birthday party so here they are!
The party theme was The Lego Movie and we held it at a Rec Centre's Teen Lounge.  For those of you that don't have tweens or teens, a Teen Lounge is basically a large room in a recreation centre where kids can go to hang out, watch movies on a tv, and play games like pool, Foosball, ping pong, air hockey, floor chess, etc.  You can rent the fully equipped space on the weekends for parties.

I started a Lego Birthday party Pinterest board which you are welcome to view, there are some really great ideas out there and I am so grateful for all of the free printables that made our party a huge success!

Starting with these totally cool customizable movie ticket invitations:

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water bottle wrappers from here.

This was the food table.  I went with a black, red, yellow and white colour scheme.  The "curtain" didn't work too well but it was to look like a movie theatre curtain.  I used black and red plastic tablecloths.  

I downloaded the Lego font and printed a banner.  We drew faces of the characters in the movie on yellow balloons.
 

This end of the table held 3 layer Lego brick sandwiches complete with the two round "pegs" on top.  We put the corn twists in a Lego bucket.

 The middle of the table had yellow Lego face jello cups (spoons in the Lego pencil cup) and fruit kabobs topped with printable Lego minifigure heads.

 

This end of the table had bags of "theatre" popcorn and the wrapped bottles of water.

 My daughter beautifully transformed this store bought cake into a Lego lovers dream!  Sprinkles, candy Lego bricks, and isn't the minifigure holding the candle in his torch cute?!

We played guess the number of Lego pieces and the winner won a bag of Lego candy.

We also played the Lego Movie on the tv in the room but the boys were more interested in playing the games than staring at a screen (yah!).

When we handed out the goody bags (mini chocolate bars and a Lego Minifigure) they all agreed that 
"everything was awesome!"

Lotsa work but worth it!
~ joey ~ 

Let's make an owl quilt Birthday party!

My daughter celebrated her 11th Birthday on the weekend with 8 of her closest friends.  We wanted to do something different that had special meaning so we decided to sew a memory quilt in the theme of owls.

 

First, we cut out 21 white squares for the girls to decorate.  My daughter picked out the fabrics for the owls and we ironed an adhesive paper on to the back.

 We made a cardboard owl pattern for each girl to trace around and cut out in the fabric of their choice.

Then we ironed it on to the square, and my Mom (the brilliant sewer that she is!) zig zag stitched around the edge of the owl so that the quilt will be washable.

The girls then embellished their squares with buttons and fabric pens.  Some decided to draw an owl freehand on a square as well.  We had everyone sign their squares (which I have purposely blurred in the photo) so that 'A' can remember all of her friends.  We pinned them to the curtain during the party for everyone to admire and to get an idea what the quilt will look like when Gramma sews it all together. (did I mention that she's a fantastic sewer?!)

The room that we used is right on the dock of the marina below us.  It was just a bare room when we started but it transformed into quite a lovely space for the party.  Gramma made a bunting out of the same fabric to decorate the party and it's now in 'A's room waiting for the matching quilt!

 The food had a sewing theme as well.

 'A' decorated these button cookies...

...and she wanted a "quilt cake" so we cut the cake into squares and she decorated each square with a different sprinkle.

And finally the goody bags!  We printed out the message "thank you SEW much for coming" and glued them onto each bag.  'A' then cut a scrap of fabric and tied it onto the handle and glued a button in the centre.  She was so happy with how they turned out.

Yes, I think you could say that the party was a real 'hoot'!

~ joey ~
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