This is the invitation that Braden made for Kaleb's Party - yep it's pretty good!!!
Kaleb has really gotten into Star Wars Clone Wars in the last little bit. He has the Wii game of Lego Star Wars and has gotten various Clone Wars characters, Clone Mask, Lightsaber and some other of their "stuff". He decided that this year he didn't want just a regular birthday party, but a Clone Wars one . . . so suddenly I'm off trying to figure out what to do.We decided that the party will be a Jedi Training Academy Party (like I've seen some parents do online) and hopefully with Master Jedi Braden in charge it will cut down on the Light Saber duels. They will be learning various Jedi "skills" and once they have been able to master them they will turn from Padawans to real Jedi's.
I also found free posters to download at the www.starwars.com site. This is an example of one of them. I'm getting Braden to print a couple of these up in a larger format to put around the food table.
I came across some really great sites - Tip Junkie especially - this one had a Star Wars bingo game on it. I took this idea and went a bit further with it to create a Clone Wars specific bingo game, with 12 different cards and a "key" to all the characters. I think I will be playing this at the party and also sending home 4 cards and a key with each child so that they can play it at home as well. I'm "enclosing" a pdf of what I did in case you would like to use it with your own kids sometime.
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On the Tip Junkie site it showed how the mom had made outfits for each of the boys. So I, of course, had to run out to Fabricland and I was pretty happy when I found that there was a HUGE sale on felt. I bought enough to make 11 jackets for the boys (tied with robe around the waist0 and then I have another brown material that I will be making a jedi robe for Kaleb and for "Jedi Master Braden" to wear as well - I know he'll just love it!!! Tee hee!
So - the party is now officially over and a huge *sigh* of relief - over and successful!!! Yay! Out of the 11 boys only 6 were able to make it, which actually made it easier and way more manageable. They all got along really well and I didn't have to worry about fights or anything - another huge YAY!
When the doorbell rang Braden would great each guest, along with Kaleb, in their matching Jedi robes and Kaleb would escort them over to myself and they would put on their own Jedi tunic. Then I had the Star Wars Ship along with characters ready to play with, Episode 1 of Clone Wars on and coloring pages of Clone Wars for them to color. This was to keep them all busy until all the boys came.
Once they were all here I sat them in the kitchen and showed them a picture of the Star Wars Galaxy and all the numerous planets that the Jedi need to defend. I then gave them each small styrofoam balls so that they could create their own planet with paint and special "gems" that they would be entrusted to protect as Jedi Knights.
After that it was downstairs for the Jedi Academy Obstacle Course. They needed to show their agility (jumping, climbing, crawling, running) and how they could pay attention to all details by searching for hidden "planets" (marbles) in another galaxy (a box of legos). Once they completed that they proved that they were worthy of being a Jedi Knight and each received their very own Light Saber. Their first task was to learn how to keep a balloon from touching the ground with only their Saber - yep - it was crazy and the kids had a blast!
Now, a room full of boys (and 2 sisters) with Light Sabers could be very dangerous so the next part of their training was learning that Jedi's DO NOT ATTACK people with their Sabers - it will not touch another person - ever!!! They did pretty well at it too. Master Jedi Daddy then showed them a bunch of choreographed moves (left shoulder, right shoulder, left shoulder duck - left leg, right leg, jump) Once they mastered them they each had a turn to training one-on-one with the Master - and Braden didn't even get the bruises that he was anticipating!
Then it was upstairs to have Yoda Soda (ice cream and Ginger Ale drinks), Darth Malts (ice cream and pink Fresca) along with Blue Light Sabers (straight pretzels dipped in blue chocolate - yum!!!), Separatist Chips (ketchup chips), and of course - CAKE! I made the cake last night and decided to make it simpler - just a brown planet with hills and bumps that the Star Wars characters could stand on.
After cake we opened presents.
Then we Destroyed the Death Star Pinata. It was the easiest pinata I've ever done. I found a soccer ball one at a party store on clearance - took off the black crepe-paper and then painted the entire thing grey. I then took a black sharpie and drew a straight line around the middle. Then with a lighter grey I made a few dots and lines and ta-da - Death Star! Oh, and for the dent in it I just cut a circle for the goodies and when I replaced it I just put in in concave - "easy-peasy" (as Emma would say).
Then we had more time to practice with our Light Sabers and receive our Certificates of Jedi Training. After that we did a bit more "Saber-ing" and playing with the toys and then the doorbell started ringing!
It was done - each child gathered their loot bags, certificates, planet and Light Saber and they were off. Now it's just us here - procrastinating from cleaning and blogging instead - hee hee!
So - Kaleb had an awesome time, and it seemed the the kids did too. And this was the last of the birthday parties in our house until December - YAY!!! Now just to do Kaleb's actual birthday tomorrow and we're done!
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