My Creative Side

Star Wars party for my five year old

 

Invitation:

In a galaxy far, far away…a boy of destiny was born. The Jedi Council named him Cooper and they knew he was the Chosen One. In the five years that has followed his birth, he has been learning the powers of the Force.

It is now time for Cooper and all the other younglings to complete their Jedi training and take part in the upcoming trials at the Alan Space Station on Saturday, January 23. Master Yoda has requested that Padawan Andrew appear promptly at 2:00 p.m. The trials will take no longer than two hours.

Please advise the Jedi Council at 555-6010 as to whether your Padawan will accept this challenge.
 

Alan Space Station
106 Peacock Drive
January 23 from 2:00-4:00 pm

Decorations:

We simply put out all of my sons Star Wars characters, ships, legos, etc. We concentrated them in the areas that the kids would be in the most. I also printed out C3PO and R2D2. I made them very large and printed them on several sheets of paper (choose the tile sheets option on your printer). I then cut them out and pasted them together. They looked really good and are now hanging in my kids rooms.

Costumes:

Each kid received a Star Wars tunic when they arrived. These were pretty simple to make. I purchased some heavy cloth at Wal-Mart—brown of course. I simply cut out rectangles (most ranged 52” x 12”) and cut out a diamond in the middle. That way the tunic slipped right over their head (the diamond cut out). Then I just cut an inch or two of the fabric to serve as a belt and there you go. The kids could not have been happier.

I also had my husband dress up as a master Jedi (he used a navy snuggie), my older son was his apprentice, and my niece came as Princess Leia. The rest of the adults received security badges with their names and pictures on them.

Games:

The kids were all gathered in the living room where they received their directions of the day. However, there were interrupted by news that Princess Leia had been taken captive by the dark side. In order to save her they had to go out side and pop a large mound of balloons. Once they did this their Jedi training could continue. They had blaster training where they used nerf guns to shoot droids pinned up on the trees in the back yard. Then our master Jedi and his apprentice led them in light saber training. They just taught them a few moves. Next they learned how to use the Force by moving a cup with their mind (this was a table covered with a table cloth, two Styrofoam cups [one cup, magnets, another cup with the top cut off, so that all put together it looked like one cup], a large magnet under the table). They loved this and every one of them were fooled. Their final challenge was to use the skills they have gained to take down our Master Jedi and his apprentice. This was a lot of fun because at this point the kids let their inhibitions down and really went after them.

Food:

Well, this proved to be much more difficult than I ever anticipated. I found these cup cakes on the internet that I thought surely I can duplicate. Not so much. They were normal cup cakes with edible lightsabers on top. I played with marzipan—that was a huge disaster. Then I went to pretzels that I dipped in colored chocolate. These looked ok until I put them on the cup cakes. So, my back up ended up working great. I made chocolate and yellow butter cup cakes. I topped them with Alton Brown’s cream cheese frosting. Then for decoration I topped the yellow cake with mini chocolate chips and the chocolate cake with mint Oreos. I cut the mint Oreos in half and with the green inside, these looked awesome and on theme.

I also served pigs in a blanket, fruit, chips, carrots, dip, and drink. Oh, I also had some bite-size brownies topped with whip cream and one strawberry. This was for the birthday boy who doesn’t like cake.

To wrap up the party:

After taking a class picture, we had a graduation ceremony. Each child received a certificate (that had their picture on it that we took when they arrived), a lightsaber (we got a lot of these for $2 each at www.sureglow.com), and they got to keep their tunic—great give-aways that the kids loved. They immediately put the swords to use until it was time to leave.

Great party!