The Children's Party

   Children's parties. I've thrown many of them and the fun part is always picking a theme and venue. We've done the airplane museum, indoor beach volleyball, the indoor playground, laser tag, princess, mini-golf, hockey/skating, and indoor amusement park parties.

The beach volleyball party

   I gave home parties until my kids started school.  I simply don't have the time to prepare, plan, and clean up for a home party with my busy schedule. But this year, my son begged me to have a Lego HOME party. After much convincing, I begrudgingly agreed to it.

   What followed was:

- a failed attempt at making Lego man cake pops (and a couple of trips to Michael's which for some reason is the only store here to stock candy melts)

- Lego wheels purchased on Ebay which I later found at the Lego store for a much better price

- hours spent tracing and cutting out circles and attaching them to bristol board to create Lego block decorations (DH's job)

- a desperate search around the city for brick candy to put in the loot bags, which only one store in my city carried

- an ingenious idea to purchase bags at the local store (5 cents a bag, cheaper than loot bags), 

- researching, planning and setting up Lego activities

- downloading the Lego font, printing it at home and Kinkos, then cutting each label and banner sheet to size

- enduring almost three hours of high energy

   I am grateful to the several online blogs for giving me so many great ideas.
   However, the next party will be out of the house.

5 cent Lego bags

The Lego labels were downloaded for free from the internet

The Lego blocks, an idea I got from other blogs were made from  bristol board and attached with velcro stickers to create a 3D look.