Is your child a fun-loving scientist? If so, then a mad scientist birthday theme is the way to go! Get ready to put your lab coats and goggles on for a fantastic party filled with crazy experiments the kids won't stop talking about! Check out these 24 Insane Mad Scientist Party Ideas! Check out this fun Science
Happy 9th Birthday, Sunny Studio!! I am SO happy for you and your wonderful success! Today, I get to take part in a Blog Hop to celebrate and I’m so glad YOU are here to help celebrate as wel…
Don‘t even get me started on how on Earth this boy is 9 already! I don’t want to believe it, yet here we are, one year away from double digits...crazy! So last year was the beginning of the pandemic and he had a quarantine style party, which still turned out pretty fun. This year that dang virus is still around but we got to have more family and friends over to celebrate which was really nice. I wanted to keep the party smaller because of that and I think it turned out perfectly.We were both stu
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Every Christmas my family picks a new theme to center our Christmas around. This year it was Harry Potter and IT WAS SOOOOOOO MUCH FUN. This post is for our Minute to Win it Harry Potter Games. I don't know what was more fun, putting together the party, or actually having the party. I ended up with so many ideas that I had to store them in one place. Here is a link that can connect you to all of my ideas! Now let's get started! Harry Potter Minute to Win it Games: Every Harry Potter party must include some sort of sorting to create teams. You can do this two ways : A tri-wizard tournament. A competition for house cup. I went back and forth on this, but in the end I decided to have it be a house cup with the teams of Slytherin vs Gryffindor. It's up to you to decide. Here's how we did it. I printed everyone's name in Harry Potter font on a piece of paper. Then I aged the paper with a wet cotton ball, a brown Crayola marker and a black Crayola marker. I carefully tore around all the names and then added some more black coloring around the edges to give them a burnt look. Then I placed all the names in my Triwizard cup that I bought at Target. Technically this is not how it was in the movie, but no one seemed to mind. They got the idea. We picked a captain for each team and the captains pulled the names out of the cup. Another idea would be to pull the names out of a sorting hat, OR better yet you could put the hat on each child's head and sort each child into a house. Here are two different scoreboards that you can use, depending on whether you have two teams or three. I think that for practical purposes two teams are the most efficient. House cup (two teams) version: Triwizard (three teams) version: Now that the teams have been sorted, let the fun begin! I awarded the team that won each competition 25 points. Print a copy of all the books (above) for each team and then cut them out. Mix up the books so that they are out of order. Lay them upside down in front of each team. When you say go each team has to put the books in the proper order. Sounds easy, right? Our biggest Harry Potter fan got two of the books mixed up so the other team won. 25 points to the team that gets the books in order first! Make as many copies of the pixies as you would like. I made 4 copies. Cut out the pixies and spread them out on the ground. You can cut out several layers at a time if you're are careful. The team that gathers the most pixies wins. 25 points to the team that finds the most pixies! For this one I had them make slime. This is where my trip to the dollar store in October really came in handy. I gave each team a cauldron, a glass of liquid starch (in the creepy hand glass), a bottle of white glue, a bottled water, one 1/4 cup measuring cup, some neon food coloring, and a recipe. Each team had to create the recipe with what they had. They had to figure out that for a 1/2 cup they needed to use 1/4 measuring cup twice. They also had to find something to stir it with. We were in the backyard, so they found the nearest stick. One team did the recipe out of order and found that it was difficult to mix. Unfortunately they lost, although their slime eventually came together. Here is the printout for the recipe: 25 points to the team who makes their confusing concoction first! Check out my latest Minute to Win it Game, Star Wars I had some fun with this one. This is where that trip to the dollar store paid off again. I had bought some plastic feathers, witch hat headbands, and had some leftover eyeball eye glasses from my Mad Eye Moody project. I glued the plastic feathers onto some pens and covered them with white tape (above). Then I had a member from each team put on the witch's hat and the glasses. They used the feather pens to write with. When I said go they had to turn the paper over and guess the patronus of everybody at the party. All the team members could help them. The team that got the most right in a minute won. For you I have a printout of all of the Patronesses from Harry Potter. You could use that if it's too much trouble to find out the Patronus for everyone at your party. Harry Potter Patronuses Answers 25 points to the team that gets the most patronesses in a minute! For this challenge I went to the thrift store and bought each team yellow shirts and ear muffs. I could only find one ear muff (we live in Las Vegas) so I used some headphones. Before we started a member of each team had to put on the yellow shirt with the ear muffs. Then I gave each team: -a glob of terracotta Crayola air dry clay -three paper leaves -a small pot with a label -a piece of chalk -instructions (see below) The first team done wins. Look how cute our Mandrakes turned out. The teams thought that they were supposed to name their Mandrake, so on the labels they wrote Phillip and Logan. My grandson thought that his team's Mandrake should be named after him. Here is a printout for the instructions: 25 points to the team that finishes their mandrake first! This awesome idea came from Pop Goes the Page Mandrake made ease Give each team a roll of aluminum foil, or set out an aluminum foil for the teams to fight over. You can either tell each team what animal that they need to create, or you can have them come up with their own creation. Here's some examples; Here are several ways to pick a winner: -The team with the most recognizable animal wins. -The team that finishes fasted wins -The team where everyone finishes their own transfiguration animal first wins. 25 points to the team that gets their transfigurations done first! Each team got one wand (we made the wands) and a package of 15 glow stick necklaces (Walmart). The team members had to make the necklaces glow and attach them together in a circle. Then they had to toss the necklace from 10 feet away to the person with the wand while saying the words "Wingardium Leviosa". The person with the wand had to catch the necklace. The team that caught them all first won. (Unfortunately I did not get pictures.) It was a lot of fun! 25 points to the team that catches all of their charms first! Minute to Win it Style Quidditch Each team got a poster board with three holes in it (see picture above) for a goal post. I just hand drew mine but here's an example below. You could print it at Office Max if you wanted. The person holding the poster (the Keeper) cannot move his feet, but he can move the poster. We had a team member from the opposite team stand by each goal post to make sure that the Keeper did not move his feet. If he did move his feet his team lost 10 points. Each team got 2 ping pong balls (guaffles) to throw through the goals. They had to throw them from 10 feet away. Every ping pong ball (guaffle) that they got through the goal was 10 points. The person who was keeping an eye on the Keeper kept score for their team. Each team had a Seeker. The Seeker's job was to find the Snitch that was hidden in somewhere in the yard. (I have a couple of Snitches that I made for my Christmas Tree.) Click here to see how I made them. The first team to find the Snitch got 150 points added to their score. The game ended when the Snitch was found. This was a lot of fun. Just a tip for your goal posts. One of our goals tore, so you could reinforce the back with duct tape. You could also make it out of foam core so that it's a little sturdier. Add all of the quidditch points to each of the team's score. The team with the most points wins! I made these cute awards for the winning team. I used m&m minis and glue gunned some silver paper around the base and glue gunned the medallion to the top. I have also done trophies on the top of Toblerones. Printouts for the House Cup Champions: Printouts for the Triwizard Tournament Champions: Here's a printout of all the games listed: All of my Holly's Home ideas are super fun and FREE! Just click on the picture to go to the link. Thank you for visiting Hollys Home!
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Have magical fun with your Harry Potter fans using this free printable Patronus Picker. Fantastic activity for all sorts of events & rainy day fun!
OMG. I'm sooo tired. Exhausted. But at least, it's over! All the big rush is OVER! It was my man's birthday the last week of august, the back-to-school for my big girl (she just started kindergarten), her birthday (a family supper last weekend, her real birthday on friday and the kids birthday party yesterday) and on top of that, she had a big allergic reaction on thursday at school, she got bite by a mosquito on her cheek and it got so puffy and swollen, the school got scared and called me. I had to go to the doctor rush rush that evening to get a prescription for EPIPEN and for Benadryl so they can have the authority to do the administration of the medecine in case it happens again. But now she's ok :) It was a crazy 2 weeks to be honest. It was really hard to deal with all the new routine, on top of all the birthdays. Now it's OVER and I can BREATHE! I was really proud of all the stuff I did for my daughter's 5th birthday party! It took a lot of time, but I was really happy with the result! Same with my daughters! A lot of DIY (thanks Pinterest) but wow it was worth it! And a big big thank you to my friend Genevieve who helped me a lot to do the decorations :) Here's a few pictures ! CREEPER TOSS This one is my favorite DIY project! I saw it on Pinterest, I found it was really cool! I also created those little pockets with red and white felt, rice, glue gun and a black Sharpie. The green panel I bought it at Michael's for like 8$ CDN, it was already folded like that. BALLOONS : I did also a lot of balloons ... I used colored balloons, differents ducktape colors (bought at Michael's, pretty expensive to be honest, it was like 7 or 8$ per roll... I had to buy 3! I also bought some crepe streamers for the arms for about 1-2$ per roll (used that also for other stuffs!) Here's Reuben the pig and an Enderman : Here's a CREEPER GASP My favorite one, a Mooshroom ! The Spider (and a little black cardboard with ducktape for the eyes, just for a little Enderman face) GIFT BAGS For the gift bags, I bought/made : - See through gift bags at Walmart (2$ for the pack), - 7 boxes Minecraft Blind Box Serie 3 at Toys r Us for about 4$ each, - 7 Hershey's chocolate bar at the dollar store and I printed some Chocolate Bar Wrapper here. Just had to glue them on the chocolate bar! The kids were so excited to eat Minecraft Chocolate Bar ;) - Minecraft Bookmarks that I printed here. I bought some crafting stuff to do the strings for 2$ at Walmart. - "Thank You For Coming" paper that I got here So it came up max 5-6$ per bag, thats pretty good I find. Previous birthdays I was going to the dollar store, but it always end up costing at least 10$ per bag in order to have something decent. The kids seems really happy ! The food table I had so much fun doing this! I had a hard time finding some nice FREE printable food labels.. They were either expensive, of just not really nice... I could have done them myself, but I didn't had the time to do it this time. I found some really nice one on another Blog (Fiveinsix). She made them herself and shared them on her blog, so thank you very much! I made 2-3 myself for the one that was missing.. The only thing I didn't do, it's the cupcakes and the cake. I have zero talent so thank you very much to Christine-et-gourmantines.com for those nice goodies :) I bought all the things at Bulk Barn and the grocery store. The diamond sword were really popular! For the grass, my mom made some brownies with chocolate frosting with food coloring. NETHER PORTAL I think this one was the more popular with the kids. It was super easy and cheap to do! I got the idea from Pinterest, I just bought 2 different purple crepe streamers and a black one, and I used construction paper for the NETHER banner. Happy Birthday Banner I also found a nice free printable banner here. I printed the letters, cut them and glue them on a thin cardboard (the paper where rolling up, so I had to find something more strong) and I used some green rope and a glue gun to fix the banner. Pretty simple! OTHER DECORATIONS I also put other regular decorations, I used a lot of crepe streamers in the Minecraft color theme. * Sorry for the bad lighting for the one on the window! ;) * And now, for the games! I had a lot of fun to do that too! Minecraft Mask I bought a big black cardboard (same one as the Creeper Toss!) and cut both side in 3 (it was making perfect squares) for a total of 6. I also bought a pack of wood sticks at Walmart (I used the glue gun to fix the stick on the back of the cardboard) *I used the middle of the cardboard to avoid any waste, to do the Enderman, the face next to the spider before* I just used a knife to do 2 holes for the eyes. I also cut a lot of little squares construction papers of differents colors and put them in differents bowls. I cut them the size for a perfect fit 8x8 like the template. I bought 6 small glue stick and a pack of wood sticks at Walmart. I made a table just for that, and it was a big hit! I printed the templates for the faces (I can't find the website, I'm sorry! But it can easily be found on google images for all the faces you want!) And for the last game... The Little Piggy! It was also a big hit !! Easy to make (just research pictures on Google Image, or just look at mine hehe!) and really fun! I used felt and glue! Super fun for the kids!
Last week I declared this week was going to be Birthday Week. Well, it’s Wednesday, and I’m finally getting around to it! A sinus infection and bronchitis (both kids also got hit with sinus, ear and eye infections) on top of new puppy duty will put you back a few days. Sheesh! So without further...
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Taking place at the Colorado rustic wedding venue, C Lazy U Ranch, this wedding sums up the perfect ranch wedding with western style decor. From the photographer: McKenzie and Sam came from Minnesota to have their quintessential Colorado Ranch Wedding. They couldn’t have picked a better venue than C Lazy U Ranch. The ranch’s “5-Spur Service” includes upscale cabin stays, activities on site and excellent catering which was perfect for their out of town guests. This salt of the earth couple thought of every little detail to make their wedding both personalized and on theme. During the reception the couple had a branding ceremony where they imprinted the Ranch’s logo on their boots.The whole day was very family oriented and focused on reliving past memories as well as creating new ones. Mckenzie and Sam didn’t let a sudden rainstorm dampen their outdoor reception and continued under cover with lively toasts, lots of laughter and tears of joy and dancing. Thanks to L Elizabeth Photography for sharing this rustic ranch wedding today. Sources – photography: L Elizabeth Photography / venue: C Lazy U Ranch, a Colorado wedding venue / music: Elite DJ Entertainment / event planner: L Elizabeth Events /officiant: Rev Steve Peterson / […]
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