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I'm pretty sure, if you are throwing a Paris themed birthday party, the expectation is that there will be Eiffel Tower decorations. I mean, who goes to Paris, without even glancing at the Eiffel Tower, right? I have plenty of small Eiffel Tower statues but when I think Eiffel Tower decorations, in my opinion, bigger is better. If you are crazy enough that you'd want to make your own Cardboard Eiffel Tower, keep on reading... Grab a ladder and some large cardboard boxes. With your first piece of cardboard propped or pinned to your ladder, from behind, begin to trace the bottom of your Eiffel Tower. The space between the inside of the ladder legs is perfect for the cut out at the bottom center of the Tower. Trace along the inside using the ladder legs to guide for width. After tracing each section or part onto the cardboard, I'd cut that section out before moving on to the next section, adjusting my design as I went. I used the outside of the ladder to determine the width of the Eiffel Tower, again, tracing from the ladder side to determine the shape I used. At the base, I also kept the flap, folded backwards for the ladder to rest on, providing additional support. I used two pieces of cardboard to construct my Eiffel Tower. At the base the cardboard piece went width-wise and the top {connected with tape from the back} I used length-wise. I would have been happy keeping the Eiffel Tower propped against the ladder but the Mister didn't like the idea of 14 nine year old girls being able to climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower so he made a stand. But, really, if you want to save yourself the trouble of making a stand, simply keep it clipped to the ladder...just like the picture below, the Eiffel Tower is propped against the ladder. Once I finished tracing out the shape and cutting it down, I started working on the design. My ruler, pencil, eraser and some Google images of the Eiffel Tower were all that I needed. In pencil, I drew out the design I thought worked best. I started with the bottom, which is why one side looks a little wonky, by the time I got to the middle, I worked out the kinks. The key is to draw lines in sections all the way across the tower and work your Xs {or grid} spaced evenly between the lines. When my design was completed, I painted over my pattern with black paint. I left the cardboard in it's natural state. Once it was finished, I topped it with the French flag. The perfect finishing touch. Then, I let the Mister worry about how we would transport this 7 1/2 foot tall Eiffel Tower to the Paris party. Like any tourist, I was busy on getting the typical tourist pictures...because, if you are going to go to Paris, you need to get a picture in front of the Eiffel Tower.
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If you are planning a LEGO birthday party or simply like LEGO, try this twist on the popular games of Charades or Pictionary! Print for free, make and play.
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Tobin is a party planner after my own heart. Shortly after last year's Space party, he'd already decided that for his next birthday he wanted a "Knights and Dragons" party. It was an easy party to put together. We got back from Texas on Sunday 3/18 and I realized that the following Sunday was really our best/only option for his party. I didn't get much else done last week other than mountains of post-vacation laundry, cleaning the house, and getting things together for the party. But a party you can get ready for in one week? AWESOME. This was Tobin's first friend party - we've always just had family in the past. And this child takes friends SERIOUSLY. We managed to limit the guest list to 12 kids - we ended up with 10, including our own 2 littles and 2 cousins. But he wanted to invite every friend we saw, and each new friend he's met since the party. Sunday we met a family with an Ethiopian born daughter, and he played with them for about 30 minutes before Luke's soccer game, while I talked adoption with the mom. And Tobin said, "Can we invite Grace & Zelly to my birthday party?" Um, honey, we don't really know them, and your birthday party was last week.... When Tobin was a baby, I had a dragon costume for him and a knight costume for Luke for Halloween. Tobin wore Luke's old costume for the party. I had a super cute knight costume I got on clearance a few years back, thinking Tobin could wear it and our next baby could be the dragon. And then we didn't ever have another baby. That knight costume is now the perfect size for Micah, but he wasn't having any of that! We used toys and things we already had for decoration (like our awesome pop up tent thingy, which was the best purchase we made last year)... Kool-aid was made fancy by plastic goblets from the dollar store, and grapes and cheese cubes with little sword toothpicks were a hit. Each kid had a shield with a special knight/lady name. To make the shields, I traced the plastic shield we had (from Dollar Store) onto foam board a bunch of times, cut them out and spray painted them silver. I used duct tape to make handles on the back. I got the idea for the knight names at Family Fun, but rather than playing a game to assign names, I just decided ahead of time (so we wouldn't have to take time in the party to write names on the shields.) I had a bunch of stickers for the kids to decorate their shields - this is what they did as we waited for everyone to arrive. Luke and I also made a ton of balloon swords... Because knights need swords, but I've lived with boys long enough to know that I wasn't handing out anything remotely sword-like in a crowd of kids. I can't even give my kids chopsticks because they use them for a sword fight! I found a couple of places that explained how to make balloon swords, but this one was the best. In case you want to make some yourself - I thought Luke & I could blow up the balloons. For these long balloons, we found an air pump to be totally necessary. Not because we got light headed (which is what I expected), but because we were physically incapable of blowing the balloons up at all by ourselves. After the sword fighting demolished most of the balloons, we headed to the back yard for our Dragon Egg hunt. I spray painted about 24 cheapo easter eggs with the same silver paint I used on the shields, then filled those along with every other egg we had. Luke loved hiding them for me, and we hid a few in easy places on the deck for our youngest knights (the rest were more challenging - Tobin continued to find eggs in the back yard for a week.) After everyone had eggs in their bags, we broke out the cupcakes. I love having cupcakes at a kid party. Luke's first party (that I was in charge of - the year he turned 6) was a pirate party. I was an overachiever back then, and made him the awesome pirate ship cake from the Family Fun site. Then I watched him blow all over it, only to have him announce just as the door shut on the last friend, "My throat hurts." Yep. He blew strep throat all over that cake. Anyway: CUPCAKES! Besides wanting to invite friends, Tobin's only other request for this party was a pinata. I was a little worried about this, since we just had a week to find one. But they had an awesome dragon pinata at the local party store - and this is what set our color scheme for the party. After we were finished with treats, we lined the kids up on the deck and let them go at it (I was happy to have a set up where it seemed like no one would get whacked with the bat...although the successful batter did throw the bat at the end, so watch for that.) We only made it halfway down the line before Mr. Dragon got busted wide open. Thankfully, Tobin DID get a turn at bat. I hadn't even thought about what would happen if the birthday boy didn't get a turn to swing... I did reserve some of the candy - it wouldn't all fit in the dragon anyway - and after the kids finished with the pinata, I dumped more candy in their bags, making sure everyone went home with a good amount. After the candy had all been snatched up, we had "jousting games." I just set up games we already had - a kickball croquet set and some other yard games. I also set up the bubble machine my parents bought for the boys while we were in Texas. I always thought those things were a racket ("back in my day, we just blew bubbles like normal people!"), but with young kids constantly spilling bubble juice everywhere? A bubble machine is a GREAT idea. It was a fun party treat too, the kids loved it. I planned the party for an hour and a half, and the kids had 20ish minutes to play at the end of the time. Easy peasy. And suitable for boy and girl guests, which is good since we have girl cousins and several of T's closest friends are girls. Yay for knights and dragons!! (I took pictures of T with each of his guests as they left...hence no pics with the cousins, since they stayed for dinner.) If you are thinking of throwing a Knight party yourself, check out my pinterest birthday board, I have lots of fun ideas pinned - some of them WAY too elaborate or expensive for me, but still super cute.
Let's go fly a kite! Or at least make one. Check out how easy it is to make a paper kite craft and pretend you are Mary Poppins!
You will love these Olympic-themed party ideas, from food to backyard games and lots of kid-friendly crafts! Who else is super excited about the Olympics starting? We cannot wait! Especially since it's now been 3 years since the last Olympic games. As a family, we decided that we're going to have an Olympic-themed party for the opening ceremonies, and my kids are already brainstorming ideas. There are so many fun ideas that we found, we just had to share with you guys. Which one of these ideas is sticking out to you? I want to make them all! This isn't
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Less than a week before Ella’s birthday party, she told me that she thought we needed a craft. Normally, I would have had a moment of sheer panic, but since the party was already geared to be super low-key, I felt sure we could pull it together in the nick of time. I took to...Read More »
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Spiderman Birthday Party We did it! We survived this year's birthday party for my 5 year old. He wavered for months about the theme, but in the end Spiderman won and we had a wonderful Spiderman birthday party. Our party was small. My son only invited 4 friends and his brother was able to invite
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Huch? Schon Februar? Und ich hab euch noch gar nichts von der Geburtstagssause des kleinsten Ü, vom Laser Tag erzählt! Kraisch! Ihr dachtet bestimmt schon ich habs vergessen! Aber neinnein, nixda! Es war allerdings dieses Jahr so, dass wir mal wieder ewig gebrauchet haben, bis wir uns zu einem Event entschlossen hatten. Das Problem ist, er ist ja schon GROSS! Ziemlich GROSS. Da sind von Mama organisierte Kindergeburtstage natürlich sofort raus. Als erstes. Klar. Uncool weil sich das so nach Baby anfühlt und anhört. Versteh ich. Logo. Man muss als.......äh Heranwachsender?........außenhäusig feiern und wenn ich ehrlich bin, finde ich das bei einer Horde großer Jungs und einem Mädel auch gar nicht so unlistig dieses Bestreben zu unterstützen. Hab ich hinterher wenigstens noch ein bewohnbares Haus. Wie sagte mein Cousin kurz nach dem Einzug in sein neues Haus doch damals schon so treffend: "Mal schauen, obs (das Haus) nach der nächsten Geburtstagsparty schon abgewohnt ist und wir abreißen müssen." Der Mann neigt familiär bedingt zu extremen Formulierungen ;-), aber ganz unrealistisch ist so ein Szenario nicht.......naja......also vielleicht nicht bei Elfjährigen.....aber wehret den Anfängen oder so ähnlich, ne? Okay. Wir also raus zum Lasertag. Cool ists, sagt der Sohn. Also musste auch ne coole Einladung her. Das war das Äußerste, was ich noch so grade machen durfte. Wenns also in den kommenden Jahren hier auf dem Blog nix mehr zum Thema Kindergeburtstag gibt, wisster Bescheid! Die sind hier einfach alle soooo groß, da gehts für mich und euch erst bei den Enkeln weiter ;-D. Aber heute ist heute und heute gibts jetzt erstmal die Einladungen zur Lasertagparty! Na dann starten wir mal. Ich hab mir zunächst aus dem Netz einfach ein Bild von einer Pistole rausgesucht, die......so glaube ich........so ähnlich aussieht wie die Dinger in der Lasertaghalle. Ich hab ja keine Ahnung von sowas. Ich war ja noch nie da. Aber der Sohn gab sein okay, so ähnlich sehen die wohl aus und wenn man später eh nur noch die Umrisse sieht......na also. Meine Pistole war DIE HIER. Ich hab mir einfach das zweite Bild in der Seitenansicht auf Din A4 ausgedruckt und ausgeschnitten. Die Umrisse hab ich dann auf EINEN von zwei schwarzen Malkartons übertragen. Den zweiten Malkarton klebt man dann mit einem Strich Klebestift von hinten auf den ersten (Den Pistolenlauf unbedingt frei und unverklebt lassen, da muss später ja noch das Knicklicht befestigt werden!) und schneidet nun die beiden übereinander liegenden Kartons gleichzeitig aus. Ha ;-D.......oder läßt ausschneiden ;-D......denn hallo!......die ersten 2 hab ich noch alleine ausgeschnitten, dann hab ich mir den Junior rangeholt. Sind ja schließlich seine Einladungen und wirklich.......ich glaub ich hab seit dem Kindergarten nicht mehr soviel ausgeschnitten ;-DDD. Und er auch nicht. Gacker. Dann braucht ihr noch euren Einladungstext. Da zaubert ihr euch mal eben in eurem PC Schreibprogramm irgendwas in der Art zurecht, wie ihr das hier oben auf den Bildern sehen könnt. Eine andere Möglichkeit ist aber auch, mit dem weißen Edding, den ihr ja eh gleich zum Umranden braucht, den Text per Hand drauf zuschreiben. Den Text dann auf die Pistole aufbringen und die Pistole mit dem weißen Edding umranden. Für den Pistolenlauf machen wir noch etwas Feuer. Dafür nehmt ihr ein wenig gelbes oder oranges Transparentpapier und schneidet es an einer Seite etwas zipfelig. Ohje......:-D lach.....ich und meine Beschreibungen. Aber ihr wisst, was ich meine, ja? Das Transparentpapier wird dann am unteren Ende eines Knicklichts mit etwas Klebestift angebracht und mit einem Streifen Tesafilm innen zwischen den beiden Kartonblättern auf die Spitze des Pistolenlaufs geklebt. Alles klar? Jetzt müsst ihr nur noch die Pistole an allen noch nicht miteinander verbundenen Stellen mit Klebestift zusammenkleben. Insbesondere an der Spitze, also dem Pistolenlauf ordentlich Kleber auftragen und zum Fixieren bis alles trocken ist ruhig mit zwei Wäscheklammern fixieren. Ehrlich gesagt, hatte ich mir vor Jahren mal geschworen, dass es bei uns nie einen Kindergeburtstag mit Abknallspielchen geben wird. Ich hab ja meine Prinzipien und so und bin überhaupt ein friedliebender Mensch. Überhaupt fand ich Waffenspiele und Waffen sowieso immer schon saublöd und wir hatten jahrelang die Abmachung, dass es Knarren bei uns im Haus maximal nur zu Karneval gibt. Da bin ich quasi schon zum ersten Mal eingeknickt durch Belabern ;-). Jajaja......irgendwann kam dann die logische Frage "Und was ist denn mit Wasserpistolen?" Hm.........die fand ich eigentlich in Ordnung. Na ist ja nur Wasser und so. Besonders an heißen Tagen. Zumindest fiel mir spontan keine dufte Gegenargumentation ein, mit der man einem 5jährigen auch noch die Wasserpistole ausgeredet bekommt. Jajajaja, ich knickte also zum zweiten Mal ein Dank kindlich brilliant einfacher und überzeugender Logik und Argumentation. Zuerst hatten wir dann nur so eine klitzekleine Püüüüplöp aus dem Supermarkt, deren Wasserstrahl ungefähr so gefährlich war, wie Ameisenpipi. Aber dann. Dann kamen diese unsäglichen Riesenwasserpistolen. Wißt ihr? Die, die sogar Rambo blaß werden lassen. Zuerst hatten wir nur die allerkleinste Wasserpistole aus der Serie (BELAAAABERN können die einen, ich sags euch!). Zuerst. Inzwischen haben wir sie alle und bei uns in der Garage siehts aus wie im Waffenlager der IS. Irgendwann nach dem Kauf der größten Wasserwumme, dem logischerweise daraus resultieren Wunsch nach den ähnlichen Modellen mit Gummipfeilen, den wir selbstverständlich umsetzten und unserer ersten Softair hab ich aufgegeben.......oder nein: Hab ich mich dem hingegeben und kaufe seitdem ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken jeden bescheuerten Superherofilm in dem rumgeballert wird, als gäbe kein Morgen. Und mache eben auch Ballergeburtstage schon mit 11 und hoffe, dass ich mir hier keinen Attentäter ranzieh. Was ist auch mir geworden? Eine echt durchsetzungskräftige Mutter, die nach zwei größeren Brüdern den Kleinsten einfach Sachen machen läßt, bei denen ich mir früher nur die Haare gerauft und die Augen verdreht hätte. Man stumpft da wahrscheinlich ab. Aber vielleicht ist es auch alles gar nicht so bescheuert, wies sich aus mädchenmäßiger und pazifistischer Sicht so anhört. Schließlich sind ja die großen Jungs auch nicht zu Massenmördern und ständig gewaltbereiten Kids geworden. Wahrscheinlich muss man zuhause und insbesondere in den ersten Lebensjahren und grundsätzlich und überhaupt im Gesamtumgang miteinander einfach die richtige Lebenseinstellung vermitteln, dann klappt auch mit den Knallspielchen. Oder sauf ich mir das jetzt schön? Der jüngste Sohn sieht jedenfalls auf diesen Bildern erstmal nicht wirklich voll gefährlich aus. Eher hamsterig niedlich. Das ist doch schon mal gut ;-). Und auch die eingeladenen Gäste waren auf dem gleichen Gefährlichkeitslevel.........hahahaha.......ne ehrlich, alles ganz liebe und harmlose Jungs und Mädels. Wahrscheinlich gehört das auch irgendwie dazu, sowas mal gemacht zu haben. Sonst weiß man ja auch nie worüber man redet. Vielleicht sollte ich das auch mal machen und feststellen, dass mich das nicht zum verkappten Killer transformiert. Habt ne dolle Woche ihr Pazifisten ;-)! Material: schwarzer Malkarton Din A4 pro Pistole 2 Bögen pro Pistole 1 Knicklicht Oranges oder gelbes Transparentpapier Weißer Edding Skalpel, Cutter Klebestift Tesafilm Schere PC-Ausdruck mit Einladungstext
I think Tangled is such a cute movie and it was one of the first Disney movies my daughter and I watched together as she thought Ariel and Beauty and the Beast were to scary and Tangled is fairly tame in comparison. So I compiled a round-up of free Tangled birthday printables Get free Tangled party invitations from Disney Family Get this free printable Tangled birthday invitation from Punch Bowl Get free Tangled sun flags from My Paper Lily Get free printable Tangled cupcake toppers - source unknown Get Tangled food labels from Oh My Fiesta Get Tangled water bottle labels from Daisy Celebrates Make Pascal Party blowers with free template from Disney Family Get a Tangled party hat or crown from Family Shopping Bag Make Rapunzel's purple popcorn with recipe from Disney Family Make Rapunzel's paint palette cupcakes with recipe from Disney Get free printable Thank You cards from Disney Family Send guests home with a Tangled candy gift box And you can find Tangled activities and printables here
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This Thomas the Train birthday party for L was probably one of my favorites. This post has been on my to do list for way to long now, I’m excited to share the details of the party. Hopefully if you’re...Read More
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