Percy Jackson Themed Party Food Ideas & More! Includes free printable cards and graphics to use.
Oh the perils of planning a program around a series I have not read. While planning for Summer Reading, one theme TAG kept menti...
Celebrate your birthday Percy Jackson style at a Camp Half-Blood party right in your own backyard. Invite all your demigod friends and go on a quest.
Percy Jackson Themed Party Food Ideas & More! Includes free printable cards and graphics to use.
Usually during the Summer we have to beg our kids to read. Refreshingly, the griping has been almost non-existent this year. We started reading the Percy Jackson series together, and the kids have loved it. The books are really well written, and are extremely fast paced so it keeps our young readers attention. Some of our little ones aren't advanced enough to read the books yet so we downloaded the Audible versions for them to listen to while everyone else read it. Honestly, it might be one of the best Audible books I've ever heard. I'm so impressed with the narrator's ability to speak in so many voices. I've enjoyed listening to it just as much as the kids! If you are interested in reading or listening to the books we noticed that The Lightning Thief (the first book in the series), the Audible versions of the books, and the boxed set are all on sale on Amazon right now! HOST A PERCY JACKSON PARTY We are about halfway through the series, and decided to have a little fun with it. Never ones to shy away from a chance to throw a good themed party, we came up with the idea to have Percy Jackson pool party. We used the books as inspiration, and invited anyone who has been reading the books along with us. There were Pegasus floats, themed food, and - because the boys are involved - tridents on the ready for battle. Make the hop over to Savvy Sassy Moms to see more details and photos from the Percy Jackson Party and check out all the ideas on how you can host your own. We also share a free printable for discussion cards to keep the conversation going. What books are your kids reading for Summer? We are always looking for more good ones to keep our readers motivated? We'd love to hear! Come spend the day with us on: | Instagram | Pinterest | Facebook | Twitter |
I've had a load of hits on my old Valentine's posts, so I thought I'd collect them all in one place. So if you're in need of a last minute ...
I think I am doomed to become like Peter Pan. I have an aversion to growing up, and I prefer to spend my time in an imaginary land filled with monsters, magic, and middle school kids. Okay, so I just really like children’s books. So sue me. I would probably post more blog posts about legit literature if I ever read it, but I don’t. So today you get a sampling of one of my favorite children’s series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, by Rick Riordan. I discovered Percy Jackson about a year ago, and I was rolling with laughter as I read each book. Rick Riordan is hilarious! For instance, here are some chapter titles from The Lightning Thief (book 1 of the series). Chapter 1: I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher Chapter 2: Three old ladies knit the socks of death Chapter 6: I become supreme lord of the bathroom Chapter 10: I ruin a perfectly good bus Chapter 12: We get advice from a poodle Just reading these chapter titles made it one of my new favorite books. Reading the hilarious, action-packed stories with all sorts of history lessons about ancient Greece hidden in awkward encounters with modern Olympian gods just solidified my love for them. This series is second only to Harry Potter in my mind. And that is saying something. Okay, so you get the point that Percy Jackson is awesome. So here’s the how it relates to food. Percy is a demigod: his dad’s a Greek god and his mom’s a mortal. Because he’s a demigod he gets a lot more interaction with the gods than mortals. One of the perks of being a demigod is that he can eat the food of the gods – ambrosia – which has healing properties. That is, unless he were to eat too much – then it would burn him from the inside out. Anyway, Percy describes ambrosia not as fruit salad, but as little squares. In The Last Olympian (book 5), Percy narrates, “I took out a square of ambrosia – part of the emergency god-food I always kept with me. It was a little bashed up, but Nico chewed it” (Riordan 254). The books don’t give us much more description of ambrosia than this, so I got to get creative in my interpretation. I had always pictured ambrosia squares as kind of like lemon squares, only less cakey, sweeter, and more creamy. They had to be able to travel well on hero quests, without getting much worse than “a little bashed up.” So I searched high and low for a recipe to fit those criteria. That’s when I discovered a recipe for Cream Cheese Bars on AllRecipes.com. I altered it only slightly, adding a little flour and lemon to the mix. Here’s my adaption, to make it into ambrosia. Ambrosia Squares Prep time: 15 min. Cook time: 45 min. Total time: 1 hour. 1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix 1/2 cup butter, melted 1 egg, beaten 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened 2 eggs, beaten 1 ½ tbps lemon juice 1 tbsp flour 3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 15 x 10 inch sheet pan. Mix together cake mix, butter or margarine, and 1 egg. Press mixture into pan. (It should look like play-doh.) In a small bowl, mix together cream cheese, 2 eggs, lemon juice, flour, and confectioners' sugar. Pour mixture on top of cake mixture. Bake for 15 minutes. Reduce temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), and bake for 25 to 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Sift about ½ cup powdered sugar on top. Cool completely and cut into squares. These things are AMAZING! And very simple to make. The cake mix layer has the consistency of a soft sugar cookie with a yellow cake flavor. The cream cheese layer is like creamy lemon cheesecake. What could be better? You can adapt it to however you might imagine the ambrosia squares by adding different ingredients to the cream cheese. Maybe add marshmallow cream, or chocolate, or raspberries, or vanilla extract. Whatever you feel would qualify as “god-food,” you can add. I highly recommend these addictive little treats. But be careful not to eat too much! You may not burn to a crisp, but you will definitely have to burn off a lot of calories!
Percy Jackson Themed Party Food Ideas & More! Includes free printable cards and graphics to use.
We had a Percy Jackson Birthday Party for my daughter's 10-year-old birthday with games, activities, food and more which I'll tell you all about here.
This party was over a year ago for J's 9th birthday. The party was based on the book The Lightening Thief . The book is about a 12 year old ...
It's time to embark on an adventure and discover who your Godly parent is! See where you'd fit into the world of Percy Jackson with this quiz.
This is a story of a boy who turned 10. Turns out he is a demi-god. So we threw a party. Gandalf loves to read. Like most boys his age he loves the Percy Jackson series. We thought that would be a great theme for his next party. So I ended up...Read More »
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