Throw a LEGO DUPLO Party for the littles. We are huge LEGO DUPLO fans in our house, so it was fun to host a house party for their new Read & Build line of toys.

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It was time to plan Alexander's 7th Birthday party and he asked for a Lego party! I began looking for Lego things to use for the party- not a whole lot out there that can just be bought from the store. So, thank goodness for the internet- lots of fun ideas, even nice people who are willing to share their ideas, pdf files, etc. for free! So, here are photos from the party. I will do my best to give you links to places that helped me, inspired me, etc. Here we go! The invitations were made using this download- so cute and it's free!: Here's the blog where I downloaded the invites from: http://cleof.blogspot.com/2010/07/lego-birthday-party.html She also had a Lego VIP tag included in the invite. I printed those VIP tags out onto photo paper, cut them out and put them inside some clear name tags I purchased cheap from Wal-Mart. Each kid got a VIP tag when they came in the door for the party! Another thing for when the kids were first arriving was to have them guess how many legos was in the jar: Decor: I really loved the Lego Party here: http://www.hostessblog.com/2011/07/a-modern-lego-inspired-birthday-party/ So, I just used my cricut to cut more white circles and glued them onto my table covers. Also, I bought some white circle stickers from Staples- used them on my cups for the Lego Candy Buffet! Fun little touch-hung these outside: Another cute, inexpensive idea is to cover juice boxes to look like Lego blocks. Here is where I got the free download for this: http://deliacreates.blogspot.com/2011/01/lego-juice-box-bricks.html Activities: Alexander wanted to do a pin the party hat on the lego man. So, I found it impossible to find an image large enough to make a decent lego man. So, I used this download here: http://twistynoodle.com/media/img/r/lego/lego-3/coloring_book_page_jpg_468x609_q85.jpg So, I used the paint program on my computer and blew up the lego man's individual pieces, then, used those printed images as templates to cut out each piece from colored posterboard. Then, I went around the edges with black marker. I glued him together on a green posterboard. I cut out my party hats using my cricut and added some white circle stickers. Here's the final product: I hand cut these lego men out using a free printable from: http://winksanddaisies.blogspot.com/2011/02/lost-lego-party-guy.htmlThen, I used my Cricut to cut hair, clothes, purses, hats, guitars, shoes, etc. for the kids to create their very own lego men/girls. I also cut door hangs using my circut. So, the kids glued their lego people on the door hangs to put on their bedroom doors at home. The kids working on their lego people: Here's a picture of the one my son made: I printed a few of the Happy Birthday men and used them as a banner: Another ativity was simple, but something the kids could play in-between planned activities, a lego building area- we didn't want to use all my son's small Legos so we used Megablocks instead. Outside activities included a Lego version of carrying a potato on a spoon. I used plastic spoons for each kid. There were 10 children- 5boys, 5girls. So, we divided up into 2 teams and had a relay race where the kids had to carry the lego (actually a megablock) on their spoon. The boys won that race. Another activity we did was a Lego toss. Again, I used megablocks for this. Each child had a chance to toss 4 Megablocks. I used a red vinyl tablecloth, cut a bit off, used tent stakes to hold down the four edges. Then, I adhered 6 white paper plates to the red and wrote the point value for each plate. The kids had fun doing this one! One thing I noticed- a lot of my activities took way less time than I anticipated! I'm not a professional party planner, that's for sure! Good thing we had the goody bags with coloring books and Lego creator gifts for everyone. So, the kids put their little lego planes and cars together for the last part of the party and some of them had fun coloring with the crayons shaped like legos! Lego Candy Buffet: The blue cups I used are small. I used white circle stickers on them to make them look more lego-ish. The white dotted balloons I found at Target in the party section. If I had not found dotted ones I was planning on just putting some white circle stickers on solid balloons. The mini candybars I covered with primary colored wraps. I used a paint program to create a solid strip with white circles, then printed, cut and wrapped my candybars. I found the red napkins with white dots at Target as well. The cake I had made by Publix. No way was I attempting that! lol! Gift bags: So easy- I just used my cricut to cut the white circles and pop dots to add dimension. The gift bag was filled with: 1.Lego man shaped crayons. (I bought mine from http://www.etsy.com/shop/poshpapercreations) 2.Lego candy (I bought mine from Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/Concord-BuildEm-EatEm-Assorted-Flavor/dp/tech-data/B000UH3R1W 3.Lego coloring book (I downloaded it from here- http://cleof.blogspot.com/2010/07/lego-birthday-party.html) I printed the first page onto green cardstock and used my Cricut Cuttlebug to emboss the dots on the front. 4.Lego packs- I saw them on sale at ToysRUs, of course, after I bought them somewhere else for more money, lol. The kids also took home their lego VIP tags and the doorhangs with their lego person on it as well as candy from the candy buffet! Other great links for Lego things: Free lego printables here: http://blog.aussiepumpkinpatch.com/2011/03/lego-party-printables.html More printables and ideas here: http://showerofroses.blogspot.com/2011/02/lego-themed-birthday-party.html Lots of fun things on etsy here: http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade?ref=auto&q=lego+birthday Thrifty: http://thriftydecorating-nikkiw.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-birthday-party-idea.html Fabulous: http://go.tipjunkie.com/pa/320/modernmomentsdesigns.com/2010/12/23/lego-birthday-party-actual-party/ Cool: http://www.livinglocurto.com/2010/06/lego-birthday-party/ Fun: http://www.polkadotchair.com/2010/05/lego-birthday-party.html Another one: http://mommygoneartsy.blogspot.com/2010/10/part-1-adams-6th-lego-birthday.html Fun ideas: http://www.stylelushblog.com/2010/03/party-post-.html Cute: http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2010/03/09/hes-six-lego-birthday-party/ Nice: http://stylishchildrensparties.blogspot.com/2010/09/lego-birthday-party-dessert-table.html Here ya go: http://www.yousaytoo.com/lego-birthday-party/434722 http://celebrationsathomeblog.com/2010/02/a-lego-birthday-party.html http://jcaugustine1.blogspot.com/2011/03/inspiration-lego-birthday-party.html http://kristencheney.blogspot.com/2011/03/lego-birthday-party.html http://bdaypartybrainstorms.blogspot.com/ http://www.productionnotreproduction.com/2011/01/so-you-want-to-throw-lego-party.html Link to Lego font: just scroll down and click on the lego image http://www.squidoo.com/lego-birthday-party-ideas http://partiesandholidays.blogspot.com/2011/01/lego-themed-birthday-party.html http://www.nicolehastings.com/2011/02/13/8th-birthday-lego-party/ http://funandthensome.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/party-obsession-building-a-lego-party/ downloadable lego bingo: http://www.bigdandme.com/2011/05/lego-bingo/ pinterest: http://pinterest.com/search/?q=lego+party http://crunchycatholicmomma.blogspot.com/2011/07/lego-party.html lego pirate party: http://notwithoutsalt.com/2011/05/17/legopirate-party/ http://angelnavywife.blogspot.com/2011/04/lego-party-decorations.html Alexander and his friends: I think the kids had a great time! tfl!, Charity

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The toddler loves his Duplo. Stickle bricks are just something to chuck out of their storage bucket so said bucket can be placed on head to facilitate Robot Dancing but Duplo is BLOCKSSSS!! He just about has the co-ordination and patience at approaching two and a half to get the bricks to connect but not enough to actually build things. He gets round this by scattering them randomly around the room, banging a couple together vaguely for a few minutes and then approaching one of us with an armful of bits and demanding we make a "Rocketpleeeeese" or maybe a "truckpleeeese" Occasionally we get asked for a helicopter, which frankly is impossible with Duplo supplied to make a couple of walls of a house with some flowers outside it. Rockets are easy peasy and we get round truck thanks to the wonderful Disney Cars Duplo my sister bought him for Christmas. Today, Small demanded a crane. He is obsessed with cranes right now, they're even outranking diggers in terms of ultimate coolness. Despite the difficulty of the task ahead of us, Big and I decided the least we could do for our progeny was give it a good go. I worked on the basic design, Big developed it and finally I refined the development until we had this - Yes, we even added a string you could pull to lift things up and down. Oh and there's our duplo Mater, who is possibly responsible at least in part for the crane fetish. It's a work of art, within the confines of the materials at hand, we ended up with something fairly accurate. We had Built. We were proud. Small was happy. Then we tried to play with it and it had all the stability and durability of a blancmange elephant transporter. Ooops. But Small loved it and wouldn't be distracted from it so we had a long afternoon of 'Crane Mummy! Crane broken! Fix it Mummy! Fix it Daddy! Oh dear, Crane broken! Fix it pleeeeeeeese. Mummy broken the Crane, Daddy broken the Crane! Oh dear'

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Tom preparing to blow out the candles on his cake. . Tom has been quite adamant that he wanted a Lego-themed birthday party for some while. This is hardly surprising given his obsession with all things Lego! We invited Tom's two best friends to tea after school and they had a great time playing together before we all sat down to enjoy Tom's Lego-themed birthday tea. I think everyone had a lovely time and everyone went home in one piece, so I shall rate it a success. Tom certainly went to bed one happy little boy, which is what it is all about! . The sideboard, complete with Lego models and party blowers. . I used the Lego man cookie cutter I bought at Legoland to make these gingerbread men. I iced them with ready coloured sugarpaste and then drew on the faces.  Tom's Lego cake. I made a sponge in a 9 inch square cake tin, halved it and sandwiched the two halves in the usual manner. I cut 8 marshmallows in half and put them on top of the cake. I used ready coloured icing in two colours to give the impression of two Lego bricks joined together. I wish the seam between the two 'blocks' were a little neater, but other than that I am quite pleased with how the cake turned out. A vase full of large bricks decorated the sideboard. . I made these Lego head 'pops' from marshmallows and covered them in royal icing before drawing on the faces. . I printed off the Lego signs onto white card and hung them from the light fitting above the table. I then chose a selection of Tom's Lego men to hang below the light. . We gave Tom this wind-up torch for his birthday. It made the perfect centrepiece for his birthday tea table . A not very good picture of the banner I made, which features some of Tom's favourite Lego mini figures. . Special mention: I just want to say a huge 'Thank you!' to Mum and Dad P. who did such a great job taking care of Emma so I could pull this tea off. I couldn't have done it without them. .

My Lego Duplo Wall ! Mommy and Daddy were tired of all my Duplos all over the floor so they came up with a solution Daddy screwed the Duplo mats to the wall and then bought bins and a mounting kit at IKEA Now I have lots of fun building and creating new masterpieces while keeping my bedroom floor clean Mommy is happy!