Showing posts with label party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label party. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

ONE STOP STAR WARS PARTY SHOP

Right here in this post you will find ideas, pictures, free tutorials and printables to make your party a memorable & adorable one!
I thought I'd do a post similar to something I was hoping I'd find while preparing this last minute Star Wars party for our two littles in two days.  I had no idea what I was venturing into... but nothing I found was light colored or the look I was going for.  So I made my own and figured someone else may be in the same boat wondering if it was possible to have a Star Wars theme and a cute party not be mutually exclusive.  Granted the party took place at night so the party photos don't really do the "fun-ness" justice but you'll get the idea and this post will hopefully be a launch pad for your own ideas!  These were the invites to our shin-dig but there are two printable invitation options for your printing pleasure down below.
Our Party's Itinerary:

Entertainment was purely that!  We had a special visit from Star Wars Characters!  Rey taught all our young ones Jedi training and they all got to test their new skills with their dollar store light sabers on Kylo Ren!  Our friends Ian and Christina Jensen's costumes & acting were AMAZING!

The other games they played involved two sets of teams using two noodle light sabers each (from Target) and getting whiffle balls across the lawn.  Whoever got most won!  They loved this one.

Another game played (in addition to the impromptu light saber battles throughout the party:) was the classic Darth Vader piƱata which I also got at Target.

The main event was watching Star Wars on the big screen outdoors with all the fun fixings to munch on that they each put in their white paper bags to take outside and then home with them.

This party was an absolute blast to plan and even more fun to watch the kiddos enjoy!

As always, this is not a sponsored post but I wanted to throw out a special thanks to AZCookieCorner for the adorably delicious cookies and SurpriseCakes for making this scrumptiously delectable one!  Could NOT believe they were able to do this with such short notice.  These ladies are BEYOND CREATIVE and TALENTED.


Click the image below to enlarge our party's pictures and get some ideas for your own!

Here's a preview of what your printables will look like!

TO PRINT YOUR FREE HIGH RESOLUTION STARWARS PRINTABLES JUST 
CLICK WORDS OF WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO PRINT BELOW!

LIGHT SABER HANDLES (see below)

THESE ARE FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY.  Please feel free to share and direct people to updikeupdates.com to print their own!  Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Star Wars or Disney and these are just artist's renditions of the characters put onto printables that I have created and am now SHARING WITH YOU!  The character's pictures I purchased for private and commercial use from ClipArtopia and LightBreezeBoutique.  Click on their names to view their cute shops!

FUN DECOR TIP!  To make what I used for the backdrop I just taped two strips of streamers together to make them wider and then folded them up so I could cut fringe more quickly along the sides.  Unravel, tape up, and complete them with the printable handles below to finish your light sabers!
BELOW YOU WILL FIND TUTORIALS TO MAKE THE EASIEST, QUICKEST AND CHEAPEST COSTUMES FOR YOUR LITTLEST JEDI'S!



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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

My Favorite Things Party

 Quick synopsis of our past 6 months... Greg and I had been renting while house-hunting and fell in love with the ward.  Long story short... and many friends later... we went from thinking we'd only be transients in a ward to looking to buy a home just so we could be in it. :)  Shortly after moving in... guess what happened.  Yup, our ward split... and we were suddenly out.  Ironic, right? 

On the bright side... we're a stone's throw away from the boundary and still very close with all our friends... while getting to make new ones in our fun new ward.  Before attending our new ward I was called as the Primary Chorister so I've literally never attended Relief Society or Sunday School.  Not that I don't adore my "little friends" and my calling... but I decided that I needed to make more of an effort to get to know ladies that weren't born in this century. :)  To do this, I though it might be fun to have a little get-together with a few ladies that I had met, as well as those I visit teach.





 Denise and her culinary self made some delicious coconut bread, egg & sausage bites, and little schnitzels.  Thanks Denise!


 We each brought our favorite thing that was $6 or less.  
We also wrote 5 things about ourselves and had to guess what they were.  The two that got the most right, won a little prize, 'cause after-all "Chocolate Never Faileth.":)  
We also voted on who was "warmest" and another who had the "most energy," they each got a little something that corresponded to their respective "gifts," (ie: Handwarmers and Bottled up Energy:). 
 We had a tie in awesomeness so we had
to rock-paper-scissor it out. :)

 Lovely ladies and even sweeter friends.
Nani's cute little David.
 I am so lucky to be surrounded by such amazing women and even more blessed that I can call them my wonderful friends.  Thanks for letting me soak up your sweetness.