Kids of both genders love Legos, and you probably have most of the materials you will need to throw this party if your child is a LEGO enthusiast. Be creative and get ready to have a fun time!
Invitations: DIY invitations are simple to make with card stock in bold primary colors of red, yellow or blue. Fold sheet in half. Add a pair of contrasting circles to the front with glue as the LEGO studs. (Use soup cans or similar sized cans to trace the circles.) Put all the pertinent details on the inside. If you prefer, there are many construction-themed invitations choices on-line or at party stores. Encourage your guests to dress in jeans and t-shirts in primary colors.
Decorations: Use primary colors for your decorations. Select red, yellow and blue for your plates, napkins, flatware and balloons. (If making the Magical Thirst Quenchers for drinks, buy clear cups.) Your child can craft some LEGO creations for a centerpiece.
For added detail make your own construction signs with poster board. Cut the paper into diamond shapes and write "Kids at Work" on them (or similar ideas).
At the beginning of the party, outfit each guest with a hard hat and a waist apron. Hard hats are $6 per dozen at Oriental Trading Company. Waist aprons are $15 per dozen at Oriental Trading Company.
Activities: A great ice breaker for this party is a guessing game. Fill a clear jar with LEGO bricks. As each guest arrives, have him or her guess how many bricks are inside, and write down the name and answer. At the end of the party, the child whose guess came closest to the real answer wins the entire jar.
Games: Organize a LEGO Hunt. Before the party hide a variety of LEGO bricks around the party area. At the appointed time give the signal to the kids to begin searching for them. Count the number of bricks each child finds to determine the winner. (Waist aprons are very useful for collecting bricks.) You can decide if the children get to keep the bricks or not. Another variation is to assign scores to the different brick colors to determine the score and the winner.
LEGO Chopsticks is a great party challenge. Have a pair of disposable chopsticks for each guest. Fill several bowls with an assortment of small objects, like big buttons, erasers, crayons and LEGO bricks. Have 3 or 4 kids at a time use their chopsticks to pick up as many objects as they can in two minutes. The child or the group with the most objects at the end wins.
Organize a Skyscraper Challenge. Give each child a small pile of LEGO bricks and have the group sit in a circle on the floor. Put one brick in the middle (on a tray to add some stability if the room is carpeted.) Going around the circle, each child adds one piece from their pile to the top of the growing tower. How high can they build it before it topples over?
Crafts: Hold a construction contest. Give each child a kit with 30 tooth picks and at least 80 mini marshmallows. (Once you figure out how many 80 are - you can eye ball the rest). Ask your guests to build something with these materials. Give awards for the most creative, scariest, smallest, biggest etc. - think of awards ahead of time or as you see the creations unfold. Take a picture of each child with his or her creations. Pictures make excellent favors for a party.
Ants are great builders. If you want a paper activity to settle the group down, print a coloring page featuring these creative creatures at work.
Food: For party food give each child a "brown bag lunch". Include a sandwich, some pretzels or chips and a few carrot and celery sticks. Your LEGO maniacs may also enjoy building some fruit kabobs. For drinks serve a magical thirst quencher. These layered drinks will be the talk of the town.
Cake: You can transform any cake into a LEGO cake. Bake a rectancle or square cake and 4 or more cupcakes. Turn the cupcakes upside down, place them on top of the cake as the LEGO brick "studs", and frost everything with buttercream icing. Add "paste" blue, red or yellow food coloring to your white icing to get the vibrant LEGO shades.
Favors: For party favors thinks LEGOs. You can purchase small LEGO sets for about $3 at discount stores or toy stores. At "official" LEGO stores you can buy pieces in bulk. The bulk bins have some unusual colors and some unusual pieces. Buy a handful for each child or create a special favor kit with select pieces. To finish the favor, add Tootsie Rolls or other small candy, if you choose. Wrap in cellophane bags and tie with primary colored ribbons.
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