Owen turned 6 on Saturday! I can hardly believe it. Here’s the Lego King himself wearing the crown I actually forgot to have him wear during the party. Ha!
This is him after his party posing in front of the wall of paper Legos I made. I opted for this instead of Lego bunting which was my original plan.
The party was a great success. During the party one of his friends remarked, “This is the best birthday party ever!” Sigh…That made it all worth it. 🙂
There were hiccups to be sure. I forgot a few things and the cake turned out pretty bad looks wise, hence why there is NO close up of that, but it felt so good to see the kids happy with everything. Owen says it’s “embarassing” to act too excited about anything {new phase I assume} but he told me later he loved his party.
First, the invitations were delivered. I just took a picture of one of his Lego guys in front some of his green Lego bases, added some text, and printed them off at Sam’s club for 15 cents a piece.
To add a little extra touch, I cut the top of the invite out to make it look like a Lego. In retrospect I would have made his name bigger but…too late. 🙂
To kick the party off we printed off dot-to-dot Lego coloring sheets downloaded from the Lego.com website. Click here for the link.
The kids colored while we waited for everyone to arrive.
Once our party guests were all present we started in on the games.
The first one was a little game I made up called “I Spy the Lego Guy.”
We hid six paper Lego guys in our living room, because Owen was turning six, and had them find them. We actually did this a few times because it was such a big hit. To make the Lego guys we used this kirigami pattern… click here for the link.
Then we played Lego, Lego, Who’s got the Lego? If you know how to play the button version, then ignore the rest of this paragraph. You have one child be “it” and leave the room while the rest figure out who is going to hide the Lego/button in their hand. Then they call the “it” child back in who now has to guess who has the Lego. Once they figure it out, the child who had the Lego is now “it.” The kids love it because they try to pretend to have it and fool who ever is “it.”
It is such a silly, simple game, but they LOOOOoove it. In my experience it has worked great for the 3-6 crowd. I haven’t played it with anyone older.
Our last game, was another game I made up. Er…let’s call it Lego Collaboration.
We had a bowl full of Lego pieces wrapped up. Some packages had one, others had much more. The kids picked a package, unwrapped it, and added the Legos inside to the Lego base in the middle of the circle. They then passed the bowl to the next child who took the Legos they got and added them onto what had already been built.
It got sillier and more creative as they went. The kids really got into it and started adding things and making changes all at once. Luckily no one got their feelings hurt about how it was being built.
I popped in to help with the games here and there but my husband did most of it. Isn’t he great? Keeping nine kids engaged and happy mostly by himself for 45 minutes. Now that is sexy. 🙂
During games I stepped into the kitchen to get the table changed from coloring table to party table.
And to get the food prepped.
We had blocks of cheese and cucumber. This little detail was one of my favorite parts of the party believe it or not. The kids had a five minute long, round table discussion about who likes cheese and who doesn’t and who likes cucumbers and who doesn’t and why. It was hilarious to just listen in on.
We had my favorite. Corn puffs…oh my. I love these a little bit TOO much.
The kids knew right where to sit with these Lego place cards. I took pictures of Owen’s Lego guy from his invitations in front of a red background and yellow background {so I could alternate the colors on the table} and added the comic bubble in photoshop elements. I then printed it out as wallet at Sam’s {17 cents for two wallets} and cut out the Lego bumps off the top. To get them to stand up we used some new Legos from the set we bought for party favors.
They loved seeing their name and several anxiously asked if they could take it home.
I used mason jars filled with big Legos as a balloon weight. I got the idea here.
Used the kirigami pattern to actually make the kirigami Lego guys.
The table runner you see is actually a roll of bubble wrap painted green to make it look like a Lego base. I got a roll of of bubble wrap from the Dollar Tree and green spray paint for $1.27 from Walmart. The idea is from this link here.
And the plates are the square ones that come 16 in a pack for $1.50 at Walmart. I added a Lego man face with a sharpie and a yellow cardstock nub to the top with glue.
More on the lego juice box bricks in this post here.
The cake well…it flopped. I didn’t give myself enough time. I had my “make it work” moment about 20 minutes before the party started when the fondant still wasn’t on the cake – poor planning on my part – but it tasted great. I used a family pound cake recipe and some marshmallow fondant. The kids expressed concern that it was so small…{hanging head in shame}, but even with one kid having three pieces, there was plenty and then some.
We had barely any leftovers {if you don’t count the other pound cake I didn’t frost} which is how I like it.
After cake, Owen opened presents, and then it was pinata time!
For candy bags I took some plastic bread bags and put the other name place card {you have to print the wallets in duplicate} inside so they would know whose was whose.
So that everyone would get a chance to the pull the string, we had each child grip a ribbon and pull at the same time. The candy whooshed out and brought on the candy frenzy.
Side note: Before we started, I made the rule that they could eat one piece of candy and then give their bags to me so I could save them for when they went home. You might not choose to be so strict, but the kids responded very well to this little bargain.
After all the pinata candy was cleaned up they played with Owen’s Lego collection while we waited for parents to come for pick up.
As they left they got a Lego “brick” with a little bag of Lego brick candy {that you can actually build with} and a Lego creation Owen made for them or a Lego ring I made for the girls.
I bought a new $15 pack of Legos from Walmart for the goody bags. I know you can purchase pretty great party pack creator sets online for about $20 plus shipping for 8 kids. We went with splitting up the $15 set because it was cheaper, there was no shipping, we had 9 kids total {for some reason I thought Owen and Reid would feel left out if they didn’t get a “brick” but they didn’t even care about the party favors – live and learn}, and my son only decided on this theme last week. If I could do it again the party sets would be the way to go.
I ended up setting up their place cards with the bricks since so many of them wanted to take them home.
All in all it was a great party!
Now here is a round up of all my Lego party Links:
Lego Juice Box Bricks and free printable
Lego Pull Pinata
Lego Brick Favor Boxes and 3 free printables
And here is a list of other great Lego Party Resource Links:
Parties:
http://ashleyannphotography.com/blog/2010/03/09/hes-six-lego-birthday-party/
http://party.tipjunkie.com/go/?id=135
http://www.moneywisemoms.com/2009/09/diy-thursday-lego-birthday-party.html
http://party.tipjunkie.com/go/?id=320 **** very helpful
http://mydesigndump.blogspot.com/2010/01/lego-party.html
http://www.birthdaypartyideas.com/html/lego.html
More pinata help:
http://launderfoldrepeat.blogspot.com/2009/12/lego-pinata-tutorial.html
http://eiselefamilynews.blogspot.com/2010/07/lego-pinata.html
Kirigami Lego Man pattern:
http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2010/04/lego-kirigami.html
Lego Crayon links:
http://cgi.ebay.com/5-Lego-Minifig-Crayons-Party-Favors-Birthday-Supplies-/120612830778?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1515be3a#shId
http://www.etsy.com/shop/nelliebugs
Lego creator sets for party favors:
A great Lego game printable and more ideas:
http://isewdoyou.blogspot.com/2010/09/lego-memory-game-cards.html
Printables for purchase:Â
http://www.etsy.com/listing/92120620/lego-like-block-birthday-party-diy
The Lego.com website has very helpful free stuff as well. Â
Check out their downloads page:
http://city.lego.com/en-us/Downloads/default.aspx
Happy Party Planning!
How fun! And what a beautiful job! Lucky guy! Mine will be 6 in august and this is exactly the party he would love. I’ll be saving this post=)
Wow… what a party!! I really love it. Great job!!! And Happy birthday Owen!!
WOW! i think you totally nailed everything a lego party could be! i love that you had him make creations for each child & that you made rings for the girls out of legos! very thoughtful!
love every little thing!
and i think your cake is wonderful! i know how crushing the whole cake experience can be. my worst flop came in the form of my son's 2nd birthday cake. it
Wow it looks like you did a fantastic job! Everything looks wonderful! He's lucky to have such a creative mama!
Oh, Delia! That turned out just darling! I love all the details like the Lego juice boxes, the games, and the goodie boxes. 🙂
Great work and I'm sure your little guy just loved it to pieces…and all of his friends will want a Lego party for their birthday party too. 🙂
What a darling party! They games sounded so fun and the decorations and favor boxes were out of this world!!! Hope your little guy had a terrific day!
Wow….I am amazed and my son is in awe!! I saw your post last week and couldn't wait to see how the party turned out. I think we may be using all of your ideas..hope you don't mind…they are all great. My son is obsessed with Lego's and this will be perfect. Any other links or info you have would be greatly appreciated 🙂 You really outdid yourself on this one 🙂
HOW FUN!!! My kids would love a party like this!! Such great ideas! Thanks for sharing all your great ideas with the rest of us!!
HOW FUN!!! My kids would love a party like this!! Such great ideas! Thanks for sharing all your great ideas with the rest of us!!
Wow, you're the most amazing mom ever! Everything was done so perfectly and beautifully. My sister's family LOVES legos (especially her hubby) so I'm definitely showing this to her. Way to go!
Amazing, amazing, amazing! I love it all! and gorgeous photos!
that looks so fun!! i loved your game ideas!! you did a fabulous job!!
You are so cute! I actually found your blog on a link from another crafty blog. It was so cool to see my friend from HS!! I remember our boys are only a few weeks apart. I LOVE the lego idea. You are so clever. I love seeing your cool stuff!
Oh my goodness!
It looks like it was a GREAT party! All the thought and time you put into it is really impressive! SO creative!
That is AWESOME!!! Happy birthday Owen!! 🙂
(Sorry I havent been reading -or writing- any blogs in ages! I have a LOT of catching up to do!!)
Oh my do I love this party idea! Is it ok if I show my readers your brilliant idea?
Best,
Carina
Great lego party!
Wow, this is fantastic. My 5-yr-old son really enjoyed looking at your photos. So creative. I'm sure everyone enjoyed your efforts.
WOW!! Seriously–this is awesome!! I am amazed at what a cute mommy you are!! Makes me want to get the ball rolling with Little Man's party!
I heart a good party. This is just about AH-mazing. Kind of makes me want to convince one of my boys to have a lego party. Appreciated all of the ingenuity you had in making decorations.
SO stinking cool!!!
Just Another Day in Paradise
I love it! So many fun details and all figured out in a week! You are a super mom. So so great. Thanks for sharing.
Wow. This is so inspiring. Thanks!
Fantastic. It pulled together so well. SO many great little touches.
wow delia you are so creative! your sons are so lucky to have such a good momma! that party looks perfect:D
Visiting for the first time tonight…what a fun party. Fantastic job with all the decorations and planning AND the super informative blog post. Your son is going to always remember how special you made his 6th birthday!
This post is Well Organized and Informative for the good party supplies and decorations solutions. Best luck of the future. Party Store | Party Supplies | Balloons | Costumes
So cute!!!! I used your printable with the man and the green background. Heres the link to our lego party.http://fortneyfam.blogspot.com/2011/02/mjs-lego-birthday-party.html
WOW!! This post is soooo helpful! I've been researching Lego parties for my son all evening and this is BY FAR the best party I've seen! Thanks for taking so much time and effort to include all the tips/ideas/links.
OMG, speachless! what an amazing party! I am working on a lego party now for my lil guy in nov, thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for this wealth of information. As an event organizer this is something that I am very concerned about. Thank you for the creative ideas! I love the over all package of the party!
Lego Party Supplies
Thank you SO much for sharing all these great LEGO party ideas. I found your site just in time for my 6 year old's LEGO party this weekend!!
Wow! Nice work. Too bad I can't do the same thing. So, just decided to buy party supplies from http://www.birthdaysupplydepot.com/lego/. This can make preparations a lot faster! Now i'm excited 🙂
Loved this party! We did a few Lego parties ourselves this year. They are the best! I LOVED your cake pops! Sooo cute! Who doesn’t love a Lego party?
Lego Party Supplies
Thank you so much for all the printables and inspiration! We just had a lego party for my 5 year old son, and your ideas were such a help. Thanks again!
Great post! I'm actually looking for some themes I can use for my son's party, and I'm sure he will love this. Thanks!
Year Old Birthday Party Ideas
What a great party! Great ideas!
Brad Fallon
what a fantastic party idea! I think it's what I'll be doing for my little man's 3rd birthday party in June. I pinned it to my Pinterest board so I'll remember where to find you again!
Wow! What an amazing party! If Tate had it his way, we would live in a Lego house, so this is what we will be doing for his party in May. Thanks for sharing all of the links and your ideas!
Fabuleux !!
I search much ideas lego for boy's birthday and yours are "génial" !
Merci beaucoup !!
Hiya, just found your blog on my search for Lego party ideas. I always have to reign myself in as I get so many ideas that I have a hard time reducing the list! Your party is fab and is the best I have found on the net! I will be shamelessly pinching a lot of your ideas! Thanks for the inspiration!
Your party turned out fabulous! Thanks so much for the inspiration! I have a quick question I'm hoping you can answer about the lego minifig template. Did you actually find 4×11" yellow paper or did you cut regular 9×12" construction paper down? Thanks in advance for the info!!
Wow! This rocks. We're going to do a little lego party in a few weeks. That's for pulling it all together!
so many people have already made comments! I hope you are still continuing to read them. Just wanted to thank you for all the wonderful ideas and links to others party ideas. I was going to throw a water pool party at the local pool but as soon as I ready your blog I couldn't resist. I think I am using everyone of your ideas (such a copy cat I know). I wish I was loaded cause I think I
So cute!
You just saved, well not my life, but certainly my sanity!!!! With all the craziness of orchestrating a move, I completely brain farted on ordering the Lego Ville birthday theme my three year old has his heart set on. Oh course, by the time I did remember, everything but the napkins had been clearanced out and was gone. head—>desk The only Lego birthday supplies I could find were Star
great ideas! I linked you up to my Lego B'day party- thanks for sharing- it really helped me!
What great ideas. I'm planning a b-day party for my son and featured some of your ideas. http://trophyw.blogspot.com/2011/08/lego-birthday-party-ideas.html
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THANK YOU for all of the great ideas and resources! My son – turning 5 in 2 weeks! – asked for a Lego birthday party and this has been a great help!
Thank you for all of your fabulous ideas! I referenced your site so many times in planning my son's 7th party. Here is a link to the final festivities. Thanks for sharing!
http://shopbonnenouvelle.blogspot.com/2011/09/lego-birthday-party-part-1.html
Creative party…love it! My son is only 4 months old, but I'll have to keep this one in mind!
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I borrowed and adapted several of your ideas for my son's "Lego Mars Rover" birthday party. Thanks for sharing your creativity! My son had a lot of fun.
What an awesome job! I LOVE it! I am dead in the middle of a vintage train party fiasco and cannot wait for it to be here and over. I always have, what I call, the “Pre-Party Panic Fest.” My little nickname for the week or two before the party where you are rushing to make sure everything is ready and praying you don’t forget anything/mess anything up when it is too close to redo it. I hope my boys’ joint party turns out as well as yours did! Great job!
looking very beautiful in crown. i hope he would have enjoyed his this birthday. Nice way to make children happy.
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Looks like such a fun party. My son wants a lego party for his 6th birthday and you just gave me so many great ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for all the free printables you provided. I really can’t thank you enough for the time you saved me from creating it all myself! Much appreciation!
How do i give you credit for your ideas on pinterest.
Fabulous party! I love your photography and all your great ideas. I had never seen the bubble wrap idea before–fantastic 🙂
Thank you thank you thank you … your ideas and printables helped me throw a great party!
http://www.prettylittlenest.com/2012/04/lego-party-for-will.html
Love what you have created! The cake and pinata are amazing!
Superbe! What a great and fun party!! I will share this with my son who would die for legos – we are planning his 8th years old party – lego for sure!!
Love your ideas! We’ve had a lego party three years in a row now for my son who just turned 10! Thought I’d share my ideas with your readers, too, if that’s okay!
Love your site!
http://joyouslydomestic.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/lego-party/
Does anyone know where I can get free download Lego font? I'm having a very hard time finding one!!
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Wow, lego has come a long way since I was a kid thirty years back! We had a lego and reptile party a fortnight back where the kids made reptiles out of lego. The best was the lego and crocodile cake!
All the best
I want to make some lego invites but doesn someone know where I can except sams club?
I love all of the Lego food and decorations. The "Collaboration" game is inspired!
Thinking about birthday party ideas for little boys is quite hard since you can't really tell what they want. And so, it's a good idea to involve them in planning their own party according to their likes and interests. This will be a perfect mom and son bonding.
WOW! This is amazing I have book marked this page to use for my son in a few years time. Thank you!!
Lego Party looks so exciting. I’ll try this party for my son. Thanks for sharing.
BirthdayBash
Awesome! There are lots of "Lego party" links out there, but this page may be the best I've seen!
Amazing! I am going to add you to my Facebook page.
We own a lego rental business in austin Texas but these ideas are just great to add to the themes we do.
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I had a lego party inspired by this post for my new 8 yr old today. Thanks so much for the free printables and ideas! I spy the lego guy was a huge hit 🙂
Thanks for all the wonderful ideas and the free printables. We had a lego party for our 4 year old this past weekend and it was a big success!
I am so happy I found this post! You are saving me! My son who's turning 5 just asked me for a Lego birthday party. I'm sure you know as anyone who has searched the internet for Lego party idea's, there is not much out there! I just downloaded all of your free printables! I cannot thank you enough!!
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WOW!!! Your party was amazing – so many wonderful ideas. We have a Star Wars Lego Party coming up and this has really helped with ideas. Thank you 🙂
Oh my goodness, thank you so much! I love how colorful and fun everything is. I am pretty much going to just copy this entire party for my son's fourth birthday this month. Thanks for doing all the legwork.
We just celebrated our son’s 6th birthday today with a Lego party.
I can honestly say YOU made it a wonderful party. We had a small group of six kids, but a few busy ones. I used almost all of the game ideas from your post and even the busy bees were content! Thank you for the links to print out lego juice boxes….I even copied your cake…just in red. Thank you so much….you truly helped this busy momma pull of a wonderful party. Xoxoxo
This makes me so happy! I am so glad the party went well. 🙂 Happy birthday to your son!
I was very pleased to find this site. I definitely enjoyed reading every little bit of it and I have it bookmarked to check out new stuff posted regularly.
This is by far the most helpful blog I have found to help plan my son’s 5th Lego birthday party! Thank you so much for sharing all of the details. I plan to use most of them!
Thank you GayLynn! Happy party planning!
This is so great! It might be because I’m on my phone right now but any links you have for within your own site are being redirected to your homepage rather than the page needed. I’d LOVE to use some of your printables if I could get them to pull up! Any suggestions? Thanks!
Lissa. Thanks for the heads up. The links were broken. I fixed them just now. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Usually comments get sent to my inbox but I just went to look for your comment and couldn’t find it. Sorry about that. I just emailed you all the Lego printables I have from this post and from my latest one for my second son to the email in your profile. Enjoy!
Hey Delia, I just can imagine how successful this party will be with the background music from Lego movie. Indeed, Everything is Awesome! I really liked your table set up. That Lego pinata rocks! I’ve added this to my party inspiration. Thanks a lot.
Thank you for all the printables! I love that they are simple, Lego-y and free!
You most welcome! <3
Hi, I just wanted to send a quick THANK YOU for all the wonderful lego party printables.
Highly appreciated from this Mama who is tasked with a Lego 6th birthday party.
Thanks so much again, your creativity is beyond measure!
Melanie
Thank you for saying thank you! I am so happy to help and I’m glad to hear that it has helped you!
Delia <3
Well done! I love so many things you did and the games too! I also checked out your younger kids party. Actually, I love the fact you’re honest about your mistakes and what didn’t work out so well. I think your cake looks great and it makes me feel better about my future creation. It can sometimes be very intimidating and makes me want to give up in advance when you only see perfect cakes etc posted on blogs.
Thanks again
Thank you Mia! I know how you feel! 🙂 Best wishes with the party planning.
Thank you from Greece! You’ve been very helpful!
I am so glad! Happy party planning!