{Birthday party success!}

My son turned 6 and I was really nervous to throw him a party with all of his school friends because it would have to be all in French. I almost decided not to do a party at all but I love throwing parties for my kids. I tend to turn it into activities for weeks. Solomon had decided he wanted to have a rocket party. We started out making some rocking invitations. I designed a rocket template and then found the perfect kit, Intergalactic Boy, by Victoria Feemster (she sells at OAKS, TDS and O-scraps). After we printed all the pieces out we spent an afternoon curling paper strips around pencils and cutting and glueing. There is a little pull-out card with the party info and you pull it out of the rocket. It was fun and we ended up with some awesome invites!


Then we found an idea for turning candy into rockets. We used mentos and covered them with paper from the kit and then added shiny silver rocket tops and more fire coming out the back. Last we made a pinata. I printed out paper from the kit and we hodgepodges it all over an oval shaped balloon. Then I made a silver rocket tip, cute out some fin/wings. We also printed up a little decoration for the side that said, 'hors de ce monde' or 'out of this world'.




The night before the party I spent awhile translating how to explain the different activities (how to play pin the astronaut on the planet, rocket BINGO, and what a pinata was) We started out with playing pin the astronaut on the planet. Then we played rocket BINGO. Then we did this http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/space/morbit.htm way cute art project. Then we brought out the rocket cake that we made like this except we wrote out Sol instead of USA.



I bought sparklers to put in the backwith the candles to make it really exciting. So after the sparklers finished we had Solomon blow out the candles, but he couldn't. I had accidentally bought trick candles. The kids were all busting up laughing and we finally all blew together and got them out. I guess that's one of the problems that comes from not speaking fluent french ;) We opened presents and then did the pinata. Pinatas aren't really popular here so none of the kids had seen one before. But they understood the concept quick, whack at this with a stick until candy falls out, not too difficult for 6 year old boys to figure out :) It was a great success and we all had a blast.

Now I've started planning Jocelyn's party. She wants a princess party and I think we are going to do little make-overs, paint their nails and stuff. Should be fun!

Here's this weeks template for the challenge at www.elementalscraps.com . Today is the grand reopening, with one amazing and huge mega kit that is FREE with a 10 dollars purchase. Awesome! Also remember if you do just three of the challenges at ES you get a free kit.


http://www.4shared.com/file/17056250/cb8f4ce2/ribbon_board_johanna_berry.html
Here's a link for the rocket invitation template I made too if you have a little boy birthday coming up soon! Quick instructions: Fill with your desired papers and decorate. Print. Cut out pieces. Cut out one additional rocket shaped piece of plain paper. Glue two rocket papers together only along edges and leaving the bottom open. Curl paper strips around a pencil. Attach curled strips to the back of the insert. Write 'Pull' on the bottom of the insert. Insert it into the rocket leaving just enough for the word pull to show. Here's the link.
http://www.4shared.com/file/17058294/8088b0c4/rocket_template_johanna_berry.html
As always please leave a comment on my blog if you download my templates!