So we have decided to go with a Lego bday party for my almost 7 yr old - he is obsessed with Legos the idea for a lego party was perfect! I have been looking online to try to find ideas for the lego theme but everything seems SO time consuming and/or expensive. I don't mind putting in some time but the things I am finding are using molds to make lego candies/soaps etc, and very elaborate decorations that I am not sure I could pull off. Anyone throw a lego party or have any simple, inexpensive yet good ideas? I do not want to drop 300 dollars on a 2 hour birthday party which is what always seems to end up happening. Thank you!!
I used a lego ice tray to make candy legos, and made these cupcakes recently for a friend. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3584/3364727029_5f8e08e54f...
A Lego party can be super cheap and way easy.
I know someone who got cardbored boxes and small bowls for decorations. See how it was used here as a costume. You can get those bowls in red or blue and just spray paint a box to match. You can do the same thing with shoe boxes and small cups.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/10/last_minute_leg...
For treats, you can make lego goodies out of graham crackers and m&ms. Tint the color of frosting (gel works better than liquid food coloring) to match the m&ms, frost small sections of graham crackers and add the m&ms (letter side down) 3 in a row to look like legos.
You can use a frosting that dries to put several in goodie bags.
This is a super cute lego party, including printables to put on cupcakes or goodies bags:
http://www.livinglocurto.com/2010/06/lego-birthday-party/
You can make an easy lego birthday cake here without buying any special cake molds too:
http://blisstree.com/feel/childrens-party-ideas-legos-bir...
This little dessert table set up is adorable and really easy too:
http://greygreydesigns.blogspot.com/2010/07/real-parties-...
More cute ideas here, and you don't really have to make much of anything either:
http://parents.lego.com/en-gb/FamilyTogether/Seasonal%20A...
Just have fun with it. You can play a pin the tail on the donkey type games, but just draw a lego man on a poster board and cut out several colorful rectangles and draw circles on them like a lego. The kids can have the objective to tape the lego pieces on him for a hat or something.
For free, you can print out lego coloring pages for the kids to color:
http://twistynoodle.com/coloring/toys/blocks/my-lego-part...
tons more here:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=lego+color+page&...
I would go to ebay and buy a bunch of legos. You can buy them by the pound at a great price. Dump all into a small blownup pool or a couple of pools depending on how many kids you have. That way it is easy access for the kids and they are not just dumping them all over the floor. They could play games like Lego Pictionary by them building something and everyone guess what it is. You coud have everyone build something like a plane or house then have everyone vote on the best one and give a small prize. For the party bags you could have your son create something for everyone before the party and put it into the bag for them to take home or just put a bunch of legos in a bag for them to take home.
Our son is into Legos, so I have a few ideas (and I'm not craftsy at all).
Go with primary colors for plates, cups, etc. -- as the ones used in the basic Lego sets.
The cake could be rectangular and just cut out some circle shapes out of another small cake and add those to the top to make it look like a Lego block.
Have HIM make decorations by creating some fun things out of Legos. Set those out.
If your son has a lot of Legos, bring those out in a bunch of tubs and let the kids build with them for a while. Our son goes to a Lego camp in the summer where they let them have free play with Legos before focusing on a specific project. The kids love it! You could also create games by having races -- for instance, give each child access to a bin of Legos and then challenge them to create a tree, for example, and first one done wins.
We have a lego-mad kid too, so I have been thinking about this. I think I'll get some loose Legos from Craigslist, make sure they are clean, and make up goody bags with those (I use brown paper sacks for the bags:).
We also went to a Lego party yesterday, and one of the things they did was have cupcakes with "Lego signs" on them (toothpicks with black construction paper sqaures taped to them - and then stickers on the squares). The kids were all REALLY EXCITED about "what they got" on their sign.
Other things I have seen or heard about: Lego-related games...depending upon the number of kids, they can just build together, they can play an actual "Lego Game" or you can rig up some things to do. I didn't go to this party but my son raved it about - apparently one of the things they did was rig up a "zip line" for mini-figures and the kids tried to get them to go down the line into a bucket of water!
You can also draw on coardbaord to make a "pin the something on something" game, just make it a Lego-looking thing. We did "pin the medal on the wookie" last year and I'll do the same with a Lego something or other this year.
This year, it might be pin the hat on the Lego guy or something like that. You can get a big square of cardboard at a craft or hobby shop. BIG Bonus - you don't have to be skilled to draw out a Lego figure. Plus, you could just cut out colorful squares to be the "pins". AFter each turn, I taped the "medals" to the kids shirts last summer & though they just ended up all over the yard, they all seemed pretty happy...
For a Lego cake, you can put something circular & edible & the same color as the icing on top of a pan cake to make it look Lego-ish.
GOOD LUCK!
ry
What fun ideas everyone has suggested!
I just wanted to add, a very easy way to make a lego cake is to add marshmallows (cut them in half so they are not as tall) on top of the cake and then frost over it using primary-colored frosting. The marshmallows look liked the connectors. I also have seen cute cupcakes with lego people on top.
It's all about who's coming and the cake! Feed them something simple-like sloppy joes and chips- or sliders and milk shakes and hand cut oven fries. Make a cake-there will be ideas online as to how to make it look like a lego block-and give a goodie bag with a few little things in it-movie pass-candy, bubble gum, etc. Plan a couple of games they can play.
You dont have to go overboard. Just lego invites and cake and favors. Then baloons, plates, napkins, cups in bright primary colors.
I saw someone else on here suggest a lego cake by making rectangular cake and putting cupcakes on top, held on with a toothpick and iced all together.
The dollar store has little mini lego sets - $1 a piece you could give as favors.
Try oriental trading co for themed decorations.
Here are some quick inexpensive ideas:
Make your own invitations using primary color paper. You may be able to find some Lego clipart to enhance it or attached a mini-lego to each.
Use primary color paper products (those that Lego uses). Use some Legos as decorations.
Bake mini-loaf cakes and decorate in primary colors icing (can be assorted or all the same colors) and then use matching M&Ms on top...they will look like lego blocks.
Take your sons Legos out and have them set up for the kids to build with.
You can also play a game where they draw cards with simple items and they have to build that item. Then the others get to guess what they built. They can all build at once and guess at the end (so no one gets bored).
You can also let them race to build the same items (or in groups of two or three).
Have assorted snacks and drinks.
