Tomorrow is our oldest’s birthday, he is turning nine and we couldn’t be prouder of what a wonderful boy he is. He requested a Skylanders party, and he asked that it be on his birth month, so we held the party last Sunday. We were lucky to have wonderful weather that day so most of the festivities took place in our backyard.
Games:
We decided to have a couple of games that would appeal to a variety of ages – we chose darts and a ball toss. Steve (of course) created the game boards:
I had purchased a set of decals specifically for the ball toss board, which ended up looking like this:
The darts board:
Set up in the backyard
And with balloons:
Piñata:
Aidan requested villain Kaos as the piñata and Steve obliged:
I helped a bit with the black robe but most of it was Steve’s work.
Cake:
Aidan chose the Skylanders portal of power as his cake design. It was Steve’s first time working with fondant, and he knocked it out of the park with the detailing:
Aside from the cake, we also had sheep and water cupcakes 😀
Kids could earn coins from games and the piñata loot, and then buy various items from “Portal Master Aidan’s Trading Post”:
The items corresponded to the elements in the game, i.e. candy eggs and LifeSavers for Life, gummy worms for Undead, Pop Rocks for Magic, bubbles and whistles for Air, etc.
Kids big and small had a great time and even some grown-ups ended up trying the games later on.
Steve says goodbye to his creation 😀
Our boy had a great time playing with friends and family, and so did we. As tired as we are the day of (I got one hour of sleep the night before) and after, we truly love throwing parties and having people over. Steve did a great job on everything and we were both happy how the party turned out. Of course, we’re planning the next thing already, but we’ll take a couple of days to enjoy the “party afterglow”.
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