Every year I throw themed birthday parties for Zoey in our home. This year it was a Wreck-It Ralph Birthday Party. The more I talked to her about what she wanted, the more it turned into a Vanellope Von Schweetz themed birthday party. Same movie, just a different character.
When we were in Disneyland last year, we saw lots of toys and accessories for this movie. However a few months later looking for this theme, we came up very short. Apparently all of the Wreck-it Ralph stuff we had seen in Disneyland was pulled from the shelves. I have no idea why. We couldn’t find anything for sale other than on e-bay; and you had to be willing to pay outrageous prices since these toys were hard to find. We weren’t willing.
I decided I was going to have to be a little more creative. We focused upon the Sugar Rush theme. I decorated the whole house with generic cutout candies, colorful swirls that hung from the ceiling and balloons I found at the party supply store.
Photography is not a gift for me…I need help. Haha!
Decorations also included Mento’s hanging down – like the inside of Diet Cola Mountain.
We had a “sugar rush bar” (with some non-sweets too).
In various clear containers we separated by colors: M&M’s, in both peanut and regular, skittles, Mike & Ike’s, Mento’s, candy themed – pencils and mini erasers, also colorful bracelets and hair clips.
Yes I used every surface in the house since the table was reserved for dinner: Mini pizzas the kids made on their own out of English muffins, tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings.
The kids made edible race carts out of sweets…
“Treat Bar”
Rules:
1. They had to wash their hands first.
2. Absolutely no licking fingers or eating while they were creating the race car.
3. There will be a contest/vote at the end for the best race car so do your best work!
I was strict about this since they were all sharing supplies and I didn’t want to be spreading germs. They took any sweet from the “treat bar” and used frosting to create their own race car.
Everyone voted on paper for the race car they thought was created best. They couldn’t vote for themselves though. When they were done we put them on the counter and wrapped with plastic wrap for them to take home.
The cute race cars…
After that we sang Happy Birthday to Zoey with real cake, cupcakes to be exact…
They were allowed to eat these, cause I am not THAT strict! We have a sweets bar too for goodness sake!
For our non-candy craft, we made banners. I bought a bunch of colored felt sheets and the kids cut them into triangles. Then they took a sharpie and wrote one letter on each triangle. We hold punched the corners and connected the triangles with twine to create a word banner. I forgot to take pictures of the actual banners but I did find one in this picture…
See the example on the entry table, next to the cut out triangles? Sorry it’s the best I could do. 🙂
Next Zoey opened presents and we all watched the movie Wreck-It Ralph.
It was a great time for everyone and now Zoey is already planning next years theme…Warriors. As in the book series about the cats. UGH, I might have to read a book to understand what the fuss is all about because I haven’t a clue!
Anyone know or have any ideas???
Life is an adventure 