Ultimate Kid Birthday Parties
Your Online Resource to Party Planning
Last Update: 4 February 2011
Ultimate Kid Birthday Parties
Your Online Resource to Party Planning
Last Update: 4 February 2011
First, I would like to thank Travis for sharing his great ideas from his Rescue Heroes party.
Let me tell you, there are some great ideas in this party that I know you could use in your future Rescue Heroes Party.
All the information contained in this party submission mirrors all the party themes format.
Starting with the invitations and finishing at the thank you notes, you are going to find everything you need to throw that Ultimate Birthday Party!
Once again, thank you Travis for your wonderful party ideas and I hope the readers will be able to utilize them in their future parties!
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-- Ultimate Rescue Heroes Birthday Party Submission --
The invitations had the logo from the Rescue Hero/Fisher Price site and I also used their nametags to make nametags for each kid (kind of making them honorary rescue heroes too).
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I bought Firetruck themed plates, tablecloth, loot bags, and balloons (plus other balloons that said happy 5th!) and used fire colors for decoration (cups, streamers, other balloons). We were hoping to have it outside, but the weather wouldn't fully cooperate.
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-- Ultimate Rescue Heroes Birthday Party Submission --
-- Ultimate Rescue Heroes Birthday Party Submission --
We were able to start outside so when the kids arrived, I had pie pans of bubble solution and giant wands for them to make bubbles and that was a good ice breaker. Then we went inside for games.
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Food: My son also wanted chips, cheesies, lemonade and apple juice to eat. I don't like feeding a meal at a party. Most kids have eaten, the food gets wasted (I cut VERY small pieces of cake) and it doesn't seem to be enjoyed. I'm sure when he gets bigger, we'll do pizza and stuff - when he's so old that games aren't cool any longer.
Cake: My son wanted the RH logo on the front and so I made a round cake and iced it in white icing and then also made yellow and red icing (not pink, you have to get the paste coloring to make true red - this was actually a source of amazement to other moms that you could make red icing) and did the logo on top and then my husband used the rest of the icing to make flames around the bottom of the cake (he IS artistic. truth be known, I think he also did the logo - I just made the cake). very cool.
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Then we did presents and all the kids sat in a circle and I took pictures of each kid with my son when he opened the present. Needless to say, he got A LOT of rescue heroes.
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We planned Rescue-themed games and started with "pin the ladder on the tree to save the kitty." I used my amazing (?!) artistic abilities to draw a picture of a tree on a piece of poster board and then printed out a picture of a cat and made a ladder out of construction paper. This was a favorite game by a few of the kids. We also played a version of duck, duck, goose, but instead, did rescue, rescue, hero. That game was not a rolling success. We had brought out what rescue heroes he did have and the blocks so that kids could play a bit and that was a huge success! My husband played with them and honestly, the kids seemed to just like having the attention of a fun adult who built crazy things with them. We then went over to the kitchen table to make walkie talkies which were pieces of Styrofoam from some shipment at my dad's shop that I wrapped and hot glued black construction paper on and stuck a black pipe cleaner in the top for an antenna. I had lots of stickers (some of those ones leftover from labeling your video tapes with the numbers and then some from the dollar store with hearts and stuff on it) and the moms helped write the kids names on them. The kids really enjoyed making these, although I think some were disappointed that they didn't work. It wasn't raining so we went outside until parents came. My husband had spray painted "fire" on a big piece of cardboard and propped it up and we had water balloons so the kids could throw them and put out the fire. That was a hit! And my son wants water balloons to do that again this year. We brought the bubbles back out and some kids did that and others played on the swings, or in his playhouse or sandbox.
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-- Ultimate Rescue Heroes Birthday Party Submission --