Real Party – Hollywood Dance Party and I’m an Aunt! (on my side of the fam)
So, it has finally come and gone, my joint party for my boys, and I must say, as crazy as it was with about 20+ kids, it was AWESOME!!! My oldest is Iron Man, and at the last minute, the little one REFUSED to wear his Blue Power Ranger costume, so his dad put on his Spider-man outfit. I think he got stage fright??
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Yes, those are handmade cupcakes with chocolate stars made from candy molds. I’ve had those molds since the Star Wars party a few years back (yes, shameless shout-outs again). The two without stars are Wall-E candy rings for each birthday boy.
My fabulous helpers for the day used star cookie cutters on the sandwiches and made tons of fruit and cheese kabobs. Kids love just anything on a stick.
The kids came in costume as their favorite movie or cartoon hero, and walked the red carpet (a red plastic tarp) to the front door, my husband in all black and sunglasses served as bouncer with a guest list. I would have pix of everyone, except my paperazzi kept pushing the “off” instead of the “picture” button on the camera.
The craft was so much fun, the kids made their own Hollywood Stars, based on the ones from the Walk of Fame. I covered 8″ foam squares with black cardstock, and each kid added a star, their name in gold letters and decorated with sequins, beads, you name it!
The younger set also played “Pin the Sunglasses on the Diva” with these great foam sunglasses, and the older ones played “Who am I?” I wrote TV, cartoon and movie star characters on labels, and placed on each child’s back. They had to go around asking others for clues to guess who they were.
I scored on these popcorn bags (Dollar store!!) as goody bags.
Now that I’ve knocked out this year’s party, I feel like the joint party thing probably won’t happen again; mixing the 2 age groups at this stage of the game was too risky, and my little one was way too overwhelmed. But hey, parenthood is very much trial-and-error, I learned a valuable lesson. But it was still worth it, and they had a wonderful time!
And on that same note, my little sister married in Mexico last December, and announced in February that she was pregnant and due in July (yes, do the math), and I’m proud to say that Alejandro has made his appearance on Saturday. We were at said Hollywood Dance Party, so when we got back home at 4:00, my mom’s message said she was in labor. When I called back, he had already been out for hours. So much for the 1st baby-12 hour-labor rule, because he literally slid out at 6 pounds. I’m sure my mom is probably wondering when one of her kids are going to give her a girl grandbaby….it’s all up to my brother now!!!
