The Lego Party

My 8 year old wanted a Lego themed party for his Birthday. That is pretty much all he is into these days.

Legos.

So I scoured the Internet and found all the best Lego party ideas and implemented the ones I could. We decided to make it an Expert Lego Builder Training Camp.

Lego cake, covered with fondant. It's a good 10 footer. As in, it looks pretty good from about 10 feet away. I used half a jumbo marshmallows and covered them with fondant for the knobs on top of the legos. I cut the name out of fondant to look like Lego font and then traced it with an edible black marker.

Lego candy. Found at our local candy shop. You can stack them and they will even lock! I used little clear plastic jewelry bags from Hobby Lobby to put some in for each kid and we used them as prizes.

Lego head marshmallow pops. They were seriously cute.

We had custom shirts for all the kids that said "Expert Lego Builder" and their name. You can buy t-shirt transfer paper at Target, Hobby Lobby etc and print your own design right off of your printer! How fun is that!?!

Even our Lego Destroyer got a shirt.

Activites

Each Kid had a booklet they got to decorate when they showed up with Lego minifig stickers (found in the Lego Minifigure Sticker book). Inside were listed all the activities they needed to do in order to be an Expert Lego Builder. When they completed an activity, an adult gave them a lego sticker to check it off in their booklet.

1. Lego Uniform. The first activity was to be dressed in their Lego uniform (custom shirts). All the kids seemed pretty excited about these. One mom told me later that night that her son loved the shirt so much, he wanted to sleep in it.

2. Picture with the birthday boy. Everyone had individual pics with the birthday boy. If I had not put it down, I probably would have forgotten to do this.

3. Minifig Construction. Each kid got to make 2 minifigures. We bought a HUGE tub of legos about 7 years ago at a garage sale for $25. It was one of those times where you try not to look positively elated and you get the tub in your car before someone offers $200 for it. There were probably about 100 minifigs in there with a gazillion other legos. We divided about 30 - 40 of them and put them in for the kids to each make 2. Just like at the lego store. They loved it. We put them in the little plastic jewelry bags and then they put them in their gift bags to take home.

4. Guess How Many Legos. We bought a $10 149 piece lego creator set and poured it all into a plastic container. We then added 10 lego duplo blocks (to make it look fuller) and let the kids guess how many legos were in it. The one who guess closest got to take the lego set home.

5. Lego Architecture. Duplo lego build off. We had a wide variety of ages at the party so we divided up into 4 teams of 2 or 3. The 9 & 3 year old division, the 8 year old division, the girls division and the 5 year old division. We then gave each team a box of duplo legos (divided them all up equally beforehand) and told them they had 7 minutes to build a tower. They all loved this and were very creative in how they built their towers. We gave prizes to each division but they all won for different reasons like, "Tallest tower", "Most creative tower", "Tower with the most pieces used", "Sturdiest tower".

6. Lego Creativity. We then did one more build off and this time they had to use all the pieces in their box and they had 7 minutes. Even the 9 year olds had fun with this. Once again, we came up with creative descriptions and everyone won and we handed out prizes.

7. Lego Race Car Building. We bought a K'nex/Lego Race Car set for everyone at a discount store at $3 each. We set them all out and each kids got to randomly pick on and build it. Great activity! They were so quiet. I would highly recommend it. The dads had to help the younger kids but the older ones really got into this one.

8. Lego Racing Skills. And then they got to race them!

For a race track I used a craft table and put up just one of the sides and then used black poster boards taped down to the table. The kids had a great time racing their cars down. I had stuff to decorate it with but I ran out of time and the kids didn't seem to care anyways.

Gift Bags contained an individual Lego man marshmallow head wrapped in a candy pop wrapping, the lego candy, the minifigs they made, the race cars and we also added a lego set from the 'Lego Party Pack'. It comes with 8 bags of lego sets - 4 cars, 4 airplanes. On the back of the bag is a free child ticket with paid adult to Legoland (one is opening in Dallas this spring) and a free subscription to Lego Club magazine.

It was a fun party and by the time we sang, opened presents, had birthday cake and ice cream, it was time for everyone to go home.

So there you have it. All the best Lego ideas I could find.

Happy Birthday Nathan!