The Lego Movie Birthday Party

This year A has gotten VERY into Legos. Like, find-new-furniture-and-rearrange-the-bedroom kind of into Legos. Her choice for this year's party theme was obvious: The Lego Movie. Unfortunately, there are no Lego Movie themed party supplies. So it was up to me to use some creativity (Pinterest) and make my own.

Unlike previous years, we out-sourced our party to a local bounce house. They provided plates, cups, napkins and cutlery so we were off the hook there. All I had to do was favors.

Favor Boxes

Needed:

• I found these colorful boxes on amazon.
• Colored construction paper (as you can see, I had a hard time matching the colors exactly. By the time I realized I didn't have bright enough paper, it was too late and I had to make do.) Try to find bright construction paper that includes blue, purple, orange, yellow, green and red.
• 1.5" circles cut from construction paper - six for each box. I have a squeeze punch like this.
• Black marker - I used a sharpie.
• Glue (I used hot glue as it seemed to stick better on the surface of the boxes.)

Steps are pretty obvious. Write Lego on each circle (I tried to figure out a way to make a stencil or stamp but didn't work it out) and glue on boxes to resemble a six-studded Lego piece.

Now for the favors.

Marshmallow Lego Heads

Needed:

• Big marshmallows
• Mini marshmallows
• 6" lollipop sticks
• Yellow candy melts *I linked amazon but you can get these much cheaper at Michaels or Joanns
• Black or chocolate candy melts  *same as above
• Fork or spoon
• Wax paper
• Clean scissors
• Baking tray
• Thin paintbrush that you won't mind tossing out after use
• Styrofoam disk

Steps

1. Cover tray in a sheet of wax paper.
2. Melt yellow candy melts according to directions on package.
3. Take one big marshmallow and insert a lollipop stick in the middle of one of the flat ends. 
4. Dip into the melted yellow candy melts and twirl until evenly coated. Don't worry about coating the top end just yet, but be sure you get the end with the stick coming out of it well. I find using the fork or spoon to scoop some of the candy where you need it helps.
5. Place on wax paper covered tray.
6. Repeat until you have as many as you need, and stick in the freezer for a good 10 minutes to set. If needed, remelt the yellow candy melts. When the "heads" are hard, it's time to add the "studs" to the tops. 
7. Take a mini marshmallow and cut it in half. This kind of distorts the shape a bit, but they're easy to squish back into a round shape.
8. Dip the top of the big marshmallow pop into the candy melt and stick the half mini marshmallow on. Then cover the mini marshmallow in candy melt. 
9. Place in the styrofoam block and repeat until you're done. Then stick them back in the freezer for 10 minutes or so.
10. Melt the chocolate or black candy melts according to instructions. (In the post I found this idea on, it said to use an edible marker to draw the faces on, I couldn't get that to work and thankfully I had chocolate candy melts leftover from some other party.)
11. Here you can use your creativity. I painted on pirate faces and nerdy faces, etc. Enjoy.

The Kragel

Needed:

• B'loonies 
• A printer
• Paper
• Elmers glue
• Scotch tape
• Paintbrush
• Scissors

Steps:

1. I made a picture.You can go ahead and save it to your computer.
2. Now, open up word or whatever word processor you have. Make that picture 1 1/2" by 1 3/4".
3. Print
4. Cut
5. Now dip the paintbrush in the glue and paint the outside of the b'loonies label
6. Attach the Kragel label and wrap around the tube. To secure the end I painted more glue along it.
7. When that's dry, take the pink tube and fasten it to the side with tape.

Benny's Spaceships

Needed:

• These Foam Rocket Launcher sets off amazon.
• You can make a little label or not.

Unikitty's Horn

I just found these Marpoles at Wegmans and thought they looked very Unikitty-ish. 

Lego Crayons

Needed:

• I found these molds on amazon
• Crayons (my kids always have tons - the hardest part is matching the colors!)
• Baking tray
• Oven
• Toothpicks
• Fridge or freezer

Steps: 

1. Preheat the oven to 250* F
2. Break up crayons to fit in the molds. I found that each block mold took about 2 1/2 crayons broken into halves. The Lego guys only used one crayon each. **If you need to unwrap crayons from the paper, I found taking a butter knife and slicing vertically down the wrapper usually gets it off in one pull.
3. Put the molds on the cookie tray (the molds are silicone and bend easily. I spilled wax all over the bottom of my oven and it was messy!!!)
4. Stick the pan in the oven and let "bake" for 10-15 minutes. The Lego guys melt faster.
5. When you pull them out, use the toothpicks to stir them each mold up a little to make sure the color doesn't separate. Some of mine looked pretty strange!
6.  Stick the pan in the freezer for 20 minutes or so and then pull each crayon out.

That's it!

Now for the Birthday Girl, I found a really cute dress on Etsy and the lady was so nice and the dress is so cute I decided to link it and show a picture of my girl in hers.