Owen is 6!

Owen’s birthday comes just 8 days after his twin sisters’ and up until this year they all celebrated with one combined party. But this year the girls had their hearts set on a Frozen theme, and Owen wanted a Transformer party so his parents decided to rent out the local bounce house for his celebration. It was a big success!

Transformer decorations are a little hard to come by, so I took a picture of Owen wearing his Transformer jacket – with full face mask, and enlarged it to use as a decoration.

We made labels for water bottles because all that jumping and climbing makes everyone thirsty!

There is a lot of free AutoBot clipart online, so it was easy to put these together.

I found these pictures that would be great stapled onto straws or on sticks to put into cupcakes.

On Owen’s actual birthday we had a small family party and the children each got one of these simple matching games.

I even found a ready made birthday card to download.

We wanted to be prepared in case there was some down time during the bounce party, so I came up with a simple group game that I called Transformers – Ready to Roll!

I printed off these pictures of 4 different Transformers. The children would sit in a circle, each holding one of these pictures. Then an adult would call out 2 Transformers, including the color in case some children are not as AutoBot savvy as my Grandson. So they would call out Red Optimus Prime and Yellow Bumblebee. (Or just use the colors!) Those children would stand up and run across the circle to sit in a different spot. The adult would continue calling out colors, but if (s)he calls out Transformers! Ready to Roll! all the children get up and run for a different spot.

Here are the pictures I printed, these sheets provide 3 of each color.

I was thinking of different ways I could have played this game with my Kindergartners. As a child I used to play it using different kinds of fruit and the teacher would call out Fruit Basket Tips Over – and we would all get up and run. It might be fun to print off body parts like eye, ear, nose, hand and tongue – and use it to review 5 senses!