This week we had a Star Wars themed birthday party for three of my grandchildren, Owen turning 10, and twins Anna and Lily who just turned 8. My assignment was to come up with a game, a craft and a birthday cake. It’s so much fun to be included in their celebrations!
First we hid pictures of favorite Star Wars characters around the backyard.
We numbered the pictures and cut them apart, then hid them in non-conspicuous places. Each child was given this check off sheet where they were to write the matching number by each character.
The other side of this character check off sheet contained the activities the children needed to “master” to become Jedi warriors and receive their own light saber.
The kids had lots of fun completing these activities.
They built towers taller than themselves.
They ran down the ladder, placing one foot in each square.
They stepped on wooden blocks to follow a path that ended at a play structure they climbed through.
We found some little shooters that you squeeze and shoot out small circle disks. The kids tried to get the disks through the holes in our board.
We set up a course of cones that they had to run in and out of – like figure 8s.
They balanced a Star Wars paper plate on the end of a foam pool noodle and walked a premarked distance. This was a little tricky because there it was a bit windy, but they had fun anyway.
Probably their favorite activity was using these foam dart guns to knock a Storm Trooper off the table. We glued a Storm Trooper head onto a few styrofoam cups and set them up on a small table. Again, the wind was a little problem, blowing the cups off the table, but they still loved this. Here are the Storm Trooper images we used.
When the children were done, and the light sabers had been awarded we headed inside to make Star Wars sock puppets.
I wanted to give the kids some ideas to get started, so I printed off this sheet of different kinds of Star Wars puppets to help them think about what they wanted to make. I provided white and black socks, adhesive felt and foam sheets, pom poms, popsicle sticks, jiggly eyes, pipe cleaners and Tacky Glue. Children’s Fiskar scissors cut through the felt pretty easily.
I am not a cake decorating expert so I frosted it and put borders and the children’s names on the cake. Then I gave the birthday children Lego Star Wars characters and small vehicles and they set them up on the cake.
I just realized I didn’t get any pictures of the 2 boys at the party! They were a bit outnumbered by girls this time! But I think they all had lots of fun.
Kindergarten Nana 