PTS wants a star wars birthday party...

[mominatrix]

USE ALL THE PINTEREST!!!!!

[IIOY]

OMG, my kids are totally into Star Wars right now! Last night I had to queue up The Imperial March and Cantina Band on my phone while we were driving home so they could listen to them both. My son got a light saber for his birthday and cannot go to bed at night unless it is with him.

Post this over on the Geeks & Gamers board. I bet you'll get some creative suggestions.

[laurenpetro]

www.williams-sonoma.com/search/results.html?activeTab=products&words=star+wars&cm_sp=OnsiteSearch-_-GlobalNav-_-Button&type-ahead-viewset=ecom

you don't have to decorate them.

[ttt]

Sept 25, 2013 9:14:51 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Sept 25, 2013 9:12:17 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

www.williams-sonoma.com/search/results.html?activeTab=products&words=star+wars&cm_sp=OnsiteSearch-_-GlobalNav-_-Button&type-ahead-viewset=ecom

you don't have to decorate them.

Oh my God, the cookie cutters would be great in a party favors bag. Would it be weird to divide them up so one went into each bag?

Not at all, and I think those are an awesome idea.

In fact (idea) for SST's birthday party (not Star Wars, but the cookie cutters)

[mominatrix]

Sept 25, 2013 9:08:36 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Post this over on the Geeks & Gamers board. I bet you'll get some creative suggestions.

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BOARD?

It's my people!! My people!!!

[mominatrix]

ohmigod, the Pinterests on this are awesome!


just go here:

[EloiseWeenie]

I saw lots of Star Wars stuff on Oriental Trading, so you might want to check there.

[Deleted]

no suggestions. just wanted to say that I love her.

::smooches pts::

[downtoearth]

Oh and if you go to the store now, grab a ton of pool noodles. Cut in half (or thirds depending on size of kids), add black duct tape at the bottome and BAM - you have lots of light sabers without much work.

Games...obstacle course where you have to get out of the Death Star (living room) and into a space ship. You can also have the kids decorate a ship (www1.macys.com/shop/product/discovery-kids-toys-kids-cardboard-rocket-ship?ID=700210&cm_mmc=Google_Kids_PLA-_-Kids+PLA+FS_Kids+PLA+FS-_-18624960064_-_-_mkwid_qFIhnoFX|d{device}_18624960064%7C-%7CqFIhnoFX ).

Other games...pin the head back on CP3O or a light saber into a jedi's hand.

[eliseb0323]

Disney's Hollywood Studios does a Jedi Training Show that is awesome. You could get someone to dress up as a Jedi and teach the kids some simple moves with light sabers. (Like fencing moves.) At Disney, Darth Vader shows up (accompanied by very scary music)and battles the kids to try to bring them over to the dark side. The kids always win.

[meshaliuknits]

Can I come?

Also, I'm now getting an ad star wars at the tech which I didn't know about. BabyLiu's starwars education is lacking & this mighthelp.

[laurenpetro]

Sept 25, 2013 9:14:51 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Sept 25, 2013 9:12:17 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

www.williams-sonoma.com/search/results.html?activeTab=products&words=star+wars&cm_sp=OnsiteSearch-_-GlobalNav-_-Button&type-ahead-viewset=ecom

you don't have to decorate them.

Oh my God, the cookie cutters would be great in a party favors bag. Would it be weird to divide them up so one went into each bag?

not even a little.  that would be awesome.

i'm (not surprisingly) a fan of cookie cutters as gifts but i think these are better for characters.  outlines don't normally do star wars shapes justice.  plungers are awesome.

[ttt]

When I was a kid, my brother was into Ghostbusters and for his 7th (?) birthday party, my mom gave all the kids water guns and they went into the woods behind our house to go "ghost hunting" where my mom had hung up tons of ghost cutouts all over the place. They had tons of fun. You have a big yard - I wonder if you could do something similar? Not sure what the weather is like up there in October but if it's still warm, it might work. With pretend light sabers and such.

[IIOY]

Sept 25, 2013 10:28:11 GMT -5 ttt said:

When I was a kid, my brother was into Ghostbusters and for his 7th (?) birthday party, my mom gave all the kids water guns and they went into the woods behind our house to go "ghost hunting" where my mom had hung up tons of ghost cutouts all over the place. They had tons of fun.

Moms like this make me look terrible, so I hate this post.

[sushi]

I'm sure think geek can help you out.

[Deleted]

The G&G board is pretty new, I think. 

[marissa]

I used duct tape and made a light saber to destroy a Darth Vader head at the end of a Padawan training course. We drank Yoda punch, ate light sabers, etc for snacks.

[ijack]

we went to one this year and they got blow up lightsabers and the kids played a game pretending black balloons were darth vader and chased them around bashing them and each other. it was pretty fun.

[secretlyevil]

Sept 25, 2013 9:27:12 GMT -5 mominatrix said:

ohmigod, the Pinterests on this are awesome!


just go here:

Death star pinata - YES!!!!!

[secretlyevil]

started a geeks and gamers thread for you.

I was curious to see what they got.

[pescalita]

Sept 25, 2013 9:59:52 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Can I come?

Also, I'm now getting an ad star wars at the tech which I didn't know about. BabyLiu's starwars education is lacking & this mighthelp.

Really? Must check out.

I think the pool noodle light sabers sound like a great favor. I kind of want to do this party for myself.

Also, the Jedi training thing is the best thing going at d-land these days. So much awesome. Guaranteed at least one hilarious kid.

[aurademystere]

I bought blow-up lightsabers for about $2 at Target. My kidlet and his cousins love them. Great lightsaber battles, less chance of poking out an eye.

[IIOY]

A piece of advice based upon some emotional trauma we are having in our house: make sure you don't force (haha) a red light saber on a kid who doesn't want to be a "bad guy." My son loves his light saber and, as I said above, he sleeps with it, but it's becoming clear that having a red one bothers him. He has checked with us a few times about having one automatically making him a "bad guy." :-(

[secretlyevil]

From Black Canary on Geeks and Gamers:

www.buzzfeed.com/orator/how-to-throw-the-best-star-wars-birthday-party-i-badx