"Doctor Who" party for a 13 year old.

When my grandson was turning 13 I wanted to be careful not to do a theme party that might seem childish. Teens are often more worried about being seen as childish than adults are. He had liked Dr. Who for a while so that is what I chose. There are a lot of sites with these kind of parties and a good number of ideas.

Dr. Who party table

THE DETAILS:

Dr. Who Tardis treat bags

I printed a Tardis picture and glued it to the front of a blue bag for the treat bags. I also used them as a centerpiece for the table .

                                        The napkin rings consisted
                                          of a rectangle of plaid as
                                          the ring with a picture of
                                          a bow tie glued to them.

My husband does my printing. We made a poster as large as we could on his printer for the back wall. I cut plastic tablecloths from the dollar store into streamers and made a border of larger bow ties. The stars were from Michaels.

Doctor Who cupcakes

We printed cupcake toppers from HERE and added some with pictures of a tardis and a dalek. We also made Tardis cupcake wrappers.



THE FOOD:

Veggie Dalek

The inspiration for the veggie dalek came from HERE. I used radishes in place of the cherry tomatoes.

Bow tie pasta salad

I made a BLT bow- tie pasta salad to keep with the theme. I found the recipe HERE. I didn't have buttermilk so I used 2% and I used romaine for the lettuce because I thought it would not wilt as easily as leaf lettuce. Everyone said it was yummy! I did use the Applewood smoked bacon and it is so good.

This is supposed to be " fish fingers and custard". It is actually PC shortbread and custard. I was planning to use icing sugar and water as glue to adhere graham crumbs for breading but as this whole party was planned and executed in 2 days I ran out of time.

I also ran out of time for this idea I got HERE. These are adipose marshmallows.

Bow tie toasts with cheese. I also used bow tie cheese to garnish the meat platter.

Doctor Who party table

I was thrilled to find these blue water bottles. The bows are hair-bows from dollar tree. In place of "jammy dodgers" there is a bowl of peak frean jam cookies.

Jelly candies for the 4th dr. "Would you like a jelly baby?"

The birthday boy seemed to like it.




If anyone is interested in any of the printables in PDF  form leave a comment with your email address and specify the ones you would like. No cost!

Simple Birthday Decor for a Pre-teen Boy

I had been away on holidays and came back with only a couple of days to prepare for my grandson's 12th birthday so it had to be fast and simple. Here is what I came up with:

Pre-teen birthday decor

I started with black and white photos from all my grandson's previous birthdays.

Birthday picture wall

I reused the banner from here and covered the puppy pics with smaller versions of the birthday photos.

Snack boxes were from Michaels. I used 2 tablecloths and attached ribbon down the middle with double sided tape.

 I put "Munchies" in the boxes because it is one of my grandson's favorite snacks

The happy 12 year old!

I hope this gives you a few ideas for your celebration.

Lego Friends Birthday Party

Creating a Lego Friends Birthday Party presented 

it's challenges as there didn't seem to be anything

available for purchase that would help with the decor. 

To the rescue........my computer and printer. 

Lego Friends Birthday Table

Lego Friends table decoration card

The table card is printed on both sides and has a lego base to hold it up.
 Around the base are scattered candy blocks.

The party favors were small lego sets and the characters and animals

 from the sets are used as a table decoration.

Hanging Monograms

16 X 20 WALL POSTER

Ballon and Streamer Wall

treat bag labels

cupcake wrappers and toppers

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMELIA!

Hoping this gives some good ideas for your party decor.

Robot Birthday Party Ideas Using a pdf file

 When coming up with ideas for a birthday party theme 
a pdf file of images can be invaluable. 

When my grandson wanted a "Robot Party" for his 3rd birthday my daughter
 purchased a pdf file of vintage robots. I chose 4 robots from the nine available,
 cropped them out and removed the backgrounds in photoshop.
If you don't have photoshop just try to find images you like that don't have backgrounds.

FOUR ROBOTS

With these four robots I made:

 birthday banner

Each piece of the banner was printed on an
8½ x 11 piece of card stock and cut out.

food cards

cupcake dots

A 3" hole punch would have been nice but 

I couldn't find one at my local Michaels 

store so had to cut them out by hand

Party wall decor

napkin rings

All of the above were printed on white card-stock.

     Treat bag stickers             Small candy bag stickers

Printed on full sheet sticker paper  
and cut out.

treat bags

Birthday gift bag sticker

It made for a very colorful party as you can see HERE

For another neat idea for a pdf file check this out!

I hope this gives you some ideas for your own party! 

"Robot Birthday Party"

My 2 year old Grandson had been looking forward to his July birthday ever since his little brother turned one in March. For four months he talked about his"Robot Party". When I found out they would be visiting for his birthday I knew I had to make it special. 

Waiting for the party to start and having a few snacks

I found these large "u-build it" robots at Winners in the clearance section.

 How lucky was that?

Cousins!

Even baby brother sat at the table!

THE FOOD:

Robot party food

 

The birthday boy's favorite M&Ms.

Robot sandwiches

Fruit Robot

birthday cupcakes

We made marshmallow robots!

Surveying the ingredients for the robots.

Marshmallow Robots

Working on it...

Just a little taste!

Amelia's finished product.

THE TREAT BAGS:

 The take home candy  had its own little bag.

Michaels had all kinds of Robot treats including puzzles, wind-ups, pencils 

and pencil cases, stickers etc.

A full page sticker  decorated the gift bag.

As part of the birthday gift I made Levi a few more pages for his Quiet Book 

including this one :

Robot quiet book page.

The patterns for the robot page are found here.

All in all we had a good day!