Lego Birthday Party

My daughter Sofia turned 2! We had her party earlier this month and the theme was Lego. She (and I) acquired the love for Lego from my husband who loved Lego as a kid, as still does. He has some Lego sets that are maybe 20 years old that we still have. Sofia loves playing with them and Duplos as well.

We had a had a smaller party this year, we invited half the amount of people. Big parties are nice, but expensive.

We only had 3 games/activities but our guests enjoyed them and they occupied them the whole duration of the party. No one left for 5 hours or so. I was so happy to see them have so much fun.

The first was an activity similar to Build and Test at Legoland. I asked my dad to build a ramp where the kids could race cars they made. I wish I had time to paint the ramp black with yellow stripes to look more like a road, but I ran out of time. We wanted to have a lot of bricks and wheels so there would be a good selection for our guests building cars so we bought some Lego knock offs. They were so cheap (price wise and quality wise) but I'm glad we bought them because some were lost and broken after the party. Costco sells them, they are called "Best Lock" and I believe it was $18 for 900 pieces. We bought 2 boxes. We had the kids build and race first and then later in the day it was the adults turn. It was a lot of fun.





The second game was a Duplo game. Whoever could build the tallest tower in 60 seconds was the winner. This game was great, it was easy and everyone enjoyed it. We had a prize for the kid and adult who made the tallest tower.

The third game was a Lego building game. Whoever was fastest building this little airplane was the winner. Again we had a prize for the kid and adult who was the fastest.

We ordered food this time. I learned my lesson from last year. I was trying to save money so I made all the food last year and I was so stressed out that I didn't enjoy the first part of the party. So this year we looked into Souplantation, Rubios, and Pick Up Stix but it was about $9 per person. We decided on Panda Express. It was less than $5 per person. I was happy about that because with this pregnancy, I've been craving food from here.


We had lots of cakes! I made one chocolate vegan cake and 2 ice cream cakes. One was neopolitan and the other was toffee/chocolate and they were both covered with whipped cream. Nothing pretty but my family just loves ice cream cakes. Also, I had little chocolate mini figs on the side of the cake and a little mini fig holding goblets that held the 2 candles.

My friend, Jane, of Short and Sweets, made a vanilla smash cake, a mini fig that looked like my daughter (even wearing clothes that looked like what my daughter was wearing) and mini fig head cake pops! I mentioned to her that I would like some Lego themed desserts but I wasn't impressed with any of the cakes or mini fig cake pops I've seen people make. They look messy and usually people stick an M&M on top which makes it even more messy looking and disproportionate. But she made some, and they were perfect! You need to check out her work. I'm so amazed every time I see a new cake creation she has made.


I was so happy I found this Lego mini fig ice mold. I was going to buy it on Amazon but couldn't get it cheaper than $15 plus about $5 for shipping but I found it at Downtown Disney at the Lego store for $8!!
I tempered some semi sweet chocolate and used the molds to make chocolate mini figs.


The cake and food tables were decorated with Legos. I used some of our Lego sets but I also asked my 7 year old nephew, who has loved Legos almost all his life to help me decorate too. So he brought some of his Legos to display.

Banner I made with scrap booking paper I bought from the craft store. I found an image of a mini fig's head online and just made many sizes of them and printed them out. Then made a template from card stock and traced them on yellow paper to make big and small mini fig heads in yellow for the banner and for the favor bags.

Here are the favor bags. I think I made about 14 or so.

Time consuming. But I did this when I was watching my daughter playing in the sand box and I had nothing else to do.

Bags from Michael's. I think it was about $5 for 13.

This is what I filled most bags with. I bought the snacks from the Costco Business center. There are only about 6 Costco Business centers in the U.S right now. I'm so happy one is close by. They have lots of prepackaged food, I guess for vending machines, so It was nice to find these things that normal Costco's don't have. I bought the crayons from Kmart when they had a sale, 24 crayons for 24 cents! I bought the Lego favor packs from Toys R Us. Most kids got the Lego airplanes because I opened up many of the the Jeep favor packs and just threw those pieces and wheels with the big box of bricks for the Build and Test activity. Some kids that attended have some food restrictions so I bought some other things for them.

My daughter's 1st birthday party

Here are rest of the pictures from my daughter's Wallace and Gromit birthday party. To save money, I tried to make most of the food. I also made most of the decorations since I couldn't find party supplies for this theme. I worked on the party about a month before the party spending 1-2 hours on it a day, then the week of, I put in several more hours.

We served Mexican food for lunch. Most was homemade. I made a lot of the food beforehand and froze it. I did some research for food that can be made in advance and still taste good after being frozen.

The food table wasn't very pretty so I'm not posting any of those pictures, but the dessert table was my favorite project. I made several bite] sized desserts. The table is a little too immaculate, I think. Maybe a green tablecloth would have been better.

I made the banner and these little Shaun and Gromit faces from paper.

I made more cake bites, similar to what I've made in the past, except these were made from strawberry cake. Also I used my brownie pan to make them square shaped. I did that a couple weeks before the party and froze them. I dipped them 2 days before the party.

These were also strawberry, but covered in chocolate

This is the only Wallace and Gromit thing I own, besides the DVD's. I love this clock. I bought it from the Suncoast Motion Picture Company years and years ago when Wallace and Gromit was a new movie. I wish there were stores in the US where I could buy more stuff. I could buy online but I'd like to avoid shipping costs.

I made rice krispy treats a couple days before the party. Such a easy to make dessert and one of my favorites.

I made seven layer bars, but left out the butterscotch chips, so that made them 6 layer bars.
These freeze really well. I made these a week in advance and froze them.

Brownies!! love these boys! I ate a bunch. I made these a week in advance too, and froze them.

My friend made these beautiful whoopie pies.

Behind the whoopie pies in the 3 tiered stand, are a walnut vegan dessert my mother-in-law made.

Gromit sugar cookies I made.

I made the cake from a cake mix from the store. I also bought the icing from the store too. I colored some green and pink for the flowers and the grass. Shaun is made from polymer clay.

I had pictures from each month of my daughter's first year of life and mixed them up for a game. People were supposed to put them chronological order....but got too busy and forgot to do the game. Oh well, at least it was pretty! ha ha!

And that is that!! It was a lot of work but it was a labor of love. Anything for my favorite little girl! But it was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed baking and crafting. Since I've become a mommy, I haven't had time like I used to do all these things.

I'm a member of the Wallace and Gromit website and they have contests each month. I've submitted a few things in the past. I submitted the above picture this month. Oh I would love to win!! There's nothing like free Wallace and Gromit stuff!!

Banner and Food Lables

I made a banner and food labels and a few other paper decorations from pretty paper I bought at the craft store for scrap booking. About a month before the party, I started looking online for ideas for a banner to put by the dessert table. I saw a few banners made with a pretty ribbon stringing the pieces together. But I didn't like the way the ribbon bunched up with the curvature of the banner. I just used a thin white string.

I made several sketches until I thought I had Gromit and Shaun with the correct proportions, then I traced those images on cardboard to make a template. One note, I made the small Gromits and Shauns small enough so that their eyes were the size of a hole punch. So instead of having to cut out a bunch of tiny white circles, I just used a hole punch to make the circles. I did sort of the same thing for the large Gromits and Shauns. I don't have any tools to make perfect circles, so I used a AA battery and traced the round part on a sheet of paper, and those were the eyes. Then I made the head proportional to the eyes.

I labeled all the food and desserts so people knew what they were eating. I made all the food labels with Gromit.

I used a black marker to write out the letters for Sofia's name

As you can see, my circles are not perfectly round. This is a big Gromit, where the eyes were traced from AA batteries. Also the noses were drawn in with a black marker.