Friday was a crazy robot filled day in honor of our little
buddy's third birthday. Nathan and I had a blast making all-things
robot - this was definitely our favorite party to put together so
far. Since it's easy for kids this little to get overwhelmed, we
tried to keep the party a little smaller this year, and it worked
out well. Alex had his best buddies there, including our neighbors
that he idolizes (4 brothers - 2 sets of twins!).
The day started out with some great gifts...the highlight being
roller blades from my parents.
He also received a stuffed robot from
Auntie Lynn and Uncle Butch that he immediately named "Ro-buddy".
And also Harold the Helicopter
We brought Alex to school with cupcakes
for his classmates, so his whole day became one long celebration.
While he was gone, Nathan and I were busy setting up for the party.
We made just about everything ourselves using
these little robot
digital files I bought to make the wall decals for Alex's
room.
Here are the invitations:
The banner on the front door:
And the "ro-boxes" that served as favor boxes. Nathan's office had
a lot of used boxes waiting to be recycled, and - given our
track-record of incorporating cardboard into parties - he brought
them home knowing he would figure out something cool to do with
them. . . After a little thought and experimenting with our
'proto-bot', here is how they turned out.
Inside each one, we included a bag of
"nuts and bolts" (trail-mix),
a CD with all of Alex's favorite songs (in
case you are wondering what 3-year-olds are listening to these
days):
And a "power bar" - a customized candy
bar, thanks to my dad!
I also made place-mats with each kids' name on it. After designing
them I just printed them out and laminated them. Easy peasy!
Here is the little birthday boy
Do your best robot, Alex!
For activities, we gave the kids some
marshmallows and toothpicks and they made little marshmallow
robots.
I don't have a good picture of this, but
we gave each kid a power-button sticker to put on their hands. This
was their "on/off" switch. If someone pushed it, they had to say
"powering down" and freeze until someone pushed it again and turned
them back on. They got a kick out of that...
Here is the robot cake I made, following
these directions:
After cake & ice cream, everyone went
outside to see a special guest - a robot that came to deliver a
couple presents just for Alex. The robot was Gary who decided that
he wanted to participate in the robot madness and made this costume
- it was AWESOME.
What a great time! Alex had a blast, and
we still can't believe he is three already! Thank you to everyone
who helped to make this such a special day for him.