Party planning, if I could figure out a way to make a career out of it I would. I absolutely love planning parties, you pick a fun theme and the possibilities are endless. This time the theme was chosen for me, although I love it! We were chosen to host our first House Party, featuring Lego Duplo’s. If you have never heard of House Party it is this awesome company that gets us the consumers, free products to try and share with our friends in exchange us sharing with our friends the free items and then talking about it on Social Media.
We received an amazing party pack from HouseParty and Lego Duplo’s featuring 6 different sets of Disney themed Legos. The Lego Duplos are for ages 2-5, they are bigger than the standard Lego sets and my girls love to play with them. So I highly recommend you check them out.
The party you are asked to host can be as simple as a playdate with a few snacks, but since I love my party planning I decided to turn in into a full on Lego/Jake and the NeverLand Pirates themed party. I started by looking at my favorite place for party ideas, Pinterest. How did we ever plan a party before Pinterest? Simply search for your theme and voila, tons of great ideas you can do at home to make your party so much fun!
My first project I decided to try was the gift bags I found this pin on how to make gift bags that look like giant legos, how cute is that! The instructions were from a particularly crafty mama that had alot of tools that I didn’t own and quite frankly didn’t want to buy. I won’t lie I would love to be crafty and who knows maybe someday I will be, but for now I stick to simple projects and I improvise.
I started off buying my bags, I found the perfect set for $6.99 for 12 bags at Micheal’s. They were in great primary colors, just like typical Lego’s, I bought two sets for a total of 10 kids.
I didn’t want to buy any craft supplies to make circles, I figured it would just be another thing collecting dust. I needed to figure out a way to make uniform circles that were approximately the correct size to make my gift bags look like Lego’s. I found it in my daughters’ metal strainer from their play kitchen, the size was perfect! I placed the bag on a piece of cardboard to avoid damaging my table and using the strainer I traced the bottom of it with an x-acto knife.
I then cut out a small square of cardboard and taped it to the bag and then taped the circle to the cardboard. This gave me the desired 3D effect I was looking for. I tried gluing at first, but it would ruin the circle and a “wet” looking spot would show through. The tape worked much better!
Here is the finished product, the bags turned out so cute and we got many compliments on them. In the next post I will show you some of of our favors I made for the kids. HouseParty gave us Jake and the Neverland Pirate Stickers, Planes Lego Posters, and Lego Duplo coupon books to add to our gift bags.
I used the same process for making the bags to make my “Lego My Juice” boxes. I used yellow construction paper, and tape on these as well. The added bonus of having the wrapper was being able to write each kids name on their juice box. With all the juice boxes on the table it was such a lifesaver and no wasted juice just because we didn’t know who’s it was!
In my next post I will talk about the food and favors we made. See you then!