By EK Wills
Step 1: Where to build your party and who with?
A lego party is better when it’s larger than life so consider whether you can buddy up with another child’s birthday to share the load.
And hiring a local venue means more space for games (especially if you live in the city) and no mess at home as a bonus. Plus you can pool your lego resources for decorations.
Step 2: What materials do you need?
To boost your collection of lego, second hand items can be purchased online but this can still be expensive. Gathering all your friends’ lego can be risky as it will get mixed up during the party. Ask your child’s aftercare facility if you can borrow theirs if you are unable to source your own.
Primary colours for everything from plates and cups, to plastic table cloths and decorations. This can be tailored to your hire space and needs to be easily erected (blue tac or ribbon).
You could even get the kids to dress in primary colours or like a lego character on the day.
Use the Lego Movie soundtrack as a game starter and stopper (ie. stop playing when the music stops).
Step 3: Consider which games you would like the kids to play.
You will need to be the foreman for these to wrangle activities and rules.
Stick the Head on the Lego Body (like pin the tail on the donkey)
These can be made from oversized post its and some holes punched in the sides to tie elastic to.
The kids will draw the lego face on the mask that will become the blindfold for ‘stick the head on the Lego Man’. Another face drawn will be the stick on head.
You will need to have prepared the Lego Man body on a poster beforehand.
Lego Races
All you need is a few large bowls and ladles for scooping lego pieces from one bowl to another, a little like an egg and spoon race. The kids can be teamed up to race against the other teams. (see pinned post on https://www.facebook.com/MumsandMentalHealth/)
Lego Towers
Using your collection of lego pieces, pile them in the centre of the room and let the kids loose on their tower construction creativity. The highest tower wins that doesn’t fall over.
You don’t need to plan too many activities, as children will love to run around with free time, too.
Step 4: Menu planning made easy
This will depend on what your child’s tastes are and what you would like to provide.
Some suggestions include:
Lego Fruit Sticks
Marshmallow heads with drawn on faces (with food colouring using a fine paint brush) at the top of fruit sticks.
Lego Block Crackers
Rectangle shaped crackers with round crackers secured with your child’s favourite spread eg creamed cheese.
Lego Block Iced Biscuits/Cookies
Home-made into a rectangle shape or purchased plain ones then iced in primary colours with M&M’s as the circular tops – colour matched of course.
Fairy bread Lego Blocks
Instead of hundreds and thousands, use single coloured sprinkles.
Cut into rectangles instead of triangles.
Jelly Cups and Drinks
Poppers (juice in single serve containers) are already the right shape and can be covered in wrapping paper with large polka dots to make them appear lego like.
Jelly Cups in clear containers can be single serve (with a spoon) and different colours.
Step 5: Now to create the Lego World Cake
Use a rectangle cake tin to form the block shape, regardless of what cake flavour you choose. Marshmallows dipped in food colouring or mini coloured cookies make good circular tops.
Then the whole thing needs to be topped with a primary colour frosting.
If two parties are combined then you have more than one.
The cake block can then be placed on cardboard (to assist with cutting later) and when you arrive at your venue, place it on a Lego mat surrounded with Lego towers of your own.
Now everything is awesome and ready to build!
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