lego themed birthday

Our son, Fisher, turned 7 in May, and again, we couldn’t have a big party for him since we were still in quarantine, so we had to plan another celebration for just our immediate family.  Fisher LOVES LEGOs, so the party theme was easy.  To keep the boys busy for most of the day, we came up with a couple building challenges, a drawing activity, a game, a photo-booth, and of course, food and dessert!  My husband and I were EXHAUSTED by the end of the party, but the boys had a total blast and were occupied every minute!

 

LEGO goodie bags & party supplies

  • We bought the bags from Target’s dollar spot (but they sell these small bags at the dollar store as well). We then printed and cut LEGO minifigures with the boys’ names on them for each bag. These were glued to the fronts of the bags before filling them with snacks and minifigures.

  • The “LEGO” glasses and ties (not actually LEGO brand) were purchased on Amazon and were SO cute, but the ties didn’t survive very long after the party. Also, the picture of the ties shoes them with the bow ties and neck ties together, but when you get them, there’s actually no way to wear them together. I ended up hot gluing the bow ties onto the neck ties and then putting them on the elastic.

  • The party hats were purchased at the Dollar Tree. Surprisingly, the Dollar Tree had a pretty large selection of “LEGO” themed party supplies, but we only purchased the hats.

  • We also made a DIY LEGO napkin holder (out of real LEGO) and purchased “LEGO” water bottles from amazon.

Design your own LEGO minifigure

One of the first activities was for the boys to design their very own LEGO minifigure. We simply printed out a LEGO minifigure coloring page (which can be found here) and put all of the crayons in a LEGO crayon holder we made with random LEGO pieces.

LEGO minifigure photobooth

None of our parties is complete without some type of photobooth! We used a large piece of cardboard that we had laying around the garage to make this one. We printed a small minifigure on paper, projected it onto the cardboard, and then traced it in pencil. This is the tracer that we use, and we have definitely gotten my money’s worth out of it! We used acrylic paint to fill in the entire piece of cardboard and then used a black acrylic paint pen to trace everything.

LEGO Ziplines

[Hollie to enter text here]

LEGO rock catapult (with building instructions)

Another activity was the LEGO catapult build and rock launch. We found the original instructions on the Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls website. We didn’t have all the pieces required, so we purchased the pieces we needed from a secondary market for LEGO called BrickLink. BrickLink is an amazing resource for all your LEGO needs. We also used free software (called Studio) available from BrickLink to build an instruction manual for the catapult and render finalized images for the packaging we made.

The step-by-step instructions can be found here.

LEGO DUPLO ring toss

We wanted to have at least one game to play at the party, and this ring toss game was SUPER simple to set up and play. We made 6 stacks of square LEGO DUPLO blocks (each 7 LEGOs high), and arranged them onto a LEGO baseplate. We then took some rope we had laying around, cut six pieces the same length, formed them into a ring shape, and hot glued the ends together. To play, we formed teams and tossed the rings across the yard to try to get them onto the LEGOs.

LEGO cake topper

For Fisher’s cake we used a LEGO Birthday Boy minifigure as the cake topper.