Monday, January 30, 2012

Happy 7th Birthday Jacob!























We were blessed to celebrate my oldest son's 7th birthday this past weekend. Being that his birthday fell on the last weekened of the month and we are on a Military budget, I had to really think this out. He wanted a Lego's theme, and this mama would not, could not, should not dare to let her little boy down. So here is what I did to make it happen...


First, I swiped some bubble wrap from the garage and spray painted some white, some orange and some black... This made for the perfect Lego like feel.



Then I made my little lego men who you see standing around out of card stock.. was very simple. I found my template at: http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2010/04/lego-kirigami.html.

While the bubble wrap dried, I ventured out to make these funky yet very attractive "to children" hanging fan like thingies. Ya, all my boys were fooled.. they thought they were Lego stuff. All I did was get three sheets of card stock folded them back and forth like we did in gradeschool to make a fan, folded each page in half, stapled them together and added the streamer. Thats it! So simple and so fast and yet so fascinating to the kids.
I free handed and made two lego man heads for xtra decor, and soon, my lego theme was almost complete. All I needed was to make the cupcakes and wake up the birthday boy. I made the cupcakes out of regular white cake mix and used regular creamy frosting. I was going to make some crush soda cupcakes, but by the time I was about to make them two kids were trying to get me to read their library books and I needed the break.


















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