For Sam's 10th birthday I had the perfect theme in mind. We planned to give him Rockband 2 as a gift so I could work the theme around that. I had the cute stamps picked out for the invites and thank-you's. Visions of "rock star", "party like a rockstar" and "you rock" from A Muse were dancing in my head and figured I could title the invite "Come jam with Sam". I envisioned all the cute band photos I could get of these boys ............it was all coming together............until Nintendo threw a wrench in my wheel. I could not find Rockband 2 for the Wii ANYWHERE! It's been out of stock since before Christmas. Now what? Time was ticking.......I didn't have a theme!
Finally Sam said to me "mom, we just want to play video games and eat pizza. Maybe I could have a couple friends sleepover?". Really? How was I supposed to make a theme out of that?
So I looked through my stamps and found the "party flags" stamp which is perfect for any party and then I remembered I had this game controller stamp from Lizzy Anne. Easy, simple, PERFECT!
I found these cute candy dispensers that look like a Wii remotes (they shoot out Smarties candy) and puzzle erasers shaped like pizza. I threw in some bubble gum pieces and I had perfectly themed treat bags!
Sam requested rootbeer floats instead of cake but it's hard to put a candle in a float so we made some fun candy sushi (my boy LOVES sushi). I saw the idea online for making sushi rolls using Twinkies but we decided to use crispy rice treats for the rice and went a step further making regular sushi with Swedish Fish. How fun is this?
Okay, so maybe the sushi didn't quite go with the rest of the theme......unless the theme is "all things Sam loves". (so I put some sushi puzzle erasers in some of the bags to tie it in ) You can tell by the smile on his face that he had fun!
Happy Birthday, Sam!
7 comments:
Very clever Joyce! Looks like you had a lot of fun putting this together. What a good mama ;)
I'm a theme girl too! Love the sushi. Happy Birthday Sam!!!!
Looks like a fun party! The sushi is adorable!
Joyce these are darling! So cute! My daughter would sooo love this - must copy this for her 20th birthday!!!
I'm a theme girl too and try to theme my hubby & I's birthday every alternative year. Last year for his 40th we got Casino Equipment for Hire and had a blast.
It's my stepson's 10th birthday this year & i think i may steal some of your ideas...
Well done!
brilliant! the sushi sweets turned out SO perfect - i bet the kids had a blast.
HOW did I miss this? Then again...maybe I did't...but just forgot?! ha ha ha SUPER FUN idea!
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