Fletcher's Star Wars Lego Birthday Party

When Fletcher got old enough to start requesting themed birthday parties I was afraid I'd be resigned to the party aisle at Target. So far I've been able to placate him with themed plates and napkins, while adding a DIY element of my own.


This year he requested not a Star Wars or a Lego party, but at Star Wars Lego party. I think he's testing me.

I made these Star Wars Lego tickets / invitations using my very limited talents with Photoshop Elements.

As we started planning the actual party though it began to stray from the Lego theme and move more towards Star Wars. It could be due to the fact that the entire 6-movie series was on TV recently. (About 87 hours of my life that I'll never get back. And I still don't know a wookie from a hole in my Death Star.)

I was able to find loads of Star Wars party ideas online and openly admit that everything we did was lifted from someone else.

We made pool noodle light sabers a la Aimee Austin Designs, but Googling "light saber pool noodle" with give you images of many, many different designs. The only thing we did differently was to put PVC inside the noodle, sticking out the end about 6 inches so that the kids could hold them with one hand instead of two. It also made them a bit stronger when it came time to smash the pinata.

The Jedi robes I planned to make ended up being Jedi vests, since I didn't start working on them until 8:00 pm the night before the party. For spending about 3 minutes a piece on them they turned out cute and none of the kids seemed to mind their simplicity.

The kids had full Jedi lunch of Obi Wan Pepperoni Pizza, Wookie Cookies, Jedi Juice, and Yoda Soda...

Followed by Federation Space Cakes for dessert. There are a lot of printable cupcake flags floating around online, but our printer isn't working, so these had to suffice.

I found the electric blue foil cupcake papers and these straws at The Cupcake Social. I wasn't really happy with the way the glasses looked but, without a printer, I wasn't able to print cute little tags for them. I did find some crazy sparkly ribbon at Hobby Lobby...

I missed getting a shot of them filled with the green Yoda Soda (lime sherbert & Sprite) but they looked pretty neat.

I made all of the signs using the free Star Jedi font by Boba Fonts. I printed them as photos at Walgreens then mounted them on Lego scrap book paper (found at JoAnn Fabric).

We accessorized with Star Wars toys, graciously given to us by a friend. And, by the way, Star Wars toys are totally different than Star Trek toys -- don't make that mistake unless you want to get a huge eye roll from your children and husband.

For more Star Wars party ideas, check out Tip Junkie who has a nice round up.