Star Wars Birthday Party

By the time Gator turned six, it was All Star Wars, All the time. If you've got a Jedi of your own to celebrate, feel free to swipe any/all of these ideas. And May The Force Be With You...*

Star Wars Birthday Celebration.

Activities: Pin The Light Saber On The Yoda

• Have a talented artist friend make you a Yoda poster. (Serves dual purpose as wall art in your Jedi's room after the party.)
• Make a paper light saber for each young Jedi with their name on it
• Blindfold the Jedi and have them try to pin their saber on Yoda.
• Try not to be annoyed with Jedi who seem to be peeking
• Closest match wins a prize.
• Note, Yoda's saber is Green. This is very important. Do NOT under any circumstances make an offensive RED or YELLOW light saber for this activity! The force would definitely not be with you

Treasure Hunt

• Make up a bunch of clues. Each clue must be written in Yoda Voice, and lead the young Jedi cluster to the next clue. Obi Wan has found that with treasure hunts for young Jedi, it's best to send them hunting all over. Up, down, to yonder galaxies and back. They have lots of energy, and are generally of the male persuasion. Running around is good.
• The pack of Jedi will use the force to search for the missing treasure by following the clues. Clues will lead them to search in the most random locations.
• When said treasure is at last found, there will be much rejoicing.
• Light Saber battles will undoubtedly ensue (so long as your treasure is a light saber).
• An assortment of colors is fine in this case. There's always someone who wants to be the bad guy (or who just doesn't have every color saber at home already).
• Their light saber was their "take home prize"...cause going home empty handed seems to have become a cardinal sin for any kid party anymore. Obi Wan isn't sure when or why this has happened, but suspects Darth Vader has something to do with it.
• Let the Jedi Masters play. I promise, they can do this just fine. Sometimes less structure is more.

(EDITED ON IN 2012) Here is a link to a post about making The Death Star Cake

Cake:

• First off, this is one of the easiest cakes I've ever done. I'm confident anyone else could do it too...that means YOU, Jedi parent! Just let The Force guide you...it's that powerful!
• Bake your Jedi's favorite flavor in a 9x13" pan.
• Remove it from the pan and when it's cool, you're going to make a light saber template out of paper to guide you.
• Trace the cake onto your paper. Your goal is to make it as long as possible, while tapering the ends so they meet up with the one before it. My cake was cut into thirds.
• Once you have the template made, use it to cut the cake and line it up. I found a long board and covered it with foil to mount the cake on.
• Buy concentrated Wilton frosting colors. Black and whatever color your saber is. Our Jedi is Blue (an excellent choice if I do say so myself)
• Frost it.
• Decorate the handle of your light saber. I cut up large marshmallows to make the white trim, and spelled my Jedi's name and age with those letters and numbers you buy in the cake deco section of your grocery store. Our light saber was lit up with those long, sparkler candles that keep relighting.
• Hide the finished product till it's time to eat. When you emerge with it, your Jedi Knights will be amazed!

Additional Suggestions:

• Use bathrobes or cut up brown fabric and tied around them as capes.
• Tae Kwan Do or Karate outfits make fine Jedi attire...modeled here by Jedi Gator with his unhemmed, brown fabric cape knotted at the neck. Princess Leah is wearing a white turtle neck and a sheet draped around and tied at the waist with a cord. Nothing fancy needed.
• Have Obi Wan show up and conduct a Jedi Training Session.
• Have Darth Vader make a surprise appearance and engage the Jedi Knights in battle. Or fight Obi Wan...if you can find two recruits at the same time.
• Play the soundtrack from the movie as background noise for their battles. It really adds.
• Songs are available on iTunes for $1.00 each. Burn a CD as a gift for your Jedi. Prepare yourself for hours of this:
  
  
• Video tape their little battles...they LOVE this!
• Help them make a mini movie with dialog, music, costumes and battles.
• Put them on You Tube. Apparently it's THE place for homemade Star Wars movies.
  
  

• If it's okay with the parents (and you just don't want the party to ever end), you could let the Jedi Knights watch one of the movies. (The newest Clone Wars movie will eventually be on DVD, and it's my Jedi's favorite one of all, plus it's only an hour and a half).
• Relax. No matter the age, for Star Wars fans, this party really takes care of itself. Not a whole lot of direction or Ewok herding needed. You can sit in the corner and pretend your Jabba the Hut with the leftover cake.

*...ALWAYS