A Ninjago Birthday

Sunday we had Kaden's birthday party here at the house and a few weeks after his actual birthday because this year just got away from me and I didn't have time to plan and send out invitations. This party was one of the most difficult parties I have done. One Ninjago stuff isn't really out in stores and two I didn't really know a whole lot about the show/movie. I went to Party City to try to find invitations because online it said they were the only place that had them. Do not ever listen to google. We got to PC and the workers said they didn't have anything Ninjago and then they were like oh wait we have a box of stuff oh and then that box disappeared I guess!

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A lot of the stuff I DIY'd. Luckily my cricket really came in handy, I was able to make the banner, Ninjas and most of the decor. 

I made the tissue tassel banner myself because I usually make one for the birthday parties. I also made everything except for the cake. I got the cake at Sams club because they have the best cakes. We couldn't find a ninjago or even lego cake anywhere so we just got a cake that had the colors and went to Target bought a new ninjago lego set and set it up on the cake and I actually really like how it looked!

I went on Etsy and had so many different Ninjago things in my cart and then my printer was out of ink so instead of printing off cupcake toppers I just picked up little swords. I think I got a pack of 50 for like $2.99 so super inexpensive way to tie in some Ninjago on the cupcakes. I made the cookies, cupcakes, chocolate covered marshmallows and the chocolate dipped pretzels the day before the party that way Sunday I could just set everything up. 

The white chocolate covered marshmallows were supposed to be yellow so they would look like Ninja heads but I didn't have the coloring oil and the chocolate kept hardening up when I would put the food coloring in so I just stuck with white. 

I bought a pack of tootsie pops and some streamers and wrapped them to make them look like Ninjas. All of the Ninja cutouts I made with my cricut machine. 

This cute little centerpiece was super easy to make. I found a vase under my sink and printed off a vinyl Ninjago character and then just filled it with tissue paper. The 7, blue ninja and the Hai-ya sign are all on cardstock and took me all of ten minutes maybe less to make. 

 All of the kids were given a Ninja headband when they arrived so they all ran around thinking they were Ninjas, Kaden still plays with his. This was in place of the goody bags because normally most of the stuff in the bags goes in the trash anyway so this way they can have something they can play with. I just bought half a yard of green, red and blue fabric and my friend Brittany and I were able to make these within a couple of hours. It would have taken a lot longer if I didn't have her to help!

This is what greeted everyone when they walked outback. Kaden asked if we could keep it up all year long or move it to his room lol.