Then I got a phone call from daughter #1 asking if it would be possible to have grandson#1's birthday party at our house. They have limited space, so we usually do his here, or she takes them to a party venue, which we all know can get expensive.
We talked it over, and since the little man in question has become obsessed with super hero's we decided to make that the theme. I was in charge of the cake and decorations for a photo booth.
For anyone viewing this and thinking you need all kinds of special equipment and tools to make a cake, that is false, I have very limited equipment, used boxed cake mix, and printed templates on my computer, cut them out and traced them in the icing with a toothpick then filled them in with the appropriate colour icing. I do endorse using premium colourings, such as Wilton. They are the masters, and it turns out every time. The base of this cake was a very large cookie, made on a pizza pan, lined with parchment paper. Also super easy if you buy ready made cookie dough.
I need to find a better recipe for Butter Frosting though, this one turned out a little runny, and made my cake tilt a tad, I put some dowels in to keep everything where it was supposed to be.
The photo booth was super easy. Some dollar store wrapping paper, in the appropriate colours, and a dollar store calender taken apart and taped to the underlying paper. The whole thing cost $3.75. Super economical, and still a ton of fun for little super hero's.
Kids came dressed in costumes, so we used some of the masks as props for the photo booth. I had to make masks, apparently in our location you can not buy a simple mask.
Snacks were simple, some green Kool-aide for Kryponite, some pop corn and chips.
Daughter #1 had some activities planned. Our guested were able to make their own super hero capes, which she had ready, made out of large t-shirts and cut to a cape form, she had ironed on the initials and let them paint them as they please. Also another fun game with balloons, divide kids into teams, pick one to put on a large t-shirt, and have the other team member stuff their shirt with balloons, after the specified time limit she counted the number of balloons and the team with the most won. Also there was a very cool spiderman pinata.
