Star Wars Party

For my oldest son's 7th birthday we did a Star Wars theme. We did it as young Padawans going through the Jedi training.

Invitations

For the invitations, I scanned some pictures from a Star Wars easy reader book we had around the house. On the front of the card I put a picture of Yoda and wrote "Invited You Are...". On the inside I wrote "To begin your training" and then the party details.  I printed them on half fold cardstock invitations. I had leftovers from a previous year, so I did not have to spend money on these cards.

Activities

My two older boys showing off their skills with a light sabers.

I printed out some Star Wars coloring sheets from the internet for each child to do as they came in.

The games were the "Jedi Trials". I made a little book for each child to keep track of each trial the complete and gave them sticker to put in their book when they completed each trial.

Trial One, Constructing the Light Saber

To make each light saber we bought 1" foam insulation from a local hardware store. One foam insulation was a foot long and cost about $1 a piece. We were able to get three sabers out of each piece. We then let the child choose a color for the saber and wrapped the insulation with colored duct tape. We wrapped the end with silver duct tape to make the handle.

Trial Two, Light Saber training

For this trial, I let my son do some fancy moves with his saber in front of everyone. The other children then would copy his moves. Kind of like a Simon says game. Then the kid's got to fight each other with their sabers.

Trial Three, Learning to control mind powers

Before the party, I blew up several balloon. During this trial, the children had to balance the balloons on their light sabers. Very fun.

Trial Four, Locating the asteroids

I wrapped candy in foil and hid it around the house. Then I let the child hunt for it.

Trial Five, Testing you knowledge of the force

For this trial, I made up questions about the Star Wars movies: "New Hope", "The Empire Strikes back" and "Return of the Jedi". 

When they successfully completed all the trials each Jedi received a certificate.  To make the certificate, I used the same picture of Yoda from the invitation. Next to the picture, I wrote "Now a Jedi Knight you are.". Then "(the child's name) has successfully mastered the Jedi trial on this day (date)." At the bottom I signed it "Yoda"

Decorations

The decorations for this party were very simple. I mainly used things I already had. I decorated the house with little star wars figures, ships and posters. I bought a star wars table cloth, plates and napkins at a party store. Since I was spending so little on everything else, I splurged and got licensed paper goods.

My death star cake

Cake

I could not find a cake that I liked. So I decided to create my own. I made a death star cake. I used one cake batter and split it between two 4 cup batter bowls (actually I used the same bowl twice). Then I stacked the two cakes together creating what looked like a giant egg. I dyed frosting a gray color used black dye and frosted the whole cake grey. I used a tooth pick to etch a design on it to look like the death star. I then dyed some tooth picks green and stuck them out of the cake to look like a beam, using super glue to glue the toothpicks together. I stuck a Darth Vader candle on top of the cake. I placed cupcakes around the cake and decorated them like planets. To drink, we had Yoda Soda. Which was lemon lime soda with lime sherbet in it.