Here's how we created our ultimate LEGO Movie party:
LEGO Movie Party Invitations
We used this great movie ticket invitation template I found here. We downloaded a blank JPEG template and then added text in Picmonkey for our party details.
This same site also had awesome envelope templates to download to put the invitation in and personalise - we used Emmet for the boys coming to the party and Wyldstyle (Lucy) for the girls.
LEGO Movie Party Games
Pin the piece of resistance on EmmetIt was easy to turn the classic 'pin the tail on the donkey' into a Pin the Piece of Resistance on Emmet. I found this picture of Emmet from the back, enlarged it and printed it in A2 size. I made a piece of resistance for each child from red card I had at home.
Everyone took turns trying to get their piece of resistance right in the centre of his back - the kids were surprisingly accurate doing this!
Musical statues to the 'Everything is Awesome' theme tune
Who doesn't love the 'Everything is Awesome' theme tune from the movie? One thing's for sure - it does get stuck in your head. This was the easiest game of all - all I had to do was buy a version of the song from iTunes and download it - sorted!
LEGO brick toss
This was another easy game to arrange. I cut out yellow card and arranged it in three different sized circles. Each child had 3 LEGO bricks to throw into the circles - 1 point if it landed in the outer circle, 5 points in the inner circle and 10 points if it landed in the inner circle.
The LEGO bricks were a lot more bouncy than I'd anticipated so it was actually quite hard to score any points but after a few goes they all got the hang of it!
LEGO Movie Bingo
I thought this was one of the most fun games to plan but it did take a bit of time. Firstly I searched for images of the main LEGO movie characters online. I ended up using 25 in total and then saved them as two pages in the Paint software application.
LEGO Mini figure Treasure Hunt and recreate the Mini figure
This was really fun and made use of the awesome LEGO sticker books that the boy's grandparents gave them when we were in the UK last year. First, we hid 10 mini figure stickers around the house which they had to find. Then they got given a piece of card to put their sticker on and they had to try and find the head, body and legs that matched their minifigure from the big pile of stickers which had a lot of extra pieces that they didn't need.
As we had youngish kids attending the party (mostly 5 and under) we decided to go for really simple games rather than any complicated brick building or memory games but you could easily add extra games like this in if you had older children attending.
LEGO Movie Mask Photo
When the children had all arrived the first thing we did to break the ice was take a group photo of them all wearing LEGO Movie Masks that I'd made from templates here. Then we did another group 'funny face' shot without masks as well
LEGO Brick Pull piñata
A piñata is always a super fun party activity for kids and it's way more satisfying making your own version than buying one in my opinion. But then I would say that - I literally spent weeks creating a Death Star piñata for our older boy's 5th party a few years ago - ha ha! This piñata was nowhere near as complicated to make, I used the instructions I found here. Basically you take a rectangular shaped box (I used a nappy box) - cut six holes in it and insert tin cans into the holes. Then I covered it with yellow card, and printed off six LEGO words in a LEGO-like font to put over the tin cans.
Then I cut a trapdoor hole in the bottom and taped a whole lot of ribbon (purchased as a pack of 50 from Spotlight) and yellow crepe paper to the bottom, but only attaching four pieces of ribbon that were inside the trapdoor and would actually pull open the trapdoor to let the lollies out.
It worked pretty well, although the person holding it had to be quite strong at holding itup as the kids were pretty good at yanking hard on the ribbon!
LEGO Movie Party Food
We went with the theme of KISS (keep it simple stupid) when it came to the party food, making LEGO brick shaped pizza slices with kransky sausages on the top, and fries inside a LEGO themed packet from the downloadable LEGO party pack I found here.
We also made LEGO brick cheese sandwiches which were literally two piece of white bread buttered with a cheese slice in side and rounds cut out and placed on top.
We baked themed cupcakes using Jamie Oliver's Victoria sponge recipe, baked in different coloured baking cups and then iced and added different coloured white chocolate LEGO bricks on top.
I bought two LEGO brick and LEGO men mould sets from Trade Me which I used both for making crayons for the goody bags and white chocolate moulds to go on the cupcakes.
I was super impressed with this cupcake recipe as other recipes I've tried in the past have risen unevenly on top, but these turned out beautifully flat which made them far easier to ice and decorate!
LEGO Movie Party Cake
I could have made an elaborate Emmet shaped LEGO man cake. I saw enough of them floating around the Internet and on Pinterest. But I also figured there are some things that you just shouldn't take on if you want to maintain your sanity before the big day. As it was we had to make two cakes - one for our daycare farewell a few days earlier and one for the birthday party so a rational choice had to be made! Instead we purchased a LEGO Movie edible icing personalised with M's name on it from Cake Images on Trade Me and baked a plain rectangular cake.
It was a bit nerve wracking separating the icing from its backing sheet and placing it on the cake but it worked well and was a hit with the birthday boy!
LEGO Movie Party Table and Decorations
The table was really fun and simple to create, and was pretty much all sourced from the $2 shop. I used two black tablecloths for the background and printed off the Happy Birthday logo from the great downloadable party pack I found here.
I bought some yellow plastic bunting and added stickers from our LEGO Minifigures Ultimate Sticker book to go around the outside of the table.
We bought paper plates and cups in yellow and red and added stickers to these too. The boys both have LEGO men LED torches which added a bit of fun to the table as well. We added some yellow spotty balloons with the remaining ribbon that we didn't use for the piñata and stuck these to the ceiling (for a fake helium effect and much cheaper too!).
Then we added in all our LEGO movie LEGO sets and mini figures and our table was complete!
LEGO Movie Party Loot Bags
I purchased a pack of 10 yellow loot bags from Spotlight, and then added handles with some LEGO Movie ribbon I found on Trade Me. Inside the loot bags was a LEGO movie colouring in page found here and the LEGO men shaped crayons I made using the moulds I bought. Probably the most expensive item of the whole party were the LEGO movie mini figures that we put in each bag for the kids! I also cut out some smaller stickers from our sticker book for the kids to take home, and of course there were plenty of lollies to go in there too after the piñata pull!
I cannot recommend highly enough buying one of these giant sticker books - it made the games, loot bags and general party decoration so much easier! You can actually get a LEGO Movie sticker book version on Amazon here or through Toyco here (cheapest I found in NZ for $8.99 plus shipping), but we just used the books we had at home and it worked just as well.
This was a super fun party to plan and host as there were so many great options for themed games and decorations that didn't cost the earth - if anything it was hard not to get too carried away - but that's half the fun right?!
