Birthday Parties

Have you ever noticed that when it comes to accessories, boys get the short end of the stick? I began to see this as soon as I started having boy babies. No one wants to shop for little boy clothes, or make delicious knitting patterns for handsome boy sweaters. Boy toys consist of guns, cars, and gooey things. And try to have a party for your boys. While there is a plethora of fun party ideas for girls, boys get to have an army theme, a car theme or a pirate theme. I think that makes things boring. Ever since my guys were little I have been on a mission to right these wrongs.
Well, it was birthday time for Texas this week and I wanted to have a fun party for him and some of his friends. Texas happens to be a seven year old motor head, so we went ahead and called it a car theme party, but then we took it a little beyond that. We purchased Hot Wheels plates for the cake and fake moustaches instead of party hats.

We centralized our theme around his favorite Hot Wheel, which is a silver Delorean. So we played pin the exhaust pipe on the Delorean,

and made a Delorean cake. The cake turned out to be slightly ugly, but hey, that kind of thing happens sometimes when you are working outside the box. We made place cards for the table that were also a little gift for each guest. Each place card was a Hot Wheel car with a name tied to it with yarn.

Since it is Christmas time Texas also wanted to decorate graham cracker houses. Graham crackers work a lot better than ginger bread and are quicker. We dipped the crackers in melted sugar and stuck them together the night before. Then everyone got to decorate them as a party craft and took them home.

It turned out to be a very laid back party and a fun time was had by all.