The Lego Party

Henry's first birthday party with friends was a fabulous Lego ordeal. Even though I had some high stress moments getting ready, mostly because of my procrastination, it was super fun. The fabulous Rena came over to help me, and I don't know how it would have gone without her. I have to say that it was just about perfect- the right length of time, right number of activities, great kids and the right number of those too.
We started out with some coloring of Lego characters.

Then we played a hilarious and boisterous game of "Lego, Lego, Whose got the Lego?" There was so much laughing and silliness, perhaps this was the most entertaining party of the party. I got them all in the circle and then took Henry out to be it, Rena later admitted that she had never played "Whose got the button?" that this Lego game was based on. Whoops, good thing she is such a good sport. She got them all going without even knowing what the game was.
These 3 were laughing so hard for most of the game. Pretty funny.
About halfway through, Henry decided he would rather sit back and watch.
I found a great game of Lego memory to play, and we split into 2 groups so no 4-year olds would get totally overwhelmed trying to remember how to find a match. They did great.
And finally the much anticipated Lego pinata. Try not to look too closely at the photo. Making this pinata turned out to be quite an ordeal, but the kids loved it. We even taped up the bottom and used it again with the cousins that night.

At the end of the party, the kids spent a few minutes building with our Lego collection and just playing with Henry's presents. The seemed super excited about that part.
This was about as creative as I got with the cupcakes, but the kids really liked them.
Gavin was put in charge of making the Lego head plates. I thought he did a pretty great job.

For party favors, we made these fun little Lego boxes with a template that I found. We added a Lego guy and Lego stickers for the boys and Littlest Petshop animal and stickers for the girls (since girl legos are nearly impossible to come by).

It was a very fun party, and I have a feeling that I may have set the expectations a little high for the next party. Oh well, we'll see how well I can do with that in a couple weeks.