One thing I love about crafty home birthdays is that you reap the benefits of your hard work for months to come. Example: last november Toby had a frog birthday and I made a frog sensory bin made with coloured rice, gems, frogs and other pond finds. Well...I bagged that sensory bin up and pulled it out at different times throughout the winter and then it became our outdoor summer sensory bin and it was still kicking around in early september when I just threw it out (the rice part). It may have taken some time, effort, and a little bit of cash in the beginning, but it's a new toy!
Same thing this year- some of the activities we made like a runway- we can store and pull out all winter, or the target we made for paper airplanes? We can throw other things through those holes all winter. Win for me and win for long winter days at home indoors with 3 young kids.
In case you need ideas for a plane party, take these:
Invitation:
I sent out invitations that looked like plane tickets to send by e-mail to each child (although it would have been nice to print them and hand deliver them)
Decorations:
I was kind of sticking to the Planes movie colours- orange, blue and white. I bought a bunch of planes from a kid's swap event (so for only a couple dollars) which I kept aside to decorate with on the table and in the air...and loved the idea of puffy while clouds and a cloud mobile, so I did both! Hard to get a good picture into the light...
Made cloud table place settings out of posterboard and also made additional planes to decorate the table with out of clothes pins, cololured popsicle sticks, and hot glue gun.
I loved making this paper airplane wall- it had a cool effect coming up the stairs (and was super easy to do)
My crafty 5 year old had to get into the action too and decorated the table with all his plane creations:
Activities:
We chose this to be an all boy party just because and decided to max out at 8 kids. This was our itinerary:
Paratrooper Training:
While kids arrived, we decided to throw little parachute men over the stairwell and have the boys try and get them through the crepe paper:
Next up: In Flight Snacks
Snack time. Cause kids needs snacks. Kept it simple and relatively unthemed. (Fruit, crackers) but couldn't resist making cloud cheese (cause it's so darn cute!)
Flight School
Next activity we did (which we didn't take a picture of) was make some pretty cool paper airplanes (we made them ahead of time) which we had them try and fly through holes we made in a large piece of cardboard. Each hole was worth different points. They loved this game!
Build-A-Plane & Wings Across the Globe Race
I found these great foam planes (big ones) from the dollar store for $2 each kid. We had them all make them and then made an obstacle course in our basement to go through (avoid the balloon clouds, go through a tunnel, go through our closets etc). However, because we had a bunch of boys, we eventually ended up throwing the big foam planes around the backyard and off our deck
Free play:
We made a fun runway and let the boys have some time to just get creative. They built lego airports, played with their planes on the runway, and made lego planes to fly.
In Flight Service:
Dinner was just homemade pizza, veggies
Plane Cakes:
For his party I just made cupcakes with white fluffy cloud icing topped with a chocolate plane...but I also did this:
In Flight Entertainment:
We watched some of the Planes movie while we waited for parents to pick up and to allow for me to do some cleanup!
Goodie Bags:
(and they got to take home their fun foam fliers and our homemade popsicle stick planes)
Made to look like suitcases out of paper bags:
Included propeller pop suckers:
Jets and Propeller planes made out of a chocolate mould and melted chocolate:
Plane stickers:
Glider plane and toy plane:
So fun to plan and the kids had a blast! If you ever need tips, ideas, or want me to plan your party- I would totally do it just for fun!
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