Bobby's Birthday

Bobby turned 3 last month and the robot party we planned was a huge success and so fun to plan.  Here are the pictures

The cake I made!  My favorite part of the whole party!

Robot antennae for the kids instead of birthday hats.

 Each kid got to design a goodie bag.  I found some cute robot patterns online and the kids glued the pieces together to make their own robots.  We also had coloring pages for them to do while everyone was arriving.

I forgot to get pictures of it, but we also had different sized marshmallows and toothpicks for kids to make marshmallow robots.  Surprisingly, this wasn't a huge hit with the kids like I thought it would be. Most preferred coloring or snacking on the other food that was out.

I found this robot arm toy at Walmart.  Each kid got to use it to grab a small toy from the prize box.  We made a game out of it by rolling a dice and when the kids got a certain number they got to have a turn to get a prize.

Lunch.  I forgot to get a close up of the food before we ate.  But there was some cute stuff.

Ritz cracker "gears," square pretzel "circuit boards," cheese ball "ball bearings," grapes (no cute name), veggie straw "wire tubing," and jello cups "cooling gel."

"Oil Can" juice boxes and "robot fuel" soda and bottles of H2O

It was a surprisingly beautiful December day so we ate outside and then did some robot building.  Bobby loves to uses tools so we got a bunch of old screws, nails, hammers, screw drivers, and pipe cleaners and had the kids "build" styrofoam robots.  I wasn't sure how it would work out, but it was perfect!  The kids were all really interested in it and had a fun time using real tools. (with supervision, of course)

Adeline's robot

Bobby's robot.  He decided the tools were better decorations than the screws.

Next was the exciting part.  The huge robot.  He was set up in the house and made an impressive decoration as the kids came in to the party, but I forgot to get a picture while he was standing.  We spray painted boxes and cut out holes and covered them with tissue paper.  Then we filled it with shredded paper and candy.  The kids got their goodie bags and got to punch through the holes to dig through and find the candy.

We put of ton of candy in there so it kept them busy for a long time.

Then it was time for cake!

After eating cake the kids got to dress up in the robot costume and get their pictures taken.

And finally, the party favors!  I think they turned out really cute!  I found the rubics cubes at the dollar store and they worked perfectly!  I decided to make them armless robots because I ran out of time and patience by then!

We let Bobby open his presents after everyone left.  We decided that 3 year olds probably wouldn't do very well watching 1 kids get to open all the gifts and not getting to keep them for themselves.  He was in toy heaven and even let Adeline help in the unwrapping.

The present we got for Bobby was this plasma car.  In case you're wondering, this is a fun toy for kids and adults ;)  The kids like to ride it together.

And a few days later I took the kids to Target to let Bobby choose out his very own piggy bank.  He chose a shark bank.  He has been wanting one ever since Adeline got one on her 3rd birthday, so we decided to make it a 3rd birthday tradition.  Now he can do chores to earn money and start saving to buy things.

He loves to put the money in the shark's mouth.