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  1. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with so many details! I love it! I will definitely use some of these ideas. Where did you get the pencils and notepads? 
    -Elizabeth
     
     

  2. We’re having an Angry Birds birthday party for my 4 yr old this weekend.  I picked up two gift certificates from Restaurants.com for a local pizza place for $6 total for $50 worth of pizza!  We’re also making our own Angry Birds pinatas and rigging a slingshot so the kids can shoot them at the pigs (green balls!).  It should be fun! 

  3. My son’s 4th bday was Legos. We were closer to $150. Here are some of the things we did:
    1.) Bought 2 Lego Brick molds (ice cube trays) off ebay used – $7.50. Grabbed a couple bags of Wilton candy melts from Hobby Lobby on sale in each red, blue, yellow, green. Melted, poured, popped in freezer. Repeat. Each kiddo had 1of each color in favor bag.
    2.) Ordered 3lbs Blox candy from Amazon. Shaped like Legos, tastes like SweetTarts. But you can Actually BUILD w/ it. Each favor bag had a scoop.
    3.) Went to Lego website (activities tab) and printed off color & activities pages. Made a “book.” Added a .25¢ 4pk of crayons from Party City. -favor bag.
    4.)Etsy.com – andersruff- lego inspired printable coloring wall poster. $24.00. Custom w/ your kids name (in Lego font) mini figs w/ childs age and bricks. Tons of bricks! 36″ x 144″! This was a huge hit…the kids loved it. Printed @ Kinkos in 3 sections.
    5.) Food- PB&J in rectangles w/ circles of J on top. ‘Bumps on a log’ -celery w/peanut butter & raisins along the top. Crackers w/ lil’ circles of cheese affixed w/ dot of cream cheese. Watermelon squares- we used a small melon baller to half scoop and placed grapes in the holes.
    6.) We had our 1/2 sheet cake made at local grocery for $18. It had a Lego surround (sides & top border) and random Legos peeking through. Very cool.
    7.) Bought small box of Legos. Randomly put 4 (because he turned 4) together. (x number of kids at party.) Superglued. Drilled hole in one Lego & threaded keychain through. $15. BEFOREHAND. and this turned out much more tedious than I thought. The boys loved drilling Legos, they ended up drilling all the remaining Legos in that box.

    Next up…my almost 2yr olds Mustache Bash. Ideas on how to keep that under $100??

  4. Mustache Bash? I’ve got to hear more details on that, lol!

    GREAT JOB on the LEGO party too! I love the idea of the wall poster for the kids to color!

  5. So far:
    1.) Sticky ‘staches for everyone to wear (parents too.) And pink ones for the girls. An asst of styles of course.
    2.) Pin the mustache on J (poster size blow up of the baby & card stock cut outs using cookie cutters)
    3.) Our version of a photo booth- plywood booth & props (‘staches, ties, hats, necklaces, wigs, sunglasses *garage sale finds)
    4.) Chocolate mustaches lollipops using ice cube mold
    5.) Cardboard ‘staches & cardboard lips w/straws thru them for the drinks.
    6.) Cookie shaped ‘staches.
    7.) Invites- “I mustache you to come to my birthday.”
    8.) Favor bags- “thanks for coming. Here’s your ‘stache”

    He’s turning 2 so we wont be game heavy. We also have a family member who has a bounce house business and we are very fortunate that he ‘gifts’ the kiddos one for their parties.

    A LOT LEFT TO DO. June is coming fast. Aghhhh….

  8. you know i saw that and i think that is so neat how you managed to plan a very successful party for under $100.00

  9. Danita – Love it!! Those are some great ideas! You are way more crafty than I am. 🙂

  11. I am soo loving this lego party idea and I love that you took us step by step and gave us links to find supplies … great job, I am passing this on to my best friend for her son’t birthday party and may steal it for my son for next year … good job! …
     
    Utokia
    http://www.shesgotflavor.com
     

  12. Thanks for taking the time to post all this info. I’m throwing a lego party for my ten year old son, and wasn’t quite sure where to start. Thanks! I’ll certainly be using most of these ideas!

  13. If you live in the Austin area there is a great place that rents Legos for brithday parties. They have tons of themes and great prices. Block-Party-Rentals.com

  14. To answer your question about the piñata-this particular piñata is a pull string piñata and is not reinforced for bashing. When that is all that is available, we cut the strings and duct tape the bottom. You can color the tape to match or buy matching duct tape these days. The ones without the strings on bottom are ready to bash upon purchase!
    Love the way you priced everything. I got lucky because I threw a huge lego city party for my 4 y/o and when my turning 6 y/o asked for Lego Star Wars I got excited because I get to reuse ideas, candy molds, etc!

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  16. Love these budget LEGO birthday party ideas! I guess those ice cube molds have a ton of uses. Since my kiddos will (hopefully!) love LEGOs for a while, I’m probably going to buy them!

  17. As a part time party planner I love doing everything on a budget. I try to use what I have an my imagination and so far im just a couple bucks in in just using things I had and im almost complete with favors and decor/centerpieces.
    I used legos we had, some jewelry pieces I had and I was able to do 25 lego necklaces and printed out lego coloring books( mini) I will be buyinf the mold, found them all for 6.00 on ebay and making rhe crayons, to which i bought at staplds for free ( rebates and coupons) i have the baggies from a previous project and those will be the favors. I made a le go pinata out of crepe paper and boxes I had and will stuff with candy and other goodies I have ( I love the 8 pack play doh from the dollar tree and army mwn from there so 4$ total for the toys and another 3$ for a bit of candy) I also covered other boxes for centerpieces that I had ( empty fruit snack and cereal boxes are great) and made those in to legos. I made some tables with ikea small tables * on sale for 5.00 a piece and I made 2* for the kids to play with lego ( already have around 3000 of them ) and each kid can bring home whatever they make cuz really why do I need 3000 legos ???? For food we are doing simple finger sandwhiches, a pasta salad I make, some chips, dip and other munchies like pretzels and crackers , dessert will be rice krispies, cookies, cake pops, brownies and such all homemade by me. We have 20 kids ( with possible siblings) and 35 adults . Our total food last yr for the same menu came in at 40.00 from shopping in bulk and makimg everything ourselves. We are excited about this party and we are so glad to see other peoples ideas, as they have brought many of ours to life. I make invitations and banners, food tents, water bottle labels annd such so that part is free. I print everything at home ( call it 5.00 for paper and ink if that) and I print the invitation at walgreens ( 2 per 4×6 picture) I will be printing 20 of them for the 40 total we wil lsend out and the thank yous which I made we will print at the same time during their .10 a print sales bringing the total for thank yous and invitations to around 6.00 . We look on track to spend our target of under 200.00 including a park rental, to which we have our own bounce house ( an investment we made as a family a couple years back as there are 10 cousins who use it every year, we more then get our moneys worth after half the first yr!!)

  18. Hi – I thought I’d add one more LEGO freebie that you could add to your ideas. For our Lego party, I called the Lego magazine folks and asked them if they would send me 10 Lego Club magazines to put in party favors, with two of those having “Lego Friends” inserts, and the rest not having those inserts. Well, Lego sent me 20 free magazines – 5 having the “Friends” inserts. It was a fun way to round out our favor bags for free. (Subscriptions to Lego Club magazine are also free.)

  20. Your ideas are AWESOME! My grandson is about to turn 7 and this is PERFECT. I cannot believe you did so much for this price!!

  22. Thanks so much for collecting all the information about fonts and invites. Was able to use this morning to make invitation quickly ( I waited too long to make them). It came out great.

  23. For all types of parties and ages. If you are having a pinata & you have 8 kids(or 9 with the birthday child) put exactly that amount of everything in the pinata. After it has broken open instead of the children rushing in and getting uneven amounts,turn it into a game. Call it a pinata hunt.Call out an item,(spinning top or lollipop) then have every child find one and bring it to you. As they bring you the items add them to the loot bags. Two birds with one stone. And parents can then decide individually how much candy their children can have. Used it for my son’s birthday years ago and have passed it on to many. Don’t forget to mention it to the kids before the start whacking the pinata. Have fun.

  24. I love this. Some brilliant ideas and something I will be doing for my sons 6th birthday this year.

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