an Angry Birds birthday party. our version

As soon as the back-to-school buzz has worn off our family gets into our own season of birthdays. In a one month period we cover my son, myself, and my hubby. All nicely spaced out.
I planned it that way ;)

My son is the age where we could be at a birthday party once or twice a weekend. I admit to buying gifts on clearance and being ready to go.
One of the summer parties was an Angry Birds birthday. The game that EVERYONE loves.
The giveaway was a stuffy bird, the yellow one. And BOY did that transform our summer!
Made up games, and drawings galore!

The 1st stuffy that went EVERYWHERE! (I usually have an in-bed only rule) There was no breaking this bond. But all the imagination that came from receiving this stuffy that hardly involved spending time playing the game on someone's phone, was something to encourage!

One of my favorites was the special request to a face painter at the flea market. An older woman, never heard of the game. Didn't have a computer. Or cell phone. Heck, she took a picture of her yellow tweety bird paint job with a wind up, disposable camera. Luckily we had the bird with us to copy. And of course as a real artist, she did a great job. It was cute.

So this crazy kid knew he wanted an Angry Birds party for his 5th birthday.
At 1st he wanted it identical to the one he attended, same location, same gift to guests, etc.
But deep within my soul I cannot copy an idea to that degree. It was a quick conversation that it would be an at home party with a very small guest list.

The fun thing is that my guy has ideas, which I get to turn into reality. Takes some tweaking, but the process is fun.

Games included:
Angry Birds Bingo
Pin the beak on the Bird
an idea for hiding eggs in a nest of hay (going with the flow of the party, we didn't do this one)

other Creative endeavors involved:
decorating with Angry Bird balloons (found online ideas for this)
Angry Birds cake
and thanks to my talented and patient friend, handmade stuffy Pigs to give to each kid

more bird photos in my flickr set
had the Dad build this. I think he was a hot glue gun virgin.
making the bingo cards was fun. decided to get them laminated and use stickers to mark.
that big cheap IKEA paper roll always lets me make the project I want
thank god for good friends! the stuffies were awesome and I knew it took a long time to make. Major props to this mom of two who's hubby has been working out of country for 3 months.

I'm pooped. Maybe just a quiet dinner out for my birthday.