Avengers Birthday Party

After the success of J’s Nemo Birthday Party for his third birthday, I knew I had to come up with something just as fun for his fourth birthday. This time, I decided to ask J what he wanted his birthday to be like. The answer?

“Avengers Birthday Party!!!”

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Yeah, I probably should have seen that one coming. In the last year, J has gone absolutely gaga for superheroes.

Time to get to work! Naturally, I started hunting Pinterest for Superhero and Avengers birthday party ideas – you can check some of the awesome pins I found on my Entertaining Ideas board.

I got started with some invitations. It had been a long time since I’d made a handcrafted card, so it was sort of a return to my crafty roots moment. I used the print and cut method from my Silhouette on a few Avengers icons I found online, and got cutting.

I sort of melded my two card making processes – handcrafted on the outside, digitally designed on the inside. I used my favorite tool, *Picmonkey, to blend some digital clip art I purchased (Spidey), with some I found (Marvel) and make a really cute invite. I love that you can use your own fonts, since I had the perfect superhero fonts on my computer!

I really liked the Avenger icon cuts on the cards, and thought they would make pretty neat cupcake toppers!!

Sidenote: I understand why cupcake toppers come on sticks now. My toppers ended up wet from the frosting pretty quickly. :/

A few of my projects took some extended time. We had ordered a bounce house to help entertain the rambunctious four-year olds, but I wanted another, Avengers-esque type of entertainment as well.

The Hulk Smash Wall was a fun idea on my Pinterest board. I started saving all the diaper boxes and Amazon boxes I could. Time to paint!

I had leftover red paint from J’s Superhero Side Table, so I used that on the boxes, and a sharpie to outline the bricks.

It was a huge success! The kids had just as much fun building the wall back up as they did knocking it down! We also had a great chance to teach some sharing skills, as we only had one set of Hulk gloves that I found at Party City.

Not all of my ideas panned out as well. I attempted to make candy Hulk heads out of melted chocolate and marshmallows, but they ended up looking more like a demented science experiment.

FAIL.

I had better luck with my superhero cityscape. More boxes, painted grey this time, and with cardboard cutouts for windows, and a blue tablecloth backdrop for sky. The intention was to have it work as a photo backdrop for the kids – but they were too busy playing to care! Haha, at least it made a cute decorative addition to the party.

Little Jack was my only model – fitting, since he modeled my Dory hats at J’s Nemo party the year before!

I managed the rest of the decor with a mix of handmade and Party City supplies – a few superhero masks, tablecloths, and a poster.

In hindsight, I wished I’d done a more colorful backdrop for the dessert table.

But the masks were a lot of fun!

Before the party, J didn’t have one single Avengers toy/shirt/anything. Afterwards….well, let’s just say he’s set. 🙂

Oh, I very nearly forgot!! My other favorite part of the party was the iron on onesie I made for J’s two month old baby brother. 🙂

I created the image in PicMonkey, featuring clip art I purchased on Etsy, and used printable fabric transfer paper to iron it on to a plain onesie. How cute is this??