Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Six year olds, lego and waterbombs


Well, my little Roboboy turned 6 last week and on the weekend we had THE birthday party. The only requirements were a few school mates, waterbombs and a lego man cake. Needless to say the gang of little six year old boys that took over our house had a great time and we are still picking thousands of burst water balloons out of our lawn.

What do you think of my lego dude? He ended up a little bit retro, mainly after a small food colouring issue where all attempts at red turned out pink and was salvaged into a dusky purple for his corduroy pants complete with Freckle belt and stripy snake sleeves. (Freckles are a MUST on birthday cakes, I think they have worked they way into nearly every cake I have designed). For a retrospective of Roboboy's cakes, pop over here.




There was minimal styling at this party, some bright colours, big balloons and a little bit of home made lego bling. Roboboy painted the legoman in order to play "pin the party hat on the legoman" and we made some potato stamp legoman heads which he individully stamped with yellow paint and then glued on some party boxes and then wrote each child's name on for the take home treats. They all got a lego minifigure and a few lollies and a glowstick. Best thing was that he did most of the work for me. Easy peasy. The lego art carousel was a birthday present, spins on its base and has spots for lego erasers, crayons, felt pens and pencils as well as a pencil sharpener legoman head. ( on sale in BigW for $15 quite recently if anyone is looking).


Incidentally, what do you think of the grey wall behind? I have been testing more external colours for Betsy and am quite liking this one. About to go and get a big tin of exterior gloss and slap it all over the back wall of the house so I can step back and survey it on a large scale and make sure I still like it.



Look what a mum from swimming was kind enough to lend me, her complete lego silicone stash which she had not even used yet.( I think she found them on ebay). I didn't use the legoman mould as it was too small and I had my own ideas already but I did make some of the bricks and minifigures in white chocolate which looked very cool. Had a few saved for a photo but the real Legoman of the house found the stash and gobbled them all.




The highlight of the day though was the joy on this boy's face as he played with all his mates and they threw these all over each other. Happy birthday my gorgeous boy with the wobbly tooth. Back soon to show you the birthday present that keeps on giving, a curbside find update and how to keep little girls amused at a big boy birthday party.





18 comments:

  1. Oh best wishes to your big boy!! I'm totally impressed with the cake. And water bombs are The Bomb for a boy's party.
    I don't mind that grey colour you've chosen for the exterior. It will look great with your white trim. xx

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  2. Awesome! That cake is just adorable and I love your games ideas. How kid was the swimming mum - unused and everything. People are just so good.

    Looking forward to seeing the 'birthday present that keeps on giving'... sounds like my kinda pressie! x

    PS - I like the grey. I would probably go darker, but that's just me! x

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  3. Happy happy birthday J!!!! Your totally awesome cake has left my two Lego freaks whinging (again) that they want to visit Australia!!! Wishing we could be chucking water bombs at youse lot. Hope J had a great day! Love, M

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  4. The best cake I have ever seen Mel!! The big boy's smile says it all...gorgeous!!

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  5. this is very awesome! love that huge grin in the last photo :) looks like a fun day!

    Kel x

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  6. Looks like the perfect kids party to me Mel. Awesome cake AND water bombs too! He's got a devilish glint in that last pic, is he about to bomb the photographer? Ha!

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  7. Sensational Cake.
    I just wanted to let you know about a new second hand furniture warehouse. On Kessels Road behind Beacon Lighting is a blue warehouse. Drive right to the end of the carpark. I think you will good gaga when you visit.
    Regards
    Julia

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  8. Happy Birthday Roboboy,awesome job with the decorating! Great cake Mum,love it.

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  9. wow, that is one awesome cake, happy birthday Roboboy

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  10. Great cake, great boy smile, simple is best. I finally worked it out! Have you started to recoat Betsy Blue with grey. It looks awfully like the one we chose which you can see in our three year old birthday pics. Ha! I love white but hate cleaning it. What colour is yours?

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  11. Wow great cake and cute party stuff to go with it!
    And a cute happy boy, what more could you want?

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  12. Fantastic cake! Lolly cartoon pretty fab too! I'm feeling guilty for not letting my daghter have a party this year.

    I didn't realise that Betsy wasn't going to remain blue. She looks so pretty in the homepage shot. Won't a new exterior colour necessitate a name change?

    As for the grey. It looks good. But I'm hopeless at choosing colours. Too indecisive!

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  13. Happy Birthday to the big six year old! The cake is AWESOME! I really like the grey paint too. What age gap is there between your children? Just wondering if it is about the same as mine. Sherry :)

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  14. Luuurve that lego cake! He is absolutely fantastic. If you don't mind I am going to file that idea away for birthday number six around here in September. :)

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  15. Awesome cake! The last pic is so lovely :-)

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  16. BEST BIRTHDAY EVER! and yes, i'm yelling. you are the best mum ever! that cake is pure brilliance and look at his happy face. fabulous. xx

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  17. Super effort Mel! So many special details and the happiest boy ever. happy Birthday to you Roboboy.

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  18. Wow! this party looks wonderful! I love the cake and the party bags and most of all that happy face!!
    Happy (belated) birthday Roboboy!

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