Lego Birthday Party

When your child gets to the age of five or six, it's time to think about a Lego birthday party. It's surprising how many different decoration themes and game ideas can come from such a simple construction idea.

Decorations

The decorations that you choose for your Lego birthday party will set the mood for the day. Finding pictures of amazing Lego models for the walls will look good, but children will always respond better to more hands on experiences:

• Cover part of the floor or wall in one room with Lego bricks or boards, and leave a few bowls full of bricks nearby. The party guests will enjoy being able to make objects that become part of the room. Having the boards on the wall will inspire the children to use Lego in a very different way.
• Take your child's favorite Lego themes, such as Star Wars, pirate ship or Indiana Jones, and decorate different rooms in your house according to those Lego sets. Try and pick out features such as space ships, wooden planking and spooky vines that your child will recognize from the Lego sets.
• Use half of the inside of a toilet roll and popsicle sticks to make Lego hands for the guests to wear. These end up looking like scoops, and can make eating and playing games a lot of fun.

It is important to think outside the box when planning your decorations. Buying enough new Lego to carry off a big design will be expensive, and may cause you storage problems after the party.

Lego Cake

Photo Credit: Adorable Lego Cake ©johnsoax

Probably the best way to establish the theme for a Lego party is through the birthday cake. You can either have the cake made at your local bakery, or you can get adventurous and bake it yourself. If you don't feel that creative, then you'll be glad to know there are cake pans shaped like Lego blocks. For additional inspiration and instructions, search for "Lego" at any of these:

• BettyCrocker.com
• Coolest-Birthday-Cakes.com
• TheKitchn.com

If you want to have a go at making your own Lego birthday cake, try these amazing, easy to follow suggestions from Amanda.

Games

A Lego birthday party lends itself to plenty of variations of popular party games:

• Pictionary - Decide on a list of objects that are easy to make with Lego, and that your guests will know. Split the group into two teams, and give the name of an object to one person on each team. They must build that object as quickly as possible while their team tries to guess what it is.
• Piñata - Making a piñata out of Lego can take a long time, but if you stick with a simple box shape, you could get your child to help out. Fill it with small sweets, and string it up from a tree. The batons you give the children to hit it with will need to be a little bit sturdier than for a normal piñata because the bricks will be harder to break.
• Treasure Hunt - Hide bits of Lego around your house or garden, and set the children the challenge of finding as many of them as they can in a set amount of time. Make sure you keep a record of how many pieces you hid, and where they are so that you know when the game is over.

For more treasure hunt ideas and to speed up the process of making the clues and treasure maps we recommend this easy to use idea

Keep it Simple

Planning a Lego birthday party will challenge your creativity as a children's party host, and it is important to think outside the brick. Lego have expanded into a range of different themes and models which you can use as the foundations for the party.