Amanda's Musings

As promised here is the summary of how I went about putting together Miss K’s pink robot party. To be honest, I over did it. I’m exhausted and organising the whole thing in three weeks backing onto some awful sickness didn’t help. I was happy though with the end result but I would suggest making a list of ideas and then choosing to do a few of them, not everything that comes into your head (like I did!).

First up, the food:

I had seen somewhere on the web the idea of serving ‘nuts-n-bolts’ for a robot party which was a mix of straight pretzel sticks, cherios and smarties. I did this and made the label and then continued with the label making adding robotic names to the food. I think there were around 8 different labels in all. I also bought accessories in pink and silver (plates, serviettes, tablecloths etc…) and made square bikkies, icing them with little robot faces.

I made a centrepiece (another idea I saw somewhere) using silver spray painted recycled boxes and lids for the food table:

The decorations were all silver and pink. I found this perfect wrapping paper which I used to put on the tables and also run down the side fence as they entered:

For activities we played two games, pass the parcel and a lolly treasure hunt (on which my hubby told them they were searching for robot fuel). I also made this photo face robot and took a pic of each child at the party in it (except a few who didn’t want to). I showed you Miss K’s pic earlier this week, here’s Little L’s:

The final activity I had was a table set up with silver spray painted recyclables, sticky tape, sticky dots (instead of glue), sparkles, sequins, googley eyes and silver pipe cleaners. Each child was welcome to make a robot of their own and take it home.

I put up some silver signage:

I had to be very creative with ideas for the goody bag. At first I couldn’t find any stickers with robots (that weren’t transformers) so I made my own (click there to see). I also made my own invitations because at the time I couldn’t find anything I liked.

I put in some bubbles, stickers, foam stickers, glitter glue, a silver ring and a fizzy lolly packet. I might have missed something. I did order some mini robot colouring books (only 1 inch wide each) but they only arrived today! I ordered the sticker for the front of the goody bags off Etsy.

You will have already seen the party outfit for Miss K here and the shoes I got the girls here.

The skirt was made by cutting out a large circle of fabric and then another circle in the middle. I then simply sewed in some elastic for the gathered waist and hemmed it.

The cake was my own design as I had the plan in my head for months (the only thing I had sorted out way ahead). You can see the cake in this previous post here.

Along with the goody bags I sent home a cupcake each with one of my robot cupcake toppers. I decided to do this because I didn’t want the kids to throw away the topper and just eat the cake.

There were a few other little touches but this was the gist of it. The kids all had a great time and I think the adults did too. I think if my girls weren’t so little I would love to be a party or events organiser. What fun!