Superhero Birthday

I am not a big party-thrower. Traditionally, I let the kid pick a theme and we do a cake, some snacks, and some decorations and that's pretty much it. We have done Thomas, baseball, legos, sunshine, and ladybugs (and apparently I haven't done blog posts on all of these). This year Sister asked for superheroes.

She is so cool.

And we upped the ante this year by not just doing a cake, snacks, and decorations on the superhero theme, but doing superhero training centers! Not really my ball of wax, but after talking to Brother's kindergarten teacher who had thrown a similar party (but who is WAY more ambitious than I...she also let us borrow her Mr. Incredible suit, which my brother-in-law was willing to don) and scouring Pinterest, I pitched the idea to Husband. He was in favor, which is great because he is super creative and very handy. One of the training centers was developing super hero aim so he built and painted this:

I made a banner:

And although I didn't take any pictures, hung paper lanterns all around the porch with super hero masks on them. I was particularly proud of that!

I had asked each guest to RSVP with their favorite super hero and then my mom (who is the COOLEST) made each of them individual capes, so one of their training stations was to get their capes!

Another was making masks, which I found on Amazon:

And there was the spidy-powers one where they shot down enemies with silly string:

And probably the most popular was practicing their super strength by knocking down the wall:

Grandma made her a supergirl cake:

And all in all, we had a great party. The weather was great, we had a good turnout, and Sister had a SUPER time!