Today we had Aidman, EE, and EP's GIANT birthday party. I have several friends who all invite the same group of friends (plus family members) to our birthday parties. Instead of having 3 different parties to take up 3 weekends, we decided to combine them and just have one really big blowout! The boys all had their birthdays in the same week (Aidman's is this Tues) and turn 5, 5, and 6. They all like Mario so we decided to have a Mario Cart party. We made a great obstacle course around the perimeter of the yard. Above is the finish line.
We got palates for the kids to run on. They really liked this. 
There were cones to run around.
Pools to wade through or run around.
Pool noodles (held up by chop sticks) with a sprinkler at the end to run through.
Turtle shell (sand box lids) to step over.
A swinging tire swing to run around. The three boxes standing are stations where water squirters and water balloons were set up for nonracers to throw and squirt at the kids. 
A mushroom farm to run around. It's a punching bag with a cardboard shaped like a mushroom on top.Outside of the obstacle course, we also had a big inflatable slide, a trampoline, sand box filled with coins to find, and a swing set to play on. Needless to say, there was TONS for the kids to do!
We decorated the whole yard with flags/pendants and I made some saying Happy Birthday Aidman, EE, and EP.
I made these really CUTE piranha plant center pieces.
We found these great Mario Cart window decals.
Oh and so that they would have carts to race in, we made these GREAT banana box race cars. We even painted them to look like the actual characters cars.
It was a wonderful party!! I'll post pictures of the actual party fun later.
11 comments:
WOW! What an amazing party!! The race cars and the whole track set-up are awesome!! My kid would have never wanted to leave! :)
It really was a SUPER FUN party! What a cool themed party and great activities to keep the kids entertained. You always come up with great ideas!
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BTW, your party is over the top!! Wish I could have come over with my kids--they would have had a blast:-)!!
hahaha! It was over the top!! But there were 3 of us planning it, paying for it (btw, we didn't spend too much because we made or borrowed much of it), and preparing for it. There is NO way I would have been able to do all that on my own.
It was alot of fun...and there were lots and lots of people!! You did a great job planning this one.
Wow that is awsome!! Everyone must have had a lot of fun :0)
Great idea for a party!
Oh my goodness! You out did yourself! That looks like so much fun! What a great idea!
Wow! You guys went all out. This looks so great! I bet they had a wonderful time!
Awesome!
This looks like a FUN, EXCITING birthday party!! I would like to play...;-)
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