Magic Party

So here is what we did for Devon’s birthday!  We had a lot of fun planning it together! We were going to ask Jerry (Dillon’s dad) to come do some magic tricks from his Rodeo Clowning days, but Jerry and Sheila were going to be in Hawaii, so he let Dillon borrow a couple of his magic books to learn some tricks.   It’s not hard to please a group of kids that age!  (more detailed info on any of the items below are on my craft blog) THE INVITES I used my Silhouette to cut the invitations, just using shapes from Silhouette’s website.  The invites looked like a plain top-hat.  But we left the top of a bunny sticking out of the middle of two hats glued together so you could pull the bunny out of the hat.  On the bunny, we had all the party information the guests needed to know. PARTY FAVORS Bowties and capes: I also used my Silhouette to cut the hats and names for the favor bags.  Magic Kits from the Dollar Tree.  Not all of the tricks worked for my kids, but they had fun with the ones that did! I also bought some Trix cereal to put in their party favor bags.  I thought of the idea only because of THIS website, because you can purchase a Bag of Trix.  I thought it was a bag of the cereal at first until I read further–it really is a bag of magic tricks.  So that’s how this came about :).  I added the a.k.a. tricks under the word Trix, because my kids and even a couple adults said, “So, what’s magic about the Trix?  What do they do?”  Kind of funny ;).  But you can download the bag toppers HERE—they fit a normal sandwich Ziploc baggie.    GAMES and ACTIVITIES As the guests came, they tried to guess how many Jelly Bellies were in the jar. There were 123 and someone actually guessed 120!!!  Rather than letting that child take them all, everyone ate them. Next they got their own want to decorate.  I found an 8 pack at Joann for about a dollar is all.  I tried to find some good stickers to do this, but didn’t find any I really liked.  So they used washable markers.  I wouldn’t recommend that because the marker got all over their hands.  Paint seems like it would be a little messy too, especially if it got on their clothes.  So I recommend stickers! The third game thing we did was like Hot Potato, only with a magician.  I found the idea HERE.   I just made an extra bow tie and cape for the puppy to be the magician, and my husband was in charge of starting and stopping the music from the another room. The next game, also found HERE, was to have one person in the middle close their eyes, while the other people circle around him and pass the wand around.  When I said stop, the person with the wand hid it behind their back, and all the others in the circle put their hands behind their back also.  The middle person then opens their eyes and tried to guess who has the wand.  Then, the moment we were building up to…my husband came out to be The Magician.  He did GREAT.  And looked even better with his bathrobe and ironing board he chose to use, ha ha!  I teased him about being some type of Housewife Magician.   I just love this next picture, despite it’s graininess, because Dev really was so amazed.  Dillon would perform a trick, and Devon would say, “Awesome!”  so sincerely!  Very cute.   (P.S.  I’m very much aware the Devon’s magician hat looks rather funny. That’s because it is indeed quite funny looking.) Bailey really enjoyed it also.  Dillon was pretty funny. We ate cupcakes and opened presents and called it a party! I’m happy he chose to do this kind of party!  I was a little hesitant to agree, but seeing his happy face makes the challenge of some birthday themes totally worth it!