Mathilde has been a big fan of playing Super Mario games lately and watching the cheesy cartoon from the late 80s, so it was only fitting that she chose it as the theme for her birthday party. She came up with all sorts of over the top ideas that she wanted for her party: life sized Mario Kart cars for everyone to race around on a track, a life sized castle made out of cardboard boxes and filled with piranha plants coming out of pipes and Goombas to avoid, a large screen on the wall and multiple Nintendo devices so all the kids could play Super Mario games together... Just a little bit of a stretch! Given that we only had three days between arriving home from our trip to Austin and the big party, there was only so much I could plan - not that any of these outlandish ideas were on the cards in the first place!
First up the kids created their Piranha Plant puppets. They colored the templates (you can find the template PDF here) with marker, cut them out and attached them to large popsicle sticks. I then cut a slit in the bottom of green paper cups large enough for the popsicle sticks to slide through. The kids poked the stick through and were then able to make the Piranha Plant go up and down in the "pipe" just like the in Mario games. You can find a DIY here. These were really simple to make and the kids enjoyed playing with them.
We always play Pass the Parcel at our parties, even though it's not a well known game here in the US. If you're not familiar with Pass the Parcel, it's basically Musical Chairs, but with a multi layered parcel instead of chairs. Kids pass it around in a circle while music plays, and when it stops the kid holding the parcel gets to open a layer. We keep going until we reach the prize in the middle. This time around I added two prizes into the mix. A Super Mushroom squishy half way through, and a Mario Pez dispenser in the middle. There were also gummy treats between each layer so that everyone got a prize.
The kids loved having the chocolate coins fly out above them and they scrambled to collect as many as possible. As we had a few less guests than expected the kids all got quite a lot of coins. I think Mathilde counted 38 in her pile at one point!
As usual, the piñata made for a fun hat! Actually, because it only split across the top Mathilde has been using it store her toys in her bedroom since the party.
Mathilde then cut the cake and made a wish - maybe for life sized Mario Kart cars!
We all had such a fun time celebrating Mathilde's birthday.
Thanks to everyone who celebrated with us!
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