Posted in Gaming, Gaming Party

Gaming Party -Part 2 – Drinks, Cake, Decorations and More

Zelda was another major game in my son’s life.  We have played all of them and have spent many hours and days enjoying this game.  Of course, we had to throw some Zelda decorations in!

My friend is quite talented and pulled the picture of the “Will Cut Grass for Rupees” sign from another birthday party.  I believe she may have gotten the idea from here. (Zelda Birthday Party)  She used poster board and markers to make the sign below.  I made the green, red and blue jello cups to represent the Chu Jellies and my husband made the cool label below.

Since we were in an arcade and it was a gaming theme, the small cups on the side held chocolate quarters which represented the tokens for the games.  Each kid got a chocolate token cup to eat or take home.

Zelda, Birthday Party, Gaming, Chu Jelly

Zelda Themed Chu Jellies

 

We served Hawaiian Punch for drinks.  To add some Zelda to it, my husband made these labels to represent the Health & Mana.  The canister set was bought at Wal-Mart (Pioneer Woman – but any will do)

Health & Mana Juice, gaming birthday

Health & Mana Juice made from Hawaiian Punch in a Pioneer Woman Canister Set!

 

Special thanks to this amazing blog for giving me the following idea.  To make this banner, I googled images of 8-bit Zelda heart containers.  Using Microsoft Publisher, I made the heart large and sent the image to Office Depot.  They printed the image out on card stock so all I had to do was cut out the hearts, and glue some twine onto the back.   I used a wii remote to estimate how far between each heart.  The result is below.

Zelda banner, birthday
Zelda banner made on card stock and twine

 

With a Zelda throw in complete,  it was time for some Pac-Man decorations!  What gaming party would be complete without Pac-Man??  My son and I played this quite a bit when he was younger.  So our cake and table was set up using white cupcakes as the pellets, and yellow cupcakes as the power pellets.  We put a yellow cupcake on the corner of the tables.  The cake was set up as Pac-Man eating the pellets. We  even put 18 candles inside the 18 cupcakes so he had to blow them all out around the table!

To make the cake, I just baked a circle cake and cut a triangle out of it.  I used chocolate cake mix and frosted the outside yellow.  The result is below.

 

With some Nerdy Nummies Gameboy Ice Cream Sandwiches (I forgot to get a picture, they were gone so fast, however I am attaching her link here) and some Hershey wrapped Super Nintendo candy bars, the decorations and food were complete. (The Hershey bars were made with a Super Nintendo image printed out large and taped around a Hershey bar)

The kids loved seeing all of the games that they grew up with and my 18 year old son was super happy.

gaming birthday party
Putting it all together!

Please check out our pictures from this party Gaming Party -Part 1 or other themed birthday parties…

Posted in Bridging Ceremonies, Girl Scouts

Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony

Bridging, Girl Scout, Cake, Mult-Level
Full Sheet Bridging Cake from our local bakery

This year, instead of making our cake, we ordered one from our local bakery.  Since our troops are multi-level, we wanted something to represent everyone.  Harps, the bakery that made the cake, had made a similar cake for another troop in town.  We took the picture in and they went to work.   The finished product was amazing!  The full sheet, 1/2 chocolate, 1/2 white, was enough to give everyone a piece that they could enjoy.

Since we meet at a local school, we usually use the stage to bridge our girls.  A co-leader decided to hand make a bridge that the girls could actually walk across. The result turned out amazing and our girls loved it!  We even bridged our first group of seniors!

Bridging, Girl Scouts, Bridge, Mult-Level

Bridging Bridge!

For other Girl Scout bridging ideas, please check out a few of my other posts…

 

Posted in Bridging Ceremonies, Girl Scouts

Girl Scout Bridging Cakes

girl scout, bridging ceremony, cakes
This was our version of each level’s uniform represented on a cake.

During one of our bridging ceremonies, we decided to make cakes to represent each level.  It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun creating the cakes.  The girls loved them!

Items Needed

  • cake mix to make 4 cakes
  • blue, brown, green,white icing
  • food coloring
  • fondant & piping bags
  • mini marshmallows
  • rainbow airheads
  • different colors of sprinkles

We started out by making 4 cakes and iced them different colors.  To make the khaki color, we mixed some of the chocolate into the white icing.  Next we used fondant into piping bags and decorated the cakes.  We used pictures from the Girl Scout books to attempt to make some badges on each one.  We also added sprinkles in parts like the flag and daisy petals.

To make the badges look 3-D, we used frosting underneath each badge to make it a little higher than the rest of the cake before decorating it with fondant.

Finally, we connected each of the cakes together using the mini marshmallows and rainbow colored airheads.  The result is above.  This was our first attempt, so we were quite proud that they turned out. If you do something similar, we would love to see it.    

For other Girl Scout bridging ideas, please check out a few of my other posts…