N's Skylander party

Hope you all had a nice spring break and Easter! I'm finally getting around to sharing N's party with you. My 4 year old is crazy about Skylanders ever since the end of last year. (Remember how this was on our Favorite Things list.) So it was very fitting for him to want a Skylander party. Many people may not know too much about it or even knew these existed. Partly I think it's because its based off a video game. There are so many characters and parts to this that I would need to write a second post, anyways on to the party details.

DECORATIONS
We chose a blue and green color scheme. I cut out letters and the 8 elements (color circle with logo: air, life, undead, earth, fire, water, magic & tech) to make the birthday banner. Thank God for an x-acto knife. I found plates, balloons and these Skylander portal Easter eggs. I added some gold chocolate coins for the table. Made water bottle wrappers with a "water" element Skylander.

CAKE
This was a little more challenging to figure out. I bought some Megablok sets with Skylanders characters to use on the cake. I ended making a portal with a 6" cake pan and surrounded it with chocolate wafer rolls. Covered the top with silver sugar crystals. Piped the landscape and added the sheep and chompy figures. I made sheep cupcakes and placed them on green paper plates. I trimmed the edges to make it look more like grass.

FAVORS
I found these perfect Skylander bags and attached personalize tags. Filled it with snacks, skylander themed marker, stickers and puzzle.

GAMES
How many gold coins can Wrecking Ball collect?
Place a pile of gold coins and jewels on table.  Each person got three chances to collect as many coins with a sticky hand/grabber. If they caught a jewel they got an extra turn!

Help Trigger Happy defeat Kaos.
I attached an image of Kaos on plastic cups and found a ball gun at the dollar store. I loved how the kids went closer and closer with each shot to get better aim.

I had one excited boy that day. He gave me two thumbs up!

This is what it's all about,  a HAPPY birthday... check!
Don't you agree?
Eva