My oldest son is a sports fanatic, but if I had to plan one more
sports themed birthday, well....let's just say I needed a break! I
offered up the suggestion of a Glow in the Dark party and he loved
that! I had a lot of ideas and pinterest and friends helped fill in
where I needed more! We set the whole thing up in our family room with
the windows covered with layers of blankets. And without further adieu
here is some photos of the fun!
This
was the cake in daylight. I didn't do anything fancy because I knew it
wouldn't show up in the dark (my goal was to do as much as possible in
the dark!) I used glue dots and attached glow in the dark planets and
stars to plastic skewers. These are the kind that you normally put up
on your kids ceilings. They worked great. I had seen a few cakes
online where people put actual glow sticks right onto cakes, I didn't
want to do that. I'm always nervous about putting anything that isn't
food safe on my cakes, so this was a safe route for me.
I
used two liter soda bottles to create glow in the dark bowling. It was
super easy! I took the label off each bottle and filled them halfway
with water (all the way would have made them to heavy for kids to tip).
I then added glow sticks in various colors and set them up. The boys
used a basketball to bowl with.
In
addition to bowling we also did a snowball fight. I gave the boys a
whole bunch of paper and they crumpled it up and threw it at each other,
in the dark of course. This activity lasted forever and I ducked out
for most of it :)
We
used clear cups and glow in the dark paint to let the boys splatter and
make their own star scene. Impossible to take a picture of
unfortunately!
Our last activity was getting marbles out of a big bowl with ice, water, and of course glow sticks.
I
found glow in the dark balloons at Walmart. These were awesome and
lasted a long time. I hung them from the ceiling. I also used a night
light that reflected stars and the moon onto the ceiling. I had planned
to use a black lightbulb in a lamp, but it didn't work out for the
room we were in. These items combined with the boys gear was plenty to
light the room up enough for the boys to be able to see just enough.
I gave each boy a necklace glow stick, two bracelets, and a glowing straw.
The birthday boy with his candles all lit!
And the cake glowing beautifully!
My daughter has already requested the same theme for her next party (:
