Star Wars® Birthday Party

Don't stress about planning your party. The force is with you! We've got Star Wars® party games, acitvities, decoration, and party treat ideas to help you throw a super galactic party! Reduce your pre-party anxiety by ordering some of your Star Wars® birthday party supplies online right here.

BITYHDAY PARTY INVITATIONS

Mail your party invitations 3-4 weeks before your party. For a children's party, we recommend inviting two more children than the child's age. For example, if the birthday child is 8 years old invite no more than 10 children.

Make your own invitations on black card stock paper. Write with a white or silver gel pen or create the text on your computer and format the font/writing to look like the text at the beginning of the movie. Print this on each card:

"A LONG TIME AGO IN A GALAXY FAR WAY A BOY/GIRL OF DESTINY WAS BORN! THIS JEDI MASTER WILL CELEBRATE HIS/HER BIRTHDAY IN A GALAXY NEAR YOU..." Then, complete the card by including the party details.

Invitation tip: Attach your invitation to a toy light saber (you can find these at your local dollar store) or small Star Wars® toy and hand deliver to each child.

If you're planning on playing team games at the party, use the invitations to help you assign the teams. Give each guest the identity of a made-up Jedi, or a fun Clone name. That way, you've got your teams as they arrive. Also, ask them to create their own fun costume and power (encouraging the clones to be unique as well!)

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BIRTHDAY PARTY DECORATIONS

Create a galactic atmosphere by using black streamers and silver balloons to give your home a nice feeling of 'space'. Have some fun creating cardboard stars wrapped with tinfoil with your kids. Add Star Wars® posters and toys to enhance your theme. Hang planets and stars from the ceiling (you can find these at a toy or educational store).

Make a Mustafar Volcano table centerpiece by wrapping three Styrofoam cones in a variety of sizes with brown or dark gray fabric. Attach with craft glue. Cut curved strips of red, and orange felt and attach to the top with glue to make lava. Add red and orangeglitter glue intermittently to the lava pieces. Place the volcanoes on a large piece of the brown fabric for the ground and then place action figures at the base.

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Star Wars® Mylar balloon
Star Wars® streamer
Star Wars® plates
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BIRTHDAY PARTY GAMES

Who Am I?

Directions: Can you guess which Star Wars® character you are? Before the party write Star Wars® Character names on small pieces of paper or mailing labels. At game time each player receives sticker on their back. The object of the game is to guess which character you are, by asking questions of the other players. Players can only ask questions that can be answered "yes" or "no." These may be some good questions to get the game started, "Am I on the Dark Side?" "Is the Force with Me?" "Am I human?" Am I male?" "Female?" "Alien?"

Clone Wars

Directions: Before the party plan some skill games and relay races. Divide the children into two teams: Droids and Clones. The teams will compete against each other using the skill games. Award points for every game the teams win. At the end of all of the games the team with the most points wins the war.

Examples for skill games:
Sack races, three legged relays, clothes pin bucket drop, ball and bucket toss, bean bag tosses etc. Hide cards that say Clone and Droid (equal amount of each). Teams have to find all of their cards - first team to find them all wins.

Jedi Training Course

Directions: Create a challenging obstacle course in a large area for your Jedi trainees. Use tires, ropes, 2x4 boards, lawn furniture etc.The children will race or go through the course one at a time.

Light Saber Training

Directions: Before the party, make a light saber for each player using foam pipe insulation or skinny swimming "noodles". Wrap 4-6 inches from the end with colored electrical tape to make a handle. YOu can play several games with your Light Sabers:

Inflate several balloons. Divide the children into pairs and give each pair an inflated balloon. The object of the game is to keep the balloon off the ground using only the light sabers.

Or, divide the kids into teams to go through a challenge course, creating tasks for each Jedi to accomplish, like hitting ping pong balls with the light saber, crawling under a chair tunnel, going down a slide, rolling under a tarp, and/or popping bubbles with the light saber.
Tip: Play the soundtrack from Star Wars® while the kids are playing this game.

Who Said It?

Directions: This game is best for older kids. Before the party, write several lines from the Star Wars® Movies. Divide the players into teams. When the "Star Wars® Master" (mom or dad) reads a line from the movie, the team to correctly say which movie the quote is from wins a point. The most point wins!

Pin the Saber on Yoda

Directions: Play this just like Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey.

Princess Amidala May I?

Directions: Play this just like Mother May I?

Asteroid Hunt

Directions: Purchase small treats or gifts and wrap them in aluminum foil. Hide them in a sandbox, around the house or in the yard. At the party, let the children dig in the sand, or search throughout your "planet" to find their "moon rocks." The kids will love the excitement of opening their rocks and finding treasures!

Space Chase

Directions: Create two identical obstacle courses indoors or outdoors as a relay race. To make it interesting, have one team start one one end, and the second on the opposite end. It'll make for a dizzying space chase!

Jedi Mind Training

Directions: Create a simple obstacle course and pair the kids up in partners. One of the members have a blindfold. The goal of the child without a blindfold is to carefully talk their partner through the course to the other side to grab a lightsabre. The team (or teams) that navigates this course successfully wins a prize.

Yoda Jedi Hunt

Directions: Yoda has been stolen! It's up to your party guests to find him. Before the party, purchase a small Yoda toy (or doll) and hide him. Working backwards, write clues leading to various spots, but make them unique by writing them with glow-in-the-dark pens (or paint) on black card stock (or posterboard). For each clue, have one guest try and decipher it each time, giving every child a chance to work out the puzzle. It's a great way to get your kids working as a team.

Space Station Warm Down

Directions: Allow the groups to have some down time watching a couple of episodes of Clone Wars. This could be a good in-between activity when needing a rest between games.

BIRTHDAY PARTY CRAFTS

Star Wars® Badges

Directions: Get your guests in the spirit of the latest Star Wars® saga with this fun craft project. Before the party, cut out badges from construction paper. Provide the kids with Star Wars® stickers, extra paper, glue, scissors, glitter, markers, crayons, magazine pictures, etc., and encourage creative expression. During the party, hand out extra badges as favors while playing games. When giving out the badges, honor the kids with special awards, i.e., Best Yoda Impression, Best Team Player, Most Infectious Giggle, or Biggest Smile.

Rocket Launch

Directions: Put the kids in two teams (mix up your Jedi's and Clones). Give each team a large cardboard box and a bunch of art supplies (use some fun recycled materials such as toilet paper tubes. Tell them they are stranded on a planet, and must create a special ship together in order to escape. This makes for a great craft project for your Clone Wars party and once their done, have them present each to the whole group as to what makes their rocket ship unique.

Alien Face Painting

Directions: Purchase a set of face paints and give each guest a unique alien "look." Let each child make up an alien name for himself or create a few of your own and let the kids draw names randomly. Use movie names or your own, such as "Zork," "Murblap," or "Gondar."

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOOD

Make a sheet cake to resemble the fight scene on Mustafar, between Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Fashion Mustafar volcanoes using mounds of frosting or frosted ice-cream cones (cut sugar cones). Then cut strips of red and yellow fruit roll-ups add to the volcanoes to create lava. Place Anakin and Obi-Wan action figures, holding their light sabers of course.

BIRTHDAY PARTY FAVORS

Make your own party favors by filling plastic party cups decorated with Star Wars® Stickers. Write each guests name with glitter glue and fill with glow in the dark items, flashlights, glow-balls, small Star Wars® toys and treats.
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3-D Glasses
Star Wars® launcher
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