A Letterland Party

With Niave being so into Letterland at the moment it was a bit of a no-brainer
when it came to choosing a theme for
her party this year,and it turned out
there was so much to do in terms of games and activities, I really had fun
planning it and putting it all together.

Being that her birthday fell over the Easter weekend, I should've known it would rain but ever hopeful I planned it all to take place in our back garden...however with torrential rain forecast a few days before it was time for plan B, we don't have a big enough indoor space so I was very

kindly allowed to use a room at our church, not quite a hall but plenty big enough for our purposes.

The only drawback of having a party somewhere other than your own home is schlepping all the 'stuff' there and back. But at least you come back to some sense of order when it's all over!

The children were allowed to dress up as a Letterland character if they wanted to, Niave chose to be Clever Cat and Ouma was "contracted in" to sew the suit:

Clever Cat with claws and all!

The food was chosen according to letters so we had Peter Puppy's popcorn, Oscar Orange's

oranges and Clever Cat's cupcakes and a few others...

Due to the last minute venue change I found some free downloadable print outs that the children could do as they arrived, these were great and the children really enjoyed them, going back to them all through the party.

Then it was time for games:

To start we had Jumping Jim's jumping game: I divided the children into

2 groups and laid out 2 rows of hoops in front of each team, the aim was to

jump in all the hoops there and back until the whole team had had a

turn...no pictures of that one I'm afraid!

This kind of broke the ice a little.

Second we had Bouncy Ben's ball game: again in teams they had to pass

the ball under their legs and then over their heads to the person behind

all the way to the back of the line with the last person running to the front to start again until the first person was back in the front again! A bit of confusion at first but they got it in the end!

Eddy Elephant loves eggs, especially Easter eggs so with it being the Easter weekend and all we could hardly not have an egg hunt, we took the

gap in the clouds for a quick run outside to retrieve the eggs hidden in the

bushes.

Kicking King loves soccer so for this game they had turns to try and score a goal in the small (and very hard to find) goals. Boy did I search high and low for a set of soccer goals, you'd think after hosting the World Cup they'd be everywhere, you'd be wrong!

This turned out to be a favourite game with most of the children coming back for more and more turns, the girls put the boys to shame by the

way!!

Munching Mike is a metal monster who loves magnets and marshmallows, so in this game they had to use a magnet - fishing rod style to pick up a picture with a 5 cent coin attached to it, some pictures were of things beginning with 'm', some were not, the team to find all the Munching Mike pictures was the winner, this was also quite a hit.

Lastly a letter hunt courtesy of Lucy Lamp light, I had hidden the letters that spell the word 'cake' all around and they had to find them in random order, then bring them back to figure out the word - yes, cake time!!

Enter the lopsided castle cake, the Letterland castle to be specific!!

6 candles seemed like such a lot! But 6 it was meant to be.

Happy party faces!

Aah, another successful party done and dusted!!