Ashton's 11th Birthday Party

For my eleven year old's birthday, he wanted a Doctor Who Party. The invitations were of a Tardis flying through space and time and I printed them at home on postcard stock.

There was minimal decor...a few blue tablecloths, a blue honeycomb garland then coordinating blue and black tableware, plates and napkins. I had a Tardis ceramic coffee mug that I used to hold the lollipop candy bowties.

Food and drink was kept with the theme. The cake was a Duff Blue Suede Mix with very blue cream cheese frosting that was decorated like the tardis (I just printed out the call box sign and windows on a laser printer and cut out). The punch was a (non-alcoholic) Sonic Screwdriver punch made from orange juice, Fresca, and blue Gatorade. There were a few "munchies": "Jelly Babies" (gummy bears), some chocolate daleks and tardis (tardi???) and some red (white) chocolate bowtie lollipops.

For the activities, crafts and games, each party-goer made their own tardis goody / treat bag. They each collected some homemade play-dough that I had sitting on a tray on the side. While they waited for everyone to arrive, there were themed coloring and activity (word search, mazes, etc.) pages to keep them busy (printed from internet).

They then played an Adipose Baby Toss game. The baby adipose were made from pom poms and the game board was just a science fair project board from the dollar store that we cut varying sizes of adipose shapes into.

The next game was "Blink! Don't Blink!" I print and cut out a weeping angel face from the internet and stapled it to a paint mixing stick. The game is played just like "Red Light, Green Light"!

Next, each party-goer drew a Cassandra face on an index card. I placed a piece of double-sided tape on the back of it and we used a homemade fez hat as our blindfold to play "Pin the Face on Cassandra". The game board was just a large piece of paper cut out in the shape of Cassandra's skin, taped to the wall.

Then, the kids sat down to sing "Happy Birthday", eat cake, and put on the sticker mustaches that were left for them on their plates. They also played Plasmavore Littlestraws...a game where they are given a small container of Sixlets and a straw and they are instructed to suck the Sixlet out of the container using the straw before they can eat it!

We finally moved on to the Perler beads. I had printed a template / guide for them to use, if they so desired. They each made something with the Perler beads then an adult ironed them to melt the designs for them.

We also had a Doctor Who playlist from Spotify playing the entire time, too.

Note: all these ideas were spawned from the internet and Pinterest!

• What People Ate

  Blueberry flavored TARDIS cake, candy

• What People Drank

  Sonic Screwdriver punch

• Desserts

  N/A

• Party Favors

  Homemade play-dough (black, white, blue, red), stick mustaches, red grosgrain ribbon bowties, homemade dalek & tardis rainbow crayons, whatever Perler bead design they made

• Activities / Games

  Adipose Baby Toss, Pin the Face on Cassandra, Blink! Don't Blink! Plasmavore Littlestraws, coloring / activity pages, Perler beads