Angry Birds Party

For my son's 6th birthday, he decided on an Angry Birds party!  How fun!  I was excited to plan this party because I knew I would be able to find a lot of Angry Birds stuff at the stores, but I was also excited to come up with some new ideas! 
One of the first things that popped into my head was to use Stonf's idea for treat bags from Bug's 2nd Sesame Street party.  Using bags the same colors (or close enough) as the birds, I used construction paper to cut out eyes, beaks, and most importantly, eyebrows, to paste on the bags.  And then filled the bags up with some Angry Bird goodies! 

Next, I used those same cut out faces and pasted them onto balloons.  I thought they turned out really cute...but I noticed once the party got started, some of the faces started to fall off the balloons. 
Note to self: use craft glue next time instead of a glue stick. : )

I wrote Jacob's "Happy Birthday" sign using the same lettering they use on Angry Birds, and added some wall stickers to complete the sign. 

One of my favorite things from the party were the cupcakes!  Now, between Jacob's Mario Bros. party and Julia's ladybug party from last year, I really didn't want to "try" to make red frosting again.  My plan was to purchase one of those red gel icings to draw on the cupcakes.  And, of course, they were sold out when I went to purchase, so I grabbed this Cookie Icing instead...not realizing what I was getting.  Turns out to be the best mistake I made.  After frosting the cupcakes with regular store bought frosting, I used the red cookie icing to draw the birds. Since the icing starts drying pretty fast, I made sure to add my sugar eyes right away so they would stick.  Then, I just dyed some of the frosting orange for the beaks, and used a store bought black icing for the eyebrows.  The cookie icing worked perfectly since it dried and hardened fast. I also dyed some of the frosting to make yellow birds, and used leftover eyes to make a few white birds.  And by request of the birthday boy, one black bird, just for him!

Lastly, for his school party, I wanted to make Angry Bird jello cups using red jello in a clear plastic cup with faces added.  But, I ran out of time.  So the kids got to choose between Angry Bird graham crackers or Angry Bird cheese crackers.  They were happy about that!

I really did have a lot of fun planning this party and making it happen! Can't wait for the next one!