Green Ninja Ninjago Party!

Wow its been forever since I have written on here!  My son turned 8 this year and he really wanted a Green Ninja Lego Ninjago birthday party. So I brain stormed with him and we came up with some cool ideas. He found a Ninjago Lego cake he wanted online. It was a huge Lego Ninja. I am not a huge cake decorator. I can icing a cake, sprinkle some sprinkles on it and call it a day. Last year was my first year at attempting a themed cake. I made a huge Lego. Well I started to make a huge Lego and the my sweet friend finished it for me! It turned out great because of her! I also have another friend that creates amazing cakes. She really should open up her own shop. She can create pretty much anything in her kitchen. I was going to offer to pay her to make my son a cake. But instead I thought this year I was going to take the time and actually attempt to do it on my own. I am starting out small, nothing to fancy. I made a Lego Ninjago head. It was round and I figured what could go wrong?!? Well nothing did go wrong it went great!. Here it is:

 I know its nothing to do jumping jacks over and some of you could probaly do that in your sleep! But to me I was so proud of myself and so was my family! They actually were so surprised that I created that..haha!

Ok now to more  fun stuff.  Have you ever seen the candy sushi rolls? They are so cool! You can make them out of rice crispy treats, fruit roll ups and gummies. First make rice crispy treats just like the package says. Instead of putting them in your normal glass or aluminum pan, lay wax paper down on a couple cookie sheets. I used two. Spread the hot mixture on to the wax paper and get it about a half an inch thick. Let it sit and set. Mine looked like this:

They should set for about 30 min to 45 min. When they are done grab your box of fruit roll ups. I could not find green ones to look like seaweed so I settled for the multi color ones. Lay your roll up on your rice crispy treat and cut the rice crispy sheet the same shape. I got 6 rolls out of each sheet.

You take your roll up and rice treat and turn it on the counter with the roll up on the bottom and start filling the treat. I used gummy worms. I used about two or three per roll. Lay the gummy worms on one end of the treat and start to roll! When it is done it will look like a big colorful roll. Trim the excess rice crispy treats off the end and cut your roll in fiths or how many every cuts you want. I did five and it was fine. 

Here is how they turned out!

You can also make rice crispy treats the normal way , top it with a gummy worm and wrap it all with a piece of fruit roll up! These were so fun to make. My kids loved making these. Its a fun way to get everyone involved so your not running around like a crazy women trying to get it all done We made them ahead of time but it would be fun if it was a older kids party to have everyone make their own!

Here are the water bottles we made. I just found the Green Ninja mask on line and printed it out and I used packing tape to tape it to the bottle! Be sure the take is covering the whole picture or the picture will bleed when it gets wet.

Last but not least. I was did not feel up to sewing 10 Ninja mask! So thanks to one of my sons older friends who came over to play awhile back...I used his idea! He wrapped his t-shirt around his head to look like a ninja mask! Put the shirt over their head and use the opening of the shirt for the opening of the eye mask and tie the sleeves behind their head! I thought it was brilliant. Not one week goes by without my boy running out of their rooms with one of their t-shirts used as a mask. So I went out to my local box store and low and behold they had green shirts on clearance! I was thrilled. Spent about two bucks per shirt. 

Other birthday festivities included Ninja star making, Ninja obstacle course and my son wanted to throw a Ninja dance party in there! All in all it was a great time! It was so fun that my youngest son wants a Lego Ninjago Party for his birthday.  So we do it all over again next week!!