Lord of the Rings Party

At the birthday feast (Bilbo's birthday feast...Isaac's too!). 

At the Council of Elrond: showing the kids a scene or two of the movie so they would have a clue what they activities meant.

All the kids wearing their cloaks. 

Helm's Deep: trying to hit orcs!

 Battle of Gondor: with their home made shields...each one turned out unique. 

And the Gondor sponge battle.

Shelob's lair - climbing through the spider webs. 

And ripping the tarnations out of Shelob to get the prizes inside (ring pops and glow sticks). 

Mordor - playing the lava obstacle course that ends in knocking down Gollum. 

Birthday cake time.

Presents

These are such sweet friends to love this boy so.

The girls all snuggled into one bed and slept there all night.  Didn't get a picture of the boys but they camped out half in the movie room and half in Isaac's room.

 Thanks for helping us celebrate Isaac's birthday!

Lord of the Rings Birthday Party Set up

This year Isaac decided on a Lord of the Rings party.  Followed the storyline of the movie and began with Bilbo's birthday feast, hobbit style.

We made Isaac's rice krispie cake into a hobbit hole. 

Rivendell Activity - At the council of Elrond, where we explained what the night would be about and showed a few scenes from the movie to help them understand, we gave each child a costume to wear and keep.  Abby is modeling the "Elf capes" we made just by cutting fleece.  

Along with the elf cape, each girl got an Arwin necklace. 

The boys each got a hobbit cape...

...and elf leaf.

Rohan Activity - We set up an orc archery range in the back yard.

These were Daddy's shots!

Gondor Activity - In one room we set up the supplies the kids would need to create a shield (cardboard, tape, scissors, and twine) that we would use for a sponge war. 

Shelob Activity - we set up a yarn spider web on the stairs.  

The web leads up to "Shelob's lair" upstairs, where we created a spider out of a balloon-filled garbage bag (with taped up garbage bag legs...classy)...that also had goodies inside (ring pops, of course!).

I didn't get a good picture of our spider before she was destroyed but this is the general idea. 

Mordor Activity - we also used red plastic tables cloths as lava and black paper plates as rocks to create an obstacle course that ended in knocking Gollum into the lava.