Birthday Party for Tryfs

We had a Star Wars themed birthday party for Tryfan on Friday 21 October. He decided that he only wanted to invite a select few people to his party: Oscar, Leonie, Harrison, Rhiannon, Sophie, Rhodri, Grandma and me. So there were 4 little kids, 2 big sisters and 3 grown-ups. Perfect! We picked up all the kids straight from school/ nursery on Friday afternoon and came back to the house. After the troops changed outfits and played a little bit, we sat down to make Star Wars cookies.
Video footage of the cookie making activity:

Once we finished a batch of the Star Wars cookies and Grandma had put them in the oven to bake, we headed to the "Galaxy far, far away" with our light-sabers. In fact, the kids used their light sabers to bat balloons all the way from the house to the middle part of the garden where we had set up tarps, ribbons and the Death Star pinata. Here is the scene:

We had (actually I should say Grandma had) made light sabers out of pool noodles which were cut in half and decorated with duct tape. This way they could really pound each other without hurting anyone or anything.
We blindfolded kids one-by-one and gave them a chance to break the pinata using their light sabers.
Once it fell to the ground, troops piled into the massive stash of loot.
Then we went inside to take a break by watching Tryfan's favorite Star Wars scene. It is the part in Empire Strikes Back where Han Solo says to Chewie, "Laugh it up, Fuzzball".
Then we had some pizza followed by Jello (aka Jelly) and gluten-free cake which a magic fairy made into the shape of a TIE fighter (Star Wars spaceship which the bad Stormtroopers fly).
Here are the partiers as they were enjoying their food: Leonie, Sophie, Rhiannon, Oscar, Tryfan and Harrison.
It was a good party - hugely successful - but it would have been really hard to pull off if there were less than 3 grown-ups on the scene! Thanks to Grandma for helping so much.