Angry Birds Birthday Party Day 4: More FUN Games

By Extreme Couponing Rudy on November 20th, 2012

Angry Birds Birthday Party Activities

Angry Birds Birthday Party

Okay, I kinda flaked on the Angry Birds Birthday Party posts.  I’m back and ready to finish!  What’s a party without games?  Well, more games that is!  You have to have several different activities going on at once when having a younger age party because they get antsy fast.  They can’t wait in line forever and, let’s face it, they don’t love to share, especially when it comes to something new and FUN!  I already showed you our BIG game piece of the party with the Angry Birds Slingshot.  Now, it’s time for more!

Angry Birds Birthday Party Day 4: More Games

1. Can the Piggies.  This game is a very simple one to create.  It’s your basic ‘knock the cans over’ game, but of course you need to make sure it flows with the theme of the party!  In this case, I decided to make the cans green piggies.

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Just save up a few cans and grab some green spray paint.  Go to town!  This is the green I had on hand, you know I like to be frugal and cut costs, but you can go lighter if you prefer.  Let those dry and then grab some white paint and a black Sharpie.

Angry Birds Birthday Party Games

For some reason I can’t the closeup up the piggies, but you get the idea.  Paint the eyes white, let that dry and then draw everything else with the Sharpie.  If time permits (which mine did not) you can get more creative and use more colors with more details.  Paint the nose a separate green, get crazy with the mouths.  Have FUN with it!

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This game was a hit!  No pun intended ;)

2. Pin the beak on the Angry Birds.  This game is a twist on the ole fashion Pin the Tail on the Donkey!  At this age, that game is always a must!

Angry Birds Birthday Party Games  Angry Birds Birthday Party Games

Basically get a piece of poster board for each bird you want to make.  In my case I did the Yellow Angry Bird and the Red Angry Bird.  (Well, I should say my mom did!)  Then just cut out the shape of the Angry Birds, for the yellow it was a big triangle and for the red it was a big circle.  Use construction paper to put the facial features together.  Once you have the main piece created (as shown) you will need to make extra beaks.  If you use a template for the main piece and print it out, then you can do the same for all 20 something beaks you will need for the party.  It’s better than drawing and cutting out each extra beak by hand.

Angry Birds Pin the beak on the bird game

Don’t forget about the blindfolds!  Come on, we’ve been creative with everything else. You didn’t seriously think we’d use an old rag for this game did you? My mom also did a great job constructing these Black Angry Bird eye masks.  Simply take a piece of black felt, cut it the shape of a regular eye mask.  The felt is a really good option for kids.  Even though it’s black, they are still not completely blind when putting it on.

Then cut out two white circles, again using felt.  Hot glue them for the eyes. Cut out a beak using yellow felt, and again, glue it on the mask.  She also used a brown felt for the eyebrows.  Once all those are glued on you can grab that black Sharpie from before, and draw on the details.  She also used black felt for the feather sticking out.  That piece is actually doubled using two pieces of felt making it sturdy so it would stay sticking up.

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This was also another hit!  By having several different games, it doesn’t cause anyone to stand around too much.  Everyone was constantly moving and having FUN!

I also wanted to mention the Angry Birds coloring books pictured at the top of this post.  Those were created by using an Angry Birds template.  I printed out the faces and used the FREE folders I scored during all the back to school sales.  For the pages inside I jsut printed Angry Birds coloring pages.  The crayons were also collected during the back to school sale season for only $0.25 per pack!  Isn’t it FUN 2B Frugal?!

Angry Birds Birthday Party Day 3: Games

By Extreme Couponing Rudy on November 14th, 2012

Angry Birds Birthday Party

Angry Birds Birthday Party Games

With every party there must be games to play!  Since the theme was Angry Birds, we HAD to have the slingshot game!  So, my wheels were turning.  Boxes.  Balls.  And of course, the slingshot.  So now to put it together.

Angry Birds Slingshot

1.  Building the slingshot.  Once I had an idea of what I wanted for the slingshot, I described it to my husband.  After all, he had to contribute to the party as well right?  It’s good to delegate projects when planning an event if you can.  If you try to take on too much alone, it gets overwhelming.  I have learned that lesson before.

So, pretty much he used 2×4’s, (2) workout bands, and I sewed the thingy you launch the balls with.

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2.  Painting the Angry Birds Balls.  Just like the game, I wanted the kids to be able to launch Angry Birds.  The best things for the job were kick balls.  They came in just the right colors as well!  Red and Yellow!  All I did was draw onto the ball with a pen how I wanted the faces to look, and then painted onto them with acrylic paint.  Easy peesy!

Angry Birds Kick Ball    Angry Birds Kick Balls    Angry Birds Kick Balls

Of course, you could buy the Angry Birds Kick Balls, but they are $14.99 each!  To some people it might be worth it to skip the artsy step.

3.  Making the destruction set.  This was very easy.   just took several boxes of all different sizes so I could stack them on top of each other.  I spray painted them different colors to represent the real Angry Birds game.  The kids even helped on this step.

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I’m sure you can tell, the kids had FUN!  That’s what’s it all about.  Stay tuned for more Angry Birds Birthday Party Games tomorrow!

 

Angry Birds Birthday Party Day 2: Homemade Angry Birds Cupcakes

By Extreme Couponing Rudy on November 13th, 2012

Recipe Tuesday: Angry Birds Cupcakes

It’s day 2 of the Angry Birds Birthday Party Series!  I hope you enjoy this weeks Recipe Tuesday as I tied it into the theme this week, Angry Birds.  Once again, let me remind you I am no Cake Boss.  However, I do love making cakes and cupcakes for themed parties!  Also, if you have any tips, feel free to leave a comment below to share with everyone.

Angry Birds Cupcakes

Angry Birds Cupcakes

If you love this idea of Angry Birds Cupcakes, guess what?  You can Pin It on one of your Pinterest boards by simply clicking on the Pinterest Icon below this post.  You can also share this post to your Facebook so all your friends can see.

Angry Birds Birthday Party Day 1: Invitations

By Extreme Couponing Rudy on November 12th, 2012

Angry Birds Party Invitations

Angry Birds Birthday Party

Okay, I have something FUN for you guys!  This year was quite a busy one with several different events going on at once.  Launa and Logan’s  birthdays are less than a month apart so we decided to have a joint party for them with all their friends this year.  As we were brainstorming theme ideas, Logan was playing Angry Birds on my phone.  That’s how they decided an Angry Birds birthday party would be FUN.  I’m so glad they agreed on one without a fight!  I quickly got to work planning all the FUN stuff for the party.  I am happy to say that I took A LOT of pictures s I could share the party with you and show you step by step instructions on how I planned the party.

Join me over the next several days as I post the steps to creating your own Angry Birds Birthday Party!

Angry Birds Birthday Party Day 1: Invitations

The first thing you need for any party are invitations.  Of course, I am going to show you the frugal way!  These were totally FREE for me since everything I used I already had on hand.

Angry Birds Birthday Party Invitations

I used my Cricuit and the George and Basic Shapes Cricuit Cartridge.  Everything I needed was on this one cartridge.

Angry Birds Birthday Party Invitations

You will need to cut out 7 different shapes to complete the Red Angry Bird.  The first is the red circle of course for the body.

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The second shape is a black flower for the Red Angry Bird’s tail.  You only need to cut out half as many flowers as there are invitations.  The reason being is because once they are cut from the Cricuit, you will cut them all in half as shown above.

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The third shape is a black trapezoid for the ‘angry’ eye brows.  You need to cut twice as many of these since there are two for every invitation.  The fourth shape is a small white circle for the eyes.  You will also need twice as many of these circles since there are two on every invitation.

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The fifth shape will be for the mouth.  There are two different options.  The first is pictured on the left where I printed a heart and cut it in half for the beak.  The second option is pictured on the right where I just cut a plain triangle.  Either option will work.

Angry Birds Birthday

The sixth and final shape is a red flower.  It’s the same flower font as from the black tail, just as inch smaller.  Once again you will be cutting the flowers in half to use them as the head feathers.

Red Angry Bird

Technically the Red Angry Bird has the white belly.  But when I played with that option I didn’t like it too much.  You can of course add it if you want.  The last detail on the angry bird are the black dots on the eyes.  I starting cutting out all these tiny black circles, and then about halfway through I realized it would be more productive to just color them in with a Sharpie!

The last part of the Angry Birds Birthday invitation is the invitation of course!  Just print out all the party info in a word document and once they are printed out you can cut them in a circle.  Then simply glue the details to the back the cute angry birds you have already made!  And there you have it, a very unique, very frugal, Angry Birds Birthday Party Invitation!

Stay tuned for Day 2!  Will be posted tomorrow!