Zach's birthday isn't until tomorrow, but since that's Sunday, we did his party today. I took him to the shop that hires out cake tins a couple of weeks ago with Rhona and Grace and after looking through the entire catalogue he decided on a Lightning McQueen cake, so his party became Cars themed :) We held it down at Castor Bay beach - there's some picnic tables, grassed area and playground.
Here's what we did -
- To start with the kids made their own personalised number plates and hung them round their neck
- Then races on our race track drawn in the sand on the beach. After the first race they earned their drivers licenses. Then, because Mater taught Lightning how to drive backwards, we had a backwards race too.
- Then back up to the picnic table for some party food.
- After the food we played Mater, Mater, Lightning (duck, duck, goose made to fit the cars theme!)
- While they were playing Adam went and hid some things for a treasure hunt. They each had to find a lollypop, a bouncy ball and a toy car. When the got back they could put their things in their party bag, but keep the care out because next was...
- Painting tracks with the cars. We had plates of paint out to roll the cars in and then paint tracks with them on some paper.
- And then the presents and birthday cake and finally leaving the kids to their own devices to enjoying playing together at the beach.
It was fun and all worked out pretty well. Apart from a few spots of rain at the start, but we stuck it out and it passed pretty quickly and stayed away for the rest of the time we were there.
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| Lani and her personalised plate |
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| First race to earn their drivers license |
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| Lani and Calais in the backwards race |
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| Playing Mater, Mater, Lightning |
I didn't get a picture of the painting because my hands were covered in paint and I wasn't going to touch my camera in that state! :)
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| Blowing out the candles |
And now we're all shattered and chilling out at home :)
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