Today was Preston’s Narnia birthday party! He has been talking about having a Narnia birthday party since last spring, and I really thought that it was a fad that would pass. Kids this age typically change their minds every 5 minutes, right? Not Pres – he was set on it and remembered it this long! And he had a ton of ideas on what to do for it (unfortunately I had to say no to many of them), but we had a lot of fun with the ones we did. First, he knew exactly what he wanted to do to decorate. He wanted to tape cotton balls all over the house so it would look like snow. We adapted that idea a little bit and the boys and I made snowflakes to hang from the ceiling, and we put cotton batting around the room (of course the batting got a bit distracting to the preschoolers and we had many “snowball fights”).
We also created a “wardrobe” for the guests to enter Narnia through when they arrived. This was one of Preston’s favorite parts!
Preston also helped plan out the games! Ever since his third birthday party, he has come to me with his whole party planned. He knows the games he wants to play, what his cake will be, who will be there, and everything! He’s quite the party planner! So this time he wanted to play “Prince, Prince, King,”
“Pin the Tail on the Lion,”
“Don’t Eat Pete” (Narnia style of course)
And we adapted a couple of his game ideas to play a game where we helped “melt the snow in Narnia” by carrying cotton balls on a spatula across the room to fill a basket.
So those were the games… pretty simple and fun!! After games we opened presents…
…and had cake!
And that was that – awesome! What a fun party it was, and Preston loved it! I think he sometimes gets a little shy with all the people there, focused on him for his party, but overall he loved it!
6:33 pm on February 28th, 2010
What fun games! I especially loved how the kids walked through the wardrobe, very creative! Looks like everything was a big hit.