***Disney Design Addict's Chit Chat,Designs and Pixie Dust! Everybody WELCOME!*** Part 3

[julia & nicks mom]

This is completely OT (which is routine for this thread nowadays, so I don't feel bad about asking), but, I am 4 weeks away from a Power Rangers themed bday party for a bunch of 6 yr. olds. Do any of you have any ideas for games that they could play that would go along with this theme? I figure for as creative as you all are, someone might be able to help me out.

I found this online

Welcome Ideas:


Let the kids choose a Power Rangers character that they like and put that name on their nametag along with the child's name. Ex., Adam the Green Ranger.
Since the Power Rangers are each identified with a specific color, let your guests be that color for the day. Let them know in advance to dress in the color of their favorite Power Ranger.

Games:


Relay races: an old favorite of ours at parties! Set up a race in the backyard (weather permitting) to test their skills as a Power Ranger. Have them carry raw eggs on a spoon as part of a relay race, or balloons between their knees, roll a ball on the lawn using their nose...anything that's fun and goofy works well!
Balloon mission: Give your aspiring Power Rangers a mission to transport the precious birthday balloons! If weather permits, this activity should be done outdoors; a spacious room is a good alternative too. You’ll need an inflated balloon for each guest at your party.
To begin, pair each child with someone who is about the same height. Line them up standing back to back at a starting line. Place a balloon between the backs of each pair. When you say go, each “Power Pair” must shuffle their way to the finish line (or across the room) without dropping or popping the balloon, and without using hands! Dropping or popping a balloon means a pair must go back and start over.

To make the game more challenging, use additional balloons. Once a pair has successfully transported their first balloon to the finish line, they drop it, run back to the start line, and get a new balloon to transport. Repeat the process until they’ve transported the required number balloons. The first to finish, wins! (See Birthday Express for more ideas like this)


Activities:


Scratch Magic: give each guest their own scratch magic pad to draw an action picture of the Power Rangers in action. Their imaginations are the only limit, and they'll get a surprise of color as they scratch their picture!

Scratch Magic
Soul Bird Boxes: let teams of kids design and decorate their own Soul Bird vehicles from refrigerator boxes you pick up at an appliance store. You can have them color them, use glitter glue and craft foam to make special markings or a pilot panel, or use paint if you're daring! Have a contest for the best Power Rangers aircraft, and then let them have adventures in them.

Food:


Power Rice Crispies: Make rice crispy treats and cut them out in dumbbell shapes for your hungry Power Rangers!
Power Ranger Juicies: Create your own juice shakes using ice cream or sherbert, ice, fresh fruit, and juice. Got to keep your energy up!
Megazord Sandwiches: Get a variety of meats and have each Power Ranger guest create his own Megazord sandwich. Then they can devour their enemy and get energized!! (I hope that doesn't sound too gross

http://www.sanjosefamilies.com/power-rangers.html

 

[my3princes]

Recently, I was diagnosed with C. A. A. D. D. - Child Activated Attention
> Deficit Disorder.
>
> This is how it manifests:
>
> I decide to do the laundry. As I start toward the basement, I notice that
> there are cheerios all over the floor and my house keys are in the cereal
> bowl. I decide to pick up the cheerios before I do the laundry. I lay my
> keys down on the counter, put the cheerios in the trash can under the
> counter, and notice that the trash can is full. So, I decide to take out
> the
> trash.
>
> But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out
> the
> trash I may as well pay the bills first. I take my check book off the
> table,
> and see that there is only one check left, my extra checks are in my desk

> in
> the office, so I go to my desk where I find a sippy cup full of juice.
I'm
> going to look for my checks, but first I decide I should put the sippy
cup
> in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
>
> As I head toward the kitchen with the sippy cup a plant on the counter
> catches my eye--it needs to be watered. I set the sippy cup on the
> counter,
> and I discover baby wipes that I've been searching for all morning. I
> decide
> I better put them back in the bathroom, but first I'm going to water the
> plants. I set the wipes back down, fill a container with water and
> suddenly
> I spot the TV remote, left on the kitchen table.
>
> I realize that when I go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote,
> but
> I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it
> back
> in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the plants. I splash
> some
> water on the plant, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the
> remote
> back down, get some paper towels and wipe up the spill. Then I head down
> the
> hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
>
> At the end of the day: the laundry isn't washed, the bills aren't paid,
> there is a warm cup of juice sitting on the counter, the plants aren't
> watered, there is still only one check in my check book, I can't find the
> remote, I can't find the wipes, and I don't remember what I did with my
> keys.
>
> Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really
> baffled
> because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.
>
> I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for
it,
> but first I'll check my e-mail. Do me a favor, will you? Forward this
> message, because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.
>
> Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming.


Deb

 

[Tammi67]

itslisa - yes, i've looked there. no power rangers, but they do have rescue hereos, so i've been reading through there trying to get ideas.

Kate - how do you find this stuff?! I tried searching the net and couldn't find anything. But again, I get disgusted with my dial-up and give up.

Thanks to you both.

 

[triplefigs]

GOOD MORNING DDAers!!! I'm baaaaacccckkkkkk!

Kevin and Amy: love the pictures of Alyssa in the shirt. I can't wait to make the monorail one.

Paul and Marti: You two made me cry with that! You guys are awesome, and I definitely count all the DDA as my friends. Heck, I talk to y'all more than some of my "real" freinds! I hope Marti is feeling better.

MazdaUK: funny story about your shoes! Sounds like me. And your computer definitely has a mind of its own!

Clare/Rosiejo: Hope your wedding and trip to WDW is a smashing success! Can't wait to hear all about it and see pictures!

bethbuchall: great Dash and princess. Your kids are adorable!

momof2OH: love the Mickey Mouse and Devil costumes. You have a great looking family!

WelovetheMouse: Roll Tide right back at you!

Kate: love the wedding crasher shirt. I'll almost be there in time! And you *KNOW* you're crazy (although I still sead goofy!)

tink2020: sending prayers and PD your way. Hoping everything gets worked out.

JnEsWDWMom: I did get your PM, and I'll be working on shirt requests today.

tinker1bell: I prefer the potato salad with the red potatoes or German style if you're taking requests...

ladylucca: love the RnR design!

miss missy: too funny!

Tammi67: kudos to you and Nicholas! WTG! Very imprssive, indeed. Hope the Power Rangers party is a blast!

macntosh: WTG being such a good DH and dad. My DH is also completely hands on and gives me nights out. It makes EVERYONE's life much happier! And happy b'day early to your DD!

Steffy: thanks for the compliments! But the pumpkins weren't mine. I didn't even carve one (look at the house picture and they are all plain!)

dizney-cruiser: welcome and join in the madness!

Deb: too funny. Definitely applies in my house!

 

[Good Ol Gal]

I have all 5 kids Mickey swirls done, and am now working on 3 adults today. Tomorrow I will do 3 more.

I am having alot of fun with these shirts!!

Here are the other 4 I did Monday.

My pink and purple are just too light. I was hoping that they would be real dark.

I am going to put stuff on the back also.. I am thinking of putting names.. and then on ds's put Today is my Birthday!!

I was thinking of putting "grandma" "grandpa" "mom" "dad" "aunt" "uncle" etc. what do you think?? does that sound stupid??

 

[itslisa]

itslisa - yes, i've looked there. no power rangers, but they do have rescue hereos, so i've been reading through there trying to get ideas.

Looks ike they don't have their own category ... but they do have ideas. (Copying since you are on dialup ....)


My five-year old son wants a Power Ranger Birthday. We have been able to find paper goods and decorations on various websites. The trick was games and activities for the party. The children's ages will range from 3 to 11, only about 10 guests. We have decided to do the following activities:

1.Krytonite Throw: Collect several bean bags and let each guest throw designated number of bags as far as he can, giving it a good "superhero" throw. The child whose bag goes the farthest wins.
2.Giant Bouncy Ball Throw: Place a container and let children stand about 6 feet away. Bounce ball and try to get it in the bucket. The child with the most throws in wins. Can give bouncy ball as party favor.
3.Balloon Pop: Blow up balloons and fasten to fence in direct sunlight. Give each child a magnifying glass and let them pop balloons using the sunlight through the glass. The first balloon popped wins. Give magnifying glass as favor.
4. Balloon Stomp: Blow up gray balloons to represent "puddies". Let the children stomp the "puddies"/bad guys.
5. Red Ranger/Green Ranger: Play like red light/green light, but use the power ranger concept.
6. Red Rover: play like traditional game, but use Red Ranger concept.

For Favors: bouncy ball magnifying glass Jelly beans in Power Ranger colors Play Doh in Power Ranger colors Power Ranger stickers Power Ranger trading cards Power Ranger balloons Power Ranger storybook/coloring book laser spin top glow-in-dark flying disc monster bookmark Would give a variety, but not all.

Cake Decoration: Will use power ranger action figures to decorate top of sheet cake in power ranger colors(red green blue yellow pink white gold black--any combination) We have a puddy action figure and lots of sabers and laser guns, so it should be fairly easy to make some design.

Other decorations: Various websites have banners, table covers, etc. Can use balloons in Power Ranger colors. I think any traditional party game could be revamped into a Power Ranger theme or superhero theme. The megazords on Power Rangers are made up of all the different Power Rangers and each Power Ranger represents a different animal.

Game to play: When each guest arrives, tape a different animal on their back. Children have to ask questions to figure which animal they are. Good icebreaker. Some of the animals the Power Rangers are consist of shark, bull, lion, tiger, and eagle.

 

[MommyBoo!]

I'm about 30 pages behind, but I just had to tell you what a clever shirt design!! That is soooo cool!

Thanks! We had lots of fun with it!

 

[itslisa]

I have all 5 kids Mickey swirls done, and am now working on 3 adults today. Tomorrow I will do 3 more.

I am having alot of fun with these shirts!!

Here are the other 4 I did Monday.

How did you do the black Mickey heads? Also, how are you planning on doing the names? Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[Good Ol Gal]

For the Power Ranger birthday

I did a batman party for my son a few years ago and you could use this for the power rangers one too.

I had taken our playset and wrapped it up in that tissue paper-type ribbon stuff.. duh.. I can't even think of what it's called now!!

Anyway... I wrapped the outside of it all up, but let a little opening for my ds to climb into it.

Once every guest had arrived I had my son go hide inside the playset. We had already made a note from The Joker saying that he had taken Batman and would not give him back. So all of a sudden I noticed that the birthday boy, Batman, was missing!!! I "found" the note and read it to all the boys.

The boys went crazy looking for Batman. When they finally found him they all tore off all the ribbon stuff to rescue Batman!! It was alot of fun and the boys loved being able to rip that stuff all up!

You could do somthing like that with the evil guy being the one taking your Power Ranger.

I also made a Batman Bingo game and everytime you won you got to pick from a goody bag filled with batman stuff.

 

[Good Ol Gal]

How did you do the black Mickey heads? Also, how are you planning on doing the names? Inquiring minds want to know!

I took one of the Home Depot paint sample cards and cut the Mickey head out of it with my exacto knife.

Then I used the outside of it as a stencil. It works great!!

I was going to make the names like the front of the shirt.

I did one already, but the green is just too light to really see the name.


Here it is before painted
Here is it finished.

I put some dark blue Mickey's around his name, but haven't taken a picture of it.

 

[bethbuchall]

Denise--Welcome back! You did a great job catching up!

Thanks to all for the compliments on my kids and pumpkins!

Beth

 

[miss missy]

Ok I just caught up on 3 pages too. I can't seem to write up 1 post to everyone like Denise, Gosh she does a good job doing that!!!

Anyway.... Hi all and have a great day... off to work I go. I am going to work extra Friday and Saturday... gotta make the Disney $$$$.

see you all later!

 

[geetey]

I have to share these pumpkins photos with you. I was done carving pumpkins, and then on Monday (Halloween!) morning someone here posted a link to a site with these two patterns on it. I had to go out to buy two small pumpkins to carve. (And confirmed my husband's opinion that I am completely nuts).

It's a little hard to see them, but they are the castle and a mouse from Cinderella.

Beth

Beth, I love this Castle pumpkin!! Did you save the pattern? Or do you remember where you found it? I would love a copy!!

I am waaay behind - not sure how that happened since I check the thread a minimum of once a day!

Clare - have a wonderful trip to WDW and a beautiful wedding!

We are in Missouri!

 

[mommykds]

Hi everyone!

Today is my 14th wedding anniversary...Can't believe how fast the time has gone. 14 years ago today I married my best friend (ok too sappy I know! )
I can't believe my oldest child will be 10 in December... where did the time go?

No plans for tonight as DH is working but we are going to see "Sweeney Todd" on Sunday & then to the Hard Rock in Times Square for dinner...My MIL watches my kids once a year (yea, that's another story...) on our anniversary so we try to make the most of it! I can't wait!

 

[mommykds]

Deb,

Love the post! I have that "disease" too!!!

 

[geetey]

There is a thread by MeanLaureen asking how they would like to see the board reorganized and several people mentioned increased traffic since we moved over here -

I thought it was kind of funny!

I saw that too, Kate. I really go to the board - but straight to this thread. Seems like it is mostly a scrapping board, so I am not sure why having our thread at the top really matters. Maybe someone is just jealous.

 

[geetey]

Prayers and Pixie dust if you all have an extra minute....
I said crap.... is that offensive? Thanks for keeping me sane. Well, close to sane anyway.

Sending lots of prayers and pd!

Crap... isn't that the same as poop? If it didn't offend before, I don't think it will now!

 

[julia & nicks mom]

Hi everyone!

Today is my 14th wedding anniversary...Can't believe how fast the time has gone. 14 years ago today I married my best friend (ok too sappy I know! )
I can't believe my oldest child will be 10 in December... where did the time go?

No plans for tonight as DH is working but we are going to see "Sweeney Todd" on Sunday & then to the Hard Rock in Times Square for dinner...My MIL watches my kids once a year (yea, that's another story...) on our anniversary so we try to make the most of it! I can't wait!

happy Anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CheriePenguin]

Recently, I was diagnosed with C. A. A. D. D. - Child Activated Attention
> Deficit Disorder.
> . . .
> Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming.
Deb

That was hilarious - mostly because it's not at all far from the truth!

 

[itslisa]

Today is my 14th wedding anniversary...Can't believe how fast the time has gone. 14 years ago today I married my best friend (ok too sappy I know! )

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Enjoy Sunday night! I have a MIL like that too. ....