Bow-TIE Fighter Pasta Salad

November 10, 2014November 2, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 1 Comment

It’s the day of the Star Wars birthday party. 20 kids and adults are coming any second. You are running around like Jar Jar Binks – tripping over lightsabers, and stepping on Lego ships (OUCH!), trying to get things in order. Imagine how relieved you will be that at least all your TIE fighters are in formation (from the night before), just waiting to be served. 1 less thing to worry about on the day of the party (YEAY!). AND the batch is party-sized – there is enough food here to feed a whole squadron of Bucketheads (TIE fighter pilots).
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Darth Vader Piñata

November 9, 2014April 27, 2016 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 1 Comment

Episode V, Degobah, the Forest, by the Tree Cave:

LUKE: What’s in there?
YODA: Only what you take with you.
Luke looks warily between the tree and Yoda. He starts to strap on his weapon belt.
YODA: Your weapons…you will not need them
Luke gives the tree a long look, then shakes his head “no.”
Yoda shrugs.
Luke reaches up to brush aside some hanging vines and enters the tree.

Luke must have known he would need his lightsaber… because Darth Vader’s helmet was filled with…CANDY!?!

Make a blue lightsaber bopper, be like Luke, and get a good whack at Darth.

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Cloud City Float with a Millennium Falcon Ice Ship

November 8, 2014April 19, 2016 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 15 Comments

I was going to say this tastes heavenly, but I don’t think that is the correct pun for it. Maybe that it truly belongs among the clouds? Naah, no good either. It is a good thing the Cloud City is a float? Bad punch lines, good punch though. It looks impressive, fizzes, bubbles and is very yummy. Jedi Master Heidi (whom you will hear more about in later posts – and without whose help and creativity the M4Ps [May the Fourth be with You Parties] would never happen), helped me figure out this recipe. It was (obviously) served it in (Han) Solo plastic cups!
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Glow Stick Lightsabers: an Elegant Weapon for a more Civilized Age

November 7, 2014November 2, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 6 Comments

At last count our family had about a dozen or so of various inexpensive lightsabers, 1 of the mid-grade, and 3 of the high-end ones (OK, full disclosure, those last 3 are not the kids’…). You wouldn’t think we needed more. However, none of them worked for the General Grievous Halloween costume we did last year (instructions to come soon!). We needed smaller, lighter, and continually glowing – so we had to get creative. These are kid-sized, inexpensive, glow in the dark, AND they are pretty whackable (won’t break, or hurt you too badly when you get hit in the knees). That’s a pretty hard combo to beat! Top that off with being super simple to make, so the kids can do most of the work.

DIY Glow stick and Bubble wand Lightsaber. Check out all our other Star Wars costumes on our blog! #jedi #sith #lighsaber #starwars #starwarsparty #maythefourthbewithyou #starwarsbirthday #starwarscostume #fubbles #glowstick #bubblewand #halloweencostume

The green lightsaber works especially well for a toddler/pre-schooler dressed up as Yoda – it is light and easy to hold, and just the right size.

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C-3PO Perler Bead Coaster

November 6, 2014November 2, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / 1 Comment

My daughter loved doing Perler bead patterns when she was younger. She could sit for hours. One day, as we were approaching M4P (our May the Fourth Party), we had the brilliant idea of making Perler Star Wars characters. After pondering it for a while, we figured making them into coasters would be perfect. We found a few patterns online, but decided it would be more fun to make our own. By now we have about 40 original designs and I plan on posting them all here.
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Han Solo a la Mode

November 3, 2014November 2, 2015 / May the Fourth be with You Party: Anette / Leave a comment

When we found this Han Solo in Carbonite silicone mold we tried to figure out what to make with it – something worthy of its coolness. Banana bread and brownies didn’t work; the details from the mold just did not show up in our baked goods. No luck with ice cream either. Melted Chocolate however, worked like a charm. But who should eat a 3 lb. Han Solo chocolate bar? Certainly not us! (Notice we did not ask who COULD!). Here is what we came up with instead:

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