The Princess Bride Backyard Movie Night

Another end-of-summer backyard movie night?!?! Inconceivable!

 

There's a shortage of perfect parties in this world.  It would be a shame to miss this one.

 

 Fun, food, friends...fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles... all wrapped up with an outdoor screening of the fantastic, Princess Bride.

 

Guests were greeted with Inigo inspired "Hello" tags to fill out and mustaches to wear.

 

I used Avery 5141 tags and printed the template right on them in Microsoft Word.

Feel free to use the Word Document for yourself.

 

Guests had a blast filling out their tags.  Take a look at some below.

 

 

Rodent's of unusual size?  I don't think they exists.

 

My ROUSs were made from large black trash bags stuffed with blankets and decorated with grey construction paper.  Easy-peasy.

 

 

There's nothing, for miles.

 

I was inspired to paint these wood signs after seeing these on Etsy.com.

 

 

The girls at the party got to make Princess Buttercup crowns (above).

 

The boys got Dread Pirate Roberts masks and swords (below).



 

You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.

 

I found the image on my sign on Pinterest.  The link leads to myteespot.com.

 

To make the masks I used a 36"x36" piece of black felt, mask template, yard stick, white colored pencil and scissors.

 

 

I traced the mask template (printed to 8" wide and cut out) in the center of the felt and drew long "ties" using the yard stick.  I got 12 masks from the 36"x36" piece of felt.

 

 

 

 

 

Have fun stormin' da castle!

 

 

I love this print on Etsy, so when I wrote on my chalkboard sign, I used it as inspiration.

 

CAUTION: EEL INFESTED WATERS

 

I'd hoped to get some of these fantastic pool toys, but since they're discontinued, I ended up with these teeny-tiny toys.  The kids had fun with them anyway.

 

The signs were spray painted wood with a stencil I'd cut from my Cricut.

 

 

 

 

Can't have a Princess Bride party without serving up some MLTs!  Mutton (in this case, ham), lettuce and (perky!) tomatoes.  Mayo and mustard, on the side.  And don't you just love my fire place bellows? 

 

I was inspired by this sign to make my own.  My sign.

 

Hot R.O.U.S. dip (buffalo chicken), straight from the Fire Swamp, served with the Chips of Insanity (tortilla chips)

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MLT 2.0 (mozzarella, "lettuce" & tomato), caprese boats.  Mozzarella balls, grape tomatoes wrapped in a basil leaf, skewered with a sword (of course!) and drizzled with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

 

 

 

6 (chicken) fingered snack made with Tyson Anytizers Chicken Fries.

 

 

Peanut (Princess) Buttercup Cookies.  Yum!  I used this recipe from Real Simple.

 

Iocane.  I'd bet my life on it. 

 

I used these great bottles of candy powder then created labels from this great image by Purple Cactus Designs and taped them over the fronts of each bottle.

 

The minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!

 

Dont'cha just LOVE my Fezzik doll?!  I won him when I entered a Princess Bride t-shirt contest, years ago.

 

Candy Rocks         Signage

 

 

No more rhymes now, I mean it!

 

Peanut M&Ms, salted shell peanuts and circus peanuts.

 

 

Pudding cups with "Lightening Sand" on top.  I used this wonderfully yummy recipe from Ma Nouvelle Mode.

 

 

Miracle Max's Miracle Pills.  I used this recipe for Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treat Balls, then put them on sticks.  I found the sign image on Pinterest.  The link led to the image only, no one to credit.  :(

 

 

True Love's Kiss(es) Brownies.  I used a box brownie mix, mini muffin tins and added a milk chocolate Hershey's Kiss 2 minutes after removing them from the oven.

 

 

Feel free to use my food tags.

 

 

And they lived happily ever after.  Well, except for Vincini. 

 

 

Movie screen.

 

Movie snacks.

 

 

 

 

Sew Sweet Lalaloopsy Birthday

 

These adorable "rag dolls" are my Sami's favorite little toys.  Her collection started on her 3rd birthday with an original Blossom Flowerpot, but has now grown into double, possible triple, digits.  We incorporated many of them, and their "buttons", into her 5th birthday party this year.

the invitation

 

 The inviation is made of 3 layers of card stock.  A paterned layer (measuring 5.25" square), a solid layer and the printed layer.  Buttons in the corners, yarn hair and bows were glued on after the layers were double-sided taped together.  I've seen a few of these sorts of Lalaloopsy inviations online.  One that inspired mine was from my sweet little family.

 

 the cake

 

 How gorgeous is *this* cake?!  I found a tutorial for the petal design at Bird on a Cake.  She's right, it's easier than it looks!  Not that I want to downgrade all the hard work I put into it.  *wink* 

I also made cupcakes to go along with the cake, since they can be easier to serve (and easier for little hands to eat!).

 

To add the swirl-color effect to the frosting, I added the food coloring to the edges of the piping bag, then added white frosting.  As you pipe, the color incorporates.

 

 

These adorable Lala toppers came from etsy seller Party in a Box.

the food

 Table skirt, inspired by this photo on Catch My Party.  The button are trees made from actual tree limbs, felt and buttons. I got my inspiration for these from this photo on Pinterest. Sorry to say that it has no credit linked, so if you who made them, let me know! I'd be happy to give credit where credit's due!

 

 

  (L) Pinwheel sandwiches. (R) Chocolate button pops were made using molds from Fancy Flours.  The yarn on the jars was inspired by this party, over on Catch My Party.

 

Balls of yarn used to decorate the table were actually foam balls with yarn wrapped around them. I got this idea from the Cute as a Button party over at Kiss Me Kate.

 Spool Cake Pops. Fantastic tutorial by Pure Joy Events

 

I cut quilt patterned scrapbooking paper to line these 5oz cups before filling them with treats.  These have white chocolate covered pretzels.  The liners were cut using my Cricut.  This is the svg file: Cup Liner.  Or the jpg file for those cutting by hand: Cup Liner.

 Button number frames, inspired by Style Me Pretty.  Be sure to add the paper, then glue the buttons on if using these top-loading frames.

The holes in the button sugar cookies were added after the cookies baked.  Poke holes in them with a straw while they're still warm.

 These 5oz tumblers are filled with Cupcake Puppy Chow.

 

I just loved how And Everything Sweet decorated their water bottles with fabric for this baby shower. I was inspired to do the same, only I replaced the pin with a button, of course!  In addition to water, we enjoyed strawberry milk and Golden Wedding Punch.

activities

This adorable Pin the Bow on Crumbs Sugar Cookies game is available to purchase from etsy seller One Love Designs.  For prizes the kids got Lalaloopsy coloring books I'd found at Dollar Tree.
 

"Decorate your own Crown with Jewel Sparkles"

 

Paper crowns on headbands, decorated with glitter glue pens.

 

Jewel Sign                            Crown Template

 

 

"Make a Hat with Pete R. Canfly"

 

Green posterboard, red feathers. (elastics and tape optional)

 

Pete Sign                             Hat Directions

 

 

 "Make an Eye Patch with Patch Treasurechest"

 

Black eye patches, assorted stickers

 

Patch Sign

 

 

"Sewing Cards with Blossom Flowerpot"

 

I got some adorable sewing cards from etsy seller Lemon Tree Studio.  Those, yarn and child safe needles made up this fun activity spot.

 

Blossom Sign

 

 

Hanging over the gift table.

 

 

What boys do at a Lalaloopsy party. *wink*

 

  

 Happy 5th birthday to my little princess!!
 

 

These are only some of the great Lalaloopsy party ideas I found online.  I couldn't possiblly use all of them.  If you'd like to see more, please visit My Pinterest page.