Disney Planes Birthday Party: the activities and games

Disney Planes was the theme for my son's 5th Birthday party. The activities started as they fronted up to the gate which was transformed into a checking in area. From the entry where the passports were checked off, through a magnetic detector, the children then got to fly down a runway in El Chupacabra.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the entrance

 There was even a Dusty for those that wanted to fly the high sky and not sit and do the activities...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the entrance

The activity tables were full of activities sourced off SKGaleana, the kids coloured, dot-to-dotted their way as they awaited the arrival of all of their friends...  These activities were great so a big thank you to SKGaleana.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the activity area

 These fold up camping tables are great...I love watching children working together.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the activity area

Once everyone arrived, the children were tasked to build a glider and then fly them...These are available from Birthday in a Box.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the glider building

The children lined up in three lines and threw their gliders towards the target hoops...look at the concentration and assessment of some of the children...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the glider throwing

All of the children had their photo taken against the licencing board once they had enough flying...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the licencing board

...but in order to be a pilot and get a photo, they had to dress up!...The shirt was purchased from Trade Secret and the Pilots outfit was purchased from The Party Hut Toowoomba.  The sunnies were purchased from a local sunglasses place...they took some hunting down!

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the licencing dress up

And this is what the little guys looked like - this was sooo cool...and ensured we got at least one great shot of every child that attended.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the licence

 From licencing to a test of skill, balancing skill that is...the dusty plane was printed from 30minute crafts and although a flash light cover, we adapted it a little and added a propeller from North Phoenix Mums blog.  Thanks Rach.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the dressed spoons for the egg and spoon / pilot and plane race.

 The children were each given a boiled egg they had to draw on to create their own pilot...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the dressed spoons for the egg and spoon / pilot and plane race.

 The eggs/pilots were placed on the spoons/planes...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the dressed spoons for the egg and spoon / pilot and plane race.

The children lined up...and walked toward me to establish a winner - this however was too easy so we went to a run - Oh My Gosh you should have heard the squealing and laughter then!  This was accomplished in record time LOL.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; the dressed spoons for the egg and spoon / pilot and plane race.

Skills were then tested with blind accuracy :-) as the children tried to place a propeller on Dusty's nose cone - there was a lot of cheating going on...heads were tilted, eyes were open, glasses were moved on the nose, was so funny...  This great idea came from Pinterest!


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; Pin the propeller on Dusty

This is the picture of Dusty I printed and had laminated. I printed and cut out the propellers and dressed glasses using the printable from North Phoenix Mums blog.  Thanks Rach, I stuck the glasses eyes on the glasses and cut out the propellers and put a dimensional/foam pop dot on the back. I just had to remove the backing for each child when it was their turn......

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party; Pin the propeller on Dusty

After this, a group photo was taken as we organised ourselves for the cake.  So stay posted for the Disney Planes Birthday Cake.

Embracing Birthday celebrations,

Disney Planes - The Food: Server two

Today's post showcases one of the servers of Disney Planes themed food for my son's 5th Birthday Celebration.  The buffet style table was covered in pale blue and set upon it was two 3 tier servers and 2 cake stands, along with chip buckets filled with popcorn clouds and for the adults little dippers.  This is the table before the food came out.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The table setting

The Fruit sticks were made into planes - the strawberry was the nose cone, the body the banana and the tail fin - apple or grapes in two directions - great tails.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Fruit Stick Planes

 This was the remainder of the fruit to make little planes.  I cannot believe how popular these were.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Fruit Stick Planes

A dozen croissant planes - a banana in a lightly toasted croissant.  Simple and loved by the adults.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Croissant Planes

The cloud biscuits were the Gluten Free short bread biscuit recipe...the cookie dough was refrigerated for 5 minutes and then the clouds cut out with my clouds cookie cutter from Cakes Around Town Australia (Darra Qld)


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud Biscuits

 Some were not iced...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud Biscuits

 and some were with butter icing...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud Biscuits

Check out my pinterest page for lots of FOOD recipes and Disney Planes party ideas.  See you at the next post...

Disney Planes - The Food: Server one

On two 3 tier stairs, I placed the Disney Planes themed food for the adults and children.  The Table was dressed in pale blue with buckets of popcorn, little dippers, the serviettes and plates as seen in the last post. 

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party

Plane tyres topped the server...This was our ever popular Gluten Free Macadamia Nut Brownie.  This recipe was featured at our Dinosaur party as the Fossil Slice.  The recipe is on that post and a slightly adapted recipe is as per below...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party

Gluten Free Chocolate Macadamia Brownie
Ingredients
200+ grams of Dark Chocolate
180g Organic Butter
1/3 cup rice milk
1 cup Gluten Free Self Raising Flour
1/2 cup Almond meal
1 cup Rapadura or brown sugar
1/2 cup Organic Cacao
1+ cup chopped up Organic Macadamia Nuts - the fresher the better
3 Organic eggs lightly beaten
Optional 1/8 to 1/4 tps Gluten Free Baking powder but a must if you only have GF Plain Flour.

Method
Melt Dark chocolate and butter in a double boiler
In a separate bowl add flour, baking powder, sugar, nut meal, cacao and macadamia nuts in a bowl and mix well.
Add to this dry mix, the eggs, milk and then the chocolate mixture.  Fold ingredients together until well combined. 
Pour into greased and lined cake tin/slice tin.
Bake at 140-160oC in fan forced oven for 40 minutes.
Cool and then cut out tyres with cookie cutters

If you use SR flour, it rises quite considerably - if you use Plain flour with the baking powder there is not as much rise (enough though for the tyres above!)
Place the rings in the centre to act as wheel centres...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party

Pigs in Planes
This was fun but not a food for Ben, in fact a little nibble and his comment was "disgusting" LOL. No recipe here just saveloys and pastry squares cut into four squares.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

 Ben helped wrap the little sausages in the pastry and together we made different planes.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

 A dash of egg...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

  Daddy cooked these for our little guests and yes they were a hit too

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

The children flew the planes and those rings/tyre centres from Character Parties Qld were worn by every child....Looking good gorgeous...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

Clouds and plane shaped Gluten Free shortbread biscuits and they were a huge hit disappearing before my eyes.  Again the cookie dough was rolled out, put in the freezer for 5 minutes and cut out with my plane cookie cutters purchased from Cakes Around Town at Durack.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

These were a short bread biscuits with coloured butter icing on top...Thanks Elaine for your help with the icing!

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Pigs in Planes

Enjoy planning your Planes themed birthday party!

Disney Planes Birthday Party - Popcorn containers and Little Dippers

My son's 5th Birthday party was themed Disney Planes and thanks to Pinterest we saw this great party idea for our pop corn clouds.  We had to add some planes and our little dippers for the adults to graze on sounded like a whole lot of fun...  I set to work on these special containers (Stampin' Up! Chip boxes dressed to character) inspired by Tonya and her movie night.  Lex and I made this collection late one night...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

 Dusty himself...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

 Dotty for the girls...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

 Chug for a splash of green, plus he is cool!


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

 All three together full of popcorn clouds...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Food - Popcorn/Cloud Containers Stampin' Up! Chip Die

The containers were inspired from various posts on pinterest (check out my Pinterest Board) and created using a variety of Stampin' Up! Circle Punches and Window Punch.  I just drew, cut and coloured.

The little dippers were simply a large bun with the top cut off.  I then cut the top in half to make wings.  I dug out the centre of the bun and that was placed around the plane as clouds. I then cut a horizontal slit either side of the bun and pushed the wings into the slits - the body of the plane now had wings.  I surrounded the plane with the bread clouds and corn chips - wings...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Little Dippers

The filling can be purchased and scooped into your little dippers or made as we did...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Little Dippers

This was not a healthy choice but more for the adults to graze on and there were lots of comments on how cool they looked.

Enjoy planning your planes themed food for your party,

Disney Planes Birthday Party: the Drinks

Disney planes themed food was fun and easy thanks to the many ideas on Pinterest.  Ben is on a special diet, gluten, dairy and soy free.  All of his food needs to be organic and unprocessed.  I did include a few foods that broke these rules, but Ben did not indulge in these as he knows the consequence and we call these adult foods.

Drinks
Water is a must for all parties and for the adults punch/Jet Fuel was the request from those parents that attended last year.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Drinks

 The Jet Fuel recipe can be found HERE from last year's Birthday Celebration.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Drinks

Enjoy planning your planes themed food for your party.

Disney Planes Birthday Party: the Props and Decorations; Ballons, Banners, Signage and Mobiles

Disney Planes and Disney Planes Fire and Rescue is a great theme for decorating a party.  We turned the entrance of the yard into a metal detector with a welcome sign. Here I decorated with Disney planes coloured streamers, a runway of black hessian and a cardboard box decorated to look like El Chupacabra.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The entrance - Check in, metal detector, runway for El Chupacabra

We used a number of themed Banners and themed scene setters thanks to Birthday in a Box WHO ship to Australia! Large happy birthday banner was suspended between two columns on the front of the house.  Mobiles hung behind the birthday banner and were sourced as a PDF from Lovebugs&postcards.  It was a game but I turned it into a mobile or two ;-) .

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Birthday Banner

The mobiles were of Planes characters and the Smoke Jumpers...can you see these little fellows? 

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The entrance mobiles

The food for the Birthday Celebration was inspired by the pins on Pinterest.  Together Ben and I planned all of the different foods we could have that would be Plane themed.  The table was dressed in pale blue with Disney Planes back drop, purchased for Birthday in a Box.  This was the dining area, before the yummies came out...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Dining area

The signs (Etsy), cake toppers & candles were purchased from Birthday in a Box USA and Character Parties Supplies Qld.  Food labels are always fun and this was made easy thanks to Hi my fiesta in English and Etsy...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The signage and food labels

The Serviettes, plates, cups and cutlery - all themed and purchased in a pack from Birthday in a Box....

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The xxxxx

The Drinks stand...balloons and signage with Dusty - we had Dusty cups above, but they went very quickly - before I could take the photo!



A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Drinks stand

The activities / construction and eating area...

Ben loved these and said they look like propellers... so we purchased them from K Mart and they were placed in a line in the garden...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The garden

The cubby was transformed into a tower...  the lower right side of the cubby is where pin the propeller on Dusty was done...Banners and foil balloons from Birthday in a Box USA but they ship to Australia.  The Blue and Orange Dusty Balloons were from Character Parties Aust.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The cubby come xxx Tower

Happy 5th Birthday banner featuring the Disney Planes characters was draped across the front of the cubby... purchased from Birthday in a Box.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Disney Birthday Banner

Just love these banners and I'm so glad I didn't have to make them this year!


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Disney Birthday Banner

The balloons and Peg Planes

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Balloons

Balloons are a wow way to decorate, lots of colour and easy to assemble.  The balloons were purchased from e-bay Garry Gooda and Character Parties Wynnum Qld. We filled them ourselves thanks to Spotlights hiring of Helium gas cylinders. There were lots of themed foil balloons and these were complimented with themed cloud balloons, orange dusty balloons and pale blue balloons.  These were suspended from the Dining area, drinks table, cubby and present table...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - The Balloons

 El Chupacabra and the licencing board, printed and made this ourselves...

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - El Chupacabra and Licencing board

oh did I mention - we made a Dusty too

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Dusty cardboard box plane

As you look through my pinterest board - Disney Planes, you will see where everything was inspired from.  There you will find the links to fabulous blogs, shops and activities.  Enjoy these and create a lasting memory for your child's birthday.

Enjoy planning your Disney Planes party,