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 - Cloud capped mountain cupcakes

Disney Planes and Planes Fire and Rescue was the theme for my son's 5th Birthday Celebration. My Son is Gluten intolerant and this post shows you how to create yummy gluten free, dressed up cupcakes presented as "cloud capped mountains" The cake servers were labelled - this server: Piston Peaks and these were Gluten Free carrot cakes topped with Cream Cheese/Philly Cheese icing.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

GF Carrot Cake Recipe
Ingredients
3/4 cup Organic cold pressed virgin Olive Oil or Organic Macadamia Nut Oil
1 tsp Organic Vanilla essence
1 1/2 cup grated Organic carrots
1/2 cup chopped Organic walnuts
1 1/2 tsp gluten free baking powder
3/4 cup Rapadura or brown sugar
2 large organic eggs
1/2 cup organic sultanas, raisin and cranberries (what ever your children love)
1 cup gluten free Self-raising flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Method
Beat oil, sugar and vanilla in a bowl until there is a change in colour
Add eggs and continue to beat until light and creamy
Stir through carrot, sultanas/cranberries and walnuts
Fold in sifted flour, baking powder and cinnamon into mixture until well combined
Spoon mixture into a lightly greased and lined 21cm circular tin or cup cake/patty papers.
Cook in moderate oven (150oC fan forced/ 180oC Oven) until top springs back or skewer come out clean. Cooking time is approx. 25-30minutes.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

Icing Recipe
Ingredients
5-6 tablespoons softened Cream Cheese/Philli Cheese
1 tsp vanilla
4 tsp softened butter
1 1/2cup Pure icing sugar (GF)

Method
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla until combined.
Slowly add sifted icing sugar until all sugar is dissolved and the icing is light and fluffy.
spread over cake or put in piping bag and make clouds on your cup cakes ;-)


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

The second cake server had Propwash Muddy Mountains and these were Gluten Free Chocolate cakes.

Chocolate Gluten Free, Flour Free Cake Recipe, one of our FAVOURITES
Ingredients
1/3 cup Organic Cacao
1/3 cup Hot water
200g Organic Dark Chocolate - the better the quality the better the outcome
120g Organic Butter soft
1 1/3 cup Rapadura or brown sugar
3/4 cup Organic Almond meal
1/4 cup Hazelnut meal
4 Organic eggs separated

Method
Blend Cacao in hot water until smooth in one bowl
Melt chocolate and butter together in a double boiler
To cacao and water, add melted chocolate, butter, sugar, nut meal and egg yolks; Mix well
In a separate bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks form and gradually fold this into the chocolate mixture.
Pour mixture into lined and greased cake tin - we use a square because this is rich or in this case, patty cake papers/ cup cake liners.
Bake at 140oC or until skewer comes out clean.  These do not rise much at all, so fill them to 1/4 inch from the cup cake liner top. Cooking time is approx. 25-30minutes.


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

The cakes were topped with circles of sky blue fondant and butter icing was pipped on top for the clouds.  Ben took off the sky of blue, cloud and Fondant planes I created and just ate the cakes.  As far as he was concerned it was all part of the decorations and not for eating ;-)...


A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cakes

The patty/cup cake papers and cup cake toppers were purchased in a kit from Birthday in a box.  I used this company for so many of my decorating.

A Crafty Cat: Disney Planes Birthday Party - Cloud capped mountain Cup Cake toppers

Thank you for stopping by.  I look forward to your company at the next post.

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,