Super Heroes Birthday Party

My son wanted a super heroes theme for his 6th birthday party, and I thought I'd share some of the things I did for it. I started with Pinterest: my super heroes birthday board.



For the decorations, I used a lot of bright, basic colors, and my son's favorite heroes. I printed off Avengers letters from this site to make a "Happy Birthday" banner, and heroes faces from Google images to put on the banner of triangles. I buy cheap party supplies, such as streamers and banners, used, or when they're on sale, and keep them on hand, so I already had some brightly-colored decorations that would work well with the theme. I also had some spiral ribbon decorations already, so I printed off some comic-style exclamations to hang from them and used these as well.

I also made a simple, bright orange cake, and used brightly-colored tablecloths.

Also, at a kid's party, you need activities. We made masks and capes at the party:

 I used foam sheets and ribbon for the masks, and you can print a template for them here.

Here is the tutorial for making the capes, which are made with plastic tablecloths, ribbon, and tape.


The kids enjoyed making their outfit and then having their photo taken "flying" over the city, which only required a blue sheet and some construction paper.

The kids also caught the Joker (my husband) and tied him up with streamer, which led to a scavenger hunt, where the clues were written on joker cards.

We also set up an obstacle course in the back yard, and had a ball toss into a hulk box like this one, but I didn't get pictures.

Another fun part was the pinata, for which I wrote another blog entry here.

Last, but not least, are the invitations I created. I made good use of Google image search, and an open source version of MS Paint.

Making a "Bomb" pinata

My son wanted a bomb pinata at his 6th birthday party, so I decide to make one. I'd never made one before, but I saw ideas online and found this how-to.

So, I followed the directions, and made a ball-shaped paper mache base. I didn't do a whole 10 layers, as the blog suggested, but I don't remember how many it was. I just went until it felt stiff enough:

 My hole for removing the balloon and adding the candy turned out messy, but it worked:

I decided to re-enforce the hole that I put a rope through, so that it wouldn't fall apart as soon as I hung it:

After filling it with candy and making it more structurally sound, I started covering it with crepe paper. I started near the middle, making a line of glue, and then attaching the paper to it, rotating until I reached the end, and then started again from the middle to work my way to the other end:

I did a Google image search for a "Boom" that my son liked, printed it off, and glued it to the pinata:

He was pretty happy with the final result, and all the kids at the party enjoyed taking a whack at it.