Celebrating Super Mario Style

For Graham's birthday this year we had a Super Mario Style party. He invited some of his friends from preschool, and we set off to have a great time.

Some of the decorations that we had included coin banners.

 And a lovely "G" on the front door.

We had lots of games and activities. One of the games was this Memory game. It worked out perfectly to do this since this is actually something that you would do in the Super Mario brothers game.

The kids also painted their own Mario Karts.

Then we played a paddle ball game where they needed to knock down a cup tower.

I made a Mario head, and we played pin the moustache on Mario.

Can you see where Olivia and Graham helped out? 

 We had a pinata.

 I made a Mario cake. I did this by putting a piece of waxed paper over a coloring sheet, and then piping onto the waxed paper I was able to get it all in the right places. Then after a bit in the freezer to firm up, I was able to just put the design onto the cake, and peel the waxed paper off. It worked out pretty well.

 I found these adorable little candies at the party store.

 I also made these little chocolate power ups.

 And thse marshmallow pops were a sinch to put together.

 I had bought little mustache stick-ons for each of the kids to have, but then at the start of the party, I couldn't find them anywhere. They showed up literally 10 minutes after the last kid left. :)

So there was Graham's party. It was a success, and all of the kids had a great time!