The invitation I printed on tan construction paper and then crinkled it up.
They were all riding the bus home with my son so I knew they would need a snack, so what else, but goldfish since that is what Hiccup first feeds Toothless.
I decided I wanted them all to be little Vikings like the kids on the movie, so it started out with the hat idea.
Then of course they needed a shield and weapon. I was going to make balloon swords but then I was making some hatchets for the hatchet throw and decided they weren't hard at all and went ahead and made one for each of them.
Now that the costume was done, we needed training games. I decided on an obstacle course, just from things I had around the house. They weaved through cones, crawled under something, jumped over something, walked across a board, and then down a slide. The next game we played was the hatchet throw. They had to throw them through an opening in a box. Then we had target practice where they had to throw bean bag fish (I just made some out of felt and beans) through the mouth of a Toothless cutout.
I just cut it out of black poster board, nothing fancy. Then I wanted a dodging game for them practicing getting out of the way of dragon fire. I first was going to have one dragon with a can of silly string and the kids had to dodge it, but I didn't get to the dollar store when I was shopping in the next town (we don't have one in our tiny town) but didn't get to it. We just ended up using a soft bouncy ball. My older son was the dragon and all the little vikings got to use their shields and axes to block the "fire". 5 and 6 year olds don't have a long attention span so this was good for them, but if there were older boys you maybe could do more games. Lastly we went on a dragon hunt. I had just printed out pictures of the 6 main dragons featured on the movie, hid them in the yard, and they each found one to claim their prize.
I just cut it out of black poster board, nothing fancy. Then I wanted a dodging game for them practicing getting out of the way of dragon fire. I first was going to have one dragon with a can of silly string and the kids had to dodge it, but I didn't get to the dollar store when I was shopping in the next town (we don't have one in our tiny town) but didn't get to it. We just ended up using a soft bouncy ball. My older son was the dragon and all the little vikings got to use their shields and axes to block the "fire". 5 and 6 year olds don't have a long attention span so this was good for them, but if there were older boys you maybe could do more games. Lastly we went on a dragon hunt. I had just printed out pictures of the 6 main dragons featured on the movie, hid them in the yard, and they each found one to claim their prize.The prize was a coloring book from the movie found at the $ store and a Dragon Training 101 Survival kit. This ended up being quite a lot more than I thought, but I kept thinking of things to put in. I originally started with using the leftover candy from decorating the cake but then added a few more. It included gummi worms (whips), fruit slices (wings), marshmallows (rocks), dum dums (stone hammers), round cookies (shields), and licorice (spears). I put them in a ziploc bag and made a candy bag topper and stapled them on top.
I made the Night Fury cake using this template from Family Fun, but changed the head and back legs to make it look more like a night fury. I got that idea from this blog. We don't eat chocolate so I ended up using the purple fruit slices for the spine and horns and thought they ended up being better for the night fury anyway. I am not a cake decorator by any means, but I like to do fun cakes for each of my kids' birthday so I try. Again since we don't eat chocolate I had to start from white frosting and added about 1 1/2 tsp. black food coloring to get this dark gray color, but I have heard you can get black pretty easy starting with chocolate frosting.
Holy cow! Impressive!!
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