Reid’s Robot Birthday Party

I can’t take credit for this super-cute robot birthday party. My friend Erin did 99% of the work, but she had some great ideas I wanted to share. Her 3 year old is totally obsessed with robots, especially Wall-E and the Iron Giant, so this really was a perfect theme for him (and basically every other 3 year old). Who doesn’t like robots?! It was simple and very DIY, but still full of fun.

robot birthday party

 Erin had the party at her mom’s, because she has this gorgeous patio and a big yard for the robots kids to run around.

robot birthday party

My contribution to the party: A Happy Birthday banner. I downloaded free robot fonts from dafont.com and printed the letters on scrapbooking paper (it comes in that size).

For activities, Erin had a Robot Work Station with balls, tubs and those grabby robot arms from Target:

robot birthday party games robot work station

Fun fact: those robots across the bottom actually say “Reid” in one of the fonts I downloaded

robot birthday party games robot work station

robot birthday party games robot work station

robot birthday party games robot work station

The grabbers were a HUGE hit with the kids.

She also had a bean bag toss to “feed” the robots energy:

robot birthday party games robot bean bag toss

But my favorite activity was the make your own robot station:

robot birthday party make your own robot froma paper bag

make your own robot froma paper bag

robot birthday party make your own robot froma paper bag

Those are just paper bags spray painted silver with a paper plate glued to the front (for a “dial”) and holes cut for head and arms. The kids decorated with peel and stick foam shapes and robot shaped crayons.

And here are the robots in action:

robot birthday party make your own robot froma paper bag

robot birthday party make your own robot froma paper bag

robot birthday party make your own robot froma paper bag

Besides the very active robots, we had some robots guarding everything from the front door to the food:

robot birthday party robots out of boxes

robot birthday party robots out of boxes

robot birthday party robots out of boxes

robot birthday party

Erin says she got these at Michael’s

Erin didn’t really have a theme for the food besides “stuff kids and grown ups will eat”, but I made her a few signs to tie it together with the party:

robot birthday party food

robot birthday party food

That’s beef, chicken and beans & rice for a burrito assembly line

party food

All the toppings

robot birthday party food

robot birthday party food robot cake

say cheese face

That’s Reid’s “say cheese!” face

caroline cake

And all the kids went home with goodie bags that contained robot crayons, robot painting pages, robot stickers and a robot eraser.

robot birthday party goodie bags

Thank you Erin, Mitch and Reid for sharing your special day with us!

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12 Responses to “Reid’s Robot Birthday Party”

  1. merin says:

    Happy Birthday Reid!! I love the paper bag robots-so clever! By the way, The Iron Giant is one of my favorites too. Sadly, I can’t convince Cora to watch it because there are no talking animals.

  2. Erin says:

    Thank you to YOU to coming and helping and making it so special!!!

  3. raincheckmom says:

    Very, very cute!

  4. Heather says:

    I love this party theme idea. I love to see what you did with the theme. The food/beverage signs are so clever! And all the robots around the house are darling. I did a robot themed party a few years back for my two boys and we had a robot building station where the kids built their own robots out of misc. items. It was messy, but so much fun!

  5. What an adorable party. And the details are too cool. I low the make your own robot activity. Looks like a fun time was had by all.

  6. Kiki says:

    This is so cute! And because it’s DIY, it has so many fun details without looking like it went totally overboard in terms of price or anything else. Love it!

  7. Christy says:

    Where did you find those robot grabbers?
    Thanks

  8. Odette says:

    Hi there love your party. The favour bags where did you buy the stamps to stamp on the front?
    Many thanks

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