Star Wars Adventure Club Birthday Party

Do most of the posts lately seem to be about Enoch.  I thought so, too.  Well, there are a few more coming.
Enoch decided about a year ago that he wanted a Star Wars birthday party.  Since our turn for Adventure Club fell on the Friday before his birthday, we decided to combine the two.
I suggested to Gavin that a really fun present to Enoch from Gavin would be to plan and carry out his Star Wars Adventure Club (is that manipulative?).  I was right, of course.  Gavin did an incredible job of planning the entire party, gathering the supplies, giving me my assignments and making the party happen.  Truthfully, he rather enjoyed being in charge and telling Mom what to do.
My jobs were to find and purchase Star Wars cups, make 11 Jedi robes with belts and find and purchase 11 cheap light sabers.  Done.  I had my assignments finished at least 20 minutes before the party started.
We had 8 adventurers, 1 sister and 2 Jedi Masters attend our training camp (Gavin invited his best friend Cayden to help with the adventure).  They started the party by watching Star Wars while we waited for everyone to arrive.  Once the boys were here, we served cupcakes and milk.  I hate serving cupcakes indoors because of the mess, but that is what Enoch requested - chocolate cupcakes with blue frosting.

After snack, Gavin and Cayden divided the boys into two groups.  One group went downstairs to blow up the Death Star and the second group stayed upstairs and made potato droids.  I wasn't sure how well the droids would go over, but the boys had a great time thinking up ideas and putting their potato droids together.  We covered potatoes in tin foil and had a variety of craft supplies for the kids to use - stickers, pipe cleaners, glitter glue, googly eyes and markers.  Never underestimate the power of glitter glue and googly eyes.

While half of the kids were designing droids, the other half were downstairs with Gavin and Cayden blowing up the Death Star.  The older boys would push the Jedi trainees in their ships (laundry baskets) through the maze of the death star (Brik-a-Bloks) and then the trainees would shoot the target at 'just the right time' and BOOM! Blow up the Death Star (which was cued up on the TV).  The kids really thought this was fun.

The last Jedi training challenge was the obstacle course (you remember, when Luke was carrying Yoda in his backpack running around in the swamp).  Each boy took his turn and had a great time.

Now that the training was over and all the boys passed, they were awarded their light sabers.  So fun!  The boys had been looking forward to this the entire party.  They kept asking, "Do we get light sabers?"  They played Jedi freeze tag in the backyard (luckily it was warm) and then battled with their light sabers.

Some Jedi were chased by Darth Vadar.

Some were chased by a Storm Trooper.  Although the Storm Trooper was beat up quite a bit, too!

Everyone had a great time.  We are so lucky there are so many fun Jedi to play with in our neighborhood!

Thanks Gavin for making this happen.  It was amazing!