Sophie’s Pokemon Party!!!

 

As the guests arrived we had them watch a Pokemon episode, since I was pretty sure that NONE of them had ever even heard of Pokemon before and I wanted them to catch the fever a bit so they would be more into all of the Pokemon games we had planned. ;)

  

Then we ate, I copied others’ ideas I found online and tried to be creative with the food a bit…

    

Next, we made Pikachu ears to wear, I was too busy helping the kids with their ears so I didn’t get any pictures of that… but here they are wearing their ears while Dan explained about the next game, the Pokeball hunt!  We hid dozens of “pokeballs” (which were actually practice golf balls colored with a red sharpie) around the house for the kids to find.  It was pretty competitive, some of the kids had already scoped it out and knew where lots of them were. :)

    

Next up was the Spoink race!  This one I thought was the most creative game (can’t take credit though, I copied).  A Spoink is a pokemon that has a pink ball on his head that gives him power, and he has a spring for feet so we did a relay race keeping a pink balloon on their heads and “spoinking” (jumping) from one side of the basement to the other.  Everyone seemed to like it!

    

The last game we did was a Pikachu Stomp!  I blew up tons of balloons (I can’t remember how many now, 40? I do remember feeling light headed though.) and put a picture of a different Pokemon inside of each one.  After Dan said go they all stomped on balloons and looked to see which Pokemon was inside, then whoever had Pikachu won!  Most of the kids liked it, but some do not like the sound of balloons popping. :)  This tower James made was not part of the game, but I did think it was pretty cool!

  

Lastly, we had cake and opened presents (of course)!

   

I’d be lying if I said it was easy to put together, but I am glad that I did it!  It was not without sacrifice, party planning makes me a stress case, I totally dropped the ball in other areas of my life during that time.  But I think it was good for Sophie to see how many friends she has and get to share something she loves with them (Pokemon!).  She is one lucky girl, we had friends from school, church, the neighborhood, our old ward, and family come out.  Thanks so much to everyone who came!!