Party It Up! Lego-Style

One of the authors at ABMS has a rather large family and one of her younger brothers recently had a Lego-themed birthday party. You may be thinking how much can you honestly do with a generic Lego theme, short of just requesting people bring Lego-brand gifts. Oh, they got creative. Covering all their bases, read on to find out how you can create this special birthday for your little guy... Heck with the new "girl" Legos, either gender would be stoked!


For the table decoration, and mild entertainment for people of all ages, Lego brick-style candy was purchased. These turned out to be kind of difficult to track down anyway. They taste similar to Sweet Tarts or other dextrose style candy. The candy that was purchased was from a local confectionery, and was mildly flavored. The most prominent flavoring was the banana from the yellow bricks. It's not the cheapest priced candy, but there are alternatives.

I believe it is at HyVee that they sell Lego brand fruit snacks. (Don't quote me on that.) However, according to the internet, you can get a 50ct box of the Lego fruit snacks at Sam's Club so maybe its Walmart.

Other decorations were simple enough. Legos are in primary colors so buying the standard party fixin's in bright yellows (Yellow Solo/Paper Cups), Bright Green/Blue Silverware, and Red Square plates (they used blue ones for cake) all work well. Also, a bright red tablecloth was covering the table, and bubble wrap (with green backing) was used as a table runner. If you want to get really in depth, you can find Lego brand partyware at your local party store or through Amazon.

The problem with these partywares is they are typically Lego-series specific (ie. Star Wars, Ninjago, etc) and aren't very generic with the theme. This can cause problems with some attendees if they aren't interested in the same things. Better to stick with generic/vague and let each child be creative in their own.

For the cake, you can go as detailed or generic as you'd like. At this particular child's party, his older sister made a Lego brick for him to have candles on to blow out and then cupcakes were made for everyone else with some of the Lego candy (see above) used as a garnish. Using a square pan, two 8" squares were made and stacked on top of one another. To easily create the circles for the top, she simply frosted Hostess Ding-Dongs after they were slightly pressed into the cake. She then frosted the rest of the cake (not an easy fate).

Other fun things from this party include: Construction paper-wrapped juice boxes (to look like Lego bricks) and a pinata that was shaped like a giant Lego brick. Unfortunately, the Lego pinata was never used as it was set out of the way... and as the saying goes "out of sight, out of mind"

There are many fun goodie bag, party game, and decoration ideas that could be used for a Lego-themed party, just do your research!