Jurassic World Theme Birthday Party

So my son turned 8 this year and we let him see his first action adventure movie that was not made for kids.  I realize that I am not the norm when it comes to restricting what I allow my kids to watch.  But honestly, I don't care if I am a "mean mom".  Kids only get one chance at being little once. I want to keep that fairy dust sprinkled as long as I can before my kids merge into half breed teenagers that backtalk and don't bathe.  Pedestal off, my hubs took him to see Jurassic World after we watched the Jurassic Park series at home to make sure it didn't scare him.  What I failed to recall is how cheesy the graphics are in older movies.  My son thought the entire Jurassic series was a comedy that had cool dinosaur fight scenes in....

Off my two men went on their man date to watch Jurassic World why us girls went to swim at Mamoo's pool.  When they came home from the movie my son was adamant that he had to have a Jurassic World party because the move was AMAZING!  

Thankfully there was party supplies around to buy and the colors were pretty fantastic too.  Since we were having a pool party (yes again, summer birthdays in Central California leaves you no choice) I thought it would be cool to do a card with the water on it.  The movie has that crazy water dinosaur in it so I figured we could play off that.  Then I used a halloween font to make it look spooky.  

We bought the decorations at The Dollar Store and Walmart.  Our shirts are from Target and Walmart.  A friend and I cut up the girls and mine since they were men/boys to make them a little cuter and fitted.  

For food we did hot dogs, chips and dips, a green salad and watermelon.  Brody decided being 8 meant no super themed food.  BUT I couldn't resist getting a little bonkers on the desserts especially since he didn't want me to make him cupcakes, my specialty.  

I made rice krispy treats and cut out with a cookie cutter into egg shapes.  Below are chocolate peanut butter oatmeal drops with peanut M&M's in the middle so that they looked like dinosaur egg nests.

Every year this cake is requested by my son.  It is from Costco, and in my area it has become season...no joke I wanted to cry when the bakery manager told me that.  I am ashamed to admit that I will eat this cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner and have on numerous occasions.  If you love chocolate, it is the cake for you.  Now I want a piece and this post is over a month old in the making so there is no cake in the kitchen for me to grab....

All of the cake toppers that I could find were for Jurassic Park...not the correct theme for the party.  I tried to convince myself it would be fine to just put a dinosaur on top with a volcano but it just looked like a little boy party.  So that is what I came up with.  I took flexible straws and wrapped them in tinfoil.  Then I hot glued them together in that shape to resemble the sign from the actual movie.  On the top of the straws we added two candles to look like the torches.  Behind the sign is the Indominus Rex Lego Dinosaur and the Velociraptors attacking him.  My son was nice enough to let me borrow them from the Lego set we gave him for his birthday.  I actually taped them onto pieces of cardboard so no chocolate got inside the feet.

I ordered off Amazon a pack of blow up dinosaurs that were 2 to 3 feet in size.  These were awesome to have floating around the pool.  Kids of all ages played with them...even my brother...he's 26. Since these kids were older I decided it would be fun to have a little game.  The hubs found a few packages of Jurassic World plastic dinosaurs on clearance at Walmart.  Seriously it was 15 dinosaurs for 2.47.  I didn't want to just toss them in a goody bag, boring.  Instead I ransacked my Easter Decorating bins and found all the large eggs I had.  Then I put a dinosaur in each of them.  When the kids got out to eat lunch my brother and I filled up about half of them with water to sink to the bottom and let the other half float.  This way kids of all swimming levels would be able to find an egg.  After they ate I had them line up along the edge of the pool and go in the pool in groups of 3 to find an egg.  Then they got to keep their own dinosaur egg!  Below was the only picture I got of the actual eggs.  I'm sorry, it gets a little frantic during the party sometimes and I don't capture it all.

As the kids left the party they got grab a dinosaur hat that I purchased at the Dollar Store (I love that place) and a bag that had a jurassic park plane, candy and Jurassic park hot wheel car inside.  

I made these cards for Brody to hand out as thanks.  He was able to write on the back a quick note and then done.  Easy, peasy!