My son turned 6 last week and we celebrated with a Star Wars party. He eats, sleeps, and plays Star Wars, so it was no surprise he chose this as the party theme. I’m sharing details of the party, games we played and food we ate, because if you have a son, chances are high these ideas may come in handy!
Invitations: My son and I came up with the words for the invitation, he knows the Star Wars lines better than me. We printed and folded them into cards, adding a couple of stickers to the front, and delivered them to friends.
Invited You Are… on a Galactic adventure with … (Child name)On Saturday, January 17th, You’ll take part in your Jedi Training. Your mission will be to rescue and protect Princess Leia, as she has been taken prisoner by Darth Vader.
After Galactic Pizza and Yoda Sodas, we’ll be fighting to destroy Darth Vader & the Death Star, using your Jedi force powers.
Please bring your Jedi lightsaber to aid you in your mission. Then after sufficient training, you will be awarded with your official Jedi Robe. May the force be with you!
Official Jedi Robe: Each child was awarded a Jedi robe when they entered the rebel ship (house). I made 7 of these, yes 7! You could make these using a robe pattern, but I found an easy to follow Jedi Robe guide to use when cutting and sewing, and it worked great. That website has measurements for adults, so for kids: each robe use 2 yards of brown cotton fabric. I had my kids lay down on the folded fabric and cut their outline, like the instructions say, then added a hood.
Food:
- Galactic pizza – just plain ol’ pizza, but given a super cool Jedi name!
- Yoda Sodas – I found this idea listed on lots of different party idea sites (some listed below). You mix Lime Sherbet with Sprite. It was a big hit!
Games:
- Pin the Lightsaber on a Jedi – I found this $5 poster and taped it to the wall. Then I made these little mini paper lightsabers for each child. They pick the color and then match it to who it might go to, while wearing a Clone Wars Storm Trooper mask (found at a party store).
- Destroy the Death Star – I bought a soccer ball pinata and painted the white squares gray. Then once it was dry, filled it with candy. Then on party day, the kids hit it with their lightsabers. (Even though the lightsabers were fun to hit with, they’re not hard enough to open the pinata. So after a try or two with the lightsabers, use something harder).
- Fighting Darth Vader – Darth Vader made an appearance, but the young Jedi’s prevailed.
Party Bags: I sent the kids on a treasure hunt to find their gift bags… a Jedi Mission! Included in the bags were glow necklaces, Star Wars stickers, Clone Wars paper masks (from the party store), and some licorice (looks like a red lightsabers!)
Or make these fun handmade party favors:
Lightsaber Cake: Cupcakes are just too easy, so I lined them all up like a lightsaber.
Party-Time Filler: We watched a 20 minute episode of the new Clone Wars cartoons while they waited for everyone to come, then again as parents came to pick them up!
Other great Star Wars Party Idea sites:
- Tip Junkie – Star Wars party Ideas
- Blue Dawn – Star Wars games and a great cake
- Amazing Moms – Star Wars games and ideas
- Birthday Party Ideas – Submitted ideas for Star Wars
Hopefully some of these ideas will help for your next Star Wars party, or share in a comment what else you did that worked for you.
Written by Marie LeBaron
Marie LeBaron is the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes. Always having a love of crafts, she enjoys getting messy with glue and glitter. There’s always some sort of project going on, her kitchen counter is often cluttered with crafts. When she’s not crafting and creating with her kids, she loves to run, read, and blog! Read other posts by Marie
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You are amazing! I love your website and refer to it a lot. This is the best post ever. I have a Star Wars party to do in May for my son turning 6 and this is PERFECT. He will love this!!! THANK YOU….THANK YOU….THANK YOU so much for posting this. I bet your son had the time of his life. You are such a great mom!
That looks like a fantastic party!!! What great ideas!
You really must be the coolest mom on the block!! My husband is a huge Star Wars fan and if we ever have a boy I’ll keep these ideas in mind!! Thanks!
Marie,
You are my new hero! We had a star wars party last year and am sure again this year. Josh sleeps, eats, plays, Star Wars. As a matter of fact, Yoda is his invisible friend who he talks to ALL DAY LONG! Love what you did! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Wow, these ideas are awesome! I can’t wait until my boys are big enough to do this.
Thanks for sharing your Jedi party tricks!
Great ideas! Maybe when my oldest turn 6 we can do this. At the end of the month he is going to turn 5 and I’m not quite sure what to do yet. Maybe a super hero birthday since he’s not quite into Star Wars.
Jessica
http://www.MomShots.com
That was a cute and exciting Star Wars party ideas. I have tried the Pirate party ideas for my son’s 3rd birthday. I got this idea from this site: http://www.perfectpartiesplus.com/7/pirate-birthday-party-ideas/. That was also a great birthday idea for him, and he loved it. I am looking and planning for another exciting party theme for his next birthday party, I would like add this Star Wars theme to my party options. I am so excited for it!
I had to send this to my sister-in-law since her boys are Star Wars obessed. Great idea.
Wow, all of your ideas are so fantastic!! My youngest just loves Star Wars and his birthday was last week. We have not even scheduled a party yet, because we didn’t know what to do and I really did not want to spend sooo much money going to a party place. Thank you for such wonderful ideas….I love the light saber cupcakes!!
~Corinne
This is just in time…my sons Star Wars party is next week!!! Thanks! I needed new ideas since last year his party theme was Star Wars also! =)
so cool! we have a big Star Wars fan here too! looks like tons of fun.
We just had a star wars party at our house a couple weeks ago. My son was turning 4, so we used the slogan “May the FOURce be with you”. He and my husband are big star wars fans so it was really fun for them to plan/put on. These are some great ideas! Thanks for sharing! I keep on telling myself we’ll probably end up doing this again in a year or two for sure (especially since I have another son)
Here’s a link to our blog post about the party: http://fowlerfam.blogspot.com/2009/01/may-fource-be-with-you.html
This is an awesome feature! Thanks for showing fans how much fun it is to craft your own fun Star Wars decorations and games!
I went ahead and blogged it on the Official Starwars.com Blog too!
http://starwarsblog.starwars.com/index.php/2009/01/20/star-wars-birthday-party-ideas/
By the way, here are some fun Star Wars crafts you might dig!
http://www.starwars.com/archives/index.html?k=t_e4372471-3010-497c-8beb-d3f3969eabe2
LOVE IT! I just did a Snow White party at my house…but one day I might need this! ;)
And I agree—it’s all in the title: Galactic Pizza is the best!
Oh this is great timing. My four year old has requested a Star Wars birthday party for his next party.
my 6yo son would have been in HEAVEN had he been to your son’s 6th birthday party!!!!!!!! (i did star wars plates at a gymnastics place. im the worst! ;))
Great ideas! I shared this with my online mom’s group.
OH THIS IS SOOOO GOOOD!! Love the soda’s and the upcake ideas! Actually, I really loved it all. THanks for sharing.
http://www.teachingheart.net/starwars.htm
thanks for sharing… i did a star warrs party in sept. link above
This looks like so much fun! I needed this in October when I was searching for Star Wars ideas for my sons 5th birthday. Here is what I came up with:
http://rockymountainmama.blogspot.com/2008/10/star-wars-birthday-party.html
Wow! What an awesome post!! Thanks for sharing!
This is such a fantastic idea. With two boys of my own these ideas will certainly come in to good use for their birthdays. Those Yoda Sodas had me salivating … must be the lime sherbet! Thanks.
I love all your ideas, what a fab Star Wars party!
And if you’re willing to make a fair charitable contribution to something like Make-A-Wish, you can probably get real Star Wars characters from the 501st Legion (www.501st.com)!
That is so cute. I might just have to borrow that idea if the Wii bowling one changes in my almost 6 year olds mind.
Nice work, some fun ideas! I especially like the lightsaber cake and yoda soda!
We had a Starwars party for my five year old last July. They each got inflatable light sabers and tried to keep the balloons from touching the ground.
Then they had an obstacle course to work their way through. Cutting through crey paper, running around a tree and eventually waterballooning Darth Vader (my husband) to his death!
I wanted to do the jedi robes but am not quite talented enough for that.
Loved to see your ideas! Thanks for sharing.
The Death Star pianata is brilliant. Long, long ago with my son we also would play musical chairs to John Williams Star Wars music. But the kids favorite part was when I hid different colored glow sticks from the dollar store in our dark, enclosed garage and then let the Jedis find their own light saber to keep. Also, I have a strobe light and each child would get to reenact the Luke vs. Darth Vader scene one by one in our garage…awesome it was!
What kid wouldn’t love a Star Wars birthday party? I bet the kids loved getting their own Jedi robe.
LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I am keeping this idea in mind for my son’s next birthday (He’ll be six, too!) I’m sure it’ll be a big hit with all his friends! Thanks for so many great ideas!
By the way…your son is simply adorable!
Thanks for all the great comments. I’m glad this post will come in handy for birthday boys all around.
I love the idea shared by Summer to use your lightsaber to keep balloons from hitting the ground. I’m sure the kids would love that.
DeeDee – One of the Moms just told me that her son has been sleeping in his Jedi robe this whole week!!! I love it, so yes, they liked them. Just you wait until your little guy gets into it, it’s fun how they get excited about what you liked as a kid.
Boy, I can remeber the days when my parents were throwing ME Star Wars themed birthday parties, but they weren’t nearly as creative as yours. I hope that someday I get to try out some of your ideas for my own kids.
I can’t believe I came upon your site. I have an almost 5 year old who had a star wars party last year and wants another one. Since we still live in the same neighborhood and the same kids will be coming, I wanted to come up with something different. With 7 kids I hardly have time to think, let alone research, so happening upon this site was a definite miracle. Thanks so much for sharing.
oh, what fantastic ideas!!! i love the light saber cup cakes. my son would love that!
and thanks so much for linking to my blog. i appreciate it!
This was absolutely awesome and such a great help!
Remember, this doesn’t have to be just for boys birthdays! I would have killed for something like this as a kid ;)
What great ideas you had!! My son can’t wait to have a Clone Wars party in April. We’ve been searching the web for some ideas. You definitely have given us some ideas to work with. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
Valerie – You are correct! I too was a big fan of Star Wars as a child. My daughter also loves it and had a great time at the party, with her purple light saber in hand!!
You have fabulous ideas so thank you for sharing!!
I am so glad that I came across your blog! We were intending on doing a pokemon party, when my son changed his mind this weekend! I have to figure out what to do and have everything ready by the 21st! I am a planner and I usually have it all done by now, but I recently went back to work and am WAY behind! Thank you for all the tips!
GREAT ideas :)
Especially the light saber cupcakes!!!
You just made my son’s Star Wars party amazing! Thanks!
Thanks so much for sharing. I am about to host a birthday for my 6 year old son and this was very helpful.
Thanks for the great information! We are planning our son’s 4th birthday party, and your post gave us some GREAT ideas! Thanks!
LOVED THIS!!! Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas. I used your invitation but changed it up a bit to reflect the “Clone Wars” script. Your site is awesome, and I’m sure I’ll be back… always looking for cool “Family Night” themes/ideas. Just added your button to my blog!! ;-)
You are amazing!! I love everything you did for your sons party. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for these really cool ideas. My son’s birthday is in January and he has already told all of his friends that he is having a Star Wars party.
I love your great ideas! Thanks for sharing. Here’s one more: My 6 year old had a Star Wars Party this summer. Instead of a goodie bag, I gave each guest a “light sabre” to take home. I used a Nerds Rope candy, wrapped in colored celophane. I made a handle out of white duct tape to be sure that the kids would not be able to get into the candy until Mom/Dad cut it open. I wrote names on the handle with a Sharpie pen.
Amazing party! My 7 year old daughter is Princess Leia for Halloween this year, and her birthday one week later is going to be…you guessed it Star Wars! All of these ideas are perfect for her party….especially the invite. Perfect for even a girl party! I put her name on the invite then added a.k.a. Princess Leia, so the part in the invite about the mission to rescue Princess Leia is perfect! Thank you for all of the wonderful ideas…what a life saver for me. I have three girls and am so happy that one of them is into Star Wars. My brother loved Star Wars so there is a special place in my heart from those childhood memories.
Thanks for the great ideas. I was trying to figure out how to make a death star without doing all the paper mache.
Thank You! Thank You! Our son is turning 4 in March, loves Star Wars and so we are doing a Star Wars themed party. This gave me so many great ideas!! Thank you!!
Thank you for the wondeful ideas. I’m certainly going to use most of them. I have one week to get things ready. Thanks to you, I feel that it will be a success.
Thanksyou soooooo much for this my son is 5 in April and he said he wanted a star wars party ??? well I was wondering what to do with that he has a clone trooper outfit and thats about it. Thanks for the ideas it looked like your son had a great day!
My son attended a Star Wars party about three years ago. The birthday boy’s mom had made lightsabers out of foam swim noodle floats. She cut the noodle into thirds and then wrapped silver(gray) duct tape around one end to represent the handle. They were a hit. You could even wrap glow necklaces around them to make them “glow”. She gave them out to the kids at party favors and my son played with it for months until the foam just wore out! He still remembers them to this day.
I LOVE YOUR STAR WARS BIRTHDAY PARTY IDEAS! And I’m using nearly every single one!! Thank you so much for sharing and making my life easier!
You are a life saver! This is just what I needed to make a certain little boy very happy. Thank you.
This is BRILLIANT! My son is obsessed with everything Star Wars and of course wanted a star wars party for his 7th birthday. He is going to be so excited! Thank you for sharing!
LOVE all these great ideas! My son is turning 6 in a few weeks and at first I wasn’t sure I could pull off a fun Star Wars party (I’m really not into it as much as my kids and husband so I’m a bit clueless on a lot of it!) But there are so many great ideas here it will actually be hard to choose. Thanks!
These ideas are so fun. Thanks for sharing! I love the pinata, I never would have guessed it was a soccer ball. I am so going to look for one. Also love the yoda sodas. My son’s party is on Friday and this will be a big hit! Thanks again.
ok so here we go- we are celebrating my sons bday the end of May- we are going to try to do this amazing birthday idea!!!! Yes jedi robes and all!!!! Where did you find your poster for the game? We can’t wait – were so excited!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this!!! You are saving my neck. My son wants a Star Wars themed birthday party in 2 weeks, and I am not very creative. You have just given me most of the ideas for the party. I did have the idea to buy a Darth Vader pinata and have the boys “battle” Darth Vader with their light sabers, but I cannot find ANY Darth Vader (or any Star Wars characters for that matter) pinatas in the stores by me. So now I have another option from reading this. Also, I am not a great cake decorator, but the light saber cupcakes look like something that even I can handle. Thanks for the great ideas!
I saw mention of the 501st Legion (www.501st.com) above, though typically their rule is to not support private events except under special circumstances (of course every garrison and every situation is different). It is always worth a request, but please be prepared for them to decline up front.
How did you get gray frosting?
Thanks,
Sandy
I am having a star wars party for my son htin year. I love the idea of the yoda soda!! looks great. I am renting the Darth Vader costume and a friend of mine is going to be him for the party. I am going to have the boys battle darth with their light sabers. Can’t wait, so exciting!!
We just figured out a way to make Lightsaber Jello for our son’s 5th birthday!
Here’s a how to: http://bit.ly/a9eSvZ
Luv! Luv! the idea! I may borrow this from ya! Thanks for sharing!
I love it! Thanks so much
Thank you so much – your idea sharing is going to help me make my son’s birthday party wonderful!
Marie, this is hilarious! Genius. I’m tucking it away for Quinn, who is just starting the obsession. Today he asked me again about “Dark Vader”.
This is AWESOME!! I am so glad i found your article. My son is turning 6 this January and is OBSESSED with Star Wars (can’t blame him, i’m a huge fan myself since 1977). I love the games and the Death Star pinata is brilliant. Thanks also for the idea about jedi robes. I make all the kids’ Halloween costumes anyway so it shouldn’t be hard to make 5 or 6 simple robes. Thanks so much for your creative ideas!!
Thank you so much for all the information. We just had our son’s 6th bday party on December 30th…and we used so many ideas from your site and other sites that were mentioned in the comments section. My son and many of his friends commented that this was the best birthday party EVER. He even said he wants the same party next year. :) We had such an awesome time. Thanks again for your blog.
We just had a birthday party for my son over the weekend. I used a lot of your ideas and ideas from other sites and he and his friends had a blast. We had a simple ceremony and awarded them with the jedi robe when they passed all their trials. It was awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your ideas. You are a life saver. Don’t even want to imagine being stuck with 8 boys in the house and had no idea how to keep them busy. The 2 hours went by too fast.
Girls like Star Wars too, not just boys!
My twin boys just celebrated their sixth birthday with a Star Wars party too, although their party surely wasn’t as neat as yours! Love the costumes. My boys would have loved that. The cupcakes were very creative too. I made a 13x9x2-in. cake and bought a Star Wars vehicle and action figures to put on top of the cake. It was really fast, easy, and my boys loved it.
My son is four and his party is this week. We’re doing a Jedi Training Camp for his. I made cupcakes and used the Star Wars cupcake paper set from Williams Sonoma. Each one had a fondant Yoda on it. He had a seperate round cake that was fondant covered and his star wars figures on top with his candle to blow out for adults to eat. I also used the star wars cookie cutters from W&S as well to make sugar cookies and put them into individual bags and tied them up for treats as well. I just used juice pouches for the kids and have pitchers of lemonade/tea and bottled water for the adults that were there.
When the kids arrived in Star Wars costumes they got a “Jedi in Training” badge with their name on it and were directed to the Jedi council testing area. There they had a craft to assemble C3PO from shiny gold craft foam onto black to make a doorknob sign. After everyone arrived we started a series of tasks that they had to complete to become a Jedi.
Task 1: I used foil and bought small star wars and other similar items and put 1 in each ball of foil and hid them around the yard. To be a Jedi they have to be good at finding things. This was an asteroid hunt and each child could find up to 4 each.
Task 2: They have to use the force so we played “Put the saber on the Jedi” (pin the tail on donkey with star wars twist).
Task 3: Use their light saber (we made ours from cut down pool noodles with duct tape handle) and they had to keep a balloon in the air using only their light saber.
Task 4: Storm Trooper battle (I cut milk gallon jugs top off and put storm trooper cut out on each. They used bean bags to try and get into the jugs)
Task 5: Defeat Darth Vader (Death star pinata and I put individual but equal bags of pinata goodies inside so everyone got one when it broke to avoid tears or upset due to age group).
Task 6: Jedi celebration (cake and icecream of course!)
After the cake they were given a can of silly string each to have a “blaster war” with in the back yard and to run the sugar off a bit.
For their goodie bags I found at a dollar store bubble wands (light sabers), Star Wars kites. I also made Yoda puppets from green felt for each goodie bag. I used plain lunch bags and lined them with colorful tissue paper.
Lots of fun and was easy to do!
those robes are bad.
BAD TO THE BONE!!! :)
Thank you so much for your wonderful ideas. We copied most of your star wars party today for my son’s 6 year old birthday party and had so much fun! Thank you for your creativity and great ideas!
It’s my partners 30th in November and this has given me some brillian ideas for the surprise star wars themed party I’m planning for him! (yeah, he’s a big kid! Like most men lol)
Thanks for the FAB ideas =)
Vicki x
SO AWESOME! I am totally doing this! Thanks for your hard work and GREAT ideas!
My daughter is a HUGE Star Wars fan too! I had planned to do a Death Star Pinata, so I’m glad to see that that was a good idea! I did pin the ears on Yoda as he is her favorite. I’m definately using the Yoda Sodas! Thanks for your help!
Wow, this looks like such a great Star Wars birthday party! I especially like the cupcakes that are all decorated and arranged in the shape of a Star Wars lightsaber. Amazing work, Marie!
Hi there, I want to use the same poster you did for the ‘pin the lightsaver’ game but can’t find it. Where did you get your’s from?
I bought that poster at Walmart, just where they sell their posters, near office/party supplies. But it’s been a few years, this exact poster might not be available anymore. Good luck.
Hi,me & my mum are looking for some party idears for my brothers 6th birthday party,when i came back from school,i was blown back by this awsome web page!its GREAT,and im sure he’ll love it because he’s sutch a big star wars fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. this an awsome website!!!!
Great ideas! my 6 year old’s birthday is coming up and he wants a Star Wars theme. I’m curious about the treasure hunt – how did you do it? Were all the gift bags at the end of the hunt? did you give them written clues or photos? how many did you do? I love this idea and want to do it! :)
I WISH that one of my kids b-days was coming up so we could do all of these fun things! I’ll just have to save it for next year-these ideas are so great!
my son had a star wars birthday party last year. so fun. another idea for lightsabers is to get wet noodles for the pool from the dollar store and cut them to the length you’d want for the lightsabers and then attach duct tape for the handle. we didn’t do that because they had inexpensive blow up lightsabers at our local party store but it looked like a clever idea.
Hi! I loved this website! I put some of your ideas on my web, you can check it out at https://sites.google.com/site/lotrawesomeness12/lord-of-the-rings/awesomenerdyparties
AWESOME!!! Thank you so much!!!
hi, I was just wondering how you made the hoods – did you cut out of the 12 x 12 like the guide you used or did you use a smaller measurement (if you even remember!) Thanks so much for all the great ideas!!
these are fantasic ideas all of you thankyou my daughter requested a starwars party this year shes 8 shes been watching lone wars lol her dad is soo proud im not to impressed but ooh well will hav fun making it all tho lol xox
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So… I am definitely borrowing your ideas and throwing a star wars themed date with my boyfriend who has always been and will always be a star wars fanatic! This is going to be so much fun! I know nothing about star wars so I am having to do my research, you have made my life much easier!! Thanks!
The force is strong with this one.
Great Ideas! I featured this on my Star Wars Party Idea round-up. http://trophyw.blogspot.com/2011/08/star-wars-round-up.htmlThanks for sharing.
What wonderful, creative ideas!! I especially love the Death Star pinata! What a brilliant idea to use a soccer ball pinata as a starting point!
I loved this! I’m planning a surprise Star Wars bday party for my boyfriend and will definitely use a couple of these ideas :)
Awesome awesome awesome. Just love your Death Star pinata.
When my daughter asked to make her 6th bday a Star Wars theme, I was speechless! But she Loves Star Wars. My 2 older boys 17 & 14 are so excited she’s brave enough to share her love for Darth Vader, Jedies, Clones, Storm Troopers & Yoda. Your website will help me show all the little girls how cool it is to like Princess Leia! I’m actually pretty excited about this now, thanks again,
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Thank you SO MUCH for posting these ideas. Sooooo awesome!
Love this site!!! Got great ideas for my son’s5th birthday. Marie, what kind of paint did you use on the pinata? Wasn’t sure if the smell of the paint would affect the candy inside?
That’s a good question. But I don’t think it should matter if you’re using a non-toxic paint. Almost all acrylic paints are non-toxic. It should say on the bottle.