Yeh! Our very own Astronaut recently celebrated his 5th birthday. His nannio is *the best* and makes him at least 1 or 2 fabulous costumes each year. This was one of his special birthday presents from her. Lovely also got a helmet and belt but wouldn't wear them ;)
Our Space Adventure map!
It all started at the 'rocket' in the park next door. Each child got their own personalised astronaut i.d. & boarded the rocket. Then T showed them the mission map, got them to 'strap in' and they did the count down. 5,4,3,2,1 Blast off!
Their astronaut i.d.'s were printed out with their own photo & name (this is Lovely but I've blurred out his name :) and slipped into a lanyard with a clear pocket.
Onto the Milky Way (the path between the park and our house) where each child collected a silver-wrapped milk drink.
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You couldn't see them in the photo above so this is them waiting to go out to the Milky Way.
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Into the house & the Solar System. This isn't the best photo but it was all a bit exciting at the time! The craft project Solar System that Hug & I had been
working on was here as were all of the helium balloons & tied to the balloons were
glow-in-the-dark SPACE glasses for each child.
Next stop - Deeeeeeeeep Space. We took all of the furniture out of the boys bedroom (leaving 1 mattress for bouncing!) and blackened the windows & put up some glow stars. 2001 Space Odyssey was playing softly & I let 3 or 4 children in at a time. They had to space walk (over the mattress) to find a bucket of
Space Food Sticks. Yum!
Finally, it was outside to the yard where there was an obstacle course (over the climbing frame, 5 big jumps on the trampoline, crawl over the 'moonsand' & through the window of
our International Space Station) where the final booty was found... a huge bag of crafty items ready for some d.i.y rocket creation!
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The kids loved it!
Lovely just snipped & snipped. Completely in his element :)
Some of the masterpieces!
Too cool ;)
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And it was time to eat.
A play in the sandpit for the little ones. The ISS didn't stand up too well to so much attention!
Frozen fruit rockets were a yummy treat.
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And finally it was cake time.
These are organic Kamut flour mooncakes :)
Happy birthday sweetness!!! We love, love, love you.
{Sorry this post is sooooooooo very long. When I'm excited I find it near impossible to cull my pix & this is what happens ;) Please forgive me!}