Movie premiere party

FOOD AND FAVORS

Food for thought

For children’s parties, food is not a big part of the presentation. What is important is that they eat, so it is best to keep it simple. For the movie party, we want the kids to eat before the movie, so being quick and easy is all the more important. As such, we suggest finger foods such as: pizza bites, chicken fingers, cut fruit and cut veggies. Avoid goodies such as chips, cookies and candy at this point, or else your meal will be ignored. Juice boxes and water will round out the meal.

The cake is your opportunity to get creative. Our favorite movie-themed cakes are the 'ticket', the 'clapper board' and the 'Hollywood Star'.

For the ticket cake, use a rectangular cake and make circular cuts on each of the four corners (you can do this with a thin edged cup. Then decorate and put a clever phrase on it like "ADMIT ONE to John's Party".

For the clapper board cake, again use a rectangular shaped cake. After cooking and cooling, cut a 2-inch section of the long edge of the cake off and angle it up like the top of the clapper. Decorate and finish with a phrase like "Act 1: John's Birthday Party".

Finally, for the Hollywood Star, use a star-shaped cake pan (available at many party stores); write your child's name across the top; and draw in an old-fashioned movie camera symbol on the bottom. Its that easy!

Favor ideas

For favors you can go one of two directions. Either go with items which match the movie or fill the bag with more generic movie goodies. For the latter we would suggest the following: 

Microwave popcorn: individually wrapped packages for them to take home

Hollywood themed stickers: the more glitzy the better

Sunglasses: these could be handed out during the dress up

Movie gift certificates: even small amounts will help take the sting out of today's inflated movie prices

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