This week, Ronán is turning 5. He celebrated a few days early by having a Star Wars Lego Themed party in the park with a few Monster Fighter Legos mixed in. It was a hot day, so the kids spent a lot of time playing in the water play area.
Decorations
We tried to keep the party as environmentally-friendly as possible by bringing reusable cups (glass jam jars for adults and steel glasses for kids), our own plates, and silverware. We decorated with a tiny bit of streamers, a “Welcome Jedis” sign that Ronán made himself, and a few stars that we hung from the streamers.
Menu
Our challenge was to create a vegan kid-friendly birthday menu that his non-vegan friends would like too. Keeping with the Star-Wars Lego theme, we had a lot of fun coming up with the names.
Pasta with Pesto: “Monster Fighters’ Green Smoke”
To make it easier for us, we made pasta with pesto before the party. However, what might work better for a children’s party is to create a pasta pesto bar where you make the pasta, pesto, and trimmings all separate for guests to pick what they like and mix together. Some ideas would be pasta (colorful fun shapes are always a hit), pesto (we mix garlic, basil, nutritional yeast, and pine nuts for a good vegan pesto), olives, baked tofu, cherry tomatoes, and seasonal vegetables.
Chips and Salsa: “Chewbacca Chips and Sith Salsa” plus “Jabba’s Guacamole”
We served regular corn tortilla chips, homemade guacamole, and salsa.
Hummus and Pita Chips: “Han Solo Hummus”
It was so hot in our kitchen and we do not have air conditioning, so we decided to buy hummus. However, it wold be much better homemade.
Fruit Salad: “Storm Trooper Salad”
Miscellaneous fruits from the farmers market.
Iced Soy Late: “Jawa Juice”
The party started in the morning on a hot day, so we served Silk Ice Latte for the adults.
Pineapple/Apple Cider: “Dark Cider”
We mixed together a fruit punch with about 3/4 apple juice and 1/4 pineapple juice and served it in a dark jug. If you wanted to make this prettier you could add pineapple chunks and a little lemon.
Green Juice “Yoda Soda”
The Yoda Soda was green juice from Trader Joes with a picture of Yoda glued on the wrapper. For older kids, you could add some carbonated water to make it more soda like. Please try mixing green juice and soda at home first as I am not sure how it would taste:)
Water “Wookie Water”
We brought a huge dispenser of water and reusable cups for everyone to fill up with.
Wicked W. Warrick Cupcakes
(You could also have Dark Side and Rebel cupcakes if you do half chocolate and half vanilla)
We chose the Banana Split cupcakes and Buttercream Frosting recipes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. I tinted the frosting blue and Ronán added the sprinkles and cupcake toppers. The Star Wars cupcake toppers from Deenna Wanzel on Etsy and were images a pdf that I printed out in a photo machine, cut into circles, and tapped onto cake ball sticks.
Entertainment
Since it was so hot, the water play area was the main entertainment. I also created a “Jawa Scavenger Hunt” where the kids performed 6 tasks on 6 index cards to find the treasure that the Jawas hid. The tasks included: “1. Slide down the biggest slide in the park and after the last person slides down, look under the slide for the next clue.” and 2. Find someone who is a good juggler and ask them to juggle. After they have juggled, they will give you your next clue.
. 
It helped that Ronán’s dad is a great juggler.
The kids seemed to have a blast despite the heat and I think all of the adults did too:).
Tater Tot Vegan Kids 