Rojo party!

My favorite little boy, my son Austin turned 5 this year. He has a best friend, a stuffed animal lobster named Rojo. Austin totes this lobster around EVERYWHERE!!! He also wanted a Rojo themed birthday party. A feat easier said than done. How many people do you know that have had a lobster themed birthday party? Especially a person that is 5?

Well, after a bit of research on how to make an ocean cake that has a "Rojo" on it and figuring out lobster themed games, we had a fun party! So if you are ever in need of lobster games check back here.

A fun game to play is "Lobster, lobster, crab", the equivalent to duck duck goose. (we didn't play this, because there weren't enough kids.) Another one was Lobster shuttle run. I picked out objects that small children could carry (ie. can of corn, a shoe, a small stuffed animal...). They also wore winter mittens - these were their "lobster claws" and they had to move all of their objects from the start line to bowls at the finish. That was a lot of fun!

We had a fun ocean scape cake with a Rojo on it. I used brown sugar for the sand on the ocean floor and jelly beans, fruit rolls (twisted) and ocean toys for the decor. Austin loved it.

The party favors, going with the whole ocean/lobster theme were bags of sweedish fish with a favor tag on it that said Happy Birthday Austin! and had a picture of a lobster on it.

It was a very simple yet effective ocean party! Thanks Austin for letting me spoil you!