Bookworm Birthday Party

I know you're wondering what in the world a bookworm birthday party is. We're nerdy, what can we say? We saw some book party ideas in the family fun magazine and decided to try it out. Brooke was really excited about it and it seemed fitting for our little bookworm so this is what we did:

Invites
I printed off the invites and library cards from familyfun.com. Super Easy!

Book Bags

I bought the plain book bags from Hobby Lobby and then had the kids decorate them with Sharpies.

Library



I gave each child their own library card. Each time they checked out a book their card would be stamped by the librarian. When they had 5 stamps they received a special prize. They loved taking turns as the librarians and looking through all of the books we had.

Hide the Book
We just played hot and cold with a small board book.

Bookworm Cake





Pinata


The plan was just to make a book looking pinata from a cereal box, but then I asked Brooke what book she wanted the pinata to be (I don't know why I did that). So I ended up drawing a picture of the cover of the 1st Magic Tree House book, Dinosaurs Before Dark. It was kind of a sad artistic attempt, but when I was drawing it, Brooke leaned over to me and said "Wow mom you should be an artist". So that made me less embarrased over my lack of art skills and they were just hitting it to smitherines anyways so I guess it didn't need to be amazing!
I think all the kids had a great time. Brooke for sure loved it and with all the reading it was one of the quietest 5th birthday parties I've ever been to, which is an endorsement from me :).