Our 5 year old is little Mr. Superhero. He has been obsessed with superheros for more than a year. You can see proof here with his Super Hero Squad Party from last year. He loved it so much he wanted a super hero party again this year, but since many of the guests would be the same, we switched it up a bit and thanks to the Cricut and the Target Dollar Spot we decided on a Batman Birthday Party.
I made a fun Batman Birthday Banner with my Cricut (I’m a Cricut affiliate), tied it together with ribbon, and hung it to look like it was held up by bats.
I got the bat banner on clearance after Halloween, but you could easily create one yourself.
We covered the wall with this amazing printable personalized skyline from Ander’s Ruff and had the kids color it while we waited for all the guests to arrive. We had cutouts of skylines and bat symbols spread around tables to add to the theme.
We had lots of fun Batman themed activities for the boys:
- Vaporize the Villains – Attach a spray paint gun to silly string to create a goo gun and let them shoot at a plastic tablecloth adorned with Villain coloring pages.
- Batcave – Create a cave by putting black plastic tablecloths over a table. Hang strips of crepe paper down from the ceiling of the cave along with glow bracelets. Scatter plastic bats around the floor. Have each guests climb through and retrieve a “power bracelet” and a “batarang” for the next game.
- Batarang Blast – Stack colorful cups with pictures of villians on them. Give each guests a few tries to knock the cups down with their batarang (aka plastic bat).
- Battle the Balloons – Have several helium balloons at varying heights for the kids to shoot at using foam disc shooters. (I got mine 2 for $5 at Wal-Mart though more expensive ones may work better.)
- Batplane – Give each guest a piece of black cardstock and a lesson on how to make a paper airplane. (I was surprised how many had no idea how) Line them all up to see who’s Batplane flies the furthest.
I went easy with treats this year and just did a Batman Cupcake Cake from Wal-Mart and Invisibility Serum (aka water bottle dressed up with Batman symbol).
I like to make my boys matching shirts for their parties so of course this time they were Batman shirts made with iron-on.
Get the Cricut Iron-on Bundle for $199.99 (normally $319.95)
We sent each guest home with pack of goodies (Many of which were from the Target dollar spot 50% off making them 50 cents!):
- Batman play pack – coloring book, stickers, markers
- Batman hologram stickers and superhero “pow” stickers
- Batman temporary tattoos
- Batman stamp markers
- Silver Airheads
- Blue and yellow Zots candies
- Batman bucket
The winners of the Batplane contest took home Batman Pez Dispensers.
The kids had a fabulous time and wore me out completely. This post is getting a little long, so stay tuned for the DIY Batman Birthday Party Invitations coming soon!
Disclosure: I am a Cricut Affiliate. All the ideas and opinions are my own.
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Oh my gosh. This is fabulous. My almost 21 year old is a huge batman fan ( they never get too old for Batman)!
Great job!! How do we download?
Just click on the blue sentence mentioning the download you want. It will take you to a google docs page with a download button. Then, click the button and it will download the .ccr file that you can then open with Cricut Craft Room.
Love your blog. Can’t wait to follow along!
FYI: I’m over at tuckinginsuperheroes.com 🙂
I successfully downloaded the file for the batman cut-outs but it is not allowing me to cut because I don’t have the cartridge.
I just downloaded the free batman cricut projects. However, I don’t have a batman cartridge. Will I still be able to cut or not? Thanks!
@marie and @craftysix because of licensing, you do have to own to cartridge to cut the files.