Our Batman party may seem like it was a little over the top to most people but Rachael and I have a way of feeding off each other when it comes to planning just about anything. Most of the time we have way more ideas than time, talent, or money, but for some reason this year, things just worked out. After her amazing Mario party, I was completely inspired and thanks to Jason and his artistic abilities, Kim and Katie and their awesome painting skills, and Rachael's last minute save on Saturday, we managed to pull off just about everything!
The most important part of the whole experience was how much fun it was to put together. It was fun to have Jason call me from work with all of his ideas, and then to call Rachael and have her help me figure out how to actually do it. I really couldn't have, and wouldn't have, done it had I not had a husband who could whip up a cape pattern out of newspaper or draw 4 foot villains on cardboard. It was awesome.
We used black plastic table rolls to make the city outline on the walls in the back and cardboard in the front (thank you kimmie). The windows were squares of yellow duct tape. The bat symbol above the city was made out of poster board and the villains were all drawn by Jason (with a little help from kimmie) and I hand painted most of them.
Jason drew all the patterns/stencils/templates and I got to work cutting everything out. We made the capes and the belts out of felt and added Dollar Store camera cases as the pouches on the utility belts.
He even drew the tinniest bat symbol for the flashlights, which we cut out of contact paper.
We held the party at the Mid-Columbia Library on Union. They have a room you can reserve for free. I love it. It's a little hard to decorate but we threw up some posterboard bat symbols and word-art just for fun. We also put the bat symbols in the middle of the tables with small balloon bouquets on top of them, I didn't get any good pictures though.
There was a small glitch in the cake making process and we had to improvise at the last minute. Rachael called me at 1 a.m. the night before the party to tell me that the cake simply didn't bake in one corner of the pan. After a brief moment of freaking out, we decided to buy a white Costco cake and call it good. Late Saturday morning, I find out Costco doesn't sell plain white cakes. However, they had ONE undecorated cake left and by some small miracle, they decided to sell it to me.
We used craft foam for the bat symbol and threw on some lemon heads to tie the look together. Not too bad for extremely last minute.
We wrapped water bottles with yellow wrapping paper and black contact paper bats ( I am officially in love with black contact paper, I use it for everything, even chalkboards).
I found all the activity ideas on-line, however Jason came up with almost all the same ideas on his own. It was great having his creativity and my creativity overlap on this project. It's been one of the few times that that has actually happened! We really wouldn't have done half of this stuff had we not been working together. And a huge thanks again to Kim, Katie (and Megan), and Rachael for all their help.
The villains ended up being my favorite so I can't resist showing a few of them off one more time...
