Landon's 4th Birthday Party- ART WARS!!

Ryan is definitely the creative mind of the family. We were discussing Landon's birthday party which I usually plan and do on my own. Since he had the time he decided to help me this year. We kept discussing themes and my noncreative mind thought let's just do super heroes or power rangers because Landon loves that. Ryan had this idea that it would be really cool to have an art party. We argued about it a little bit, because Landon will do art work for about 2 minutes and then he is done. I argued that I didn't think Landon would really like it. The more Ryan talked about the party and what we could do it started growing on me. We decided that we would have stations for the party where they could complete different art projects and then include a couple games. We had a large art mural hung up at one end of the church gym, this was the finger painting station. They were all working to create a masterpiece. The other station was ty-dye. This one was heavily supervised by adults, but the kids were able to take home their shirt at the end of the night. After craft time was over, we played a power ranger game, pin the belt on the megazord. Ryan really wanted this game because he can still as a child remember playing pin the tail on the donkey and thinking it was so funny when people would pin it completely wrong. The kids did well, and a lot of them were actually really close to the target. To complete the night, we finished with a paint sword fight. The kids all were given a foam sword and then told they could dip it in paint and attack Jon Evans, John Vanderpool, Nate Simonson and Ryan. This was probably the high light of the entire party. They kids stripped down to their underwear to make sure they wouldn't ruin anything. I think almost every party Landon has had there have been children at least missing shirts! We are so grateful and God is so good! We have a healthy, growing, creative 4 year old! Our prayer for Landon this year is that he continues to understand God's love for him! It's so easy as parents to fail, but we hope and pray that we can continue to point Landon to God and show him that God never messes up!