Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Let the Planning Begin!

I mentioned back in November that I was planning on a Mad Scientist party for my son's 9th birthday. Since his birthday is at the end of February, I decided it was time to get the party planning in full gear!

I first ran across these great scenes at BrucesWork.com. Bruce is actually a Senior Concept Artist for Oriental Trading Company and designed these. For those not familiar, Design-A-Rooms (also called Scene Setters by another company) are decorated plastic sheets that you attach to walls & doors with tape or tacky stick-stuff (not the technical name!). These decorations can instantly change the look of a space. In my case, I plan to use these Mad Scientist Lab Design-A-Rooms to decorate for Coco's party.

This scene will appear on the front door as the boys arrive:
Here's a picture of all the elements:
This picture is from Bruce's Works website and really gives you a feel for just how big these decorations are:
The best part is that they are actually Halloween decorations, so Oriental Trading has them on sale right now! I think 9 year old boys are going to love this!

6 comments:

Ronda's Rants said...

You are a genius! How smart and a little frightening!
I know it will be great!

kathalog.com said...

I love this idea - thanks for the heads up - I'm heading over to Oriental to check this out

Natalie-Little Shindigs said...

The scene setters are scary yet fabulous.
Good luck om the party ...looking forward to seeing how it all turns out.

BTW-thanks for following:)

Donna @ Party Wishes said...

Looks like a lot of fun! My son had a party similar to this for his 9th. I had a Mad Scientist come and demo some experiments. The boys got to make "Slime" and shoot off a bottle rocket.

Amy @ Living Locurto said...

Cool. I'm having my son's party this weekend. I'll have some free downloads that might come in handy for you! I've got some fun things planned.

Karyn said...

This shall be a party the boys think is so cool. I would throw a lame party...