Avengers Party Ideas and a Chance to Win a $100 Shopping Spree from AllPosters.com

Iron Man

If you haven’t seen Avengers: Age of Ultron yet, I guarantee you’re missing out. With an all star cast and nonstop action, this flick is poised to become one of the year’s top movies. Of course, this means you can expect your children to be requesting Avengers-themed birthday celebrations soon. To help you start your party planning, I’ve rounded up a few of my personal favorite Avengers inspired ideas.

Lemon Lime Hulk Punch via Mom on Time Out: What better way to start an Avengers party than with a delicious superhero inspired drink?

Iron Man Pizza via Will Cook for Smiles: I’ve never met a kid who doesn’t like pizza and this Iron Man version is sure to please.

Thor’s Hammer Cupcakes via The Horrible Housewife: Adorable and easy to make even if you’re all thumbs in the kitchen, Thor’s hammer cupcakes are the perfect party dessert.

Captain America Shields via The Nerds Wife: Keep the kids busy and send them home with a cute party favor by creating adorable Captain America Frisbee shields.

I firmly believe every party needs a great photo-op. These Avengers: Age of Ultron cutouts from AllPosters.com are just what you need to take your party from drab to fab. As an added bonus, they can be repurposed as room decor when your party is over.

Thanks to the generous team at AllPosters.com, Craft Gossip is offering one lucky reader a $100 shopping spree to spend on Avengers themed party supplies or whatever else your heart desires. To enter, leave me a comment telling me your best Avengers party idea. I’ll announce one randomly selected winner on Monday, May 18.

UPDATE: Lucky #3 is our winner! Watch your email for details about how to claim your prize!

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My daughter’s school has project-based finals instead of tests in the spring, and in her geometry class last year the students constructed a scale model of a town complete with three-dimensional buildings.

Of course building a paper town doesn’t have to include a geometry lesson (they also calculated the volume of their buildings) but it is a fun way to get kids to express their creativity by decorating the buildings and talking about the things they would want to include in their own town.

Putting buildings together is a test of fine-motor skills, and if kids are working on a town together they’ll need to negotiate what goes where and why.

Get started with the house printables from Kids Activities Blog. They’ve got a “plain” roof house and a “fancy” roof house to choose from. Just print, color, cut out and assemble.

You might want more than just houses in your little town, though, so I went hunting for some more printable templates you can use to make different kinds of buildings.

Brother has printable skyscrapers, cars, people, trees and lights (shown above) that are meant to be printed in color buy you can do them in black and white so kids can color them in if you want.

Printablee has another colorized set of paper buildings including different kinds of houses and something that maybe looks like a church or school.

If you’re willing and bale to pay for printables to use in your paper town, there are lots of great ones available on Etsy. Ludlow Prints has a collection with a school, grocery store, bakery and other buildings, while Paper Fun By Yumi includes things like a hospital, fire department and police station (essential if you’ve done a community helpers unit!).

Tiger Bee Learning has a printable set with 20 different buildings, including a bank, library, museum and zoo to name a few, as well as a blank template for kids to design their own buildings. Once you have the basics of making a piece of paper into a 3D building down, kids are sure to want to make their own buildings to add to the town.

Older kids can also write about why they picked the buildings they did, and littler kids will have fun building their town over and over again.

[Photo: Brother]

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