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For her 10th birthday, Bella wanted to have an Angry Bird party. She was eager to make her own invites and draw some posters for the party. I went online and found a lot of cute ideas. I wanted to share what we did for those who are planning an Angry Bird party of their own.

INVITATIONS

Bella made her own invites.

PARTY WEAR

Bella designed her own t-shirt to wear to the party using a blank white tee and fabric markers like these. (This would also make a great party craft.)

DECORATIONS

We saw these great angry bird balloons at Tip Junkie.com. She has a free template you can print and cut out to make your own balloons, as we did here.

A close up of the welcome sign.

Bella made a poster for the door of her room.

We kept the table simple, using bird colors for the placements. Since Bella loves candy corn I sprinkled some around the table like bird seed.

I made name cards for each guest. (After printing the name, fold the paper in three sections to make it stand up.) I used the Angry Bird font which is the “Feast on Flesh” font. I downloaded it from here. (I got the Angry Bird Birthday Party picture from The Party Animal-blog.org. There are also tons of great party ideas!)

At the end of the party we gave out party favors in Angry Bird bags. We used the same template as the Angry Bird balloons. They came out really cute so they were great décor as well.

GAMES

Get Those Pigs Game

We covered a few shoe boxes in brown paper bags for the main structure. Then we added some foam blocks and green pigs for a fun game of toss. We originally wanted to make sling shots to launch Angry Bird stuffed toys but it never happened. We figured throwing an Angry Bird would work just as well. The only downfall is you have to quickly rebuild each tower after it’s knocked down so keep some distance between the kids and the tower so they have to try a few times before they get it.

Egg Hunt

We originally planned some kind of treasure hunt but changed it to an egg hunt. It is the same concept as an Easter egg hunt and we used plastic Easter eggs. However, the object of the game is to find and gather the Angry Bird eggs before the green pigs get them. We had baskets filled with green “grass” to be filled with found eggs. Brian hid the eggs out in the backyard and the kids had a blast running around looking for them.

Dance or Game Music

The kids got a kick out of the techno Angry Bird music we had playing during the games. You can download it from Itunes.

Card Game

For a quiet game, we found this Angry Bird card game at Amazon. The little boys were too young to sit and play with it but the girls had fun.

Play Do

We are big Play Do fans in this house so we thought making play do angry birds would be fun. Here are two of Bella’s creations. Since we didn’t have black Play Do we used a permanent black marker for the eyes and brows.

The girls also used the Play Do to decorate their angry bird toys as DJ’s. LOL!

DESSERT – CUPCAKES

I saw these cute cupcakes at The Crafting Chicks.com and thought they would be perfect. They looked fairly easy and fun to make. However, instead of making them myself I thought I’d have the kids make their own. That way we had a craft-game and dessert covered at once – killing two pigs with one angry bird. 😉

Decorating the cupcakes.

Bella’s creations.

Making a wish and blowing out the candle on her cupcake.

Well, I hope that helps you plan out your own party! Have fun!!

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I loved Gillian Anderson’s portrayal of Lady Dedlock in Charles Dicken’s Bleak House. I eagerly await her upcoming role as Miss Havisham in Dicken’s Great Expectations, which is coming to Masterpiece Theatre.

Gillian Anderson To Play Miss Havisham In New Great Expectations On Masterpiece

Gillian Anderson will star in the iconic role of Miss Havisham in a bold new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. The cast of the star-studded Masterpiece on PBS/BBC coproduction also includes David Suchet (Poirot) and Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast).
“I can’t wait to see Gillian delicately sink her teeth into the role of the beautiful, mysterious and manipulative Miss Havisham. She’s one of the most intriguing female characters in literature,” says Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton. “Gillian’s hypnotic portrayal of Lady Dedlock in Bleak House showed that she and Dickens are a perfect match.”
Ms. Anderson’s 2006 performance in Bleak House — her first television role after rising to stardom as Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files — earned her rave reviews and Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
The Masterpiece broadcast of Great Expectations will air in April 2012, during the bicentennial of Dickens’ birth. Including Bleak House, Masterpiece — celebrating its 40th anniversary on PBS in 2011 — has aired nine Dickens adaptations equaling nearly sixty hours of television to date, including Little Dorrit, the winner of seven Emmy awards in 2009, and David Copperfield, which introduced Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) to American audiences.
As part of the Dickens bicentennial, Masterpiece will also partner with the BBC on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, an unfinished work that will be given a new ending by writer Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, Miss Austen Regrets).
Widely considered one of Dickens’ greatest novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip the battered orphan boy, who rises from blacksmith’s apprentice to gentleman under the patronage of a mysterious benefactor, who assures him of “great expectations.” As Pip grows up, he befriends Magwitch, a convict, becomes the pet to Miss Havisham, an insane heiress, and falls in love with Estella, her cold-hearted ward. A series of shocking setbacks teaches Pip the true source of moral worth.
David Suchet, who will play Jaggers, and Ray Winstone (Magwitch), are well known to Masterpiece audiences. Suchet is renowned as the Belgian supersleuth in the popular Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot series, and Winstone’s portrayal of Henry VIII on Masterpiece was called “a brilliant tour de force” by the Hollywood Reporter.
Great Expectations begins filming in London in July.

UPDATE: Great Expectations will be playing in the USA on Masterpiece Classic on April 1, 2012.