Ewok monkey business

My little boy just turned 5. He recently saw Return of the Jedi and fell in love with the Ewoks! So I wanted to share what we did because another blog about an ewok party was inspirational and instructive in putting together Eliot's ewok party. It was great, we had a lot of fun and Eliot was over the moon.

When each kid walked in for the party we gave them a pair of Ewok ears. I got plain plastic headbands from Michael's craft store. Then I glued strips of fuzzy brown fabric onto the underside of the band and then wrapped the fabric around and whip stitched it in place. The glue just gave it stability. I cut out the ears and then stitched them together. Once the ears were formed I put half a pipe cleaner inside to help it stay standing up.

The Ewok cake was just a double layer round cake with some cupcake sculpted to be ears. We used chocolate and coconut pecan icing with some red icing and a chocolate for the nose!

The little ewoks wanted to hunt for storm troopers! I spray painted galvanized buckets white and used a sheet of black duct tape to make the eyes and mouth. This worked as a great holder for all the kid's take home goodies. We hid them around the house (outside would have been better but the weather wasn't onboard) and the boys each found one and stopped the baddies!

And my daughter made coloring pages full of ewoks and their cohorts. Princess Leia, Luke, and an ewok on a speeder. So cute! So I copied them and she turned the pages into coloring books for each kid, complete with cover. The kids had a blast!