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12/23/2022

Breath of the Wild birthday party for Emmalee's 10th with links to free printables and papercrafts

Welcome to one of the most awesome birthday parties ever in this blog. Maybe I am biased because I am such a huge Breath of the Wild fan. Maybe it's because BOTW 2 is coming out next May and we can't wait. Maybe it's because it is one of the most thought out birthday parties I've ever had to create. Whatever it is, I think it was EPIC! You need to stick around for the games and activities. 

Decorations

As always, we start off with the decorations and the main table.



How incredibly easy were those archery balloons to recreate. I just had to print the target circle color and tape them to white balloons.



Used Crayola watercolors to create that backdrop. Glad my girls were up to helping.

The birthday banner shields were a free printable found on online here.

Can you find the "cupcake" my sister made fun of in my backdrop paiting?

I made the EMMALEE letters which you can barely make out using Mr. P 3D letter template and printables of different BOTW landscapes. It could have made it more cohesive, but I still loved showing different BOTW sights.

I stuck to the chibi theme with the characters. Just googled chibi BOTW and used the best sticker images I could find.


I know! I know! This terrako is not BOTW, but the printable was so cute. Too bad I didn't notice the base had shifted when I took the pic. Love the chibi link riding Epona, eventhough there is no Epona in BOTW unless you are like me and named her such!


Could not find good BOTW cookie references online, so I made my own creation!

Free BOTW link papercraft found here.

Free Kass papercraft found here.

Look at that sad smooshed silent princess flower. The cake suffered some transportations casualties. Pic in the bottom of cake before taking a ride.
Master sword papercraft here

I wanted to do the sunrise colors of the backdrop on the cake also. I think it looks so cute.



Up close my shrine is not much to see, but I'm just so proud of no longer using fondant on my cakes. This is pure buttercream.

Milk labels here.

These monster cakes were almost a disappointment. First I made the horns with merengues following this website's suggestion. I left them on the oven. I had struggled with sticky merengues in the past, so I had extra purple buttercream to pipe the horns. Left that in the fridge. I almost cried when I saw my sad hornless monster cakes. They had taken so long because they had a dulce de leche filling and had taken a while to assemble. My sister saved the displayed ones with some last minute cardboard horns. 

Master sword printable here

How cool is my castle? Took forever to hangs those curtains, but they were everything!

Champions window for cool background for pics.

In case you are unaware, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is handmade by me. So, yes, I made that Zelda outfit too! Also made that girl!

And also made that master sword using this papercraft.
Here is the link for the master sword papercraft on the main table. (Yes, realized after printing it wasn't BOTW, used it anyway!)

My girls. My youngest is using a DIY Zelda necklace.

Yes! I made my husband an outfit also! He is my handsome Link.

He was reluctant until I told him how proud his daughter would feel watching those pictures down the line. He agreed even though he knew it would be hot under that outfit. It was and he endured it.

My lovely family. Like my fairy headband?

Crazy about my guardian piƱata. So cool. Those paper cups came down with the first hit though!

Games

Here is my favorite part of the party. I wanted a IRL experience of BOTW, as much as possible. So, we made some phases. They needed to get a heart piece and a potion to do the shrine quests, but getting these were not going to be easy either. 

Heart piece and Korok quest

To get a heart piece, they needed to stop by the cooking station, but first they needed to collect 3 ingredients. I made the ingredients using air dry clay. 



Stamella mushroom

Hylian mushroom

Endura mushroom

Hearty Radish

River Frog

Hearty truffle

Fairy tree

Silent princess


I made an adventure satchel for each kid with a cardboard sheikah slate for each one. The sheikah slate had a map of the world (that coincided with the park) and the korok quest. I'll show you in the next pictures. 

These were the hidden koroks that had a symbol that they had to decipher the right number in their slate to get the code. The first 3 to finish got Korok plushies. They did the quest while also looking for ingredients.


This is what my daughter's slate looked like in the end

Here she solved her korok quest, but she came in 4th

If you wish to use them, here is the jpg I made.

And here is the map. Our castle was in the center of the park, just like on the map! Serendipitous!

To get to their next quest, they had to find the Korok circle in their map. This was the hardest quest for pretty much every kid, mainly because only the 4 kids that played the game knew what a Korok circle looked like. I had to redirect most of them to it! 

We were lucky to have a large and lushious jungle park!

Zelda looks so cool in the wild! Do you like her satchel???

Here are the 1st and 2nd place winners of the Koroks quest showing off their Korok plushies!
The satchel was a good place to carry all the goodies they collected.

Once they had their 3 ingredients, they could head to the cooking station. They had 4 choices: fruit for 1 rupee, veggie for 5 rupees, mushroom for 20,  and spicy jalapeƱo for 50. After you ate your meal, you got the rupees you earned and your heart piece. Most boys went for the jalapeƱo.

I'll post the Korok quest images, the monster and gears part image, and the rupees and heart piece images.








Archery and Potion

Unfortunately, I didn't take picture of the kids fishing, but I had a bucket of plastic fishes and a dollar store fishing cane with a magnet for the kids to collect a fish if they hadn't found a frog. To make a potion, they needed a fish or a frog and a monster part. To get a monster part, they needed to head to the archery.  

Here is my lovely octorok ready to be shot at.



You can tell Adri hit it in the first try. 
You got 3 attempts. If you hit the target, you get 20 rupees and monster parts. If you didn't, you only got monster parts.

Even the dads wanted to give it a try.

Then they headed to the potions station. I found the easiest most awesome potion recipe: alcohol, glitter, and mica powder. It gives it a real potion took. Even the parents were surprised. 

The mica powder does not mix with the alcohol, so it gives these incredible swirls. You can find mica powder in soap making stores. I bought these potion bottles at the dollar store. They are my favorite fidget toy. I made a few for myself to keep in my desk and just twirl and twirl to see the swirls and swirls. 


Shrine Quests

You needed to find 3 other mates that had the heart piece and potion to head to the shrine. Here is team #1 posing at the shrine. Extra me would have done a shrine entrance in the past (see my jurassic park party to see what I mean), but I had already spent too many hours sewing all those satchels. A shrine pic it is!

Shrine Quest #1:

The floor is lava. Just have the kids go from x to y using cardboard pieces.  5 pieces for 4 players to move the piece from the back to the front passing it to each player until everyone makes it through. Make it small to make the balancing fun!


Shrine Quest #2:

Remember the pattern. Inspired by the musical shrine quest in Rito Village, kids must remember the pattern to play all the colors. Each teammate comes to receive a new color and play it on the drums. The next teammate must remember the colors played before and play the next one to reveal it to their team. That last kid had to remember all 8 colors order, but their teammates could help them. 



Shrine Quest #3:

Take the ball to the other side. Mark a spot from x to y and tell the kids they must form a bridge using only their cups to take the ball to the other side. Inspired by some shrines where you need to freeze objects to direct balls. 


This is the orb image I made for this challenge to print and cut.
After completing the 3 shrines, each kid got a different Orb. Then. they had to look for the kids that had the same champion to do together the champion quest. 

Champions Quest

The champions quest was an escape room challenge I got from this website. I printed the escape room challenge as it came and just glued some left over orbs to make it match the champions. The escape room challenge has 4 rooms, so I just made each room a champion challenge. The team that finished their "room" first, won 50 rupees and the second team got 20. The others got the satisfaction of escaping. 




They ran for their fairy once I told them it got them rupees.

Ready to destroy the guardian. It had bolts and gears inside for more rupees too.

Time to exchange the rupees for prizes!!!!
There were candy bags, dollar store toys, but here are the DIY BOTW shrink charms I made to make bracelets and hair bows. The kids loved them. I also got these gaming inspired bendy straws! Safe to say that Beedle store was a big hit!


And yes, I died at the end.



Dear Emmalee,
I can't believe you turned 10! Ten years of seeing God's goodness in my life through your life. You were only 3 when mommy got cancer. I thought you would grow up not even remembering me. You had to grow up so fast. You had to take care of your mommy since you were 3 years old. That is 7 years of you massaging me when I have my chronic pain, caressing my forehad when I get migranes, and putting up with me when I'm cranky because I couldn't sleep. It pains me to know you've carried this burden with me, but it also excites me to think what this has done to your heart and to your character. And I can already see what the Lord  has been doing in your heart. You have a heart ready to know Him, serve Him, seek Him, and learn from Him. You love coming with me to the Crossfire youth band vocal practices where you watch mommy vocal coach young people and you learn too. You come with me to Crosswalk where you are learning how to evangelize and you are getting ready for your first mission trip to the village of Para Puru in the heart of the Panamanian jungle. You were so understanding when mommy left for Egypt on a short mission trip this fall, and I pray it also inspires your future endeavors. You went to school for the first time in your life. You don't feel sorry for yourself for having been homeschooled all your life. You feel greatful for it and have told me so in many of the letters you still continually write to me. You have shined so brightly at your school. Everyone calls you and your sister the welcoming committee for you are at the school gate ready to hug every kid as they come inside. You are a friend without prejudice. You were so nervous your first day of school you were not able to sleep. Mommy tried everything with you to make you sleep, but you could not sleep an ounce. You were worried you were not going to be loved or accepted. You came back that very same day realizing all your fears were for nothing. You made so many friends and you are such a happy girl. You scored highter than your class on your MAP test. I was so impressed. Mom was super intense on your first month of school. I felt like your performance was a direct mirror of my teaching. I was able to let go and let you do you. You do you so well. You just shine wherever you go and in whatever you do. You are doing so great at school. I can see how hard you work to do well and to be kind. You inspire me so much. People always tell me what a great kid I have, and I always tell them it's all you. I have nothing to do with that. You put in the hard work. I loved sharing Breath of the Wild with you. I didn't think you would get so into it like I did. But, you did, and I couldn't be happier. It's like our thing just the two of us, because daddy and Kaylee didn't get into it. I know you were the happiest ten year old in your Zelda costume. You feel so proud that mommy makes it all for you. You constantly tell your friends what new thing mommy had made for your party, and we always can't wait to finally see it altogether. Thank you for the sister you are. You are learning to be more a sister and less a second mom to Kaylee, but I will always love your protective and overseeing love you have for her. It's been a year filled with many firsts. The first time you went to a birthday party without your sister because it was one of your classmates. Kaylee really didn't enjoy that, but it's time to have you have your own things. You've been sharing everything with your sister since you were 1. You've been so generous and sweet. My dearest, you make me so happy and proud. I don't care if you get good grades, if you have good attitudes, or if you like me. I love you for who you are. Thank you for having all of the above, but know that my love for you is unconditional. I am just so full of gratitude to our God to allow me live and watch you grow and be cared and taught by you. You are amazing. 

Love, Mom.