Barb's Kitchen

Use a slab cake and just 4 colors of icing to make this cake

Yesterday, we had my daughter, Jamie’s 6th birthday party.  She decided she wanted a Spongebob birthday party, so we drew 7 Spongebob characters on bristol board and the kids spent the last week coloring them.

• Fruit tray (canteloupe, melon, grapes)
• Veggie tray (cucumbers, carrots, red peppers, green peppers, celery)
• Cheesies
• Pretzels; and
• Birthday cake

To make the cake, I made a double chocolate cake in a lasagna pan and a double vanilla cake in a lasagna pan.  When they were done cooking and cooled off, I sliced off the rounded corners and placed them side by side on a large tray, so that they made a large rectangle.

I put chocolate icing on the bottom 2-3 inches for his pants.  Then, I put white icing on the next 2-3 inches for his shirt.  The rest was yellow icing for his body/face.  I piped chocolate icing for the trim and facial features, filling in with white and red, where necessary.  Basically, I used pictures from a Spongebob coloring book as a guide for everything.

Spongebob Party Games

 We kept the kids entertained with the Bikini Bottom Olympics, which featured the following party games:

• Bowling (dollar store bowling sets)
• Sponge toss
• Hulahoop
• Crab walk races
• Arm de-tangling (kids stand in a circle, use their right hand to grab the right hand of someone across from them, use their left hand to grab the left hand of someone different across from them, then try to untangle themselves without letting go of each other – good for a laugh)

We had a table of coloring pages, crayons and markers for anyone wiching to do some coloring.

After the Olympics, the kids entertained each other with karaoke-style singing and dancing.

Then, after cake and presents, we sent them outside to play for the last hour of the party.

For the loot bags, we bought sand pails and put “chum bucket” stickers on them.  Inside were Spongebob stickers, work sheets, crayons, a Spongebob calendar, Joe Louis with “crabby patty” stickers on them and various other toys/snacks.

We also created an Olympic gold medal certificate for each participant.

Everyone seemed to have a good time and we declared the party a Spongebob success!

Tags: cake, spongebob birthday party