Chandler's PacMan Party

Well, my baby boy is 8 years old now and extreme gamer that he is, wanted a Pacman party. Let me tell you, today's Pac is nothing like the one I grew up with and there aren't a lot of Pac party ideas online. As I always do though, I had lots of fun taking what I do find and running with it. Everyone knows Pacman loves to chomp those fruits, ghosts, and power pellets.

These old-school chompers were an idea I had for a while and finally found a way to work them in. I must mention that I had the pleasure of including and teaching my 10 year old son and the birthday boy to sew the plastic canvas squares for the Pac Man Chompers. They were so excited to learn and help and were quick learners so I didn't have to fuss too much. Naturally they contain a goody bag of Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde sugar cookies along with some fruit gummies ( I couldn't find Runts anywhere! What's up with that?)

Along with more ghost cookies, the buffet consisted of fruit salad, a Pacman shaped cheeseball (I'm getting really good at shaping cheeseballs) which is cleverly displayed with round 'power' crackers, homemade pretzel bites, and homemade pretzel wrapped hotdogs tying in the new Pacman cartoon. There were a few cake designs to build off of and with my crowd I don't ever need a huge cake, so I combined a small square cake with the arcade game decor topped with a small round old-school Pacman.

Always on a slim budget, rather than spending gobs of money on professional invitations or making traditionally boring invites, I built upon the idea of concert tickets by creating these Pacman tickets

which I laminated myself, easy peasy. And that's my baby boy, adorned with his homemade construction paper Pac Party hat (we also had Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde). These are the days I want my children to remember when they have their own, it doesn't take lots of money to create things that look like they did, in order to provide treasured moments.

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