INVITATION: The invitation was printed on confetti vellumn and glued on black card stock.  It actually gave the appearance of glittering stars in the night sky. I downloaded a jedi" font that resemble the actual writing from the movie.  I centered it in the middle and set the side margins to the edge so it would have a scrolling look.  The title was STAR WARS time and place.  At the end it stated MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. I had so many comments from the mothers about how cute the invitations were.  I used Star Wars stamps and I sealed the envelopes with star wars stickers. DECORATIONS: The party was held in the foyer of a gymnasium. The tables were long tables that I put together for the food and activities.  I found some red black and gold tie-dyed fabric to cover the tables.  I draped inexpensive solid black and red plastic cloths over the fabric.  I also used black red and gold helium balloons and let them flow to cover the ceilings with the strings hanging to the floor.  I also blew up solid black balloons and balloons with the star wars logo and let them cover the floor.  ACTIVITIES: I made a cd of various star wars music the theme song darth vaders song cantina band duel of the fates the finale song. I had my son hidden in the background covered under darth vader fabric.  After all the guests arrived he made his entrance to the theme song and gave a few lightsaber moves.  I hired actors who are a member of a star wars society who have "real" costumes to appear at the party. The children were told to sit down and decide if they were on the "dark" or "light" side because there was a special guest who wanted to know their status. I played the theme song again and in walked a stormtrooper with a blaster. The children went wild.  He asked them what side they were on.  Then they were told another special guest was there and to close their eyes. I played darth vaders march and in walked darth vader with a sandtrooper.  The children went wild again. Darth vader had a special birthday message for my son his jedi training would be completed at star wars weekend at disney world the next weekend.  All the children make lightsabers out of pool noodles cut in half. There were blue for the boys and pink for the girls. I had markers and metallic pipe cleaners to use as decorations. The ends were wrapped with silver duct tape. Darth vader autograpged each lightsaber. Darth vader then gathered all the children and taught some lightsaber moves. I took a group picture of the children stormtrooper sandtrooper and darth vader.  I them took individual pictures of the children and the characters.  The next activities was to make their own "snow globe" planet.  I took mason jars and filled them half way with water. I gave the children confetti glitter and small glitter stars to put in their jars.  I them added baby oil sealed the lids and each turned the jar over slowly to watch everything they chose to put in the jars float in their planet.  GAMES:  The children loved playing with their lightsabers.  They played keep the balloon off the floor with all the balloons I used for decorations.  COSTUMES: I made a jedi robe for the birtday boy and jedi tunics for all the boy jedis.  I tied them with pieces of thick cord. I made white tunics for the girls for a princess leia look and tied them with strips of metallic silver for a belt. I made a longer tunic for my husband. I wore a long flowing white tunic tied with the same belt as the girls.  I bought very long hair extensions and made the princess leia buns in my hair. PARTY SNACKS: The party was 10:30am - 12:30pm so I had some hungry jedis and princesses. I served green punch with sherbert in a punch bowl for the yoda soda pigs in a blanket for jedi in robes cheese cubes for crater cubes cookies for wookie cookies potato chips for darth tater chips apple slices for sith slices chocolate chip cheeseball for death star cheeseball and pretzel stick lightsabers with one end wrapped with a foil candy wrapper and the rest of the lightsaber dipped in melted blue chocolate wafers.  CAKE and FAVORS:  I made a lightsaber cake. I made a homemade buttercream and tinted some grey and some blue.  I used the blue for the blade and gray for the handle. The cake was 2 1/2 feet long and rounded at the end. I use a long tube pan to bake the cake and split in lengthwise.  I put the cakes end to end.  I served ice cream in the individual cups.  Favors for the boys were star wars bags with candy mini kaleidescope star wars snap bracelets and star wars water bottles.  For the girls I used pink bags with candy princess notepads sparkling bracelets and mini kaleidescopes. My son hand wrote his own thank you notes and included the pictures of each person who had their picture taken with each character. Some of the mothers stated how great the party was and the children seemed to really enjoy it.  My son loved it and that made all the work it took to get everything together worth it."