The Ultimate Star Wars Party This party was designed for a 7 yo with his 4 yo brother in mind.  It was the simple, easy concept of pizza and a Star Wars movie, especially because most of the real work is done beforehand.  Decorations:  Table was plain but dramatic decorated with a plastic black tablecloth and star confetti.  I used plain black plastic plates, cups and forks to reduce the cost, but used vibrant Star Wars napkins on top of the plates . Visually it was cool because the napkins were the only hint color on the black table.  Pictures and signs: I found websites with Star Wars coloring pages and then printed them using the Multi-Page setting in Printer Preferences and choose "Poster" size. This makes the printer enlarge a picture to 4, 9 or 16 pages. I trimmed, taped them together, and coloured the posters.  Pictures included the Star Wars logo, Darth Vader, R2D2, and Yoda,.  Signs included "May The Force Be With You" (hung in the bathroom of course), "Theatre 1", "Bathroom", "JJ's Candy Shoppe", "Now Playing in Theatre 1", and others. Costumes:  I made 16 Jedi cloaks for the children at the party; buying 20 yards of brown fabric (boys) and 1 1/2 yards of white (1 girl) at Wal-Mart. Each cloak was about 1 to 1 1/2 yards long depending on size of boys. To make a cloak, take the top edge, fold in half and sew together to make the top of the hood; using your child to measure and making sure the hood will stay loose around their face, mark where the neck tie should be.  At that point fold and sew the fabric to create a pocket where an length of elastic can be slid through. Securely sew the elastic at both ends; now it will gather the cloak around the neck - don't make the elastic too short or it will throttle the kids. Sew on a couple of pieces of cord for tying the cloak and finally hem the bottom end if the fabric frays easily. Light Saber 1: I bought pre-cut foam insulators (for covering pipes) at the RONA hardware store. They are grey and about 3 feet long. I took some coloured duct tape and made a handle at each end.. Light Saber 2: I bought cheap regular-size flashlights and added a color insert to created red or green beams of light (blue didn't work well). Using semi-transparent report covers (Wal-Mart again) I cut out  circles that were placed into the flashlights.   Night of the Party:  The party began at 5 pm with a pizza supper and birthday cake (store bought). As soon as they were done eating, each child was outfitted in a Jedi cloak and given some tickets for JJ's Candy Shoppe. They followed the Theatre signs to the basement and had a choice of bags of popcorn, mini chocolate bars, licorice, and drinks (Ginger Ale, Coke, bottled water). The floor was littered with cushions and pillows to sit on and the side walls had the posters and glow in the dark stars on them.  We had a projector hooked up to a DVD player all ready. The lights were dimmed and the movie, Star Wars I, was played onto a white wall.   Some boys had already seen it, but most were star struck and watched all the way through.  When the movie was finished my husband gave them a mini sabre fighting lesson with the foam sabres.  It was fun pandemonium for their first battle but no one was hurt.  Then we called a truce.  Now it was time for the ultimate battle. We lowered the lights, filled the room with fog from the fog machine, and out came the flashlights light sabres. Beams of red and green (and blue) slashed through the air. It was surreal with all the colors and fog. As they got used to the light sabres we turned the lights off completely and let them battle it out.  It was fantastic. Unfortunately for the kids their parents arrived to take them home at 9 pm. Luckily many parents stayed for a while to battle the kids. Goody bags included the Jedi cloak, the two light sabres, some candy and Star Wars coloring pages.   The kids are still talking about it and the cloaks and light sabres are being used on a regular basis. The kids have since made many play dates to ôre-enactö the party.