The Robot Party Table & Hello Hanna Giveaway

I'm going to try and break-down some of the details of the robot party for you post by post, and share some of my sources.  There is other insanity going on to blog about, so let me know how in-depth you'd like me to go and what details you want, so I can make sure I get to them before I run out of steam!  :-)

Today I want to tell you about the table (dining/activity area).  

KEEP READING FOR FUN GIVEAWAY!

The kids spent a lot of the party at our dining room table.  During the "design" portion of the party, the "prototype" building, eating and "decoding" (I think I will do a separate post explaining all of the activities, if you are interested), they set at this fun table.

Here is a little secret:  The fun orange table cloth you see, is actually not a table cloth at all, but a twin-sized fitted sheet.  I used it's flat sheet counterpart for the backdrop behind the serving table, and really didn't have anything to put on the dining table, so out of desperation/inspiration, we tried the fitted sheet.  It worked really well with our oblong table.  In fact, some of the adults were asking me where I got a tablecloth that would fit and oval table so well.  The other great thing about having it fitted is that it didn't shuffle around as the boys moved things.  It stayed in place nicely.

Tri-bot, the red robot, and my son's last Christmas present, served as a centerpiece and as a weight for the colorful helium balloons that don't really make a showing in any of these photos.

And this is my favorite part about this table...the pop-up placemats from hello hanna!

These were a little bit of a splurge for me, but I loved the idea and the design of these.  In fact, they helped define my color scheme, and inspire some of the other elements of the party.  I really wanted this to be about robot building and not just have pictures of robots on things.  That's why these were perfect.  Each guest got to use their sticker sheet to decorate their robot however they wanted, and the kids really enjoyed the creative process involved.  Since I was ordering these, I went ahead and got the matching book for my son as a gift.

He already has it filled out.  He was thrilled to put this together, and I think it is a great exercise in imagination for a young mind.

So here's why I'm excited to share all of this with you.  When I contacted the people at hello hanna to tell them how excited I was about their fun products, they agreed to giveaway a set of the get-set placemats and a hello book (like the one above), to one of my readers!  Aren't they cute?

If you aren't into robots, they have a couple of other choices (the winner will get to choose any of these three).

hello me (girly set)

hello jungle (features monkey, hippo, panda and elephant)

These are also fun to help teach kids how to set the table, since they have silhouettes for each part of the place setting.  There is a matching hello book for each placemat set.

So for your chance at winning one of these clever placemat and book sets, leave me a comment below.  Tell me which of the three you would want and what you would use it for, or what was your favorite part of my robot party (How's that for shamelessly soliciting praise?  I'll take it however I can get it!  :-))

We'll close the giveaway one week from now.  PLEASE make sure to leave your email address in your comment if it isn't obvious in your profile.  I simply can't try and track down the winners, so if they aren't easy to get a hold of, I will have to choose some one new.

GOOD LUCK!  And thanks to hello hanna for such a fun giveaway!