Cricket theme party - quick and easy

V’s nephew was turning 14 the morning of December 24, 2011 and I was helping my co-sister by cooking a few dishes for her son S’s party at their place... The order for a humble 2 kg cake was given at the local Iyengar bakery…but I had to make it special for our little master who has always been fond of playing cricket…Picking up a couple of items from the neighboring grocery store, some newspaper, especially the sports section helped us put together a quick theme - CRICKET! J

If you have a little master at your home and if you wanna make it fun for him…here you go… One of the quick, cost-effective and easy to do themes...Creativity is the limit...Please share your link if you have tried anything on these lines...I would love to take a look into your grey matter.

For the cake topper - Wafer biscuit, Milky way choco choo, yam yam and a box of peanut candies.  It's all look and tell for me. The picture should help you out. 

The bat was made from milky way choco choo. The outer part for the bat base and the inner choco for the handle. The pre-ordered cake became the field and the wafer turned into the pitch. Yam yam sticks stood as the stumps on either side and the little reddish peanut candy said, I'll play ball. 

For the banner - newspaper clippings made way into the banner. Take a bunch of color paper sheets, chop chop pictures of the cricket sport and glue them on. Fill in the blank spaces with letters, punch holes in the corner and tie them up.

You may want to have a guessing game for the little fellas as long as you know who's who. Cricket is not my religion and I don't know all the Gods!

For the gift wrapper - Take an old newspaper, glue on the excess clippings post the banner use. Put a big smile, pat yourself for not wasting money on the wrapper that's going to the trash bin and say "Happy Birthday" as you give the gift!