Flower Power Party

My daughter turned 9 over the weekend....and though she has lots of favorites...nothing really 'stands' out...except she is a 'girly girl'. So I went with a 'flower power' theme. We found these plates at Dollar Tree and she loved them.



I hand cut out flowers to match the ones on the plates...and added stickles to make them shine...and used them as confetti on the table. The butterflies are made of fabric...and were in some craft containers my dad bought for me at a yard sale....I love it when I can re-purpose stuff!! I added stickles (glitter glue) to these as well...it really added a nice touch. (sorry about the colors...the lighting was off)



I went with cupcakes since we were having the party at a different location....and I had the bakery add lime green icing...and I made the picks for them. I used my Quickutz scrapbooking tool to cut out butterflies and flowers. I also added stickles to these for a glittered look.





Once back home I had several crafts for the kids to make that coordinated with the 'flower' theme....first was a door knob hanger for their rooms...I found these at Dollar Tree as well. I had assorted foam flower shapes and letters for them to use to decorate.(sorry no picture)

I also had a butterfly activity planned. You take 2 pieces of 4x4 tissue paper...and an old wooden clothes pin...not the ones with the springs. First you cut the edge of the paper in the shape of wings...(not the folded edge). You slowly feed the tissue paper up through the bottom...and secure with tape...add a pipe cleaner...and you have a beautiful butterfly to hang up.



It wasn't hard to come up with activities and crafts....and almost everything was a $1. If you did this with a younger bunch of girls...you could play 'Pin the Petal on the Flower'. Just cut out a large flower from poster board...and then a single petal to fit....the game would be played like 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey'. Another cute game could be 'Hot Flower'...played like 'Hot Potato'...you would play music while the kids passed around a flower...and the person holding the flower when the song stops...is out.

Since I was having girls and boys at the party...I went for 'generic' goodie bag items...and saved the girlie girl stuff for the slumber party. But for an all girl party...some great ideas are flower pens, flower notepads, flower hair accessories, flower stickers, they even have flower glow sticks at the Dollar Tree. (Can't you tell...I {heart} the DOLLAR TREE?)...It didn't take a lot of time or creativity to make this birthday a wonderful memory for my daughter!

It's a Fishin' Party

My son turned 8 on May 5th..and since he had been really into Cub Scouts..and the great outdoors...he decided he wanted a fishing party. I had the party at the Children's Discovery Center.....and after the party each child was allowed to play all day.

His cake was bought at a local supermarket bakery. I really like the way it turned out...the 'water' on top is a 'gel'....it almost looks like the real thing.

I placed blue table cloths on the table to act as 'water'...and there were 'life savers' in the water.....just in case anyone fell in....



There were 2 'gold fish' bowls with gold fish in them for the kids to eat...this was a big hit.....some kids didn't want to stop eating gold fish to cut the cake.

These are 'Buckets of Bait'...AKA: chocolate ice cream, chocolate oreos and gummy worms....the kids loved this...they kept saying that the worms were moving....LOL



Once the cake was cut and presents were opened...each guest took home a goodie bag filled with fun stuff. I found this fish printable online for free and added the 'Thank You'. I couldn't find my stapler so I used paper clips..and it worked out great because the fish are looking up at the 'hooks' like they are fixing to bite them....