Bedtime is the right time to fight crime! Well, it is if you're a PJ Masks fan! I've teamed up with Birthday In A Box to create a fun PJ Masks Party.
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On Saturday August 6th, Kyle had a Wild Kratts themed birthday party to celebrate turning 5 years old!
Don't all things begin with a desperate need to buy themed vintage stamps from an etsy shop???? How could I ever resist? :) It's taken a while to blog Charlie's ninth birthday party because I was waiting until it was featured on Hostess with the Mostess which finally posted on the same day I flew to Boston WITHOUT my laptop! They had told me it would feature at the end of the month so I was not ready or prepared at all for a mid-June feature! And of course, I had to wait an additional five days to get home from B-town to even access my images! Crazy times! :) I started planning Charlie's party back in November. The second Henry's Monster Party wrapped, my talented party-styling girlfriend, Rachel, wanted to know what was next. We asked Charlie to give us a theme to start working on -- and he said "LEGOS!!". That didn't really work for us. There are too many lego parties already out there. It might've taken a little persuasion to get him to decide that what he reeeally wanted was a chemistry party. :) Rachel runs RV Parties with her BFF and partner, Victoria. They design the most adorable printables for pretty much any party theme. You can buy the science printables from this party as well the monster printables from Henry's party -- or a variety of many other themes - HERE at their etsy shop! You'll also see lots of my photography there. I'm their favorite professional photographer. I was seriously & intensely proud of the large chalkboard that we used for our backdrop at the dessert table. I knew two things: 1., there was NO WAY that I could handwrite anything on any chalkboard and have it look adorable - not to mention, I'm way to OCD to have the font on a backdrop not completely match with the party design/font, and 2., I did NOT want to buy a new, giant chalkboard and then have no idea what to do with it when the party wrapped. But, thats why engineering prints from Staples are the greatest thing in the whole wide world. Yes. You heard me. The greatest. If you need something printed in a very large size (this one was 36x48) but don't want to pay your child's college tuition for it - and it happens to be a black and white image - then head to Staples. I had Rachel design a large print to look like a fake chalkboard and had it printed for $6. Then I tacked it to a corkboard that I already had hanging over my desk in my office. Perfect. We had so many amazing treats on our dessert table! Miss Lulu's Sweet Treats sent us the cake pops atoms on a stick. They are the best cake pops I've ever had in my entire life. No joke. I *might* have lied to a couple of the children who asked if they could have one and said they were for display only so there'd be a few leftover. And the chocolate-dipped Oreo Molecules were her idea and I looove how creative and perfectly themed they are! And the amazing Jessica of J&J Bakeshop - local here in VA - provided us with the perfect cookies decorated to look like the element of Charlie!! She is so talented, y'all. I ordered specialty cookies from her for Christmas gifts last year and I encourage you all to find a reason to need cookies just to see what she can do! And I made the cupcakes because I'm a cupcake snob now and can only eat the cake that my BFF, Mandie, makes or the cake my BFF, Mandie, taught me how to make. I was also really proud of my party favor idea! Last summer, I taught Charlie the Mentos + Diet Soda reaction - read about it here - (so many links in this post!!). He loved it so much that I figured it should either be an experiment at the party or the favor! Since it's pretty messy and doesn't take very long to react, I figured, favor it is! I think it's always best to send the messy stuff home to the parents. Just like it's always best to serve the guests all the sugar RIGHT before the end of the party. :) Did you know that lab coats are RIDICULOUSLY expensive?? And that even the costume ones for kids to play doctor and dress up with on Halloween don't even dip below $10 each?? As much as I wanted real lab coats that I'd have embroidered with guest names for the party, that's just plain insane and I could not encourage the market to continue to charge those prices! Harumph!! Instead, I bought the 5-pack of two-sizes-too-large white undershirt tees from Target and cut them up the middle! Voila! Lab coats on the cheap! I did splurge on party color lab goggles for about $3 each. Totally worth it. So cute. And Charlie's adorable science shirt was a custom design by Ella Mella who rocks my world with their awesome kid's fashions. And Henry's shirt was sent to us from Periodically Inspired! I just love how she smooshed periodic table elements together to form geeky-chic words. Henry's my precious little GeNiUS!! And a bit of a camera ham, too! Once the house was decorated and the kids dressed, it was time to paaaaartay! An amazing woman, Calsin, runs a business of bringing science, technology, engineering and mathemathics to parties and playdates and schools, oh my! She. Is. Awesome. She told me that if she didn't have her business, she'd set up a lab in her garage and experiment anyway! I loved it. That's how I feel about my photography. If there wasn't work, there'd STILL be pictures. Her business, STEM-KIDS, is such a great concept. Learning can be a BLAST (literally!) and parties don't have to lack brain power, either! Calsin can tailor the experiments for any party. I didn't want the party to cross sciences (OCD, much?) so everything had to stay in a "chemistry" theme. Duh. And, the experiments also needed to entertain eight very active nine year olds. Calsin knew just what to do -- MESSY, hands-on chemical reactions that would result in slime, exploding "elephant toothpaste" and a giant bowl full of smoky, bubbly dry ice! EXPERIMENT #1: SLIME The kids loved this. Calsin set up a table full of the necessary ingredients and as the kids started to mix everything together, it started forming ooey-gooey slime! After they finished squishing it in their fingers, we packed up their custom-colored slime in take home bags! EXPERIMENT #2: ELEPHANT TOOTHPASTE Whats better than seeing foamy goo grow and grow and grow, so much so that it spills up and out of a bottle and into a tray for you to play with it!? NOTHING! Birthday boy was the first one to pour in the special ingredient to make the chemical reaction activate! He was SO excited!! And, um, he's also incredibly cute. EXPERIMENT #3: SUBLIMATION DEMONSTRATION I'm a creative. I photograph things. I can write fairly well. And I daydream great things. I enjoy and am awed by science but, I am no scientist. So, I have to admit that when Calsin said we'd do a "sublimation demonstration", I just blindly nodded my head like I had a clue what she was talking about. Google and Wikipedia say that sublimation is "the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase." So, why the dry ice turned into a smoky gas without any water sneaking in between those phases, all makes sense now. (Can you tell I was concentrating on proper exposure and focus while she was explaining all of this to the kiddos???) Oy. Adding in some dish washing liquid will create a giant bubble that will enclose the smoke inside of it and when it pops, the smoke explodes out! It's really fun and the kids obviously LOVED getting the chance to be the one to pop the bubble! And then it was time to blow out the candles and for me to cry the weepy mama-cry because my baaaaaaby is NINE!!! See the party with all our vendor info plus more of my wit and charm in describing the details (and more pictures!!) on the fabulous and well-followed Hostess with the Mostess blog HERE.
息子の9歳の誕生日パーティー。今回は息子が好きなゲーム「スプラトゥーン2」をテーマに飾り付けをしました。スプラトゥーン2は、任天堂SWITCHのゲームで、子供から大人まで大人気のゲームです！スプラトゥーン2のテーマカラーとなっているピンク＆グリーンを基調色に飾り付けしてみました。
We celebrated my son's 6th birthday last July and I completely forgot to post it, I blame it on pregnancy brain! Anyway during the su...
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What worked and what didn't for a pokemon birthday party. Plus plenty of pokemon birthday party ideas and how to create a punch pokeball game - it was a 'hit'!
exploding volcano birthday cake
The invitation by moi (customphotocards.blogspot.com) Red paper lanterns I made from red poster board. I found a tutorial on youtube on how to make them. It was really simple and turned out so cute! I learned how to make Shuriken paper stars (another tutorial from youtube). I folded so many of these babies, I don’t think my hands will ever forget how to make them! Ninja cake made by Terry Zenz (Terrycakes here in town). I loved how it turned out! Just how I pictured it in my head. Some of the food ideas I found online (rice krispie sushi, nunchucks and oreo ninja cupcakes). So fun!! This Ninja cupcake idea I found on Pinterest was so easy and turned out super cute. You just take half an oreo, take off the frosting from the top and bottom of the cookie, add chocolate sprinkles for the eyes and viola you have a ninja!! I made this banner using a free font called Karate. I loved how it looked on the wall. The paper lanterns on the table were another fun craft I made. Again, super easy to do, I just goggled Chinese lanterns and found a tutorial on how to make them. They were fun to have to decorate all around the house the day of the party. Cake made by Terry Zenz (Terrycakes). Would you believe I found these awesome foam Ninja swords from Amazon?! I was so excited! I just added a little tag to them and gave them as favors for the party guests. Personalized Ninja headbands. I just printed out their names on my computer using the font Last Ninja. Then I traced their names onto the white fabric strips using a fine tip black sharpie. I had the guests find their Ninja name on this paper when they first came in. So fun! We were cracking up at some of the names. The kids loved finding out what their Ninja name was. Another activity we did when the kids first came in was decorate their own paper Ninja stars. Then later on we had them use those stars for this throwing practice game. They had to try and knock down as many balls as they could with their paper ninja star. I found this idea from here. This was a hit. Another game we had them do was to try and find the red Ninja lego guy in a bowl of rice using only chopsticks. Everyone loved this one. Another game we did was throwing rubber ninja stars onto this huge target board. I found these Shuriken stars on Amazon. They puncture a foam board like this one but don’t hurt anyone or anything. The kids thought these were pretty awesome! Especially when someone could get it to stick in the board. I found this idea from here. Ninja obstacle course I had set-up outside. It wasn’t too fancy but the kids really loved it. Our family (can you tell Brooks’ is thrilled to be in this picture?! LOL) Cute kids Party guests! Birthday boy! Brooks sneaking in and blowing out the candle before Dalton had a chance to! Little brothers!! Ha ha. Dalton’s buddies from his Kindergarten class. They called themselves the Three Amigos. Too cute. Present time!! Buddies!! The Birthday haul!Dalton had such a fun Birthday party! His friends & cousins were all so cute together. Everyone had a blast. All the smiles, fun and laughter made all the work totally worth it! We love you Buddy! Happy Birthday Dalton!!
We celebrated my son's 6th birthday last July and I completely forgot to post it, I blame it on pregnancy brain! Anyway during the su...
Have you heard of or seen the kids show PJ Masks? If you are looking at this post, you have. You have probably seen one too many episodes of the show as you try to entertain your child!! None-the-less, this is a cute show and many children are asking
Anyone else have fond memories of your school's lab? The eye-wash stations against the back wall, the shelves of beakers and bunson burners, that funky burnt smell that never quite went away? Ahh, good times. So today we're celebrating all the fun parts of Lab, and pretending the unfortunate fro
Rescue Han science experiment perfect for your Star Wars Day activities for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten kids.
Day 9 of our Birthday Bash is going to finish the rest of the boy birthday parties submitted by Tip Junkie readers. Blue submitted her Star Wars birthday party. Got Jedi? Tricia submitted her Zoo Two birthday party. Amanda submitted her Lego Birthday party. Jennifer submitted her Webkinz birthday party. Love that wheel of wow. ;) April submitted her Willy Wonka birthday party. Here is April's Carnival birthday party. Thanks Ladies! Are you looking for more birthday party inspiration? Check out my previous posts: Day 7 - Pirate Parties Day 6 - Transportation Parties Day 5 - Superhero Birthday Party
