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On the look out for a party that's boyishly boho? You'll be bursting at the seems, over the ideas featured in this "Wild One" Bohemian Birthday Party by Christina Maya, out of M&J Kreations, out of Whittier, Ca! From the gorgeous leaf centerpieces to the cute boho sweets, treats and decor, this first birthday bash is absolutely adorable! I have so many favorite party ideas + elements from this partyscape, but here are some I'm positively bonkers over: Bold-patterned pennant banners Boho birthday cake Hedge wall backdrop Boho table runners Beautiful leaf centerpieces Boho themed sugar cookies Wooden "wild one" party sign Custom boho gift bags Snacks place in metal buckets

Forget the typical party activities and try one of this fun and unique party activities for kids! From galaxy jars to sharpie and alcohol sprayed shirts, there are lots of neat things to try in this post!

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Thanks to Pinterest, this post is getting a lot of attention! I've made some edits to explain a few more things in pink! Let me know if you have any more questions and I'll answer them in the comments section! Thanks for visiting! **All Sesame Street Characters and pictures for this party were cut outs from the Sesame Street Friends and Sesame Street Fonts Cricut cartridges. I found them on EBAY!*** I still have some catch up to do from the last few weeks, but I know everyone wants to see my pictures from Luke's birthday party so here they are! Luke is way into Sesame Street (SS) these days. He knows all the characters and watches it at least once a day sometimes twice. So I was happy to do a Sesame Street party for him despite the amount of work it took! Luke woke up pretty happy on Saturday morning, I sang Happy Birthday to him and he loved it. He also loved all the decorations we put up the night before and pointed to all the SS characters. Right after breakfast we let him open his present from his G & G brown. He had a fun time ripping off the paper bits at a time. When Scott pulled it out the box he shouted "car" and we put it together quickly for him to push around which he did for a good 20 minutes. It's a bubble mower so we put the bubbles in it and took it outside. He would stop and look at the bubbles when they would come out--he was fascinated. The party didn't start until 11:30, we spent the morning cleaning up and working on Luke's cake! Scott helped a lot actually--he did all the red stars on the cake. I was impressed. Working on this cake made me realize I needed more than one frosting bag to decorate a cake. Oi. We used a wilton Elmo cake pan for the shape. I borrowed it from a friend---chances are you can find a neighbor or friend who has one! We had coloring pages for the kids to color when they came in. I just googled "Sesame Street Birthday coloring pages" and found a bunch free online The Letter of the Day was L for Luke, and Number was 2 for 2 years old I made this banner. I plan on laminating it and using it for future parties. All the characters I'm going to laminate and put in a quiet book or something for Luke. Random Party shot. Scott also made the cookie monster box. This was a game they could play--I made felt cookies and the kids toss them in to cookies mouth--feeding cookie monster. The cookies are two felt circles hot glued together--leave and opening and fill with rice--then glue it shut. Then hot glue black felt pieces on for the chocolate chips! We also had them play pin the nose on the Elmo--I wish I'd had a chance to get a picture of them actually doing it. We blindfolded the older kids but just let the little ones--Luke and Isaac--just stick the nose on.I made all the SS characters using SS Cricut cartridges. It made it a lot easier, but it was still tricky and time consuming. This was another game we played in the background--"Count the Cookies" Everyone just entered a guess as to how many cookies were in the jar (a cleaned out peanut butter jar) and the person who came closest got to take home the jar! So funny and somewhat not so funny story about the pizza. We ordered it at 11:30 and it was only supposed to take 30 minutes--arriving at just the right time for the party. However. An hour later, upon calling to find out what was up, we find that the delivery guy got in a car accident! They sent another guy to go retrieve our pizzas and bring them to our house, but they didn't get here until 1:15 (the party was supposed to be over at 1). Then we opened up the boxes and found that our pizzas didn't do to well in the accident themselves! They were all squished to the side! (and they were lukewarm, not hot like they should have been) After mostly everyone left, Scott called the manager and he gave us FIVE free future pizzas. sweeeet. I love how all the kids crowd around while the presents are opened. My brother Al, his wife Stephanie, and my younger brother Steve were able to come up during their lunch break at the bike shop. (They all work at Taylor's Bike Shop in Provo) Chilling on the stairs with Uncle Derek Birthday Cake Pictures! We have a really cute video of Luke dancing while everyone sings Happy Birthday to him. I'll have to work on getting that up this week. The End!

It's Harry Potter's Birthday! As many know, I'm a Harry Potter fanatic (need proof? check out my robes and etsy shop just for starters). Last year I celebrated Harry's Birthday with a Butterbeer Cupcake Recipe. This year, my sweet Harry is 35, and I decided to celebrate with his favorite sport--Quidditch! What You Need: 3 Sewing Hoops Dowel Rods (I eyeballed the length of mine...you might want to actually measure!) Sand 3 Glass Bottles 20 Solo Cups Ping Pong Balls White foam sheets Hot Glue Gold Spray Paint Green Table Cloth 6 Foot Table Drill Beer is optional--this game can be played on a points system or as a version of beer pong. It is up to you! (see rules of the game for more information) How to Assemble the Game: Measure Dowel rods to desired length (again, I didn't really measure...I just eyeballed it. I'm terrible about that kind of thing). Drill hole into one end of dowel rod. Thread one of the sewing hoops through the hole and secure. Repeat with other two hoops. Place dowel rods into empty bottles. Fill bottles with sand. Hot glue tops of bottles to seal sand and dowel rod into place. Spray paint entire bottle and hoop gold. Allow to dry. Spray paint one ping pong ball gold. Allow to dry. Trace shape of 2 wings onto foam sheets and cut out. Hot glue wings onto gold ping pong ball. Place cups into triangle shape (10 on each side) Play Quidditch...and as Madam Hooch would say, "Now I want a nice clean game...from all of you!" The Rules of the Game: The beauty of Table Quidditch or Quidditch Pong, is that it can be played with or without alcohol making it a game that is fun for all ages. No matter if you are playing it as an adult or family game, the scoring of the game is the same: 1 point (or cup) for getting your ping pong ball into the cups, 2 points (or cups) for getting it through the hoops and into the cups. Your hands can be used like the broom sticks of a keeper to swat the ball out of the way. When you are down to one cup on one (or both) sides, the snitch must be used to end the game. Happee Birthdae Harry! UPDATE: not into DIY? Buy the Quidditch Set in My Shop! This post is linked with April, Karli , Amanda, Tif, Andrea, and Rebecca.

The intriguing tale of Harry Potter inspires to throw magical Harry Potter parties. Experience the amazing hospitality of Hogwarts and play awesome games.

Make a wish and dream away over this Four Ever A Princess Birthday Party by Katherine Fernandez out of West Caldwell, NJ, USA! Featuring a dreamy and chic vibe with tantalizing treats and more, this event will be a princess party favorite, to be sure! So don your gowns and don't forget to take a spin over these mesmerizing details: Adorable Princess-inspired Birthday Cake Four Ever a Princess Tissue Tassel Backdrop Princess Themed Cookies Twinkling Birch Trees Pastel Balloon Garland Darling Princess-inspired Cakesicles Birthday Girl Party Hat + Flags

The party was amazing. AMAZING! (If I do say so myself...) The kids had a wonderful time, the parents were blown away, and I didn't even end up with migraine! My husband and I spent countless hours planning, creating, and preparing for this party; It was worth every minute. Upon arrival, children were escorted through the front door, which had been transformed into Platform 9 3/4. I made a Platform 9 3/4 sign by painting a piece of wood red, then using my Silhouette to cut "HOGWARTS EXPRESS" from sparkly gold paper. I Mod Podged the letters to the board, along with a Hogwarts crest that I found on Google Images, then printed and cut. I used a bowl to draw a circle on the board, painted it white, then drew and painted the 9 3/4 with black paint. I think it looks pretty close to the sign from the movie! The brick wall was made from a light blue sheet that I picked up at Goodwill. My husband cut it to fit our doorway, then drew the bricks on with a Sharpie. He also cut the slit for the kids to run through. I spray painted it red, keeping the spray can at a bit of a distance so as to create an uneven look, like bricks. I made this flag to hang outside our house. Sort of like balloons for a regular party, right? The how-to for the flag can be found here. Inside our house, the kids found The Great Hall, with a nighttime sky on the enchanted ceiling. In the books and movie, robes are a must-have at Hogwarts. I sewed a robe for each of the kids, nine total. They took me about a half-hour each, although eventually I just assembly-lined them, doing all the ironing at one time, hems at one time, etc. After they had their robes, the children were taken to Ollivander's Wand Shop. There, they could choose a wand. My husband carved unique patterns into all of the wands. Didn't he do an incredible job? The kids decorated their wands with markers. They also could choose Phoenix feathers or dragon scales for the core of their wands. My husband drilled holes into one end of each wand. The kids stuffed them with feathers and small jewels (dragon feathers), and then I sealed the holes with hot glue. Next was the Sorting Hat. I created this hat using crumpled brown paper bags. I hot glued torn pieces of the bags to a black witches hat that we had in our dress up clothes. I tried to make the face look like the hat from the movie--My son loved it, but I'm not so sure. I thought long and hard about how to have the Sorting Hat speak. We thought about walkie-talkies or recordings. But eventually, we decided to go with a baby monitor. We hung a the speaker-end of the monitor inside the Sorting Hat, then put the other end in our basement. My husband went downstairs and spoke into the baby monitor as the Sorting Hat, so it sounded like the hat was talking. It worked perfectly--One of the dad's even asked me afterwards how we did it. Success! After being sorted, we went to Potions Class. Each child got a small ceramic cauldron (found at JoAnn's). The first potion contained an explosive clear liquid (water), jellyfish serum (bubble solution), and fire rocks (dry ice). The kids were amazed by this. We had to rinse out the cauldrons between potions, so the kids spent the time stupifying each other. We brought the benches for our picnic table inside and covered them with Dollar Store black tablecloths (same for the table). It really added to the look of The Great Hall. The next potion was a mixture of water and Iocane Powder (cornstartch). This went unbelievably well. Everybody had fun mixing, then being shocked that their solid turned "runny." One kid said, "It's like a solid liquid!" Yup, you got it. This made a huge mess, so I was very glad that we had put down the tablecloths. After Potions was over, it was time for a little QUIDDITCH! Everybody got a broom, made from sticks and brush, found on the side of the road, courtesy of my hubby. We had three foam balls, all red--One large one that was the Quaffle and two smaller ones that were the Bludgers. The kids were separated into two teams. They had to try to get the Quaffle through one of the hoops, but if they were hit by a Bludger, they had to drop the Quaffle. They also had to stay on their brooms. The rings were made by spray painting hula hoops that were nailed to wood, stuck in the ground. There were three on each side, just like in real Quidditch. That's a Bludger. Prior to the party, I spray painted a golf ball gold, then hid it in our yard. We chose a Seeker from each team, and rotated the Seekers each time a team scored--Those kids were responsible for searching the yard for the Golden Snitch. Here it is after being found. Quidditch took a lot of energy, so it was time for some food! Cake time! My son wanted a Golden Snitch cake--No pressure there, right? This is what I came up with: I have a lot of pictures from the making of this cake, so I'll post a how-to sometime in the near future. In case you're wondering, though, yes, the wings are edible too! Edit: Here's the how-to on the cake. This was the coolest part of the cake by far--It was filled with Jelly Bellies, i.e.. Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans! When I cut the first piece out of the cake, the Jelly Bellies all spilled out too. The kids (and adults!) thought that it was pretty amazing. One of the dads was completely incredulous that I had made the cake--He told me that it was "just so magical." Talk about a compliment! We also served Butterbeer. It was Cream Soda (CAUTION: Be sure to buy non-caffeinated soda! The first time my husband bought it, I checked the can and it had caffeine. Can you even imagine?!?), mixed with Butterscotch Syrup. I served it in small Ball glass jars that I had put in the freezer before the party, and then sprayed some Ready-Whip on top. I liked it, so did a few of the kids, but I'm not sure I'd make it again... So that's our party! I forgot to take any pictures of the invitations--They were invitations to Hogwarts, printed on parchment paper, then sealed with red wax and the Hogwarts H. I'll see if I can scrounge one up for pictures. I think the reason this party worked so well was because of all the prep-time. We also kept each activity to 15 minutes, so nobody got bored. Everything moved quickly and fluidly, because of the preparation. My son said that it was the best party he'd every been to, and, pardon my lack of humility here, I'm going to have to agree with him! I'm linking up to these parties: Pin It

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