Hello, Cakelets, Jillian here! I’m so excited to share my sons 5th birthday with you all. Before we jump in I’d love for you to take a quick peek at Liam’s 1st and 3rd birthday party celebrations too!
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Take a look at this fun NINJA 7TH BIRTHDAY PARTY submitted by Noell Allen of 81 South Street. I adore the ninja oreo cupcake toppers made with oreos and black licorice strings! Brilliant! Here is what Noell had to say about the party- My son Jack wanted a Ninja party for his 7th birthday! I had […]
Tangled Party Ideas for My Rapunzel's 5th Birthday | Best list of Disney party inspiration: food, décor, DIY, kid activities, free printable
Alyssa and Kylie celebrated their 5th birthday with some of their friends this past weekend. They requested a Rapunzel (Tangled) theme party so I thought I’d share some details, along with fr…
Swim under the sea and down below and check out this Pastel "Let's Be Mermaids" Birthday Party; what a show! Featuring a mermaid sweets and a cake to make your heart swoon, this Mermaid Party submitted by Marissa Pantoja of MeCupcake, out of El Paso/Texas/United states, will send you over the moon! The Mermaid party ideas + elements you have to dive for from this fabulous birthday bash, include: Stunning 4-tiered mermaid cake Starfish Oreos Bright iced cupcakes topped with fun fondant toppers Oyster macarons Colorful bubble jars filled with flowers Bubbly mermaid backdrop accented with tissue jellyfish chandeliers
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I still can't quite believe it, but Aesop turned seven last week. Yes, SEVEN. As you may or may not know, Aesop that lovely, slightly nerdy, type of boy. He adores all things science, Starwars, superheroes and, mostly importantly, LEGO. It seemed only fitting that he should have a LEGO themed birthday bash this year. There is something else you should also know : in our house we only have parties every second year. I'm not sure if this makes me a meaner Mum than most, but so far it seems to work for us. (I should assure you that we do not restrict birthday celebrations as such, simply the actual throwing of a party. On alternate years we have an outing and family dinner etc. I'm not thaaaaat mean!) Aesop's 5th birthday was a Starwars party, and we had so much fun planning every last little detail. This year, being a month off having a babe, I had a little less energy (and cash!) to spend but still wanted to make it every bit as awesome for him. I wanted to keep it all quite low-key, but not make him feel like he gave anything up, if that makes sense. Aesop chose 4 friends from his class (this, I think, was the hardest part! Only four!) and delivered hand drawn LEGO head invites to them. Abraham whipped these up, and all the Mums commented on how simple and effective they were. The rsvp's came back very quickly! I spent a bit of time scouring the net and compiled some ideas on Pinterest. We planned a few simple party games ( a hunt for little LEGO heads around the house, a tower building competition and a Starwars LEGO game..) but on the day the boys were happier to just scramble through the mountain of bricks we laid out in the lounge, and to play with Aesop's other toys. We didn't plan prizes for any of the games, because that always adds to the expense and the kids soon forget about them anyway! The food was kept very simple, too. We had the usual party faves : cheerio sausages, sausage rolls, mini samosas, mini pita pizzas, burger ring chips, malteasers and a GIANT bowl of lollies. I'm really glad I kept it straight forward, because in the end they would have been happy with just sausage rolls and lollies! They were even so full that they weren't interested in the cake/cupcakes when they came out! The cake (which is mostly still in the fridge, anyone fancy popping round for a cuppa and cake?) was baked in a square tin, and iced with four upside down cupcakes on top. It was not my finest show of decorating, but I'm glad I didn't spend more time on it - the kids hardly looked at it! The cupcakes were plain vanilla with coloured icing, topped with some very cool brick lollies I found on Trademe. They didn't get eaten either! Madness! And, finally, the goodie bags. These contained more of the super cool LEGO lollies (they actually stack! And taste good! Bonus!), a wee colouring book we printed out (from here) and a minifigure. I popped them into a yellow sandwich bag and drew a face on with vivid. Voila! The kids were stoked. I learned a very valuable lesson at this years party - sometimes less really is more.
We created this punch box to use for the Candy Button Trivia game we played at our Maddie-licious party. It’s pretty easy but does take a little bit of time. You’ll need: 4 white poste…
*This post contains affiliate links. Over the past few years, Disney Junior has offered its youngest viewers new and interesting characters. From Sofia the First to Elena of Avalor, from Miles from Tomorrowland to Henry Hugglemonster, there seems to be a new favorite show appearing every year. This year is no exception. In October, Disney Junior premiered a ghoulishly delightful tale of fitting in entitled Vampirina. Based on the character from the Anne Marie Pace Vampirina Ballerina series, this young vampire has to learn to adjust to her new life in Pennsylvania, which is far different than her hometown, Transylvania. Her new school, her new friends her new teacher and her new neighbors all have to adjust to this different kind of family...and the family has to adjust to their new environment as well. Along with life lessons that are taught, there is also delightful music to go with the show. This combination has already made Vampirina a hit with the preschool crowd. Here is how you can host a Disney Junior Vampirina party for your child. Vampirina Party Dress Your little girl can now dress like her favorite character at her birthday party! Available on Amazon Disney Junior Vampirina Birthday Party Invitations You can start your party with a thematic invitation like the one below. Available on eBay There are three different versions of personalized Vampirina birthday party invitations available. They are a digital download that you can personalize on your own computer and are a 5x7 size. Vampirina Inspired Paper Goods for the Perfect Table Presently, there are no Vampirina party goods available with her likeness. However, you can create the perfect tablescape with Vampirina's signature colors of pink, purple and black. Based on your tablecloth color, chose the contrasting plate color. For example, if you select a pink tablecloth, choose purple plates. Purple Plates Available on Shindigz Or you can choose the opposite. For utensils, choose black. Utensils Available on Shindigz Vampirina Party Games After your guests arrive, you will want to play some party games with them. Here are some ideas to get the party going. Bat Relay Race Create two pairs of bat wings from posterboard (these directions are for butterfly wings but you get the idea). Divide the children into two teams and help the first child on each team put the wings on. Have them "fly" to a designated spot, turn around, and then fly back to the line. The next child puts on the wings and does the same. Repeat until each child has had a turn. Vampirina Scavenger Hunt Print out pictures of the Vampirinia characters and hide them around your house or backyard. Give teams a bag to fill with the pictures they find. Vampirina Dance Party This little vampire loves to dance! Have a dance party and teach the children how to do a few simple steps or just play Freeze Dance to Vampirina songs. Vampirina Party Crafts After running around and playing games, you may want to calm the children down with a quiet craft. Be sure to have a sample of the completed project to show the children. Not only does this give them a visual of the finished product, but it also is a way for you to work out any kinks in the project because you are creating one ahead of time. Vampirina Paper Bag Puppets Materials White lunch bags Available on Amazon Vampirina Coloring pages (available here on the Disney Junior website) Crayons (make sure to have plenty of black, pink and purple for Vampirina and blue and dark blue for Demi and Wolfie) Glue sticks Scissors Have the children color in one or all of the of the Vampirina characters. Depending on their age, they may need help cutting out the character. They can use glue sticks to stick them to the paper bag. Make a Bat Ears Headband This craft can also serve as your party favor. There are many YouTube tutorials on how to make a bat ears headband. You can find them here. When you have found the one you want to use, here is a 15 pack of black headbands to order for the party. Available on Amazon Food to Serve at Your Vampirian Birthday Party Besides cake, what else can you serve at your Vampirina party? Bat shaped cookies, of course! Three Piece Bat Cookie Cutter Set from Amazon You can make them ahead of time or you can have this as your edible craft/take home party favor. Use these decorations to make them special. Use white icing and these neon gel food colors to get Vampirina's colors. Available on Amazon After icing the cookies, use pink or purple sprinkles or sugars to decorate. Last, use these edible eyes to make them look bat-tastic! Available on Amazon For healthier snacks, you can use the cookie cutters to make bat shaped fruit slices and cheese. Make bat shaped sandwiches as well with the cookie cutters for a fun, inexpensive place to put the cheese. Vampirina Cake and Cake Toppers Nothing makes a splash at the party like a themed cake. These do not have to be expensive creations...just bake your own cake or buy a supermarket cake and add your own Vampirina cake topper to it. Vampirina Cake Toppers and Cupcake Toppers Available on eBay This is a cupcake topper that is perfect for those who want to serve a cupcakes instead of a sheet cake. Vampirina Party Favors There are so many fun favors that you can hand out to your guests. Vampirina glows, and so should her favors! Here are just a few ideas. Glow in the Dark Fangs from Shindigz Comes with One Dozen Glow Beads from Shindigz Comes with One Dizen Glow in the Dark Sunglasses from Shindigz Comes with One Dozen Glow Eyeball Bounce Balls from Shindigz Comes with One Dozen If you would like to hand out a different kind of party favor, then why not give each guest a book? Available on Amazon Available on Amazon
If your kids love Moana as much as mine do, why not make their next birthday a Moana party? I've already got the basics covered with invites, food, decor & more
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Wonder Woman Superhero Birthday Party January 12, 2017 Got birthday mischief coming your way? No worries, Wonder Woman is here to save the day! Submitted and styled by Isabelle Craft of Bella C Parties, out of Beaverton/OR/USA. This fabulous Wonder Woman Superhero Birthday Party is full of awesome party ideas that any independent and fierce little girl will go crazy for! The party details for this Wonder-filled birthday bash, include: * Awesome Wonder Woman cityscape backdrop * Custom Wo
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Seven. How did *that* happen? My "baby" is seven. *sigh* Ok, thoughts of baby blankets, soft fuzzy baby hair, tiny baby clothes aside, it's time for my boy to grow up (if he insists. Which he does.). And this "big" boy is into what most "big" boys (and lots of actual big boys) are into... Star Wars! So today we'll celebrate in a galaxy far, far away welcome, padawan I was inspired by Jennifer S on Catch My Party to make these. Who wouldn't love to get their very own lightsaber in the mail? I love how the party info is printed right on the back. I made mine simpler in front, as I had a LOT to make. Want to make your own? eat, you must For lunch we enjoyed hot dogs from the "Hutt Dog" station. Snacks included Wookie Cookies, Carbonite Jell-O and more. The Hutt Dog station! Not only were our guests given lots of toppings to choose from, we also gave some Star Wars themed ideas on how to prepare their dogs. Feel free to print the Clone Dogs, "Solo" Dog, "Chilly" Dog and Swamp Dog signs for yourself! My signs are displayed in Ikea frames. The water bottles are covered with glitter paper (it's from a roll of wrapping paper I got at Michaels). Then I got printable Storm Trooper labels from Clean & Scentsible for them. The Padawan Popcorn boxes can also be printed here. It's a great versitle little favor box! You can print it on any color paper to match your party. If you own a personal cutter like the Cricut, here's an SVG file of the box. My large "Hutt Dogs" sign was cut with my Cricut but the small food signs can be printed here. We enjoyed some Bow-Ba Fett Pasta (Ree Drummond's Kid-Friendly Pasta Salad made with bow-tie pasta). The pasta is in cups purchased from TomKat Studios. I chose them because they're lined with plastic so the dressing wouldn't leak through. We also had Princess Lays (potato chips) and more hot dog toppings. Stephen's cake and cupcakes were inspired by Takes the Cake. The letters, stars and lightsabers were made from fondant. The silver was all touched up with silver Pearl Dust to give them some sparkle. The Vader-Ade is simply red Gatorade. The Yoda Soda is green Hawaiian Punch and 7up with some green sherbert on top. I made ice cubes from both the Gatorade and Hawaiian Punch to keep the drinks cold without watering them down. Those fantastic C3PO Oreos pops were inspired by Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons. They were a big hit! The Cloud City Pops are simply marshmallows on lollipop sticks, dipped in a milk/confections sugar mixture then into blue Pearl Nonpareils. The sticks are actually paper straws purchase, again, from TomKat Studio. Carbonite Jell-O. How awesome is that? I've seen it in a few places online but I'm going to give the credit to the first person I saw use it. Carli from Dimple Prints. Just fabulous! She also inspired the Death Star Krispies we'll see next... ....made with Cocoa Krispies, these things were SO yummy! I tried to add a little "sparkle" to them with edible glitter, but it just doesn't really show up. The jarred snacks up top include, Hans Rollos, Ewok Snacks (Teddy Grahams), Thermal Detonators (Whoppers) and Lightsabers (Pixy Stix). Ah, the Wookie Cookies. How can you not love that face? The brilliant mind that brought up C3PO Oreos, also brought us these fantstic cookies! Thanks Jill over at Kitchen Fun with My 3 Son! The Obi-Wan Kabob-ies were inspired by these from Sweet Cakes Crafts. The Tie Fighters were inspired by Clean & Scentsible (who also brought us the free Storm Trooper water bottle printables!). They're made from Oreo Crisps (the 100 calorie packs) and mini marshmallows. Another huge hit! padawan entertainment Even Padawan need some down-time! Ours had lots of fun activities to choose from. Make Your Own Lightsaber: Papertowel tubes, foam stickers, markers and balloon-animal style balloons made up this station. It was the BIGGEST hit! After decorating their papertowel tube, a grown-up slid a deflated balloon in and blew it up. Instant lightsaber! I got this idea from Jennifer S over at Catch My Party. (You'll remember, she also inspired my invitation.) Stellar Play Dough: Homemade play dough, with some added glitter (for that stellar effect), rollers and cutters made up this crafty station. This fantastic idea came from Tradewind Tiara (as do a few addition ideas you'll see coming up!). I used these jars for the play dough. And a word of advice on making the play dough, don't add the glitter too far in advance. I made the play dough about 2 weeks before the party and the glitter all dissolved! We tossed more in just before the festivities. Make Your Own R2 Unit: Cut almost entirely with my Cricut, we had blank R2 units with an assortment of cardstock shapes to add. I made one for display to help as inspiration. Feel free to download the PNG or SVG of the R2 unit for yourself! Thanks to Sweet Craft Cakes for this great idea! They're also to thank for our "Clone Army" idea below. The young Jedi Apprentice practiced their blaster training (aka: Nerf guns) on these poor, unexpecting "Clones". That'll teach them for crashing our party! what's a jedi apprentice to wear? Our dress-up station had it all! Character masks, Leia headbands and, (of course!) Jedi robes. Those absolutely fantastic masks were made by etsy seller BessiePooh. You can see all of her wonderful creations here. The Leia headbands were inspired by Tradewind Tiara (see, I told you you'd see them mentioned again!) She gives great step-by-step instructions on how to make them. The glue gun burns these babies gave me were totally worth it! Lastly, the Jedi robes. I made mine from "chocolate" broadcloth. I cut strips measuring about 16" wide by 48" long (adjust your length based on the size of your attendees). Then I cut a hole in the center for the kids heads. I then cut 44" strips of tan broadcloth for the belts. The ream was 44" wide, which is why I chose that number. *wink* Cute, aren't they? become a jedi, you will Having attended training himself this past summer, Stephen, now a Jedi, wanted to train his Padawan in the Jedi arts. (How cool is this photo!? Hubby took it with his new iPhone 5.) You never know when the dark side will try to tempt you, best be prepared. *wink* He stood before his friends, now dressed in their Jedi robes and armed with... you guessed it, lightsabers! These foam lightsabers can be found all over the internet at just about every Star Wars party out there. Their origin, impossible to find. Made from foam pool noodles, cut in half, mine are wrapped with 3 rows of silver duct tape and topped off with strips of black electrical tape. The original creator of these things: a genius. 7 year old boys LOVE to beat on each other. And believe you me, they did just that! Some double-fisted. Best idea ever. After their training, each new Jedi received a "graduate" badge. I put them into vertical badge holders hung from lanyards. The kids loved that they were each personalized. Here's a blank one for you to work with. All that practice (and Jedi training) paid off, because we *were* visited by Mr. Dark Side himself, Darth Vader! After a demonstration from Stephen, each new Jedi "battled" Darth Vader. He was a gracious loser, as he posed for this fantastic photo with them all afterwards. smile and say "chewy" What's a party without a photo booth? And who wouldn't want their photo with the infamous Darth Vader!?! (maybe a newly minted 7 year old, unaware that it's just his Papa in costume, that's who) Set against a black paper backdrop, covered with silver stars, party-goers had a board full of favorite quotes from the movie, along with their favorite masks to pose with. Happy birthday, big guy. <3
Tangled Party Ideas for My Rapunzel's 5th Birthday | Best list of Disney party inspiration: food, décor, DIY, kid activities, free printable
Are any of you the type of people who promise yourself you won’t over-commit, and then you get caught up in a project and find yourself going over the top? No? Me neither. 😉 Though I thoroughly enjoyed celebrating my son’s 4th birthday, I did not keep this party low-key as I had promised myself …
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