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What child doesn’t LOVE superheroes? With exciting new movies and thrilling shows, superheroes from every part of the multiverse are extremely popular in every age group. We're absolutely in love with this superhero themed birthday party. It's easy to recreate with a bit of DIY to customize for your own child!
Parties are my JAM. I love love love throwing parties. It's usually a chaotic mess leading up to them, but the planning and executing and enjoying them is so much fun. I'm also a procrastinator with parties, but I do my best work when I'm in a pinch to finish everything! So I plan it all out in my h
Piper’s fourth birthday came and went so fast! This was the first year that she had an opinion on the party theme and of COURSE she wanted a Frozen party. At first I wasn’t too excited about it, but as we set everything up it really started to come to life and I ended up loving it! So here are some
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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.
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Before you become a knight, you must go through the proper training. Take a look at my son's 9th Birthday! Knights-In-Training Royal Celebration! The formal invitation Check out the goodies and decorations. Alright! Let's get this party started with a fanfare from the King! (Yes, that's my 'awesome' husband, oh the things I talk him into.) Training has begun! Get some inspiration... Shield Designing is first. Every good knight needs a personalized shield! Well done! Now it's time for the Battle Training. Get your gear! Take one bow... (straw) and strap on a pack of color-coded arrows! (Q-tips) Now choose your castle to take cover in. The serpent castle on one side or... or the dragon castle on the other! Load one arrow into the bow,aim and fire (blow)! Repeat again and again! Good work! Even the king got in the middle of this battle! That's the spirit! Time for Catapult Assembly Training. Head to the supply table. Gather what you need. Follow the directions carefully...you don't want a faulty catapult! Don't forget your ammunition (marshmellows)! Load up the catapult with marshmellows...I mean ammo. a little target practice. Take teams, ready...fire! Aim for your target! Get your mask on for protection! Now, just what you've been waiting for... it's time for Sword Fighting Practice. You'll need some energy first, eat up. OK, you're ready, careful now... Do a little practice first, then... get on those 'horses' and knock your opponent off! <><><><> <><><><> <><><><> You've got it! Great jousting! Try not to enjoy it too much, this is serious training! Good work! Your training is complete. Your knighthood has been officially granted by the king! Time for the Celebration Banquet! -Corndogs on a stick (knights love anything that can resemble a sword!) Fruit Kabobs (yes, they're on a stick as well!) Round Table Snack Mix (Round pretzels, round soup crackers and cheddar popcorn) Flaming Arrows -Chocolate dipped marshmellows with red sugar sprinkles! (Oh, look- they're on a stick too!) Shield cookies- rectangle shaped cookies with a frosted petite cookie on top. To drink, Knight's Fuel otherwise known as juice pouches. And Birthday Cake! Happy 9th Birthday, Jacob! Before leaving, all knights receive their reward for good training. Payment in gold (chocolate coins), RingPop (from the king) and little knight figures. A reward well deserved! Many thanks go out to the grandparents for their help! The paper decorations were ordered from Birthday Express and the foam swords were ordered from Amazon. Catapult directions were found at the Knight for Hire website. Costumes, hoppity horses and various props were brought from my mom's friends. The king's robe and crown were borrowed from our church. A big thank you (especially from my child) to Lowes for their many appliance boxes and helping me stuff them into my car! (I drove home with my seat as far forward as possible and cardboard over my head! The things we do for our kids?!) Now the hard part...getting those thank you notes finished! Linking up to: MyInsanityPartyParty
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Click those reigns and trot in cause Eloise's Horse Back Riding Party by Jacquelyn Kazas of Beijos Events is about to begin! Filled with details country and cute this celebration is a real hoot! So mount those ponies and take a ride along these details that waiting inside: Horse-inspired Birthday CakeGarden Guest TablesHorse CookiesDarling Balloon ArchesGlam Floral ArrangementsModern Country Table Setting
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