What a weekend! Savannah had her 5th birthday party on Saturday and I thought I would share some of the highlights. The theme? Tangled of course, I had originally planned for it to be more of a Valentine princess party but about a month before hand I found a cute Tangled crown template and it just kept evolving into a Tangled birthday party. If you haven't seen the movie some of the things won't make much sense but I think most of the girls had seen the movie so it worked out. I did send out an invitation but it was my original idea of a Valentine princess party-I will post a picture later. Once I realized where the theme was going I tried to keep to Tangled as much as possible, In the movie Rapunzel loves to paint and when she goes and visits her own kingdom (doesn't know it at the time) she does a huge sun out of caulk in the town square. I liked the picture out of caulk until my almost 2 year old thought it was funny to sit and scoot her bottom over the colors and therefore get chalk everywhere, wasn't so cool then. The day was perfect it was sunny with a high of about 75 and a light breeze.
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| Birthday Invitation | |
The crown template can be found
here and the sun flowers are actually hair clips-Once I discovered the crown template I went through my stock of paper and found a pretty silver and white for the crown base and diamonds but I didn't have quite enough, so off to Joann, who happened to be running a 6 sheets of card stock for $1 sale and found a beautiful gold sparkle paper and a gold and silver shimmer paper, so I remade all the crowns out of the prettier paper. The birthday girl's crown had the extra touch of stick on faux pearls, found at Michaels for $1.
My original plan was to have the girls monogram hanging from the chairs but with the chairs being yellow they didn't have the impact I wanted so I used tape and taped them to the tablecloth in front of their seat. As the girls arrived to the party I handed out a crown and hair clip.
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| Actual setup from the party |
I have noticed at birthday parties that there is a lot of time between when kids are done eating and adults-so to keep the crew occupied I made mini coloring books by printing different free coloring pages online and using a cool Tangled coloring pages which are found
here.
My gold Sparkly lanterns to replicate the lantern scene from the movie.
Since Rapunzel loves to paint I set up a place for the girls to watercolor on paper or they can paint on the large hanging paper.
Outside the back deck we have a beautiful large maple tree. This is my last minute Thursday drive in to work idea that came out very nice. Throughout the movie Flynn Rider (Hero/Thief character) comments on how his wanted poster doesn't show an accurate nose. So I printed a bunch of Flynn Wanted posters with different noses. The 'Create your own wanted poster' from Disney you can find
here.
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| Takeaways |
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As a takeaway gift for the girls we purchased the Princess statue play set from Disney on Sale for $8.50 and used them on the dessert table. After the party was over they girls could take one home, but of course this can be problematic with a lot of girls wanting the same princess. It actually worked out that the girls got their favorite one with no fighting. The dessert menu was Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese icing decorated with sprinkles and jellybeans, brownies with M&Ms, chocolate covered marshmallows and chocolate chip cookies. We also had Blue Bell ice cream but we forgot to get it out. The party started at 12noon with lunch and actually didn't end until 4pm with all the girls playing nice outside-I couldn't ask for a better birthday party!
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| Rapunzel in her tower -a last minute Friday morning idea |
I do have a good bit of pictures from the party but I did not want to post any pictures without consent from the parents. As soon as I get consent I will post them.
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Birthday girl and baby sister
Birthday Girl in her new birthday clothes |
