Better late than never. Their party was over two weeks ago now. I worked on crafts and such for the week before the party so I will highlight my handy-work...but fair warning...I am not a crafty person. Thank goodness for Pinterest! Ha!
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I ironed on their customized transfers from Etsy. Adorable and affordable!
I made this banner out of cardstock, printed caterpillar and month labels, ribbon, hot glue, and clothespins. I saw the idea on Etsy and shamelessly made my own.
I printed out the many labels of what the Very Hungry Caterpillar ate in the book and glued them to colored cardstock. I put this around the food table. |
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| The clothespin banner turned out really cute. I printed their monthly picture collage that I have done all year. |
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| My attempt at this great Pinterest idea that I saw. |
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| They didn't quite hang the way I wanted but worked. |
We had their party at a great park in our city. It has a huge shelter house. We reserved the shelter house back in April. My worst nightmare occurred as I pulled up an hour before the party to decorate. There were a TON of people in the shelter. It was posted that we reserved the shelter but people apparently joined in anyway. I am not a confrontational person so going up to MULTIPLE (yes, about 5!) birthday parties and telling them we reserved this and they needed to leave. It was awful. A few people were angry. I explained and showed my proof of payment. I started off nice and cordial but the people that wanted to challenge me, I was probably less than nice to them. They eventually left and we had a lovely time.
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Our favors! I just printed a thank you message (with caterpillar, of course!) and glued them to lollipops and favor bags.
We also had a bin of candy and bubbles.
The way I displayed the lollipops required some engineering. I had the plastic pails so filled with rocks from our flower beds. I then hot glued a half sphere of styrofoam. Then could just slide them in. |
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I didn't get a close up picture of the cupcakes or cakes! Ugh! I made the cupcake toppers. I again, printed messages with caterpillars, 1, and their names. I then cut them out and glued them to colored popsicle sticks. Their smash cakes and cupcakes were done by our local grocery store and turned out great.
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| Some hotdog and watermelon before the festivities. |
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| We brought their wagon to the park to do their presents. Otherwise, they would have ran off a few minutes into it. |
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| Max loved the tissue paper. |
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| Great friends got them these Cozy Coupe cars. I love the personalized plates! |
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| Definitely a favorite gift! |
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| Harper refused to wear the hat. |
It was such a fabulous day with family and friends. We loved it. So did they!
-Lisa-
I'm so impressed with everything you did for their birthday! Amazing and so cute. I can't believe the nerve of people that would argue over the shelter, considering it was posted as reserved AND you had proof of payment! Ugh.
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So cute! What a sweet birthday! And good for you for getting in there and kicking those people out :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great job you did on the decorations! Kudos! Kicking people out would have been my worst nightmare too, so thumbs up! Great idea with the wagon....I'll have to file that one away.
ReplyDeleteEverything was so cute!! Great job on the Hungry Caterpillar theme!!
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