We caught the fever of Frozen! Lovebug had a pirate party half planned for her birthday when we went to see the movie. As we walked out of the theater, she announced that she wanted a Frozen birthday party.
This was mid-January, and as many know, there was no Frozen merchandise to be found both online or in a store. I loved Frozen as well, so it didn't take much arm twisting to get me on board. Lovebug wants to be Elsa for Halloween. I am all about multi-uses for costume. You can't find them anywhere OR a pattern for the dress, so I was left to my own devices. I used a princess nightgown to trace the bodice and then winged it from there.
Here is my "Elsa"
She didn't want poofy princess, but there was no way I was doing a slit for a 5 year old, even if its only to the knee. A hidden pleat was the answer.
On to the party!!
The invitation
Decorations
We made a bunch of these snowflakes. I loved the youtube tute HERE:
I used the lithographs that came with my Blu-ray preorder from Disney Store here and there to add scenes from the movie. The cone trees are 12x12 velum and have Christmas lights inside of them.
Remember that parachute we have? Yep. Its not just a wedding canopy, its snow. I draped it all over the family room.
I didn't get as much done ahead of time as planned so the morning of the party was busy and I didn't get all the details photographed. I missed the major Christmas clearance at the craft stores, because we saw the movie and switched themes so late. But I did manage to find a lot of floral sticks, swags, etc at Joann and then used what I had left from Lovebug's fairy party a few years back. I was looking for white, silver, purple, aqua, and blue for the color scheme and everything was covered in glitter. :)
Party fun
All the girls received tutus
and tiaras that I found at Joann.
The boys had reindeer antlers and scarves. The antlers were made from a pattern I found HERE
We also had lots of yummy treats to put in goody bags. I found some stickers on Amazon as well.
Everyone took home an Olaf building kit. I got the printable from HERE
There were a lot of Valentine versions floating around the web, but I liked this one because it wasn't Valentine themed. I did have to adjust the size of it.
Inside there are three large marshmallows- one has "hair" that we made with tootsie rolls shaped like his hair. Two Wilton eyes, one orange Mike n Ike candy for the carrot nose, two stick pretzels, three brown mini M&Ms and two small marshmallows for the feet.
The food/dessert table
I didn't get a photo before they started digging in!!
Parfaits made with keylime yogurt, coconut macaroon, and coconut. I used keylime and vanilla yogurt mixed them together to make the flavor more subtle. I also added a bit of blue food coloring to adjust the color. They were layed with the plain vanilla yogurt, macaroon and coconut, then topped with coconut.
Snowflake sandwiches
Blue jello jiggles "ice blocks" were the most popular item!
Cupcakes! I made the snowflakes out of vanilla candy melts. The idea was from HERE and she did a much better job than I did. I think my cold kitchen was to blame.
The cupcakes were from HERE and were so delicious! Again my kitchen was too cold for the frosting to work with the swirl :( So we just spread it on the best we could as the party guests arrived.
In the background you can see the candy coated marshmallows. Just mallows dipped in candy coating and covered in sprinkles.
Candy coating dipped pretzels and munchkin 'Snowballs"
We played some youtube Frozen videos with lyrics on the TV and the kids sang karaoke with it for a while.
The big hit was the snowball fight. We used Snowtime Anytime snowballs. We have had a snowball fight every day since we bought them several weeks ago. So much fun!!
We played Pin the Carrot on Olaf. I used this PRINTABLE and enlarged it at Staples.
We played Freeze tag and Freeze dancing.
It was a great party!!