Frozen Birthday Party

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!!

 



Fairy Birthday Party

Love Bug turned three this month and we celebrated in Fairy style!

Thank you to pinterest for always having way more ideas than I can cram into one event.

I borrowed heavily from it. So many creative people out there.

Her cake:

I loved this cake and this cake (the house...scroll down). Put them together and what do you get??

This cake (or at least my version looks like this)

This cake looks so much smaller in a picture than it really is.

It was 16 inches tall :)

Fairy food-

We had fairy blossom sandwiches, snail sandwiches, lots of fruit and berries for lunch....not sure how we missed photos of those.

 Raspberry lemonade with frozen raspberry cubes.

Fairy games-

We decorated fairy houses. I didn't want to deal with paint at the party, so I painted the houses and let them put stickers on them.

We played musical mushrooms

 Thistle toss

Went on a fairy treasure hunt

We used some fairy magic in our fairy magic show.

Fairy goodies

All of the fairies were given wings, tutu's and a head garland.

The tutus were made with chiffon ribbon. 6 inches wide. I cut them into 22 inch pieces and then cut a point from the center (3 inches) to 3 inches down the side.

The wings are made from heavy netting. I cut them into 18x22 inch pieces. Each set of wings had 8 pieces of netting. I trimed the outer edge a bit into a wing shape using a rotary cutter. From the top corner in 2 inches to the center (9 inches). Repeat from the bottom corner. I tied them with ribbon in the center. Then I hot glued a flower to each one, and sprayed them heavily with Tulip fabric glitter paint.

 The boy fairies also had wings and a crown. The wings were made of a less girly but still sparkly fabric (I didn't pay attention to what type it was, sorry). I made capes out of it by cutting the fabric into 28x18 inch pieces. Fold over one of the short ends by 1.5 inches and sew to make a casing. Put ribbon through it. Cape, done. Then I layed the cape down and folded the short ends into the center and used two safety pins to hold the ends in place, being careful to have the pins go on each side of the casing so the ribbon could still slide.

I pulled the ribbon tight and brought it around and tied a knot. The "wings" could then be tied to the boys. I don't have a picture of them wearing them because neither of the boys put them on. I'll try to make another and get photos of it on here.

Decorations-

I mentioned in a previous post that I came upon a great find after Christmas. I bought all kinds of bright colored, glitter coated Christmas decorations on clearance.

Here's how I put them to use

 These were my favorite!

I *just* happened to have a large quantity of organza lying around that I used as the backdrop for the food table and also to hang above the table where the kids ate lunch.

I made a mushroom in the same fashion that I made the chicka chicka boom boom tree (another post).

And the cute sign was made with a clipart I found online and using the font Caribbean Island.

 It was a fun party, and especially fun to celebrate my Little Love Bug turning three!

Thank you to my husband and family for all their support, and my husband for taking great photos.