Cecelia asked us a couple of weeks before her birthday if she could invite her friend from school to her birthday party. We weren't planning as friends party for her. When do you have a birthday party when it is so close to Christmas. When I found out they had a half day of school on Friday the 21st, I though how perfect, we can have the party right after school gets out. We decided on a Candyland Theme, sent invitations to all her classmates had everyone confirmed to come and then the ice storm hit and school was cancelled on Friday. Trey and I contemplated on what to do. Do we cancel it (we had way to much food and stuff to do that), move it later in the day hoping salt trucks would get out. In the end we decided to just go with it. There are 8 friends in Cecelia's class and 7 made it. One friend was stuck in their subdivision. Trey did have to walk one friend up the hill as her mom could not get her car up the road but in the end the friends arrived and we had a great time.
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| Room all decorated. It was a super easy theme to decorate for. Basically anything rainbow colored would do. I went to the dollar store and got almost everything. The streams are just cut up tissue paper. |
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| Sitting down for lunch. They had sandwiches cut out with gingerbread man cookie cutters, rainbow fruit, rainbow goldfish and fruit snacks. We got each kid a cup to use during the party and take home with them as a party favor. |
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| First activity, decorating gingerbread man cookies |
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| Life size candyland game. I used construction paper for the colored squares, a tunnel for gumdrops passes, printed pictures of the different game spots and used the real games cards. |
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| The end of the game was to go down the slide to the castle |
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| These girls are so silly |
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| We also made our own fun dip. Didn't quite turn out how I was thinking but the original thought was to use pixie sticks to fill up a container and then a peppermint stick for the dipping stick. I used fruit ice cubes that could be frozen later to try to fill some space. The jars were too big. |
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| In between activities the kids had fun running around the playroom and going down the slide. |
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| Gumdrop mountain. The object was to see who could build the biggest tower using gumdrops and cut up coffee straws. |
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| The group |
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| Birthday cake |
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| Next activity, candy necklace making. We used pull apart twizzlers as the necklack, and apple jacks cereal to string on and put a sour gummie that had a hole in the middle as a connector for the ends. |
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| Kids sitting waiting for the pinata. We had the kids draw numbers for the order of hitting. |
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| It took a couple of rounds but it finally broke. I filled the piñata with some candy but also other goodies that I was going to put in their take home bags. (silly straws, bouncy balls, tattoos, stickers) |
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