This year Miss A's birthday party was a little more low key than past years, and A LOT more girly. After some negotiation, we decided on a butterfly tea party theme. Miss A had a lot of opinions about her party this year. Thankfully nothing was too crazy. We ended up with 5 friends coming over to celebrate, for a total of 7 little girls 5 and under. There was lots of laughing, squealing and so much fun!
For the party, I only decorated the dining room, where we would do most of the activities, including the tea party. I got some butterfly fabric from JoAnn to use as a tablecloth, a chalkboard paper banner from Target (I wrote Happy 4th Birthday), some paper lanterns from Michael's, flowers, balloons and lots of pictures of Miss A.
I found butterfly wings at the dollar store last month, and bought enough for all of Miss A's friends. I also got plain white tea cups with plates for all of the girls. One of the activities was for the girls to decorate their tea cups (I completely forgot to take pictures of the girls working on this because I was busy helping with the decorating). I've seen the idea pop up on Pinterest a few times, and after looking at many, many pins, we used Sharpie Oil-Based Paint Markers to decorate the tea cups. We rinsed them out after using the cups for our tea party, and sent instructions home with the girls for how to bake the cups (I thought
this post was helpful. Miss A and I did a trial run in advance, and all went well).
The tea party itself was lots of fun. We had apple juice for tea, and the girls were so cute drinking out of their fancy cups! (I'm sure the cups will be used many more times around our house.) Miss A planned the lunch menu of hot dogs, chips, berries, grapes and string cheese.
Another activity the girls did was decorate butterflies. Making "crafts" is one of
Miss A's current favorite activities, so it seemed fitting for her birthday party. I put out crayons, markers, puff balls, glitter glue, stickers and washi tape, and let the girls go. The glitter glue was a HUGE hit, but it wasn't dry before the girls left, so we have some deliveries to make later.
Of course, we couldn't forget cake and ice cream! Miss A really just likes the frosting.
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| Our annual picture with Mommy, Daddy and the birthday girl. |
Such a cute party! I think the smaller parties are even better than large ones because you can do more quality activities without all of the kids losing focus and running around like crazy! It looks like all of the girls had such fun :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was really nice to be able to relax and enjoy the smaller party. It was also a lot easier to supervise the craft activities!
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