Where the Wild Things Are

Today I have the honor of sharing the most adorable party for a super adorable two year old. The theme is from the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. I love the book and my children loved the book growing up too. When I saw the party, I just had to share it, and was so happy that my friend agreed to let me share it here.

This family is so special to me anyway. I met them years ago while we were all living half way around the world in the Philippines. We shared some very special memories for the three years we lived there.  I am thankful for Facebook that lets us keep in touch and share our lives now. This little boy's mom was probably about that size when I met the family and now she is grown and has this little fella, How Sweet!

The details of this party are perfect and as you can see it was a huge success for all.

My friend, Deana, bought all the party decor from someone online in a local selling group. Every thing was hand made. It was originally used for a one year old's birthday. They tagged it "Wild One" and Deana changed it to "Two Wild" for her son's 2nd birthday.

The cookies were made by Whisk-A-Cookie Company in Birmingham, Alabama. Be sure to like their facebook page and if you need cookies for a special event give them a call. 

 The blocks were made with pictures printed from the book and so were the stick pictures below.

 The cute wooden cup cake stand  was made by drilling a pole through three wood slices that were purchased at Hobby Lobby.

 The picture props are so perfect. They were hand painted and made for the perfect photo booth for all the guests, even the family pet.

 These face pom poms were bought on Etsy and added to the party wonderfully.

That covers the decorations but that's not all for this party. They had over 40 guests and really pulled it off beautifully by setting up stations through out the house and back yard. The guests all had a great time and everything went smoothly. 

 The bounce house in the back yard made the perfect activity for this party. The guest had a nice place to show off their wildness.  

Thanks again to this special family  

 that threw one cool party for their birthday boy, Hutton!

I guess now we know where the wild things are!

My Little Pony Party

Our granddaughter loves My Little Pony and chose to have her 4th party as a Pony Theme.

Finding themed games and accessories was easy  and we  had favors and paper products to set the atmosphere. Each child went home with a plastic pony cup, jewels, stickers, crowns and pony headbands.

One game we played  was a treasure hunting game based on the episode where Rarity finds jewels and diamonds in the caves. We  made a type of sand out of flour and oil to hide the jewels and rings in. Then each child had a turn to uncover prizes.

Another game was pin the cutie mark on Pinky Pie.

For another activity we bought foam crowns for the guests to decorate.

The back drop was great for pictures.

We had two cakes....one was a rainbow layer cake and one was a rainbow ice cream cake. Both were very easy to make and everyone loved them.

I think next time I will combine the two instead.

Kimber's 3rd Birthday Little Mermaid Style

Kimber LOVES the little mermaid! So does her mom and her aunt and all of us really. So a little mermaid party was so fun for us. Decorating with sea shells and sand just comes natural for us and was so easy to pull things from all over our house for this party. Party favors were sand pails and toys with bubbles. We tried to keep the food simple and fun with the theme. We served foods with sand shovels. 

Kimber and her mom, Becca, made chocolates in sea shapes that we put on the cupcakes and cake. We tried making a sand castle cake. Much harder than it looks but with Kimbers help we were able to pull it off. :-) It is made with ice cream cones turned upside down and marshmallows on the cake layer. Frost everything and then dust with crumbled vanilla wafer cookies. We also added more of the chocolate shells and starfish.

We also made oyster shell cookies by frosting vanilla wafers and putting a yogurt covered almond in for the pearl.

We made a seafoam green punch with lime sherbet and blue jello with gummy fish.

We  drew a picture on poster board of a mermaid girl and beach boy for guest to take pictures with. It is always fun to pretend.

We also had a backdrop of blue material to be our ocean and Becca made some jelly fish with streamers and bowls to hang in our sea.

Julie gave Kimber a couple of hermit crabs for her present. We had so much fun. especially eating cake :-)