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Addisyn and Brookelyn's Frozen Birthday Party
Oh my goodness! I got a little ambitious with this one! Ok, I'm not a great blogger. I'm not witty or funny. I don't know a lot of big words. I'm not a "beat around the bush" type person, let's just get straight into everything that went into this party.
The Elsa dress:
The Elsa dress:
I modified a pattern I found on another blog that I really liked (DIY Maxi Skirt). I lengthened the top to make it a dress rather than a skirt. Kept the bottom the same.
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| (Brookie's top was too itchy.) |
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| (Addisyn's Dress before adding the straps) |
I was rushing to finish at least Addisyn's dress before the party. I braided three pieces of fabric, a sheer fabric and two of the bottom color. Clipping to a cutting guide REALLY helped.
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| (Strap) |
I used the sheer fabric to make the "cape" part of the dress. Just cut it the desired length, added a small piece of fabric that matched the top of the dress (so it didn't itch her neck). My mom sewed in a piece of rope? string? cord? I don't what you want to call it. We tied it to the straps because it was too tight around her neck if we tied the ends together.
Party favors:
Do you want to build a snowman bag. I just put 3 marshmallows, two stick pretzels, three chocolate chips and an orange tic-tac in a small snack size baggie for each of the kids to take home.
Snowball playdough. Here's the recipe Playdough Recipe. It was super easy and fun to make!
Glow Jars. For this I had Shayelynn and her friend help me. They just took glow in the dark paint, two different sized paint brushes and put dots all over baby food jars.
Rock Candy. An epic fail. I attempted to make "rock candies" for the kids to take home. Like these:
Well, the rocks never formed :( so they were thrown out.
Snacks:
We had a great assortment of snacks.
Do you want to build a snowman?
Marshmallows
Pretzels
Chocolate Chips
Orange Tic-Tacs
Sven droppings (Junior Mints)
Kristoff's Ice (Blue Jello). I didn't make this quite right for what my vision was. I wanted to cut out snowflakes from the jello. But, I didn't make it according to the "Jigglers" recipe on the box. So, we just had cubes. So, remember if you're cutting shapes out of jello use the Jigglers recipe on the SIDE of the box!
Glacier Punch. Purple Kool-Aid. 'Nuff said!
Decorations/Games:
The table: I have a HUGE piece of what I call Ice Blue fabric that we laid on the table for a table cloth. We made signs for the table out of poster board and wrote on them with permanent markers. On my small chalkboard picture frame I wrote "I like warms hugs" and added a snowflake.
Decor: Shayelynn and her friend cut out snowflakes. I found these awesome designs with instructions. Frozen Snowflakes
Games: We played pin the nose on Olaf. Here's the poster I made:
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| Sketch before outline in marker. |
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| After outlining and coloring. |
We cut noses out of poster board and colored them orange.
We also had to kids color a coloring page, we just googled "Frozen coloring page":
I was going to have the kids play "Don't Break The Ice" but wasn't able to get my hands on the game in time.
THE CAKE!!
This is absolutely by far my most favorite cake ever! Here's a link to the recipe Simple White Cake. Brandon says you can't make it the same unless you have goats milk, haha. I added a cream cheese filling. SUPER simple! 1 package of cream cheese, teaspoon of vanilla (or if you measure like I do, I count to two while pouring it in) and powdered sugar (I just keep adding it until I get the consistency I want, maybe 2-3 cups?). With how "firm" the cake is, it spread on VERY easily. We topped it with a Fluffy White frosting from a can. I didn't have time to throw together a frosting. I attempted to make hard candy cracked ice, it was an epic fail. Here's what my vision was and how it should have looked:
I never got a picture of the cake finished but before it was eaten, so here's the only picture of the cake I have:
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| Mostly eaten cake |
All in all the party was a huge success! While searching online for ideas I was so overwhelmed by the shear magnitude of the lengths parents go to for birthday parties. This was by far the "biggest" birthday party we've ever done. Some of the parties I saw must have cost the parents a fortune! I don't think their 3 year old cared or will even remember most of what was put into it. Anyways, that's it for now. I hope this will help anyone out there that may be wanting to plan a Frozen themed party themselves. It was totally worth it to see how happy our girls were.
