With my whole family vaccinated AND post catching COVID despite that fact, we decided to go all in on my son's 8th birthday this year. The last big birthday we celebrated was his 6th mere weeks before the pandemic began. He requested a shark themed party so I did my best to make it happen in the dead of winter in Colorado.
Starting with the location, it took a bit of sleuthing but I finally managed to find an indoor pool that allowed birthday parties. The location was a swimming school and turned out to be a fabulous venue. They had fun murals all over the walls and TONS of water toys. They also provided tables for food and gifts and two life guards for the pool who played with and monitored all of the guests for us.
For the invites I headed to Canva and got to creating. I wanted to impart the vibe in a fun way and I think they turned out great. After designing them I sent them for same day pickup to Walgreens. (there was a backside with all the deets too)
For the invites I headed to Canva and got to creating. I wanted to impart the vibe in a fun way and I think they turned out great. After designing them I sent them for same day pickup to Walgreens. (there was a backside with all the deets too)
Once the overall plan was made I set to work on the details by heading to Pinterest of course! I went all in on fun themed food and ordered trinkets for goody boxes. Unlike other parties held at my home in the past, this party didn't require games and activities for the guests so once I figured out the food and party favors I was done!
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I made the shark cake with two boxes of cake mix, store bought white icing that I dyed various shades of blue and a shark hand puppet stuffed with paper towels. I followed a tutorial for the shark watermelon, hot glued googly eyes to toothpicks for the crab croissant sandwiches and attempted to make ocean jell-o with gummy sharks but it was an epic fail. I ran out of jell-o and had to scavenge for more in my pantry but it was the wrong color. So, I added blue food coloring but it turned out purple because it was red and yellow jell-o mixed together. There was supposed to be a graham cracker sand bottom but when I added the jell-o it floated and because the space was warm the whipped cream went flat. But, it was tasty and I created a new flavor of jell-o: lemon, strawberry, blue-raspberry.
It was a very fun party that took way less effort than most other parties I have planned which was good because I've been experiencing vertigo and functioning has been interesting.
I hope you enjoyed looking at my pictures! Thanks for visiting!
It was a very fun party that took way less effort than most other parties I have planned which was good because I've been experiencing vertigo and functioning has been interesting.
I hope you enjoyed looking at my pictures! Thanks for visiting!
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