We created a life-sized boat out of cardboard for the presents to sit as well as for any children who wanted a fun photo op. We also made shields out of cardboard cake platters, paint and gold duct tape and viking helmets out of cardboard, duct tape and foam board. The biggest hit were the fun dragon cut outs that our fantastic Assistant Manager, Beth, made out of foam board.
Saturday we finally got to see all of the dragon craziness that we've created over the past month put together! It was so much fun! Here's what we did! We created a life-sized boat out of cardboard for the presents to sit as well as for any children who wanted a fun photo op. We also made shields out of cardboard cake platters, paint and gold duct tape and viking helmets out of cardboard, duct tape and foam board. The biggest hit were the fun dragon cut outs that our fantastic Assistant Manager, Beth, made out of foam board. Party guests not only got the super awesome shields and helmets, but also received goody bags filled with fake mustaches (they are supposed to be hairy vikings you know), stickers, candy, swords and battle-axes and plastic toy dragons. Their amazing craft activity was to decorate their own miniature viking boat. Each cardboard boat was handmade by our staff and they looked almost identical to our life sized boat. For food our party guests got to munch on pizza as well as a delicious tower of fruit, handmade pretzel and fondant battle axes and custom sheep marshmallows (in the movie the dragons ate sheep). And don't forget the yummy cupcakes from a local bakery and the custom tiered cake that the party mom brought. We were really excited about how our decorations turned out. We made a banner and viking boat facade for the food table as well as custom pennants for the walls and table cloths draped on the ceiling.
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Owning a business that creates custom birthday parties has it's perks! This year I took full advantage and enlisted my staff's help in preparing for my daughter's 3rd birthday. We created a TON of tissue paper flowers, a paper maché unicorn head, colorful custom birthday pennants for decorating the walls, unicorn horn headbands, and yarn pony tails to bring her rainbow unicorn party to life! There are many different ways to create tissue paper flowers. Here is one that we used. The paper maché unicorn head took a little more effort but we loved the result! Check out the tutorial here. To finish out the party we ordered rainbow cupcakes from our exclusive bakery J&M Cakes. For the rest of the party food we had a rainbow fruit tower, a rainbow veggie tray, rainbow deviled eggs and rainbow buttered noodles. As an added bonus, I decided to bake a cake from scratch too so there was a cake with white icing and rainbow insides. We also made the rainbow and cloud cake topper. For a final flourish we used an array of rainbow colored table cloths to create a canopy effect on the ceiling.
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meet rachelRachel is a mother of three, elementary Spanish teacher and part-time blogger who loves crafting, creating fun and engaging activities for her children and students and hanging with her friends and family. She blogs about what she's doing and her interests at any given time which vary. She's a little OCD and always looking for her next project. Her husband calls it, "focusing her crazy", but she just calls it fun. Archives
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