Birthday Party 2014
The party went really well! I am glad! What a relief! Dd said "That
was my best party ever!" or 'her favorite birthday party
ever'---something along those lines!!!! If that tells you anything! We
had Lasagna (Gluten Free) and Stuffed Shells, veggie platter, peanuts,
cashews, Pirates Booty, Gluten Free chips & cheese, Crackers &
Cheese, dried apricots & dried cherries, "punch", and Gluten Free
chocolate cake.
We played Pin the Eye on the Cyclops, Hacky-Sack with blue balloons, had a cool painting craft--where we painted cardboard cut outs. The day before, I'd cut out cardboard in the shape of bird houses, and then I'd gesso'd the cardboard (painted the cardboard with a white paint so their colored paint), then gave each child a palette of paints to paint 1 or 2 of the birdhouses, Capture the Greek God's Flag (Capture the Flag, but with flags that Dd made representing 13 different Gods & Goddess of Greek times), Archery (this was a repeat event), opening presents given to Dd, opening presents given to guests, a big Scavenger hunt where the items were either plus OR minus points (one child earned 32 points, while another got -15 points!!!), basketball in the driveway, play the piano & keyboard taking turns, and play with Lego's time...a great time was had by all!
We played Pin the Eye on the Cyclops, Hacky-Sack with blue balloons, had a cool painting craft--where we painted cardboard cut outs. The day before, I'd cut out cardboard in the shape of bird houses, and then I'd gesso'd the cardboard (painted the cardboard with a white paint so their colored paint), then gave each child a palette of paints to paint 1 or 2 of the birdhouses, Capture the Greek God's Flag (Capture the Flag, but with flags that Dd made representing 13 different Gods & Goddess of Greek times), Archery (this was a repeat event), opening presents given to Dd, opening presents given to guests, a big Scavenger hunt where the items were either plus OR minus points (one child earned 32 points, while another got -15 points!!!), basketball in the driveway, play the piano & keyboard taking turns, and play with Lego's time...a great time was had by all!
Gifts the "L" family made for Dd:
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| "J" made the drawing, and framed it, and then also gave this cross-stitched sword! |
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| "A" made a tin full of chocolate--it tasted like chocolate fudge. The chocolate was cut into animal shapes---so YUMMY! |
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| "D" made the bracelet |
Cake Time!
Son of Poseidon's cake--a Percy Jackson cake!
The Craft project:
I got this idea from Pinterest - cut out cardboard in the shape of birdhouses, then have each child paint however they want to--
Pin the Eye on the Cyclops!
The gifts Dd made for the "L" family that came to the party, plus a little extra bag full of goodies that were not made by her.
Dd's crocheted these.
For "J", "L", and "D"
For "J", "L", and "D"
For "A"
For "J", "L", and "D"
For "J", "L", and "D"
For "A"
For "R"
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| We gave out gift bags to our friends for coming---things that we thought they would especially like. |
My friend gave me some tea!!!
What a wonderful surprise!
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