Howdy!
So I have to tell you that I LOVE birthdays; I love making a big deal about people on their birthday and letting them know just how thankful I am that they are here. We just celebrated my daughters birthday and I think she had a blast!
My goal for Kate's party this year was to make her so excited that she freaked out. On her 2nd birthday we had a Mickey Mouse party and when she saw the decorations for the first time she ran from decoration to decoration saying "Oh my gosh!" "Oh my goodness!" and "Wow!". I have to tell you - I want to get this reaction from her every year!
This year Kate wanted a Rapunzel Tangled Birthday party. I found a great picture online and made her invites. I wrapped some string around the invite as Rapunzel's hair:
We got her a special birthday outfit: a Rapunzel "3" shirt, a glittery tutu skirt, and a homemade Rapunzel crown.
There weren't a lot of store decorations available for Tangled yet so I decided I would make her decorations. First the party favors: I made Kate a fancy Rapunzel braid clip, I made each little girl that was going to attend a long Rapunzel braid clip, I made each little boy wanted signs to hang around their necks, and I made everyone sticker tags to wear (Saying things like 'My daughter is 3!' or 'My friend is 3!').
I decorated the party rooms with balloons, Wanted posters, banners, and Rapunzel's hair:
Outside was also Tangled in Rapunzel's hair, a Wanted poster, and our door donned a "3" and an extra long braid:
Go Disney (http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/tangled)had a lot of fun activities for a Tangled birthday party. We made the pascal party blowers but instead of letting a group of 3+ year old completely glue it together I had the body and the blower together and just let them paste on the eyes and draw a smile. I think if I did this again I would have just used construction paper instead of foam.
I also printed the coloring pages from this site onto Color Wonder paper and had a coloring station. There was a 'Rapunzels Paints' station too where the little girls could get their nails painted (with the help of my wonderful niece volunteers!)
The cake table was decorated with a store bought table cloth, napkins, and plates. I made a cupcake tower (instructions on go disney - except I used cupcakes instead of muffins). I also had a HOMEMADE pinata on the table.
The pinata took me a couple hours one night. I found a blog where someone had made one previously (Look for Second Street on Blogspot and find the Minnie Mouse party) and decided to try it out. I just cut 2 circles out of a card board box for the faces of the pinata (I was thinking after the fact that those cardboard cake trays you can buy would have worked great too), cut a few 4 in wide and 5 in long strips from the box too for the width of the pinata and lightly taped things together. The strips are made pliable by bending them into a circle.
I left a big opening at the top to dump candy in (which I later covered with a single piece of tissue paper).
I then grabbed some tissue paper and covered the base in it like I was wrapping a present. Next I started fringing some folded sheets of tissue paper it (leaving about an inch of uncut tissue paper on top and fringing the bottom inch)and gluing it onto the the base, layering pink over purple.
Next I used a paper plate and glued it in the center on one side and glued a sign saying "Kate's 3!" on the other side. I then covered the edges of the plate and the edges of the circle base with twisted tissue paper. I hot glued some flowers where the tissue paper pieces met so it looked nicer.
Each kiddo got to keep their braid and they got a cookie bag. We put a sticker and a note saying 'Thanks for coming to my party' on a sandwich bag and filled the bag with a cookie.
Kate helped write the Thank you notes:
So what was the birthday party reaction this year: " Oh that's cool." But my little girl was very excited about celebrating with her family and friends.
