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Lalaloopsy birthday party
Lalaloopsies are so adorable, I was excited when my daughter chose that theme for her birthday party. (the party was last fall and I am again behind on my posts!) First, I bought a book (for the kids) that had most of the lalaloopsies in it, so I could get an idea of decorations and activities for the party (and Pinterest of course). And we watched a Lalaloopsy show on Netflix (the show isn’t good, IMO … the plot is horrible), but I did get some ideas. Here are the pictures from her party with links and comments!
The buttons were cut out on the Cricut using my Wild Card cartridge. And then I just used a yarn needle and threaded yarn through the buttons to make garland.
Found these wall decals on clearance at Toys R Us… good deal, but they did NOT stick well at all… they were in the trash right after the party unfortunately. They also have them on Amazon and Birthday Express and hopefully better quality.
More Garland made from dessert size paper plates and a black paper button cutout glued to the plate.
More button garland! (I guess I got crazy with the paper button cutting, because I had a lot!)
Used the book mentioned at the top of the page to help lookup a bunch of lalaloopsies on Bing image search (make sure you set the image size to wallpaper (or large) find the better quality images! Then I added the names and printed them out… (they moved to her bedroom wall after the party!)
For one activity, we stuffed, sewed and decorated little lalaloopsy pets. I prepared them, but printing out the pets on paper and tracing them and their pieces onto felt. Then glued some of the pieces on using felt glue (so they would have time to dry) and sewing the button eyes on. With the front and back felt pieces together, I used a very small 1/16 hole punch to punch around the edges. (warning: hand fatigue is possible!!)
We used embroidery floss to stitch them together and I had a bunch of plastic yarn needles for sewing them and stuffing.
Also felt markers (found at a fabric/craft store) for decorating.
For the second craft, I purchased a bunch of small prepared canvas boards from Michaels and precut with my cricut the first letter of the girls who were attending the party. I traced their letter onto the canvas with pencil and we used thick glue dots to glue on buttons to fill in their letter.
buttons from Oriental Trading
The last activity was a Lalaloopsy board game and it was so cute. It comes with a little lalaloopsy doll and it involves someone hiding the doll and they others picking cards to figure out which room she is in and then they have a minute to try to find her. (I had all the kids go look instead of one at a time as the directions say). Also I took out the cards of the rooms that I didn’t want the kids looking in (bedrooms, etc)
lalaloopsy party supplies found here. I also crocheted a few flowers to stick around.
Button candy molds found here. I just melted Wiltons candy melts and poured them into the melts. Make sure you wait until they are good and cooled before you pop them out of the molds (some of mine turned out better than the others)
super cute cupcake topper from Amazon.
I found these tin lalaloopsy boxes from Hobby Lobby and they worked great to put their little animals in and some stickers.
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Owl birthday party!
Well, its April again, so we just celebrated the 1st of 2 birthdays. My 5 year old was looking through the list of party themes from the Birthday Express catalog, and she loved the owl blossom party supplies, so we went with that theme. I started by crocheting amigarumi owls for decorating the room (Ravelry has a ton of cute patterns). After deciding on my upcoming 3 year olds party theme, we got our orders together for birthdayexpress.com and orientaltrading.com. I just love getting all those fun supplies in the mail!
Last week, we had 16 little party friends come to have a hoot at our Owl party. My little birthday girl had a lot of fun and we even got a sunny day! Here are the pictures:
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| Had trouble with this flipping in a bit. 😦 Oh well |
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| Love these wall stickers from birthdayexpress! And I can now move them to a bedroom for a cutsie wall |
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| When the kids arrived, we started with a craft: painting owl suncatchers. I found these great markers from JoAnns to use instead of paints. Was super easy for a 5 year old to do, but they do like to glob it on, so it did take a while to dry. |
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| Owl aprons to put on to protect their clothes from paint! |
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| Next up, I printed and glued this own onto some cardboard… cut the mouth hole out and the kids had a beanbag toss into the owls mouth. |
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| My mom helped by making these super cute bean bag mice out of felt, string tail and a pompom nose. |
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| Decorations over the food |
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| food display… saw the idea for the wood displays and platter stands on pinterest! |
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| we had some allergy kids coming to the party, so I tried to make sure we had things they could have! |
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| Gluten free rice krispie cupcakes |
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| Don’t you just love cupcake cakes? |
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| the betty crocker butter chocolate cake mix was SUPER yummy… I recomend you try!! and I don’t even usually like chocolate cake!) |
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| Was thrilled to see this on orientaltrading (they were for Valentines, so I even got them on clearance!) |
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| Oh … and happened to find these owl label stands in the dollar section at JoAnns! |
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| pinata |
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| presents |
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| party favors |
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| the boys got a wallet and the girls got an owl purse and they got to keep their aprons, suncatchers, and loot from the pinata. |
After the party, the kids got to go outside and play to burn off some sugar. 🙂 Again… super thankful for the sunny day! Happy birthday sweet girl!
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We had a hoot! (Owl Themed baby shower)
So, last weekend I hosted a baby shower for my bestie. She is going to have a boy in August! It was probably the most fun baby showers I have planned so far. There are a lot of cute ideas for owl themed stuff out there, but actually most were geared toward girls (AKA pink) and others were more “barn owl” style, which is a little too flea market like for what I was looking for. But I still did get a lot of great ideas from my online research.
So after the date was decided, I got the guest list from the momma-to-be and saw that it was 59 people… so, first thing on my to do list was to recruit help! So, thanks to 5 other wonderful ladies, I had enough help to make this an awesome shower for her. I did most of the decor and party favors while the other ladies took care of all the food, games, prizes and other random details. So, thanks again to Michelle, Rachel, Sarah, Ursula, and Christy for helping me!
Anyway… I suppose you’d like to see the pictures now, huh? Here goes:
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| Banner made from paper and buttons and some garden twine. (idea from here) |
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| I found these awesome hanging decorations here. They were pretty easy to make. The large ones take 12 sheets of 12X12 paper… the small ones that I made are 5 1/2″ diameter. |
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| close up detail |
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| Printed out these branches (actually 4 sheets, glued together) and covered my picture frame shelves with them. I am really happy with how they turned out and it was such an easy way to add to the decor. The green owl is also a printout. Thanks to a friend, I was able to borrow some owl things (top shelf) and found a couple crochet patterns online and made a couple more.) |
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| Crocheted owl … pattern found HERE |
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| Another crocheted owl… HERE is the pattern |
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| The tables |
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| Owl printout (2 sheets glued together to be double sided) and I didn’t glue the bottom, so that it could just sit in the branches. |
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| Gorgeous owl vase borrowed from a friend |
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| Borrowed Owl Pitcher |
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| Borrowed stuffed owl |
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| One of the games |
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| Napkins |
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| Michelle made the super cute food labels and the food was amazing! sooo yummy |
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| Adorable owl cupcakes |
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| These are the party favors. I sewed these little owls sorta using THIS idea (original pattern here), but redesigned the pattern a little to make them able to open … and used a small piece of velcro to hold the beaks shut. Then I made some homemade caramel corn to fill them with (in little baggies) … I just used up buttons from my collection, so each owl was one of a kind. |
Lastly, here are some other links for ideas:
So there you go! Congrats Angie and can’t wait to meet the new little guy!
