3 year old

Hey Umi friends!! We hear a lot about Team Umi Zoomi from our now 3 year old, so when I asked if she wanted an Umi Zoomi party, she was so excited and talked about it for a couple months before her party (and even the few weeks after it). It is a really cute show on Nick that is a math based show. But also, it is only in its second season, so as of now, they don’t have any licensed party supplies. They did, however, have a lot of stuff on the Nick, Jr website… printables, crafts, recipes, games, etc. So, that was super helpful in my planning. I printed and cut out a couple table centerpieces, posters, game posters with stickers, placemats, made Milli headbands and Geo’s shape belts, I made my first pinata from scratch!, and made Milli cupcakes, and decorated with other items I found online. (I will describe more under the pictures.) We invited a few of her little friends and well…. see for yourself! 🙂

The birthday girl in Bot’s Belly Screen on the photo wall. Printed these from nickjr.com and attached Bot to a cardboard piece that I folded (at the top) and tacked to the wall. Worked really well. So, the kids could just sit on the bench and get their picture taken! (this one was before I wrote Trina’s name on the poster)

The posters are for a couple games we played where everyone took turns putting on the stickers. (found on Nickjr.com) and the numbers are from Oriental Trading.

Another nickjr activity I had on the wall (but we never really did the activity) … it was mostly for the older sibblings that came to the party.

Flowers were made (reused) from my Cricut and the laterns and tissue fans were from JoAnn Fabric’s dollar section!

Placemats to color as guests arrive and in between activities to keep the fast kids busy!

Was thrilled to see that they had these stuffed animals at Toys R Us!

Another printable (with lots of assembly required) from nickjr.com

paper fans (made similar to this, but to make them large, you need to glue 4 sheets (12X12) together end to end after creating the fan pleats.) I put a Milli sticker in the center.

Loved these flower balloons from the local party store

Left this up from the last party we did!

colorful containers from the Dollar Tree

Milli Cupcakes

Milli headbands

Because I would want to know: The display for the Milli headbands is made from taking a piece of fabric and batting and wrapping it around a Quaker Oats container and pinning it in place. And the characters are more printables from Nickjr

The pinata just after I added the pull string to it. I forgot to take pictures of the process of making it, but I used this website for instructions.

printed Umi Zoomi stickers to put in the pinata

more pinata stuffers

the finished product… it was actually super easy, just a lot of fringe cutting and gluing it on, but it actually didn’t take as long as I thought it would!! and the pull strings worked way better than the ones I have previously bought from the store.

Party favors, Geo’s shape belt, Milli headbands and favor bags

Inside is a hand clapper, crayons, magnetic numbers, and some shapes, and a coloring book. I was going to make the outside of the bags like this, but ran out of time.

Yesterday was Cayley’s 3-year old birthday party. Since she loves Max and Ruby, we wanted to make that the party theme. Thankfully I started planning this over a month ago because there are no licenced Max and Ruby party supplies. So, I had to get creative and come up with my own ideas. So … I started with these websites that I found:
A blog from someone else who did a Max and Ruby party, the author (Rosemary Wells) website, and Nick, Jr.

So, I worked on printing out coloring activities for the tables, printing out most of the “bunny party” ideas from the authors website, bought a homemade Max and Ruby pinata from ebay (super cute), made lilypads and a grass poster for to decorate the bathtub for one of the games, printed out stickers, ordered mostly solid colored plates/cups, books and windup toys for party favors, etc…

So here was my party schedule:

11am – Kids arrive — color on tables and eat lunch
11:30 – Ring toss game/Pin the tail on Max
11:45 – Watch Max and Ruby – cake episode (momma hides frogs)
12:00 – Game – Find Max’s frogs and put them back into the pond
12:15 – Pinata
12:30 – Sing Happy Birthday and Cake

Now I will just let you follow along with the party pictures. Let me know if you want to learn more about something!

Setting up: