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Ice cream birthday party

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM! Actually the screaming didn’t get too loud! 🙂 Ok.. I’ll be honest, I never really know what to say in these intros, but sometimes I feel like I need to introduce each party! 🙂 Bla bla bla… I’m more of a picture person myself, so let’s just get right to the fun stuff! 🙂

First up the decorations:

I sorta threw this together last minute… I had made a large crocheted ball a few months ago as part of an experiment that didn’t work out. And I had some of those cardboard like cones from Michaels from a previous party… so I hot glued on a ribbon hanger and rubber banded the tulle over my crocheted ball and shoved it in the cone. Would have been cute with some beads glued on top for sprinkles.

inflatable cone… what I am going to do with this after the party?

So, I painted this cone for a game, but realized it was too small… so it just became a decoration.

(Ice cream try number too for pin the cherry on the sundae)

to make ice cream cone garland… see THIS blog post

I saw these cute ice cream balloons on Pinterest, so I tried them… they are helium filled balloons, but what I found out was that the weight of the cone (paper) was so heavy that they wouldn’t stay up in a bouquet… so I just tied them tightly to each chair and that worked. Still a fun idea though… if you try this with a lighter weight paper and it works, let me know.

I ran out of time to make a piñata, so I bought this at our local party store… I think it may have been the first time we used a piñata that wasn’t a pull string one… it was interesting! (my girls are not much into hitting with a bat)

This was one of the games. I had 4 buckets and filled 2 of them with some pom poms I made with this brilliant contraption. And I bought these cute ice cream scoopers. So, the game was a relay type race… there were 2 lines of kids and they had to scoop a ball of “ice cream” and run across the room to the empty bucket and drop it in and run back, then the next kid goes. Which ever line finishes first wins. We played a few rounds of this. It was a nice calm active game for them!

I may do a blog post about this game too. Have you all heard of the Cupcake game? It is a super cute easy game for kids. I spent a bunch of time creating a game like it, but it was making an ice cream cone or sundae instead. 5 kids could play at each game, so I made 4 games total. I will link to the post after I blog about that.

Pin the cherry on top of the Sundae!

I found this cake pop kit on clearance at Michaels and it was just perfect for the party. It was pretty easy to make… the instructions were well written and they looked adorable.

lot of syrups!

Lots of toppings!

and MORE toppings! (I am always happy when I get to use this fun ferris wheel serving piece from what used to be Southern Living at Home.)

Here are those finished cake pops

popcorn cones

ice cream bowls from Oriental Trading

We had a ton of different cones, but the majority just wanted to use the fun bowls. The plates and napkins were from Birthday Express

I had my helpers (sis and mom-in-law) pre-scoop the ice cream onto a cookie sheet and stuck it in the freezer. Then when it was time to serve… we dumped them into bowls and they were ready to go. This was super helpful and make things fast and not as messy!

chocolate chip mint

and vanilla

She didn’t want a cake, so candles went into the ice cream scoop! 🙂

party favors (in the green bucket there are THESE ice cream shooters for the boys)

These party pails were from oriental trading and they had the idea HERE

inside the pails there was Ice cream scented nail polish, tattoos, ice cream lip gloss and stickers. (just the sticker and tattoos in the boy’s favors)

Note: on the instructions from Oriental trading… the didn’t say anything about how they got the blue / purple/etc color under the iridescent glitter… I just hot glued on some ribbon of the same color and then glued the glitter stuff on top!

Happy birthday sweet girl!

I suppose some of you remember when I did an owl baby shower last year for my friend’s baby boy? Well, recently I hosted another owl shower for a little girl and it looked completely different!! It was such a fun shower to do because my friend just adopted a baby girl, so the little one was able to come to her own baby shower and it was just such a sweet time celebrating this wonderful act of love and redemption.

The inspiration for the shower was the crib bedding they chose for the nursery from Pottery Barn Kids here. I have to thank Renee, Katy, Meghan, and Lisa for helping me with the food, supplies and decorations. I didn’t even have to do any of the food prep, so I am very thankful for that!

banner thanks to the handy Cricut! 🙂

I love this shot of the guests of honor chatting on the chair! It is precious.

Renee painted this lovely design on the wood letters and also the bird houses. The branches, birds and 2 owls are printed on cardstock, cut and taped to pictureshelves (or wall).

So cute, right?

Found this adorable owl at a local gift shop!

The food table

The topiaries were made by painting ceramic pots, inserting a piece of styrofoam in the bottom (covered up with some dried filling stuff), painted wooden dowel, the top is a styrofoam ball (I did paint this a quick covering of pink before I started)covered with paper flowers and leaves (cricut flower shop cartridge) and attached with a pearl stick pin.