Tangled Birthday Party

This photo and a few to follow of my daughter are few days after her party.  I wanted to get a few photos of her in her Rapunzel dress.  I made the dress and Rapunzel hair using a Simplicity pattern that I purchased at JoAnn Fabrics.  I'm currently using the same pattern that I am tweaking to make a Snow White dress for my girls dress~up play box.  When I'm finally finished with it I'll share some pictures with you all!

I've been wanting to post about our Tangled Birthday Party for a while I just haven't taken the time to do so.

Activities/Crafts

The activities for the party were a lot of fun. 

I provided a table for the kids to make 2 different crafts during the party.  The first one is a Pascal (the Chameleon) party blower.  This idea came from Family Fun (a Disney Magazine).  You can get the instructions for this at the link above.  I happened to have some peel and stick foam that was a whole lot easier and less mess.

The second craft was one that I kind created with the help of Martha Stewart.  I cut out paper lanterns and added vellum windows with pictures of Tangled characters printed on them and a battery operated tea light candle hanging inside.   This craft was a little more difficult for the younger ones to do.

Some time during the party I read a Rapunzel story to our guests.  Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox.  This story was a lot of fun and rhymed throughout.

Now for the Games!

Game 1

As soon as the guests arrived they were told that Flynn Rider (Eugene Fitzherbert) and the Stabbington Brothers had dropped some of the royal jewels they had stolen and that while the kids were at the party they were to look for the jewels.  This was easy I just purchased a bunch of plastic jewels and hid them around my house.

Game 2

The guests were also told that Rapunzel and Pascal had been playing hide and seek and that Rapunzel would like their help in finding Pascal.  For this game I cut out a bunch of Pascals and hid them around my house.  

Game 3

Pin the Frying pan on Flynn Rider.

For this I drew an enlarged picture of one of Flynn Rider's wanted posters and then cut out frying pans.

You can use super mom moments PDF to print out frying pans.  You should also check out her blog post of the Tangled Party that she put on for some additional ideas.  Check her post out HERE.

Sweet Treats

As for the cake I'm not as thrilled with how my tower cake turned out.  I could not get the fondant to stay onto the tower of iced donuts. 

For each of the guests they got a cupcake that was made to look like a cherry pie.  I had been trying to decide whether to make pie(s) for the party rather than a cake since Rapunzel performed many domestic duties while imprisoned in her tower.  One of those duties/tasks was baking pies.  The idea for the cherry pie cupcakes idea came when I received my Family Fun magazine and at the end of the magazine was the how to for making cupcakes to look like cherry pies.  You can find out how HERE.

My oldest got to blow out a candle for her sisters party as well!

Have yourself a Happily Ever After!


~Laura

Flat Geoffrey Returns From Hawaii

The girls were happy to have Geoffrey return from his trip to Hawaii!  They and their parents would have loved to have joined him on his Island Adventure, but didn't feel that we were ready to take on the long flight to get there.  

Geoffrey stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Glen Domhoff owners of Cruzin Hawaii Motorcycle Rentals also known as Uncle Glen and Aunt Chris. 

While in Hawaii Geoffrey visited with a friend of the Domhoff's who is also a hula dancer.  While Geoffrey was away we watched a dvd that taught some simple hula dances and even tried to do a few of the dance moves with the instructor.  

Geoffrey got to eat some "ono" food at the Hawaii Art Museum.  Ono means delicious.  

He also visited the Hawaii state capital, Iao Needle state park, a dormant volcano named Haleakala and rode in the Pineapple Express, visited Waikiki beach, saw a whale tail in the Pacific ocean, and attended Spam Jam 2012. 

We were very interested in volcanos and read a book and watched some dvds about volcanos.  Volcanos are important to Hawaii for that is how they came to be formed and are continuing to be formed today.  Maybe if mommy feels up to the task we'll make ourselves a mock volcano with some baking soda and vinegar. 

We are so very Thankful that Geoffrey had such a wonderful visit in Hawaii and for all the great information that we have learned from his visit!

Aloha!

~Laura

Happy Father's Day!

What are you doing for Father's day?  We don't usually doing anything really special.  But this year we gave my husband an early Father's Day gift of 3 pairs of pajama pants and a card.  He was in serious need of pajama pants.  He now owns and wears a pair of cookie monster pajama pants,  chosen for him by his youngest daughter.  My girls are very blessed to have the father that they have!  He is a loving caring and protective father who loves his Father in Heaven!

Ok so I wanted to have something my girl's daddy on the actual day. So when I saw the how to for this card I had to make one for our resident father.

I found the idea for the iDad Card on Tip Junkie.

Happy Father's Day, to all the wonderful fathers out there!

~Laura

"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son." Ephesians 1:3-6