As most 4 and 5 year olds, Emeline has been talking about her birthday for months. She has been wanting to have a princess birthday, a Brave birthday, a Cinderella birthday, a biking birthday, and there are probably other ideas I've since forgotten. BUT the theme that stood out to me, was that she was constantly talking about who she wanted to dress up as for her birthday, so I asked her if she'd like to have a party where she can play dress up with some of her friends. She thought that sounded fun, but then she also said that she wanted to have an art festival. I figured we could work in some arts and crafts into a birthday party, so then I asked her what colors we should decorate with, and right away she said, "Rainbow!!". So off we went, planning her rainbow, dress up, art party.
We also decided to try our hands at a drop off style, kids party. I asked Emeline to pick 5 friends, who were also almost 5, to invite to keep it on the small side. She kept changing the 5 friends, and knowing what a social butterfly she is, we let her invite a few more, but still tried to keep it a little small so we could manage all the kids. All in all it was a great morning! The kids seemed to have a lot of fun! Here are some pictures of our celebration.
Rainbows galore! The rainbow fruit water turned out great, although oddly the kids kept asking for plain water. And Wes worked his usual magic with the streamers.
We set up all our dress up clothes in the living room, and let the kids go to town.
We hired our friend/neighbor/babysitter to do some face painting. The kids loved it! She's a great artist too.
After art was done, we served the kids some lunch. Homemade mac n cheese (too bad kids never actually like this), hot dogs, rainbow fruit skewers, and veggies and hummus.
After lunch it was time for cupcakes! We sang to Emeline, then the kids got to decorate their own cupcakes. I thought for sure kids would just dive in and eat the cupcakes, but this was the most quiet part of the party. They were all so focused on decorating their cupcakes. It was a hit!
And surprise! They were piñata cupcakes!
Once the cupcakes were consumed, there wasn't much time left before parents arrived, so the kids just ran around more and tried on a few more costumes.
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