Ballerina Party

This Ballerina/Princess party comes from Melissa. She does not have a blog yet but sent me some wonderful parties. In fact, I've decided to share one of her daughter's parties tonight and one of her son's parties tomorrow. Melissa is a full time attorney (how cool is that) put loves planning parties. Here is a picture of the adorable birthday girl, Gracie. Here is the party details in Melissa's words~ Here are some pictures from my daughter’s ballerina/princess party. She likes to challenge me. It’s not enough for her to have one theme, she needs 2! Unfortunately, my daughter’s birthday is in April, which in Wisconsin where we live means snow, rain or sun. So for this birthday, it snowed that day! I had to move the party to our garage so we would have enough room. I guess that’s what having a “real” party is all about – even if it is in your garage.

For the candy jars, I took tulle and hot glued it to the top of the glass containers to make it look like a tutu. I did the same thing for the drink tub. I also used tulle on the backs of the chairs and on the tables. I draped tulle and white lights from the ceiling.

I'm loving this wreath.

I made the cupcakes, but not the cake this time. I had grand ideas of making a ballet slipper cake but just ran out of time.

For the favors, I purchased blank canvas bags from Hobby Lobby, used puffy pant to put their names on the bags and added pink tulle to the tops. I had lots of ballerina related items in there. Target dollar aisle coincidentally had ballet slippers, tutus, wands and crowns. For the boys, I found knight/prince bags in the Target dollar aisle and then found “knight” gear from the Dollar store – helmets, swords, shields, etc. Melissa, you are my kind of girl!

Since my daughter’s 1st birthday, I’ve made posters of the kids with a picture of them from every month. I’m going to save them and then bring them out at their high school graduation or wedding. I just love this idea....now to execute it before Maddy is 18!

I made the kids tutu peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out of pastel colored bread I got from our local grocery store. They were very time consuming, but very cute! I love this so much~ I shall be copying Melissa.

I had lots of activities for the kids for this party. We played “pin the tutu on the ballerina.” I found a coloring page that I blew up and put on a poster. I made little tutus for each of the kids. We also had a ballet slipper piñata. Melissa, awesome job! When did you have time to prepare for your cases?? I tell you ~mothers are the most amazing people I know!! Stayed tuned for another great DIY party tomorrow from Melissa the Magnificent!