My little girl is very artistic, and will spend hours every day drawing and creating. This year she decided she wanted to have an Art theme for her birthday party. As we started coming up with various ideas for the party, we decided that we would pair the Art theme with rainbows as well, as we thought it would make for a very bright and cheerful party.
The cake is gravity defying, with rainbow cake in the paint can as well as the cake itself. The sponge is filled with vanilla icing, then covered with milk chocolate ganache and fondant.
Natasha decorated the white fondant by drawing all over it with edible markers, before I added all the 'spilled paint'.
For about 2 weeks before the party we were busy making all the bright, rainbow coloured decorations to hang around the room:
- Paper rosettes spelling out NATASHA
- Paint spattered table cloths
- A balloon wreath
- A melted crayon canvass
- Polka dot bunting (made by sewing card circles together to make a long string)
- Rainbow balloons hung from the ceiling
- And a piñata (ribbon pull type)
The party food was also rainbow coloured (wherever possible).
- Rainbow jelly (jello) push pops
- Rainbow fruit and veg
- Rainbow coloured candy paint pots
We even had rainbow coloured plates and straws.
All sitting in a row at the back of the table, you can see the party 'bags' for the guests to take home. Each pot contains a little pipe cleaner craft project (to make little monsters) and some candy.
You can certainly tell that there is a party going on in there!
Once the party got going, we had plenty of fun activities and games to keep the kids busy. We started off with some 'cookie canvas' decorating. Each child got a large royal icing covered chocolate sugar cookie to decorate, using edible markers, rainbow coloured royal icing and various sprinkles. They made some really beautiful works of art!
Next up, we played a series of team games.
First, each team had to work together to see who could build the tallest marshmallow tower, using toothpicks (dyed rainbow colours, of course) and marshmallows,
In the second game, each team was given a white paper plate and a lot of little coloured stickers. The aim of the game was to completely cover the top of the plate in stickers, so that there was no white left shoeing at all. The winner being the first team to completely cover the plate (we then judged who came 2nd and 3rd by coverage).
The third team game was a drawing game. We had prepared a stack of cards for each team, with the names of objects on them, like Lion, Car, Octopus, Surfboard, etc. Each member of the team had to draw a card and look at it, but not let anyone else know what their object is. They then had to start drawing that object. After 15 seconds the clock stopped, and they had to pass their drawing to their team mate on their left (receiving one from the right at the same time). The clock started again and they had to continue drawing the picture now in front of them (but of course they don't know what it is supposed to be - hopefully the previous player left enough clues in what the drew), again with a 15 second time limit. This continued until the drawing once again found itself in front of it's original player. A point is awarded for every drawing that resembles what is was meant to be. As you can see, there were some very humorous results!
The "Marshmallow Girls" won the team games and each received a medal.
Then it was time to sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Followed by pulling the piñata ribbons - the birthday girl managed to choose the winning ribbon!
Thank you to Claudette, who sacrificed her whole day to help with both setting up and running the party as well as cleaning up afterwards. You are the best!
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