Our second born, Zoe, turned 5 this month. FIVE! How we got to this point so quickly, I'll never know. Yet here we are, with a beautiful, spunky, independent little girl. Zoe, like every little girl, loves the movie Frozen. How could you not? It's simply amazing. Her birthday party was OBVIOUSLY a Frozen theme.
We made a "Love is an open door!" sign to hang on our screen door using scrapbook paper from Michael's.
We made a "Love is an open door!" sign to hang on our screen door using scrapbook paper from Michael's.
For party favors and party fun, we made these snowflake wands. Thank goodness for Hobby Lobby stocking a Christmas department in the middle of summer! We just used blue snowflake ornaments, ribbons, and small wooden dowels to make these (and a hot glue gun to attach the pieces).
We bought shiny white and purple gum balls, and light blue sixlets in the cake decorating section of Walmart and Hobby Lobby. They went inside mason jars (of course-because they're awesome), and then we added some ribbon around the top. We also bought blue and white chevron striped straws.
In honor of Olaf hoping to enjoy summer, we put blue jell-o into clear cups and topped them with umbrellas (Dollar Store).
For food, we had sandwiches. The little tag next to them reads, "we finish each other's sandwiches."
"Olaf's Noses" and ranch for healthy snack points.
Purple & blue forks/spoons (Walmart) and dipped pretzels in white & blue candy melts. My pretzel-hating husband thinks these are good. I'd have to agree, but I also love pretzels. Anyway, I always do a pretzel dipped in candy melts at our kids parties, and they are always GONE by the end. So good.
Instead of a cake, we had a "frozen ice cream" bar. We actually already had all the sprinkles in our cabinet, but we bought jelly beans and gummy worms, as well as chocolate and caramel syrup. Zoe got to pick out two ice creams at the store. This was so fun. I had a couple grown-ups help me with an assembly line to serve the kiddos.
Do you want to build a snowman??? These kids did! We used toilet paper and cut out black circles and orange triangles. They teamed up, wrapped a partner, and then stuck their buttons and nose on top!
^^^The birthday girl!
In total, I spent $117 on this party, which is a little over my target party budget of $100. But, I have tons of the wands left over that I can perhaps sell online or on etsy, lots of scrapbook paper left over for other projects, some ice cream and most of the syrups left over that will go to my belly, gum balls that I've been using for bribing my kids all week long, and of course the sprinkles are mostly left over too.
Most importantly, Zoe had fun and enjoyed herself!
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