A couple of weeks ago my family put on a birthday party for my two nephews Josh and Bennett. My sister Tessa had just had her baby Evelyn a week before hand and didn’t want her boys to miss out on celebrating their 4th and 2nd birthdays. So my mom, sisters and I stepped in and took over the party. My mom handled the location and cake. My sisters Brie and Laurin took care of the food and drinks. And I called dibs on the decorations and the games. Letting my creativity flow was a lot of fun and thanks to Pinterest I had a ton of ideas.
While there was plenty of sweat equity on my part, there was only a little originality. I would have had a much harder time if it weren’t for another blog, which I down right copied in most cases. I made the “Toodles” as a chart for the party games. The birthday boys got to pick which games they wanted to play, saving the mystery mouse-ca-tool (pinata) for the end. It made it a lot easier on me having a place for all of the kids to congregate before and after each game and it was a great decoration.
The music notes represented a cake walk, or “Hot Dog” song walk. On the outside deck I placed a picture of each of Mickey Mouses friends in a circle. The kids walked from one picture to the next while the Hot Dog song played. When I stopped the music I’d call out one of Mickey’s friends and whoever was standing on that one got a sticker. This was supposed the be the simplest game but it was a flop. The papers were moving all around the floor, the space wasn’t big enough and most of the kids kept forgetting to walk in a circle. It was confusing. But the kids didn’t seem to notice, they were just happy to be getting stickers.
The next game the boys chose was Pluto’s Bone hunt. This was probably the best game of the night. I cut out bones out of yellow cardboard and made envelopes on each one. Once the kids found all of Pluto’s Bones they ripped the envelopes open to find pieces to a Mickey Mouse puzzle. All of the kids helped put the puzzle together and the birthday boys took it home. Did I mention that I found that puzzle for $1 at the dollar tree?
The last game was Pin-The-Ears-On-The-Birthday-Boys. And you guessed it, it’s a total rip off of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. The winners of this game got a sheet of stickers… although we found out a little late that the first three kids could see under the blindfold, thus explaining their VERY accurately placed Mickey Mouse ears.
The most original I got with this party was in making the pinata. My sister-in-law suggested I decorate it with small strips of crepe paper and I like it better than the circular pattern they showed on this tutorial.
I would be remiss if I didn’t include pictures of the cupcakes my mom made. She used to make cakes for a living and around every birthday we all get to benefit from her mad skills. I thought her Mickey Mouse was over the top! Good job mom- I seriously loved the Mickey face.
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