Pink Lemonade Birthday Party July 14, 2011

At the beginning of June, I hosted a Pink Lemonade birthday party for my daughter’s fourth birthday. Her favorite colors are pink and yellow (though it seems to change on a monthly basis) and I designed the whole printable collection around that. Here are photos from the party. This collection features a photo of the birthday girl and Aubrie certainly loved seeing her face in the decorations!

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Large pom-poms

 

Door sign

 

Food-wise, we offered cheese and crackers, grilled hot dogs, star shaped fairy bread (in pink and yellow), and a huge fruit platter. What is fairy bread? Very simple… spread butter on a slice of bread then covered with sprinkles and cut into a fancy shape using a cookie cutter! Kids LOVE this! For the drinks, we of course had lemonade with huge strawberries floating inside and strawberry flavored Capri Sun. There were also bottles of water.

 

Fairy bread

 

Fruit platter

Strawberry lemonade

Water bottle wrappers

Dessert was very simple: a home-baked cake that featured strawberries and had pink and yellow layers inside. Wanna know how I made this simple cake? Check out the post here. This was decorated with the 4 inch party circle. We also had cupcakes in chocolate and vanilla. These were decorated with cupcake toppers and sprinkles! They looked very pretty and tasted delicious.

Dessert station

Cupcakes

 

Cupcake stand

 

Birthday cake

Inside of cake

 

For the party favors, I made pinwheels using yellow glitter paper and placed these inside pink goody bags. I printed labels with each child’s name on it and stuck it to the goody bag. We also had bottles of bubbles with matching labels, pink and yellow pencils, and personalized chocolate bars! I love the personalized chocolate bars. I have had these for every birthday and I keep a wrapper in a book of birthdays that I have for my daughter. It is a great keepsake because it includes her weight, height, things she enjoys doing, accomplishments, etc.

Goody bags

 

Personalized chocolate bars

 

Birthday keepsake

 

Bubbles

Birthday girl

If you like this party and want a similar one for your little girl, check out the Pink Lemonade collection available now at my Etsy store!

 

 

 

 

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Sailboat Birthday Party July 13, 2011

Just realized that I never posted actual photos from the Sailboat Birthday Party I threw for my son’s first birthday back in April! Here are some photos from the party. The colors for the party were navy blue, cream, beige, and sage green with accents of orange and dark red. A couple weeks before his party, I found a cute long sleeve t-shirt at Gymboree that said “I run this ship” and it had green stripes on it! How perfect! Of course, I had a welcome door sign to greet guests when they first arrived.

Welcome door sign

Sailboat Birthday Party

 

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The party was in the morning and most of the kids attending were very young, between 12 and 16 months so I wanted the food to be kid friendly but at the same time, appetizing to the adults. My menu was bagels with cream cheese, ham and cheese breakfast croissants, and star (jam filled) sandwiches. I put out goldfish crackers which went perfectly with the orange accents of the party decorations. For dessert, I offered a healthy fruit platter, both chocolate and vanilla cupcakes which were decorated with the personalized cupcake toppers. I also had a large doughnut cake from a local doughnut shop, Allie’s in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. I gave them a copy of the invite and they were able to match the sailboat.

 

Buffet

 

Buffet labels

Fruit platter

 

Cupcakes

 

 

Personalized cupcake topper

 

Doughnut cake

 

For the party favors, I made chocolate dipped pretzel rods. These were very easy to make and a lot of fun! I put each one in a clear pretzel bag (available at craft stores) and then added a personalized label and a bit of grosgrain ribbon. I also had bottles of bubbles with personalized labels on those. The bubble labels said “Ships ahoy! Bubbles away!” I also had Hershey bars of chocolate that I wrapped. I have done these every year for my daughter’s birthday and I am continuing the tradition with my son!

 

Bubbles

Chocolate bar wrapper

Party favors

 

Table

Water bottle wrappers

Finally, here’s a picture of the birthday boy enjoying his first ever cupcake!

Birthday boy

If you are interested in this collection, everything is available at my Etsy store. Also, if you wanted to use this for a baby shower, then I will be happy to change the wording for you! Send me an e-mail or convo me via Etsy!