Cars Birthday Party

For my son's 3rd birthday party, I did the theme" Cars". He is in love with anything with wheels. I skipped his 2nd birthday party and i really wanted to give him a party that he will enjoy and love this year. 

Invitation:

I looked online for a picture that i can use for his card and i can edit easily on paint shop. The wording was as follows:

Beep! Beep! Vroom! Vroom!
Boys and girls grab your tickets and Start your engines and race on over
to Radiator Springs to help Aiden celebrate his 3rd Birthday!

Step on the gas and don't be late .We are going to celebrate!
Aiden has zoomed through his3rd year. Racing his way to his 4th year!
Come, fill Up your Tanks with Food and Dessert.

Gates open (party info)

Decorations:

I had a 50% coupon from party city and i went and got some decorations from there. I added a small door banner on the entrance door says" greeting from Radiator Springs" I found it online. I printed it on 4 pages to make it a big poster and taped it together. I also printed street signs on card stock and placed it all over the house. I didn't have yellow cones but if you have access to some, you can use those for decorations as well.

Games:

Because it was in August and the weather was so good, i did water party. My mom bought for him a couple slides. One from toys r us was $12.00 and the other was $35.00 from Amazon. I intend to use them every summer for the kids. They love to play in the water.  I also did the pinata, full of candy :):)

Princess Birthday Party

For My daughter's 5 Birthday party, she wanted "Princess" theme. She wanted to celebrate with all her class but i didn't really want to invite all of them to her party. I purchased a cookie cake from Sam's Club and delivered it to the school and everyone celebrated there. If you don't know, Sam's Club cakes, cup cakes and cookie cakes are $18.00 only and they taste good. They have a lot of themes as well. I used to do the cakes for each party but it was time consuming and it end up more expensive than Sam's club. 

She is standing here with some of her friends in the school

For her party at home;

The invitation:

I looked for a picture online and used paint shop to adjest things and add my text. Here is the test:

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!, all knights and princesses of the land are invited to a royal celebration in honor of Her Royal Highness Princess Anastasia's 5th Birthday. The royal celebration will begin at 1:00 pm on the 13th of February 2010. The king and Queen asked that you come dressed as your favorite princess, prince, knight or fairy royal attire....
The royal cook has prepared a feast of goodies for the celebration....there shall also be festivities including a royal ball, games and fun for all....the excitement will heighten during the defeat of the royal pinata. Have your carriage arrive for you at the Tardie's castle. (address)Please RSVP with the Queen at --- if you plan to attend this royal ball...
The castle needs to plan for your arrival. This is a magical celebration not to be missed!

Then i rolled it and closed it with a ribbon.

Games:

We did pin the princess on the castle. It is a version of pin the tail on the donkey. We also did the pinata. Every body loves candy and they go crazy over it.

My husband had just put a play ground for our kids and all the kids wanted to play in the playground.  A $1200.00 play ground set, costed us only $300.00. I  Love my handy husband :):) and It will last till the kids grow up. 

Dora the Explorer Birthday Party

For my daughters 3^rd birthday, she wanted a Dora party. She LOVES Dora. I started couple of month early, preparing and thinking of ideas. 

INVITATION:

            I made my own on the computer. I scanned a map from one of my daughter’s books. I used paint shop to change things. I added a clipart picture from the internet of a calendar showing the date and another clipart of a clock showing the time.  There were already a picture to a house full of balloons, I left it as it is. On the top, next to the map picture, I wrote: “If there is a place you want to go, I’ve got what you need to know. I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map. Anastasia is turning three. For details turn to me. I’m the map, I’m the map, I’m the map”. On the bottom, I put my daughter’s picture with Dora character, we took when we went to universal studio and wrote:  Come on vamanous, everybody, let’s go! Find your way to my fiesta! It will be fantastica! Map is here to show the way… to my birthday all the way. Then I printed it on Granite Cream color card stock.  I printed from nickjr.com, map’s eye borrows, eyes and month. Cut it and glued it at the back. I purchased a mailing tubes from eBay and rolled the map and put it inside and mailed it.

 

Decorations: 

we made the party in one of my father's in law RV parks(He owns 6) in the club hose. The place was not that pretty for a party but it was a lot of space. So i purchased the Dora scenery and some Dora table cloth and balloons. I also made big shaped stars, with different colors of poster board; put it on the floor, from the entrance door to the table. I gluedtiny stars inside Like the ones from Dora's show.

ACTIVITIES:

Since all the children that were invited were my daughter's age or younger, so I made the activities very simple and understandable for the younger age so everyone can participate and enjoy the time. I bought Dora’s piñata from Wal-Mart. It was the type that you pull the string, so it was so easy for the kids. Each kid tried and enjoyed it a lot. Once all the candy came out, everyone was like crazy. I gave them Dora’s bags to put the candy in.  I also purchased a big poster from allposters.com site. It was like $5.00 .It had Dora, Diego and boots picture with balloons and hats and the poster says “Supper silly fiesta”. I got foam board and glued the poster on it. Drew at the back puzzle shapes, and then cut it as puzzle pieces. I made it easy and big pieces so the kids are able to do it easily.  I also printed lots of coloring pages and activities from nickjr.com site. My husband has a binding machine, so I made a bound activity book for each child. I found on nickjr.com site a map page says” welcome to my bedroom” so I used paint shop and changed it.The first page was “welcome to Anastasia’s party” for the cover page. And the other was” Thank you for coming” for the back page. Also, I added Anastasia’s picture with Dora from universal studio in the 2^nd page. Each child had his/her own book with a box of washable crayons.