Vintage Airplane Party

For my son's first birthday we threw him a vintage airplane themed party. A year later and I am finally scrapbooking his pictures so I thought I would share. It was so fun and I love how the party decor turned out.

Paxton loves airplanes and so does my hubby so it seemed fitting. For the invitations we used airplane boarding pass tickets with all the details of the party for their flight information. All the link details are listed at the bottom of this post. (The scrapbook pages are layouts I cut in half so you could see the pictures bigger)

The Baggage Claim Area held party favor bags

An adorable flight hat my sister made him. So cute! She is so talented.

We hung some of my husband's RC airplanes around the house and a map of the world as well that we already had. Unfortunately Dora is still a frequent guest at our home.

Boarding Pass Invitations: Vintage Airplane Invitation (Boarding Pass Style) for a Birthday Party or Shower by FLIPAWOO - Customized Printable File but I got mine as part of a set with the entire party pack

All vintage printables: Vintage Airplane Party Premium Set by Flipawoo- Customized Printable Files

Pin the Propeller on the Airplane: Idea came from this site here, but I made it myself to save money. Lots of great ideas on that site.

Emergency Exit signs: googled images on google and printed one out

Passports: handmade from supplies at craft store

Large vintage suitcases: borrowed

Mini suitcases holding passports and food: Bought wooden ones from local craft store and painted them and then put vintage stickers also found at craft store (Hobby Lobby) on them.

I hope you were able to find some inspiration for your next party. Thanks for visiting ours! Happy planning!

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Sports Party

When my son turned two he cared about only one thing...balls. I know that sounds weird but if it was round and related to a sport he loved it. So, coming up with a theme for his second birthday was easy...Sports!

~Invitations ~

I found these Football Invitations in a Box at Oriental Trading.

The box itself is the invitation — and each box contains an inflatable football just for fun!

~Decorations~

I started with a football field table runner and used sports themed cups and plates that I found at the dollar store. I cut the top off of a football piñata to hold the plates and silverware.

I finished the look with some hung up lanterns shaped like sports balls (Oriental Trading).

~Food~

The food for this party was easy, because I did traditional stadium food...hotdogs and hamburgers, popcorn, chips and salsa, etc. For the cake I made cupcakes and put caps on them. These cupcake caps are from http://www.cupcakecaps.com/. They are easy to use. You simply bake the cupcakes, schmear a little frosting on, plop Cupcake Caps on top, and Ta Da! They taste kind of like marshmellow and are surprisingly soft to bite into. They made the cupcakes look so much better then if I had frosted them myself.

~Activities~

As the guests arrived I had them sign a soccer ball with their birthday wishes for my son. I thought it was a fun little keepsake for him to look back at. I also got a soccer ball for each of the children to decorate and and take home with them.

What would a little boys party be without a piñata. They kids had a blast taking turns hitting the soccer ball, but loved it even more when the candy exploded all over the floor.

~Party Favor~

Along with the decorated soccer ball, I gave each child a bag of sports related toys and candy with a little note that said "Thanks for celebrating my 2nd birthday with me. I hope you had a 'BALL'".

Everyone had a great time at the party.

And Taye is glad you "PICKED" our blog to read all about his fun day.

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Snow Day Party

My son was born in the middle of January. I remember driving to the hospital at 4 am on icy roads and freezing temperatures. So when his 1st birthday came around I thought back to that day and decided to celebrate with a Snow Day Party.

~Invitations ~

I used snowflake paper with snowflake embelishments. The invite read:

Taye was born in the winter a year ago,

It was cold; there was ice and even some snow.

Now it is time to remember that winter day.

Come play in the snow and celebrate with Taye.

(no real snow included)

~Decorations~

I decorated with glittery snowflakes, dark blue table runners, and snowflake tea lights.

I wanted to make these chair covers that I found at Family Fun, but they didn's go with the rest of my decorations. I think they are adorable.

~Food~

Chili with all the fixins (cheese, cornbread, sour cream and tortilla strips)

Quesadillas cut in the shape of snowflakes

Cheese ball shaped like a snowman (complete with carrot nose and fruit roll up scarf)

Powdered Doughnut Snowballs

White Cotton Candy Snow

Pretzel Rods dipped in white chocolate and rolled in sugar

Snowflake Popcorn (recipe from Betty Crocker)

Frosty Grapes (wet grapes, dip in sugar, freeze....soooo good)

Polar Ice Cap Drink (blue kool-aid (prepared as directed), ginger ale, vanilla ice cream)

Some other recipes I wanted to try were Snow Pudding and Berries in the Snow.

~Activities~

As each child arrived we took a photo of them in front of a white back drop. They each decorated a frame with foam snowflakes and we put the picture into the frame for them to take home.

 

Here are some activity ideas that I would have liked to do, but many of the children were too young:

Indoor Snowman

Create your own indoor snowman. Split the kids into teams. Give each team a snowman making kit including a roll of toilet paper or paper towels, construction paper, elastics, felt, glue and any other items you may find. Each team wraps one team member with toilet paper and decorates with accessories.

Award prizes for fastest, most creative, etc.

Snowball Fight

Make "snowballs" out of white tissue paper. Split the kids into two teams. Mark a line on the floor and each team stands on one side of the line. Play a wintery song - when the song is over, the time is up. The team with the fewest snowballs on their side is the snowball champion.

Snow Globes

Using empty, clean baby food jars, let kids create their own snow globes. Provide decorating essentials like

figurines that can be found in cake decorating stores, and glitter. Attach figurines to the inside of the lid with hot glue (adult job). Fill the jar (about 2/3 of the way) with cold water and add glitter, foil snowflakes or anything else that's snow-like. Put the lid on the jar and seal with hot glue. Flip over and cover the lid with ribbon.

Pass the Snowball

Play like Hot Potato, but pass an oversized foam ball to some fun Winter music.

~Party Favor~

The frame wasn't enough. so I gave each child a goodie bag filled with toys and candy. There were mini rubber duckies, bouncy balls, bubbles and candy with snowflakes on them. Then I finished it off with a ribbon and glittery snowflake.

Everyone had a great time and it made me very excited for all the parties to come.

Even the dog celebrated Taye's special day.

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