LOVEZILLA

Phew!  It’s over!  This has been the biggest, behind the scene birthday party to date.  If you want more information leave a comment and I will bore give you more detail.

This tower is 21 donuts high.  When all was said and done it ended up being around 3 feet 7 inches tall.  The kids couldn’t believe it.  I placed it on my island for dramatic purposes.  It truly “towered” over them!

To try to maintain some order,  I had three different stations set up.  Two were games, one was a craft.  We rotated the kids between stations to keep them engaged.  I bought several small items as prizes for the games.  They got to choose between: pencils, bouncy balls, bubbles, play dough, bracelets, erasers, stickers and finger puppets.

The first game was a “Pin the Pan on Flynn”.  We blindfolded the kids with a sleeping mask and had them try to pan Flynn in the face.

The “Maximus Apple Toss” was next.  Can you see how cute the apple bean bags are?  Sending a shout out to my friend Debra for hooking me up with those.  (Learning to sew is on my Resolution list)

The last station was the lantern craft.  All you need is heavyweight construction paper, scissors, crayons and stickers.  They are so simple.  Fold the construction paper in half.  Cut, (starting at the fold) across the paper stopping about an inch before the edge. There were roughly 5 to 6 evenly spaced lines per paper.   I had the kids decorate the lanterns with sticker and crayons.  Didn’t they turn out cute?  The kids absolutely loved them!

I placed a paint set (Remember Rapunzel was a painter) in sacks for the kids.   I used a mailing label to stick on the paints, thanking the kids for coming to the party.  They placed all their prizes, the coloring page and donut remainders in their sack to spare us from the whines of who’s prize was who’s.

All the kids had a blast.  I am tired, but luckily it’s a family tradition to go out to dinner to a place of the birthday person’s choice.