They wanted Dinosaurs -- and as long as it wasn't princesses, or 'Frozen,' or 'My Little Pony,' I was more than happy to go with their party theme choice.
Red's specific request was to BE a dinosaur in her party. Whether that involved a melt-underneath-thick-Barney-costume, or full-on body painting, she didn't care. As long as she was a dinosaur. I was being merciful when we settled on face-painting and a dino-head. She really gets into character as an awesome miniature!
Roo, on the other hand, was feeling VERY social. When I had asked her to list out people she wanted to invite to the party (I advised 8-10), she gave me a 30+ kids strong list. Two parents each, sometimes a sibling or two, her guest list started to feel like a wedding banquet! Had to sit down with her to get to a fairly decent number she can be happy with. We still ended up with 18-ish kids.
I got fixated on sand. Just had to have it, and was tickled by the idea of having our own sandpit. With H's help, it got done -- and with minimal criminal activity involved. I still wonder though, if I'd been caught taking a bagful of sand from East Coast on my birthday, would I have been arrested?
Delegated more this year, and simply helped the kids execute some ideas that tickled. Images from the party and preps. Will let the images tell the story! :)
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Birthday girls! |
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Identifying the dinosaurs, so we can pretend to be experts |
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Preparing to freeze the dinosaurs. Ice Age! :) |
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Washing the dinos and trees that will go into their cake... |
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Roo and Red decorated their own cake! |
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"Today's going to be SOOOOO awesome!!!" |
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Cheatsheets, and baby Tyrannosaurus footprints |
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Tinysaurus Red! |
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ICE AGE: Free your frozen dino, then identify it, so you can keep it. |
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Lots of smashing involved. I had hoped they would soak the ice in water, or some other slow method. |
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Freeedoooom! |
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Dino identification |
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Sandplay time! |
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Briefing from our ranger |
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Littler ones go first... |
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DINO DIG: Find, identify, keep. |
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DINO ART: Chalking the pavement |
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So happy with her bad*ss facepaint! Love that she's a bit of a boy. |
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Birthday song... |
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Roo, just soaking up the love from her friends. Just a happy smile! |
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Wishes and candle blowing! |
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Friends helped us distribute cake! |
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Free play! |
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Apparently, it's quite fun for them to help us bag us the sand. Clean up is play! |
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Not allowed to go home unless they can identify the dinos in their buckets! :) Final review. |
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Mission Accomplished: Tired (but happy) angels. |
3 comments:
Oh Steph I love love love love love this party! It sounds like something I would have done for my girls too! Pocket friendly yet dripping with love and a whole deal of fun for the kids plus a side of relak jack for parents. Yay! Super yay!!!
Ps was H dressed like a ranger intentionally?
Ps I also "stole" a bag of sand from the beach for sensory play! Haha
what an awesome party!!! if i were a passer-by, i'd gate crash!
That looked some an awesome dino party! Love all the ideas you had from the games, props and activities.
Happy belated birthday Red!
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