Pool Party
I wanted to do something fun for my girls (ages 7 and 9)before their summer vacation was over so I decided to have a "Girlfriends Pool Party". We invited 10 of their closest friends from school. Most of whom they had not seen all summer. Invitations were written on beach balls and mailed in 8x11 envelopes. Menu: 1. "Peanut butter and Jellyfish" sandwiches (cut bread with fish shaped cookie cutters and add peanut butter and jelly). I served the sandwiches on a large fish shaped platter. 2. Chips and dip 3. "Crab Cakes": I baked cupcakes (yellow) and topped them with strawberry flavored frosting. I inserted mini chocolate chips for eyes and for legs I used sour punch strawberry candy straws (licorice) cut into 2 inch pieces. I inserted three on each side of the cupcakes. (Made to look like crabs) 4. Drinks: Mondo drinks (blue) served in a large clear plastic bowl with a little blue food coloring added to the ice water and I labeled the bowl "Ocean Water" written on blue construction paper cut into the shape of a wave. 5. Individually wrapped Life Savers candy was offered in a fish shaped bowl with a lifesaver shaped label that read, "For your safety, Life Savers are provided". 6. I served gold fish cheddar crackers in fish shaped
SPLASH BLAST Beach Party! A birthday is a celebration for the young and old in my family. I celebrated my daughters second birthday with a beach/pool party. INVITATIONS: I first invited friends and family with a special invitation. I sent a "Message in a Bottle". I used empty plastic water bottles. After rinsing drying and peeling the paper from the bottle, I filled each bottle with a small amount of sand and added mini sea shells, fish, etc. I printed the birthday information on fun and festive paper. Then I rolled up the paper; tied it with curling ribbon and placed it in the bottle . Secure the bottle with the cap wrap some more ribbon around the bottle and hand deliver each invitation. ( they can be mailed by placing it in a mailing tube or adding a mailing label to the outside of the bottle.) DECORATIONS: No party is complete with an abundance of balloons. I attached balloons everywhere. It makes the party look so festive! As a centerpiece for the dinner table, I used a large fish bowl filled with water and rocks and filled it with "live" gold fish. Then I sprinkled some sand around the bowl on the table and placed miniature shells and sea creatures in the sand. This was a hit with the children!. On the food buffet table, I used a pineapple decorated with fruit kabobs.(pierce the kabob sticks in all over the pineapple) FOOD & DRINKS: Of course we had Hawaiian Punch. As an added treat we had "Cool Smoothies". I had a small table set up with a blender, ice, sodas, juice, milk, fruit, yogurts, and etc. Each guest was able to choose their own ingredients for their special smoothie. Of course our littlest needed to be assisted by their parents. As a main course, we had a BBq feast complete with burgers, hot dogs, BBQ chicken, fruit bowl, pasta salad, potato salad, and corn on the Cobb. DESSERT/SNACK: I made "beach party cups". Use instant vanilla pudding and crushed vanilla wafers or graham cracker and a gumball. put the vanilla pudding in a small clear plastic drinking cup then sprinkle the crushed wafers or graham cracker which represents "sand" and place a gumball on top of the sand as a "beach ball". Then stick in small paper drink umbrellas to add the finishing touches. I filled some cups with lemon meringue pie filling instead of the vanilla pudding- how yummy! I made up some delicious "Sea Crunch". This is a combination of honey teddy grahams, small pretzel sticks, M&Ms, raisins, cheese goldfish crackers. The children loved it! I didn't forget the cake. It was store bought with a lovely beach/pool theme. ACTIVITY CENTERS: Not only were the kids allowed to splash around in the pool but I set up centers that the children could go to with the assistance of their parent(s) "Sand Jars": I cleaned small baby food jars for this activity. You can substitute with store bought glass jars. I purchased different flavors of presweetened cool-aid to replace the sand. We filled the j
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