A Fairy Party

My little girl turned 5 today.

 

We decided to do a fairy party for her birthday.  Through the last number of weeks I've been sewing, buying Dollarama items for decorations, baking, paper crafting, the works.

 

 

 For each girl, a set of wings and a tutu.

 

Total cost... $13 for 6 tutus and 5 sets of wings.  And a lot of sewing. 

So, in addition to the craft (which I have zero pics of... oops), this is what each girl gets.  The invite with the butterfly, and then the matching tutu and wings.

 

 

 

I volunteered to send mini cupcakes to school with M.  She's in kindergarten, can you believe it?  Anyway, they needed 20 for in school, so I made 4 dozen.  And decorated them.  All.  Plus the cake.  That took 3 hours! 

I love how they turned out!

 Here is the craft table, and M's first birthday gift... a Tinkerbell costume!

 

I printed a number of fairy papers for the girls to color, and inside the egg is 6 baggies which contain the materials to make wands, including stickers, gems, foam flowers I cut out, and an envelope with tattoos.   

We used the jolly jumper to hang the tutus and wings.  Just removed the spring.  I think it turned out beautifully. 

 And now... the fairy grotto!  I hid the room from immediate view using a tablecloth as a door.  I love how it all turned out!  It looked like a disaster only 30 minutes earlier!

 

I used the kids play tent and covered it in a shower curtain I already had, then a bunch of my fake flowers.  Blankets and sheets covered the computer and bookshelves. 

The birthday banner! 

The cake and cupcakes!  And the Spritz cookies.  I am addicted to those things! 

The table is my husband's parents.  It is beautiful!  I love it so much, and was so glad they let me borrow it for the party!  The lemonade has berries in ice cubes for cooling!  It ended up turning into pink lemonade as they melted. 

I created a waterfall and fairy pool.  Oh, and those mushrooms?  They light up and change color! 

 

 The waterfall bookcase.

 

 The tea party table setting.  I used some of my china, and my mom borrowed me some of hers.  I loved how this worked out!

 

 Tea time!

 

 Pin the wings on the fairy.

 

 Some other décor.

 

 We forgot to blow out candles... parents were arriving as we were doing the craft (oops... 2 hours wasn't enough time apparently).  So, I never got pics of their fairy wands.  I loved seeing their creativity, though!  Bram joined in on the fun at that point as well.

 

 We had our own little party in the grotto later.  A is 'sitting' on a chair in the spare costume.

 

 Happy Birthday, M!

 

I hope you had a magical birthday! 

 I still can hardly believe that 5 years ago, life changed for us forever... you entered our lives, and I wouldn't change it for the world!

 

 

Here are a few fun shots later that evening.

 Baby A loves the lights!

 

 

Total cost- less than $80 including the present!

 

food - I'll say $10 as all we really needed to buy was berries and pretzels, didn't nearly use them all, and the cost of the rest of the food is negligible.

décor - 5 mushrooms, $2 each.  2 mossy squares $2 each.  Acrylic acorns $2.  Fake plants $5.  Fabric, sheer curtains, tablecloths, streamers (which I didn't have time to use), $7(plus some borrowed). 

Easter grass - bought ages ago for dirt cheap (I think it was 10cents/bag... I had 6). <$1

Banner - used what I had 

Fairies - had them already.

craft - $3 (with lots of leftover supplies)

kids costumes - $13

invites - used stuff I had on hand, and the boxes those mushrooms came in.  Free.

M's costume and birthday gift - $25

 

 

A Fairy Birthday

Well, my daughter is turning 5 in about 2 weeks.  She decided (with a lot of prompting from me) on a fairy party.  I had so much fun with the invitations, and I have so many ideas for the party, too!  I hope I can make many of them come to fruition.

 

First, my main idea was to make the invites different... say, a fairy in a jar.  Since I was wary of giving glass jars to little 5 year old girls, I decided to use a clear plastic box instead.  And lucky me, I happened to have 5 of them!  I got to work making a poem for the invite, and worked on making butterfly hairclips.

 

I love how they turned out!

 

 There are 6... the birthday girl needs one of course, and hers is a little fancier than the others with a layer of special tissue paper overtop, and more gems on the wings.  I also picked a color that will complement her Tinkerbell costume that we bought for her for the occasion.  It's the same color as the flower on the skirt.

The other butterflies are very similar

 I painted a bobby pin with nail polish (some sparkly blue, others pink) and then cut out a paper butterfly using my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die in each of the five colors that we also have as wings for the girls (they will 'become' fairies upon arriving).  The butterfly in their hair determines their wing color.  I cut a plastic butterfly from toy packaging for the backing so as to give them more structure and to prevent sparkles from getting in their hair.  And ease of use.  I mod podged sparkles all over these things after running the paper butterfly through the 'lacy brocade' embossing folder, and before adhering it to the plastic butterfly.  Slip on the bobby pin, add gems, and voila!  Sparkly butterfly.

I almost wanted to name them! 

 I made each of them a little fairy home.  The background of their 'home' is the invite itself.  You can see it from the back of the box and read it quite well.  Inside each 'home' is a daisy and an 'acorn lamp' I made using a paper clip, a cut disk from my trees, and an acrylic acorn from a bag of them I found at the dollar store (I couldn't resist them, they were so cute!).

 I love how they turned out!  Made one for my daughter too, of course.  It became Tinkerbell's lamp so 'she can work on her projects'.  I made one for me, too... cause they're cute... and I want one... and I made them, so there!

Here is the invite itself.  I wrote up the poem in little time.  Pretty proud of it, too... haha.  I thought poems work well for fairy tales, so why not?

All pretty in their boxes, awaiting their trip to each girl's home.  :)

Gah, why don't I have just one more of those boxes!  I am so tempted to buy another glowing mushroom so I can have another box for my daughter's butterfly home, haha.  Oh, and the grass?  Got that in a gift one Easter, years ago.  I save too many things.  Came in useful though, didn't it?  ;)

Now to solidify in my mind exactly what I will do to make the banner, the food signs, the 'seek and find' note...

This is too much fun!  I love having little girls!

Oh, and for fun, here is a pic of my baby looking at those glowing mushrooms I mentioned earlier...

Can you tell I got them for the party?  Yeah?  Thought so... too cute to pass up.  There is only 5 colors though... if I get a sixth, I'll need to double up a color...