Charlotte had her first real birthday party a week ago! I think I spent way too long on the party prep, but what can I say?… It was a blast.
Charlotte & I made these Pascal Party Blowers for the guests (idea from Disney family website). They were easy to make & they were a big hit, as I had hoped!
As we were making these, Charlotte asked me why I was doing this for her party. I told her it was because I love her! When I asked her if she liked them, she responded sincerely, “Yeah. I’m so proud of you.” Also, I messed up when I was cutting them out, and got annoyed. Charlotte came up to me and rubbed my shoulder saying in a soft, soothing voice, “It’s okay. We’ll fix it.” (I had to laugh at myself for overreacting over some wasted sticky foam.) She’s such a sweetie pie!
I’d printed out several “Wanted: Flynn Rider” signs & had Chase draw all different funny noses on Flynn, like in the movie. Chase taped them all over the house. We’d also printed sun flags & made a Tangled sun banner.
As the little guests arrived, they put on their Rapunzel hair clips (GG & Cotton had made them for me, with clips & long strands of yarn). They also decorated their own shiny paper tiaras with stickers, & drank some pink party punch (Cherry 7-Up with juice & sherbet).
I came up with these Pascal Quesadillas, which were definitely much more fun to look at than to eat. The girls weren’t fans of the spinach tortillas! I had kinda figured that would happen. But they were just so cute, I couldn’t help it! (Spinach tortillas, cheddar cheese inside, slice of hard-boiled egg + olive for the eye, licorice string mouth, & red bell pepper tongue.)
We had the food sitting on the table in frying pans! (I borrowed that idea from someone’s blog.)
I had Pace buy 3 songs from the Tangled movie & he had them playing in a loop during the whole party. And he cranked up the volume for Dance Time!
Charlotte received lots of pink, girly presents!
Casey was the star of the party. The girls thought he was so funny! He was talking like a girl as Jess braided his Rapunzel hair.
So naturally, I put Casey in charge of executing the games. He was the ringleader for “Rapunzel Says” (aka Simon Says), and for “Hide & Go Seek Rapunzel” (one girl would hide the doll & then the others would go find it).
“Rapunzel Says” was the cutest game to watch– Little girls all doing the same actions & giggling!
Everyone got party bags at the end (I had bought a pack of Tangled stickers to decorate colorful bags, & also the cups on the table). The girls got to take home a couple of Tangled coloring pages I’d printed, the Pascal party blowers, the Rapunzel hair clips, their decorated tiaras, & of course, candy!
