I have more pictures if only I could find them, ugh. Story of my life. Anyways, just wanted to post about our awesome kids party from over the summer. My goal is to have a fun kids party each summer for my kids. Something fun to look forward to and to invite new kids each time so they can widen out and make new friends. Also it was a huge highlight of my childhood and I want to share! So this was the first of many to come. Let me just say it was a blast! My daughter was two and my son just 6 months, but we all got involved!
Number one rule I made very clear, everyone had to dress up. No party poopers here! It really added a lot of fun to have the adults including the Mimi and papa in costume!
So I made the invites myself, for almost nothing. I had bought a few dollar store jake items that inspired the party, plus my daughter was obsessed with the show, but I cut out the jake logo and put it on brown, treasure map looking, paper and wrote in my best calligraphy to invite the kids to our ship, our house!!! They were so cute!
Next I stalked eBay looking for party supplies. I found a woman selling left over supplies from her sons party. It was such an awesome find. I price checked all she had included and it was a fraction of the cost. Amazing!!! Plus I sold what we didn't use and didn't get messed up and made a lot of the money back.
I made the cake myself, like you couldn't tell, but it was a lot of fun and my daughter loved it! The cup cakes were a hit and easy for the littles to eat!
As the kids arrived they colored jake and izzy pictures, which you can print for free from the Disney website. Once everyone had arrived we played pin the treasure on the map. I had a wall covered with an oversized map and a gigantic X where the chest should go! Then we played, Captain Hook pretzels, the kids had to see how many pretzels they could get out of the bowl using a hook. (Tip: make sure the hook fits you may need large pretzels). Next was snack time: including goldfish, fruit snacks, cupcakes, fruit and drinks. Finally we went outside for the kiddos to walk the plank, my husband built out of some supplies we had, and they dug for treasure in a small sand box filled with plastic coins!!! We also had a kiddie pool and bubbles!
Would have been perfect except it started raining forcing all to go back inside, but no worries they all enjoyed a jake episode while mom came up with plan B:) a last minute puppet show starring dad and an older guest!!
All in all we had a blast, kids were tired and we can't wait to settle on a theme for next summer!
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