Our party "throwback" this week is my daughter's "Pom Poms & Painting" themed 2nd birthday party. Amara still enjoys painting so much! We kept it fairly simple by holding it not in our house... whoop whoop! outdoors at a beautiful vineyard. I assembled basket lunches for the adults, boxed lunches for the kiddos with juice boxes and canned sodas and called it a day! Of course we bought wine as well.... I mean, we WERE at a vineyard.
I set up a painting table with a place setting ( 3 sheets of watercolor paper, an art smock and a paint set) for each little guest. Tags and invites done by Lauren at Rock Paper Scissors.
Follow our simple DIY party hat tutorial here. I additionally added some poms to each hat. I hand -dyed some in water color water to get the pastel look.
I actually cut circles out of one of Amara's many paintings at home to make tags for the boxed lunches! It just made it all that more personal.
I filled clear paint cans ( found at Joann's Fabric Store) with different colors of tissue paper to resemble "paint" and stocked each can with $1 items. My favorite favors were the mini paint sets!
I set up a dessert table with some sweet treats! I hot glued pom poms to the front of the table cloth to go with the theme.
homemade cupcakes with DIY cake toppers. I simply cut stripey straws into thirds and hot glued pom poms to the ends.... voila!
Rice crispy treats on a stick dipped in candy melts. These were much harder to make than I thought they would be, but they were a hit so they were worth it!
My favorite thing of all is the "year of instagrams" banner I did. I watercolored little flags, glued them to mini paper clips to label each month. I loved this banner so much!!
It was such a beautiful evening!! Now, its time to start gearing up for birthday no. 3... yikes!
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Beautiful! I love the details. Can you tell me where you got the dish that held the cotton candy?
ReplyDeleteThanks Amanda!! ;) The dish is actually a dish for cooking fish! haha...... I just happened to pull it out the night before and the little strainer plate with the holes in it held the straws perfectly. Pure coincidence. You could always use styrofoam or a vase with rice, coffee beans, marbles, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis is why you're a creative genius...you see past intended purpose! Love it :)
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