Happy Birthday dear A

For A’s birthday, there was a choice between having it at a trampoline place or having it at home. Final headcount made it a better idea at home as there are only 5 girls in A’s class and two she knows well in the other class, and not enough for a party in a trampoline place.

A wanted a ‘Little Pony’ themed party so the planning was all pony/horse based starting from the Little Pony cupcakes (the cake lady  is awesome, she made cupcakes with the individual pony icing on top), party plates, Pinky Pie Pinata made by the hubby and girls, pin the tail on the Pinky Pie etc… its amazing the stuff you get on the net.

The party was on Saturday afternoon from 2 pm to 5 pm, and finally only 4 girls ended up confirming as it was ski weekend and two of the girls were out skiing, and one mom never got back to me despite me sending  her three emails and putting a card in her daughter’s backpack! But A’s best buddy L was there so she was happy enough J

The party was a dress up party so we had two Elsa’s, one Rapunzel, one pirate and one fairy (A). S did not dress up but declared herself responsible for helping conduct the party

The games were :

1.     Pass the Parcel : We wrapped a small prize in each layer of the parcel, and whoever got the parcel would get the prize. There were no punishments as A insisted that she and her friends are too young to do the punishments!!

2.     Musical chairs: This was so funny. Clearly S and A had got a lot of practice from playing since at S’ birthday party and despite repeated whisperings from the hubby and I to S, to let A and her friends win, S continued to dominate this game and in the end it was her and A running around the last chair.

3.     Musical Statues, or Freeze Dance : The hubby and the girls had been doing some research on this for the last one week leading up to the party and had the favourite dance music for the kids ready and stored on their favourites on You Tube. They found a couple of cute numbers like ‘I’m a gummy bear’  and another which I can’t remember the name, where they had kids dancing to the song and the kids could copy their steps. Whenever the music stopped the kids had to freeze and whoever was the slowest at freezing was out. We had bought small prizes for everyone who got out (no losers in the girls birthday parties…)

4.     Pin the Tail on Pinky Pie : The birthday party was Little Pony theme so we had Pin the Tail on Pinkly Pie and cut outs of pink tails for the kids to stick with pink tac. S organized this completely, and would blindfold the kids and then lead them upto the blackboard and help then with pinning the tail!

5.     Lemon and Spoon race : The hubby had got some Cadbury crème eggs so we had a variation of the lemon and spoon race with a chocolate egg in a spoon. There wasn’t enough place in the flat for all the girls to run together so we split them into pairs of two, and they had to make one loop around the flat without dropping the egg. A refused to participate so I had to step in for her!

6.     Wild hitting of the Pinata : We ended the games with a home made Pinata. The girls and the hubby had over the last week crafted a home made Pinky Pie  piñata and stuffed it full of sweets. It turned out to be quite strong  and the girls had many chances to hit it until it finally burst!

In addition to the games we also had some activities/crafts to keep the girls busy

1.     Painting and colouring a take home party bag: The girls could chose between felt colour and paints and colour these cloth (take home ) party bags

2.     Painting and decorating ‘My Little Pony’ : Crayola has this awesome Pony handicraft where you can join two halves of a pony together, paint it, decorate it with stickers, braid its hair and stick clips etc in the hair. We got one for each of the kids, and asked them to design their own favourite My Little Pony. We had a rainbow dash and a pinkie pie etc etc by the end of it

3.     Face painting : S was responsible for making little designs on the kids faces and she supplied them with hearts, diamonds etc

Food was a simple affair as it was between lunch and dinner. Everyone chose their favourite Pony cupcake and had popcorn, chips, fruits and juice alongwith it. After food everyone relaxed on the mattress to watch an episode of My Little Pony.

The party was fun, and best of all A enjoyed it J Only learning is that next time I’ll oragnise it only for 2 and ½ hours, the last half hour was a bit of a stretch as the games and activities and food only lasts for about a couple of hours.

Till next year…