So our youngest celebrated his 7th birthday with family and friends today. It was several months of planning and preparations to do a home party with a carnival theme, and we couldn't have asked for better weather. It was sunny and in the 80's – just perfect.
We had set up various stations including a milk bottle game, ping pong ball in the cup game, ring toss game, hole in one game, football throw game, potato sack race, dunk tank and face painting. My aunt is super creative and did all the face painting which turned out so cute! We rented the dunk tank from a local place and it was the biggest hit of the whole party. My BIL was such a good sport and volunteered to be the dunkee…but it wasn't long before even the kids wanted to get dunked! 🙂
We bought all the prizes from Oriental Trading Company. That place is awesome – all kinds of goodies at a great price. My kind of shop. :) Prizes included a decorate your own binoculars (which actually worked quite well), velvet bookmarks, sunglasses, animal coin bag/key chains, foam photo frame kits, tattoos, army bracelets, and bubbles.
We kept the food simple with lemonade, bottled water, and chocolate/vanilla cupcakes which I decorated with little flags that I made on the computer, then cut out and glued to toothpicks. Before everyone left, we filled "popcorn" bags with lots of candy – large gum balls, giant pixie sticks, jaw breakers, lollipops, cotton candy twists, and we would've had gummy bears but they didn't survive the heat. Actually, the whole jar was full at the start of the party and by an hour into it, they had shrunk down to the point where it looked like the jar was only half full. LOL
Everyone seemed to have a great time and I think we may need to rent the dunk tank again…it was just so much fun! 🙂
What a fun party! Carnival theme must be the thing this year – my kids have gone to 2 parties with carnival themes recently! I guess because they are so much fun!
Happy Birthday! mine turned seven a few weeks ago too. Love the party idea Kim!!!
Love the photos Kim! It was an awesome idea 🙂
That is awesome Kim! I can tell so much thought was put into all those details. It looks like so much fun!
Looks like a ton of fun, so many things to do and sweets to eat! You deserve an awesome-Mom award for putting a party like that together – so cool!!
Very fun! Love the detail shots.
how fun! what a sweet party idea 🙂
You are having way more fun than me this summer Kim! (But I’ll be back in NYC the last week of July – WITH my camera LOL). Fab images – I just love seeing the everyday wonderful life as it unfolds!
What a great party! (And I spy giant-sized Pixie stix — yum!)
WOW! I want to be you when I grow up! How do you do all of these things in your life? Maybe I should have said I want to be your kid 🙂
What a fun birthday! Lovely photos that capture it all!
wow! how fun!!! sounds like a blast 🙂
He’s one lucky kid! I cannot let my children ever see this blog post because they will know how deprived they are. I envy your party planning skills. Good job!
What a super fun party, and lovely it has been captured by you! He is one lucky 7 year old!! Happy birthday to him!
Happy Birthday kiddo! Seven is such an awesome age. Mom you did a great job pulling off an awesome b-day party, makes me wonder what you’ve got to pull off next year!?!?
What a fun party! What kid doesn’t love sack races and face painting!?
Wow! What a fun party, and what a lucky boy to have a mom that will do all that for him!!
You are such an awesome mom! Looks like great fun was had by all