The Wolf Family: Happy 4th Birthday Party Addison!

Today was awesome! I invite you to revisit the recap of Addy's 3rd birthday party...http://bethanywolf.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-3rd-birthday-addison.html Well, today was the polar opposite! A great time was had by all, birthday girl included. The theme was arts and crafts and there were 4 activities. One was decorating luggage tags. This was a bit random, but I printed the kid's names on little cards and they decorated them and we laminated them and attached them to little tote bags I had made. I came up with this idea because I've found the few I have with Addy's name on them quite handy and I bought a laminating machine and wanted an excuse to use it. Another project was decorating small pumpkins with these cute sticker faces I got. Another was decorating picture frames with stickers. And the last was assembling and decorating the kids choice of a car or a truck. The car/truck project was completely designed and prepared by Michael - very proud of his creativeness and it was a huge success.

Addy's frame creation

Tote with luggage tag

Addy's car and some decorated pumpkins

So, the luggage tag project was kind of random, but the tote bags also served a purpose...while the theme of the party was arts and crafts, there was a Tinkerbell sub theme and we had a Tinkerbell pinata, so when all the craft projects were done we got the kids in line, gave them their bags and we went up front for pinata time. If you haven't checked out a pinata in a while, the new trend is these pinatas with strings that you pull and one of them opens the hatch that lets the candy fall out. No more swinging sticks!

Ready to pull!


Scrambling for candy.

Tinkerbell was the theme of the cake. My creativeness kicked in and fortunately the flexibility of fondant greatly compensated for my lack of cake decorating skills!