Ava’s Art Party: It’s a Wrap

Impressive! The streamer wall stayed up until the last half hour of the party! As always it was just as much fun to pull down as to run through! Just look at these smiles!!! Love the streamer wall… best activity of the party!

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Ava’s Art Party: The Birthday Girl and Guests

Three… I cannot believe Ava is Three!!!!  My birthday girl and her three friends!  Thank you Emma, Noah and Kaya for being a part of a very special day!!!

Daddys Girl

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Ava’s Art Party: Fun With Art

What would a party be without fun activities.  Ava and I cooked homemade play dough in all the rainbow colors, covered a table in paper for coloring and each child painted a small canvas to take home.  It was Ava’s first experience with acrylic and my excuse to buy the soy rock crayons I had been eying for months!  If the smiles are a measure of success I think the party was a hit!

Love these paper placemats: Mealtime Masterpieces by Freds

Little Artists

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Ava’s Art Party: Food and Favors

Well, my idea to plan a low key birthday failed… as always I ran wild with planning!  Months ago I started to plan Ava’s Art Party!!! Love this theme and could not wait to get started on all the fun details!  The colorful, fun and yummy ideas were endless but I narrowed it down with the birthday girls help.  She requested cupcakes instead of a layer cake and was my cooking and play dough making assistant.  She helped measure and cut the streamers and was patient as I sometimes had to sew painting aprons instead of playing.  I just LOVED how everything came together… I definitely think that party planning is my calling in my next lifetime!  You may find this scary but ideas are already circling for Birthday #4… I am thinking perhaps an Alice in Wonderland tea party??!!!

I cheated ordering aprons from Oriental Trading Co but spruced them up with custom ribbons and buttons!

Additional favors were a set of watercolors and brush

A color wheel of fruit and rainbow layered cupcakes

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Love This Guy and So Does She!

I love how great Larry is with Ava.  Lately she is DADDY’S GIRL through and through!  Here he is partying with the girls how sweet!  I even caught a daddy moment although not the best picture priceless to me!

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Keeping Busy, Party Style!

At two the attention span is just not prepared for too many planned party games. My answer: a streamer door to run through and Sesame Street art. The streamer doorway FUN but I have to give credit to my friend Emily who used this at her daughters one year party. At that time we were all in awe of how the kids ran through but did not attempt to pull the streamers down. Apparently what we did not know is that the ripping of the streamers instinct must surface sometime around two years old! Ava and Hope had a blast but Emma missed all the fun.  For the art project I taped a long roll of paper to the floor with painters tape, loaded a basket full of crayons and Sesame Street stickers from Targets dollar bin, and let them go to town! Don’t worry crayon comes right off of wood floors!

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You Are Invited!

This year I decided on an Abby Caddaby theme for Ava’s second birthday. She loves Abby and it is a great excuse to pull out the tutu! Since each of her invited friends already received a hand made tutu from me I could just imagine all the girly fun.

Here is the invite from Tiny Prints.

More to come soon….

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