All About You Monday, Show Share and Tell with Texas Monkey
I do apologize that this is going up today on Tuesday rather than yesterday on Monday.  It was a wild weekend and I'm just now coming up for air.  We will be back on schedule next week I promise. 

I threw a Dr Seuss The Cat In The Hat Themed Party on Labor Day in honor of the new PBS show The Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That.  Macaroni Kid Dallas teamed up with PBS to help spread the word and get kids excited about learning Science and I wanted to share the party with you. 

This is the first time to have a party at my house and I was a bit nervous but outside of spilling only one cup of red juice on my light carpet, it was a great success.  Don't feel bad for me, I'm the mom that decided to have red juice at a party full of kids so it's my own fault.  :)

I sent out invitations to my DD's day care, on my facebook, and my subscribers to Macaroni Kid. 




Decorations:
I kept the decorations simple and basic, a few streamers, a few pennant banners, balloons, and some tissue paper pom poms.  I used DD's Dr Seuss books all around and a few stuffed characters that she has.  I made a few candle stick pedal stools and a tissue flower tree.  Poppa (aka the husband) helped me draw and make the Trufula Trees. 

Of course I had my very own little Cat In The Hat there.


Favors:
For Favors we had goody bags filled with all kinds of fun stuff, candy, tatoos, stickers, luggage tags, book marks, and boucy balls.  I gave the moms fun flower vases and the older kids got Science worksheets and the younger kids got reading charts.


Games:
For Games we played Pin The Hat On The Cat which my mom drew for me (free handed) and we used hat stickers for the kids to pin with.  Then we played Hot Cat In The Hat (Hot Potato) and the last one standing got to keep Mr Cat In The Hat and a card game and stickers. 



Food and Sweets Table:
The party was at 10am so I didn't do a whole lot of food but no Dr Seuss party is complete without Green Eggs and Ham.


We had coffee for moms and juice and water for the kids.

I had a small candy buffet set up and the kids and moms got to fill a bag to take home. 

I made Thing 1 and Thing 2 cupcakes and a small cupcake stand.

I made red/turquoise/white candy bark, cake balls, dipped pretzel rods, and rice krispy treats and colored popcorn blue.  I also made The Cat's Hat Marshmallow Pops! The rest of the candy was store bought.


After this the kids sat around watching the show and the moms relaxed and mingled. 
Needless to say Monkey passed out from having such a good time! 

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Happy Tuesday Ya'll

I'm still going through all of the pictures from the Ladybug Themed Birthday party we had for Monkey.  I thought I'd do one post that had a full recap to reference to.  Be warned it's pic heavy!  You can click on the link above for more details of each section but this post will show everything in one.


For the Birthday girl's outfit I made Ladybug Wings, blinged out a shirt and adorned it with bows, made her antennas, Ladybug Bow, and painted her shoes and put it all with a red and black Petti skirt.







Instead of party hats I opted for Ladybug Balloon animal bracelets.  The birthday girl had a special one just for her. 

If you aren't a clown (by profession that is) balloon animal videos are all over the web to show you how to make them. 


For the decorations we used red and black with touches of grass green and white.  I handmade everything I could and bought on clearance what I couldn't make.  I love throwing parties and usually plan for at least 6 months so that I'm not buying all at once and I can get good deals.


I designed and printed out signs to hang everywhere, I did 3 different sayings.
































I made the tutu puff for my niece that my wonderful sister in law let us borrow so I didn't have to make another one and Monkey carried this around like her wand! 

 I decorated the cups with black polka dots to carry through the theme.  We added water bottle labels and served Bug Juice! 


















Here's a close up of the Ladybug Crackers.  I think these just added the perfect touch! 


















I adore this picture of Monkey stealing olives off of the crackers. 

I kept it simple for the games.  We played pin the spot on the ladybug and Ladybug Spot Toss.  I painted each ladybug and cut out circles to pin on for the Pin the Spot game.  For the Ladybug Toss I cut out felt circles and glued on then added Velcro strips to make them even more sticky.  I then wrapped ping pong balls with the opposite strips of Velcro and the kids tossed the balls and tried to get them to stick to the spots.  For prizes I decorated a bucket and filled with loot for them to pick from.
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