Every year I plan a play date in the Summer for Cami and her friends {and their mama’s}. Check out last year’s Watermelon themed party here. This year I went with a Rainbow theme – bright and fun just like Summer! The weather was beautiful and the kids had a blast! I setup small stations of games outside – small obstacle course, bozo buckets, sack races, water balloons and gutter soap boat races (Soap boat idea found via I Heart Nap Time here). The sack races were so fun to watch and water balloons are always a hit – can’t go wrong! I found the sacks at Party City.
Every year I like to pick a theme and decorate but use most things I already have from past parties. I decorated the wall behind the table with my go-to crepe paper backdrop – it’s so fast, easy and cheap. I had a few tissue tassel garlands made by Carmen of The Flair Exchange from Cami’s past parties which had all of the colors I needed, so I re-arranged them to make a rainbow tassel garland! We bought juice boxes in a variety of colors to go along with the rainbow theme – thanks Juicy Juice! 😉 We ate sandwiches and I made a rainbow fruit platter, rainbow veggies and also made white chocolate popcorn with rainbow sprinkles and of course twizzlers since they sell almost every color! 🙂 I ordered cake pops from Polka Dot Bakery and my talented friend, Ann, made the adorable rainbow cookies! Cami helped me dip grocery store cookies in white chocolate and added some sprinkles. We bought bunches of flowers from my local grocery store and arranged them to match the theme. The day before the party, I saw the “Today will be fabulous” free printable on TomKat Studio’s blog. It was perfect!
We ended the day with the always popular popsicles! The kids had a lot of fun and that’s exactly why I do this every year! Thank you to my photographer friend Ellie for grabbing my camera and taking many of these pictures! 🙂
Sources
Rainbow Gumball Tubes: Polka Dot Market
Cake Pops: Polka Dot Bakery
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It’s funny I ran across this. This past week my kids have always been talking about rainbows and the colors. My oldest daughter struggles with remembering the color order. This would be a perfect way to have a little fun and help her remember. I love how you connected everything to the colors of the rainbow. We’d love to have you join our linky party on Moms & Munchkins to share some of your party ideas: http://www.momsandmunchkins.ca/2013/08/30/party-ideas-linky-2/
Very well executed party.Love decorations.I ca n see that every kid enjoyed a lot and had loads of fun.
Love your “Rainbow To-Go!” idea – so creative! 🙂
I saw something similar on Pinterest during St. Patty’s Day so I can’t take all the credit there – your gumball tubes were perfect!
Cami is one lucky girl to have a mommy like you. The party was so cute and the game ideas were great.
I wish I were a kid again. Great job!
Thanks so much, Donna! 🙂
Sooooooooo awesome!!!
Thanks, Amy! 🙂