Do It Yourself Parties

For my daughter's 6th birthday we did a Disney's Tangled Theme. We were surprised to see that there was virtually NOTHING for this party theme as the movie had been released for several months. So after searching Google Images and Blog stalking party sites we came up with a few adapted ideas and a few originals. So here are some Tangled Birthday Party Ideas...

THE INVITATION:

I searched high and low for invitations and stumbled across a few pics that I liked.I found a similar invitation on ETSY.COM by Posh Printables but I made this one for our party. Buy from them if you don't know how to do these projects yourself.

THE DECOR:

The most helpful website for Tangled ideas was a blog by Cafe Mom. I saw the door idea and immediately knew I was going to do it. However, I have a window on the top of my door so I put a picture of Rapunzel peeking out through the window.

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I also had these lanterns hanging everywhere. I just made a design to look similar to the lantern in the movie and printed them out. Once again, MINIMAL ink. I have pot lights in the main room where we were having the party so I hung them directly below the lights (it took 2 sheets) and when I turned on the lights, it added to the scene.

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I was originally looking for the purple flag banner from the Tangled movie and that's how I originally stumbled across Cafe Mom's ideas. I could not afford to do the printing so I opted to make them myself. It was a way cheaper option but very time consuming. However, I only did one strand. If you plan to do more, I recommend printing Cafe Mom's banner to save time. I bought a purple table cloth (Dollar Tree) and cut them into large triangles and used scotch tape to attach them to a string the length of the room we would be in. I printed these sun designs from my home computer which was 5 pages of MINIMUM ink vs the 9+ pages I would have had to print for the same length. I glued them onto my homemade banner. Well worth the work as they completed the look. Another option is to buy a purple pennant banner from The Oriental Trading Company and then cut out the suns for a more authentic look.

The hanging medallions I made from a Tangled Sticker book ($1) I found at the local Dollar Tree. It had no stickers in it so the book was useless except to make these hanging medallions. I just cut the best pictures into circles and hole punched the top and hung them by a ribbon. The book did come with a large centerfold poster of the village scene with the flag banner in it.

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THE FAVORS:

For the Party Hats, I bought a pack of mini tiaras from my local Party City. I used a golden colored yarn for the hair. I cut the yarn into 2 yard pieces and for each tiara I used 12 strands. I looped it through the comb and made sure the tiara met the middle of the yarn. I wrapped all the pieces around the back of the tiara and tied them back with tiny rubber bands. I then braided the yarn all the way to the bottom and tied it again with a rubber band. Another option is to hot glue small silk flowers through the braid to make it more like the movie. I added a sign so the girls knew they could take one and we were set! With the door braid and 12 tiara braids I used 1 skein of yarn!

The Goodie Bags or "Goodie Pans" had lots of little things in it. I found all the items in the pans at my local Dollar Tree... including the pans! There were rings, earrings, candy and I even found Tangled notebooks there! I found a cute little picture online with Rapunzel holding a pan and I adapted it to make a Favor Tags for on top of the pans. My favorite part is the picture of Pascal next to the sign. I printed out a picture of Pascal from online and cut it out... so cute.

I had an lily because this party was right after Easter so I thought I would just add a picture of Mother Gothel singing her song to the magic flower... just for effect.

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THE FOOD:

The Party was over lunch so we did pizza because almost all kids like pizza but overall I tried to make it an elegant little girls party. We had fruit, some veggies and of course some sweets. I had Sparkling Cider which was a first for some of the girls. They felt very grown up.

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The few things that my sister I purchased out of the Tangled Party supply options were 2 Table Covers and 1 Happy Birthday Banner. Pretty much everything else was bought at my local Dollar Tree.

THE CAKE:

My sister was organizing the cake but because Tangled Birthday decor is so limited we only found one cake topper and some cupcake toppers. So she ended up using a Tangled toy as the cake topper and it doubled as her birthday gift. The Cake was store bought and she just requested the colors and the writing. It was very simple but by adding the Tangled toy it looked fantastic!

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GAMES:

Upon arrival we had bubbles (which are always a huge hit) and chalk so they can recreate the art like in the movie. This was a lot of fun.

Inside the house, we had friendship bracelets that they could make. Be warned... it can be a big mess if a few children accidentally drop their bracelets before being tied. I made a sign that represented friendship to be placed on the table.

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We also had a painting table as Rapunzel was quite the artist in the movie. We actually made this art into lanterns by punching holes in the top and stringing it up with ribbon so the children could take them home. I found a cute picture online for the sign.

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"They never get my nose right" is Flynn's the ongoing joke in movie about his reward poster.. so my husband made me this Wanted Poster without a nose for Pin the Nose on Flynn. He also made a sheet of noses so the kids could all have a turn. In the end all were winners and they all received a trophy for their efforts.

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So, that was our Tangled Party... Happy Partying to you!

BONUS - SCHOOL PARTY:

I'm always wanting to personalize the kids school party so my typical treat is donuts. Cupcakes almost always find their way to the floor top down. So to minimize spills and have something sweet I usually go to the bakery and pick up 2 dozen glazed or chocolate glazed. I made these little pics for the donuts to hand out to the kids with their donuts. I just taped them to a toothpick and there was a treat for all!

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SOME PINTEREST IDEAS

Since my boys birthdays are only a week apart, I decided that I would combine their parties this year. We went for the classic Dinosaur theme! Who doesn't love dinosaurs? Especially little boys. We had a lot of fun with this party and here is what I came up with...

THE INVITATION:
For the invitation, we moved to the world of evite. I picked a dinosaur theme for the evite.

THE CAKE:
I went SIMPLE with this party! We had cupcakes. Super easy and I topped them with toy dinosaurs so they went along with the them. You can also try using dinosaur candies so they can be eatable. Place them on dino footprint napkins and its a win!

THE DECOR:

So I bought a couple of key decor items from the Oriental Trading Company. I chose theses hanging swirls for the center of the room but I used crepe paper streamers from the Dollar Tree.

Other things I used were their personal dinosaurs and I just printed some basic pictures off the internet to hang on the wall. I also made huge dinosaurs out of cardboard but I can NOT find a picture of it. I turned our garage into a dinosaur cave where I had several games. I will keep digging around for some photos but to be honest party days are the busiest and I rely on others to take pics.

I has also places a trail of dinoprints around the room that led to each game center and the bathroom so people knew where they were going.

We also had a photo station with this cut out. It was a pricer purchase than I'm used to but I'm sure I'll be pulling it out for several more parties since the dinosaur theme never goes away.

GAMES:

We had a "Dig Site" where I picked up doggie bones from the Dollar Tree and some small dinosaur skeleton toys.

We also had a "Wild Dinosaurs" game where all the dinosaurs (the kids) had to chase the grown ups around and eat them while wearing a dinosaur hat or a mask. This was a hit!
The Land Before Time movie was playing in the background.

FAVORS:

Every child received a dinosaur hat upon arrival. This really put them into character. I added fabric bows to the top of the hats with a glue gun to appeal to the little girls at the party. If they didn't like the hat, I gave them the option of masks instead.

Their favor bags were just simple paper lunch bags containing bubbles, dinosaurs, silly straws, candy and a thank you note.

To seal the bag I just punched holes with a hole puncher and ran ribbon through and tied a bow. I glued a little thank you note on the outside and they were ready to go.

So, that was our Toy Story Party... Happy Partying to you!

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SOME PINTEREST IDEAS

I held a "Thomas the Tank Engine is a zoo train" Party for my two sons as they turned (2 & 3). I had tons of ideas for this party but my efforts were quite minimal as we had just moved countries and had not really settled yet. We minimized the effort by holding it at the zoo and walked around in a line as a train to entertain the boys. Since I don't have a lot to offer for this party, here are a few original ideas and some ideas from Blog searching.

THE INVITATION:

I made this invitation myself but here are a few favorites: easyinvitations, CBDesignCollection, priyasdesign.

THE DECOR:

Well we were at the zoo... so I just took balloons.

That is the extent of my personal party. However, I did research some ideas in hopes that I could have had held it in a home. Anyway, here are some Ideas I did like and would have done if this was a party at home:

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THE FAVORS:

Some more ideas from others:

Party Hats/Favors by Enchanted Expectations