Kenner's 5th ART themed Birthday Party

We all had a lot of fun at Kenner's 5th Birthday party. It is unbelievable that he is 5 already (or tomorrow). He had an ART themed birthday party. It is my goal to go "all out" for every 5th birthday. Aunt Annie helped me make jello jigglers as another snack. It was fun to put them in the trifle bowl and they were yummy!

*Did you know that you need 4 boxes of Jello with 2 1/2 cups of boiling water and 3 hours to make the jigglers. I was suprised at 4 boxes...but they were good:) The birthday cake - thanks to Family fun for the idea. I did forget the twizzler and fruit leather paint brush...oh well.

I had 8 different art stations:

Color your own paper bag with markers and misc stickers to decorate with- so they had something to take their projects home in.

Color a Toy Story 3 picture with crayons

Stamping with our ONE stamp (that caused great chaos in our house...keep reading the blog for story)

Scratch and color - use a wooden stick to scrap the black off for a color below

Foam name plate - used a variety of foam letters and shapes

Finger paint (which quickly became closed...because it was TOO messy)

Shaving cream fun - just wrote in the shaving cream with their fingers

Play Dough - I made it with a recipe from googling Playdough made out of koolaid. EASY!

Self Portrait/Bracelet making- I had paper plates with pipe cleaners, beads, glue, and many things to make a self portrait. Many kids turned it into a bracelet making station...so that was fun to see them make their own station!

From the foam name plate section:

Bracelet making

Scratch and color with uncle KK

Instead of serving this cake, I made cupcakes and had different colors of frosting as well as all the sprinkles in my house for the guests to make their own cupcake. We served ice cream and jigglers along with the cupcakes. Everyone was suppose to stay for Subway (sandwich artists...), but many left. So we were left with many sandwiches to eat this week.

The kids enjoying their decorating and cupcakes.

Kenner and his cake

Kenner's favorite part. His face when he opened each one was priceless...again a need for a flip camera.

Last but not least was the pinata. Kenner picked out his own Transformer, which was about as big as Patton. Daddy and mommy had fun putting the candy in it.

CANDY!

Fun was had by all! Thank you to all that were able to come and for those of you that weren't able to...we missed you. Put November 2011 down on your calendar for Patton's #5 Bday!