Category Archives: Easter

Bunny Party

25th June 2021

My new favorite, fast, easy, and cheap invitation hack is to take a picture and use Word Swag or a similar app to add text! I edited this picture and got my “invites” within an hour from Walgreens photo department for a cool 2.50!

So, we just moved into our house 3-4 months ago and we are renovating the whole thing so it’s not near done, but here’s the tablescape in a half done room.

Thirty minutes before the party, my little girl said, “Remember when you did Godzilla footprints for Crosby’s Godzilla party? We should do bunny feet for my party.” I free handed some prints, laminated them, and had them out for the party in 20 minutes. I am so weird. Don’t ask me how I attached them to the floor because when I say hot glue, you might judge me.

Dollar store cups, one dollar bag of cotton balls, and clearance Easter crazy straws equals, heck yes.

Both the plates and napkins came from TJ Maxx on Easter clearance. The plates are Meri Meri brand and if you haven’t seen their stuff, you should totally check them out!

For cupcake toppers, I ordered swirly bunny suckers from Amazon. They were actually pretty yummy and perfect for the party!

The best thing about having a bunny party, is that you can use some of your Easter decorations! I hung up this carrot garland and patted myself on the back for buying it 4 years ago. I knew we had something special between us when I saw it.

You’re only cool if you wear a bunny dress to your bunny party.

I found these rabbit candy dispensers at Easter and bought the only ones they had left. Dang, it wasn’t enough. Luckily, Mighty Dollar came through with these little glass jars for a dollar each and I just spray painted the lid. I bought bags of Double Bubble gumballs from the Dollar Tree and filled em’ up. Someone thrust their hips three times.

Home girl wanted straight-up box mix cupcakes for her party. What the bday girl wants, she gets. Hey, it’s super cheap so, good job kid. I didn’t have enough suckers for the extra ones so, mind your own business.

For a take home party favor, I used Dollar Tree tin pails wrapped in twine and the annual 10 for 10 succulent sale at Kroger to make individual bunny gardens. You don’t have to water succulents but randomly so I felt like parents would have no pressure from the kids to keep them alive.

I bought little bunny figures and mushrooms from Amazon, and little glass beads from Hobby Lobby. It was fast, easy, and not candy so yay!

Crappy quality picture. Cute kids.

No bunny party is complete without actual bunnies so one of our rabbits made an appearance for the masses. Ladies and gentleman, Kinder (like Kinder Egg), the bunny.

(Before someone sends me a message about trancing a rabbit, he isn’t tranced! He eats like this, lays on the couch like this, purrs and honks, when we hold him like this. I know not all rabbits do this, like this, or can do this. Peace and blessings.)

I hope you got some ideas for a simple and affordable bunny party! Let’s hear it for floppity loppities!

No Dye Easter Eggs

8th April 2019

If you are looking to make Easter egg decorating a little less painful….like always, look no further than Target! I grabbed three dozen of these craft eggs from the section around the party supplies and gift wrap and poof, Easter magic. Each dozen was only 4.99 and that was before my magic red card. And no, I’m not getting any kickback for endorsing a Red Card or anything Target, actually. I just have a problem with Target love and I will do anything for them for free because one, they are amazing and two, I’m not a celebrity so it works out for both of us.

I gave my kids some markers and let them go to town. Now we have eggs they can save (if they are careful) til kingdom come! I eventually gave them some paint for decorating a day later out of desperation for them to be busy. As the old saying goes, “Whatever it takes.” I don’t know if that’s old, but it’s sure as heck a dang cliche because no truer words have ever been spoken!

Happy almost less messy and no stinky vinegar Easter!

Pin, share, enjoy!

Affordable Easter Themed Birthday Party

26th January 2016

Enjoy my Easter themed children’s double birthday party! It was for 36 guests and EVERYTHING cost under 150: snacks/drinks, cakes, cupcakes, printing of goods, invites, favors for 14, decor…you name it! Read the captions to see my ideas or tips at saving money. Pin and follow me on Pinterest and here on herpartypants! Thanks for lookin’, pals!

My invitations and party pack came from the wonderful Dee Dubs Designs on Etsy. She is fast, talented, creative, and affordable. I have used her before when she customized my Gender Reveal for me and I will use her again. I loved the vintage bunny and simple design. My little girls LOVE glasses so it was only fitting to have a bunny in some. Check out this gal’s Etsy shop to have her create something just for you or browse her other unique party invitations and packages.

Invites on the party plates from Target that I fell in love with!

I had a neat idea for party favors. Since it was an Easter theme party, an egg hunt seemed like a natural fun party activity but I decided to tweak it a little in a creative direction. Instead of packing a million eggs which required a lot of candy and each child to bring a basket, I bought 2 pack Hobby Lobby medium fillable eggs at 50 percent off and hid only one egg per child in the yard. Beats the same old gift bags. To do one better, since none of the little kids could read, I used my patterned scallop tags from Dee Dubs Designs and mounted a picture of each child on each egg so they didn’t have to look for their names, just their picture to know which favor was theirs. I downloaded pictures of the guests from Facebook and punched them out with paper punches and tied them on with string from Hobby Lobby. Boom: activity and favor all in one without a kid or parent having 50 plastic eggs to keep up with. Each favor broke down to a little over a dollar each. Notice I gave each girl attendant sunglasses to match the invite and to implement something my little girls love: some shades!

For the big kids, about 8 and up, I made Peep S’mores bags. Again, each favor bag broke down to about a dollar each and they gave the older kids something to take and make at home. They weren’t too childlike but still kept in the theme. They loved them and they look precious. I put them in a chicken wire basket from Target’s one spot that I spray painted. Cheap, cheap!

Helium balloons are so expensive these days. Especially mylar ones! Hang balloons instead of inflating them. I got two packs of latex balloons from Walmart/Hobby Lobby and draped them into a banner with one dollar gift wrap string from the dollar store. I scattered some extra balloons on the floor because hey, kids love some balloons!

The table set up was thrown together the night before and I didn’t know what I was going to do as I was going. I used one dollar plastic cloths from the dollar store and used a contrasting color as a runner. I used a pot I already had, bound it with the two toned baker’s twine from Hobby Lobby that I used on the favors and wrapped it around and tied it into a bow. I used a fake branch I have in my home decor from Z Gallerie and hung painted styrofoam eggs on them that were a dollar a pack at the dollar tree. Super simple and still a little chic. Did she say chic dollar tree items? Oh, I did.

The cups were from the Dollar Tree and plates from Target’s Easter aisle. I adore the bold and bright geometric plates. The pinwheel straws were from Target’s Easter aisle as well and they brought a little spring whimsy to the table.

Each of my girls had individual bunny cakes that were made by a local baker for only 8 dollars. Even though I made cakes for years, with this big ole’ pregnant belly and two toddlers, I’ll just pay someone else!

Instead of having someone scoop ice cream, just like we did at my daughter’s One Direction Birthday Party, we served individual ice cream sandwiches. It is way easier on everyone and the kids love it! I got 24 ice cream sandwiches for 5 dollars taking advantage of a deal at Kroger. Gotta love it!

2 dozen glitter dusted cupcakes for the kids. I failed to get the cupcake toppers on in time. You can let your imagination run wild! They were bunny heads with glasses like the invites =0) The colors were to bold too leave a picture out, toppers or not!

Due to the time of party, I didn’t have to feed the guests but I did these little snack cups filled with mini-appetizers, if you will. I was going with a bunny/garden food theme with carrots (and ranch) cups, fruit/berry cups, but then the rascally pretzel cups with cream cheese pineapple dip slipped in too. The snack cups can be found for 1-2 dollars a pack in all sorts of sizes, colors, and patterns at almost anywhere: dollar stores, Wilton aisles at Target/Walmart, party stores, Hobby Lobby, etc.

Each cup requires little food and each person can have a sampling of everything. It’s like the cute cheap version of passing h’orderves at a wedding. It was an unbelievably cheap way to serve food with a fun presentation. As you can see, I used a cupcake stand for my treat cups. Super.

Outside I used my antique Coca-Cola cart and filled it with bubbles and chalk for the kids to do while they played outside. Easy, affordable, and putting it in this fun crate gave it some flare, I think.

Sand treasure dig? Absolutely. The girls were surprised with a sandbox for their party and I filled it up with party favors for each guest to have fun digging up little treasures to keep. It was an activity plus another little take away for the kids that again only cost me a few dollars. For an outdoor party, utilize whatever toys/things you have to make it into something new or fun at a party. Outdoor parties at home have a million affordable play options and you save on a venue or inflatable, etc.

Every year my kids wear a number shirt on their birthdays from Old Navy. You can always find them on-line in most young ages and they cost around 8 dollars each when you catch them on sale. You never have to wonder when you look back in pictures how old they were or which party it was. Plus, they look really cute in them and get a kick out of wearing them.

I hope you enjoyed this simple and affordable party! Share, pin, & enjoy! Thanks to Shelly Griffin Photography for all of the great pictures. No party is great without being captured well so thank you , thank you, thank you!