I have had many problems with candy in my life. In the 4th grade, I ate two king size Butterfingers at once to make kids laugh and barfed them up. Fast forward to my adult years and I had a year long love affair with Oreos to the point I would hide them from my kids and eat them in the laundry room. This post is taking a weird turn….
Thankfully, I can’t eat gluten anymore so the Oreos have been laid to rest. However, welcome Hershey’s chocolate to the stage! I love it. Love it all. I NEVER ate plain chocolate until after my third baby so I blame her for whatever she did to my body chemistry.
It makes sense that I would want to use Hershey Kisses for a special Halloween treat. Here is what you will need:
Black glitter cardstock Hot glue gun Scissors Black glitter ribbon Halloween Kisses And some patience with the ribbon part because it is a butthole
I used a lid to a bottle to trace and cut out the circles to be the hat brim and glued a kiss in the center of each of them. I use hot glue on chocolate candies quite regularly for parties and crafts and it never messes with the chocolate. It’s a question for God one day….
Then, I cut a small strip of ribbon and even cut it in half length wise. I wrapped it around the bottom of the kiss, securing it with a drop of hot glue. Once secured, I knotted the sucker and there you go! Witch hats!
I didn’t see these anywhere on Pinterest when I searched for them to see if they existed, so hopefully at the time I’m posting this, it’s an original idea for you!
This party was really soooooo cheap. Most of the decor was from toys he already had and his outfit is made up of a dollar hat embellished with a 2 dollar sticker hat. The vest he is wearing is from public school and is the safety vest they make the kindergartners wear, haha. You can recreate this party so very easily. Links and sources are in this blog!
If the wrinkle in this runner hurts your feelings, it does mine too. Let us all try to look passed it and focus on the picture at hand.
This is a pre-made plain cake from Kroger’s bakery that I took home and decorated. The cake cost 13 dollars and fed 15 people and the only things I bought to make this was the “3” candle and a box of 2 dollar chocolate rocks. The rest of the decor is just from my son’s toy box and a few left over candles from another party.
The caution tape came from Hobby Lobby, however, you can buy real caution tape from Amazon in big rolls for 6 to 8 dollars if you want the real deal or if you need a lot it!
I don’t want to make you lose sleep at night with joy, but the crane moves up and down and all around.
What is a construction/digger party without a truck dumping out a party detail? The answer is: not a party.
Stop it with the crane. I bought a paper mache three for a few bucks at Hobby Lobby and used white duct tape and black paint I had at home to make it look like a road. I suspended it with fishing line that was looped and hot glued to the top.
Yes, these are spoons and yes, they are shovels. Shovel spoons. I bought them here on Amazon. I also used these in my party favors that you will see in a little scrolly scroll.
By a massive landslide, the most expensive part of this party was Dippin’ Dots for 9 people. It cost just shy of 30 dollars. My son loves them though so it was my one splurge and if the most you spent on one thing was 30 bucks, you are doing good, Bessie.
Plus, I’m sure Dippin’ Dots really needed the money since they are probably bankrupt from selling millions of package a year of ice cream priced like gold. This picture makes it all worth it.
Do you know how much dirt by the bag is? 11 dollars. Do you know how much dirt costs from a construction site? Zero dollars. We put out some of his toys and some orange caution cones that were two for a dollar and here we have some theme appropriate, dirt cheap fun. Pun intended? I’ll never tell.
I know everyone would think that these 3 2 foot by 2 foot photographs were so expensive, but I got all 3 for 11 dollars after tax! I also just used my iphone to take the pictures so it was so easy. They are my favorite unique detail because you never see this and it is so unexpected!
What’s the trick? Print photos on to engineering paper aka blueprint paper at Staples. The paper quality makes it so cheap! These were originally going to be black and white, but they printed color and I’m so glad they did. They only charged me for black and white so the color version of these 3 huge prints would’ve been more around 10 dollars a piece. Still, in the scheme of parties, what’s ten bucks?
Oh my, these are my favorite party favors I’ve EVER made! They are so, so cheap to do and so versatile. I had the idea from Crosby’s favorite toy which is a mini-sandbox. I thought, “Why can’t I just make individual take home mini-sandboxes myself?”. I am doing a post for my favors category on these with a price breakdown. They are so cheap!!!!
I wrapped each sandbox aka disposable cake pan with duck tape and added a sticker from a pack from Hobby Lobby. You can’t beat a fun, non junk, imaginative play, cheap, theme based favor, if you ask me. This is a favor a kid will actually use and really enjoy! Now the moms….they will have to get over the sand….or let them play outside, homies.
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Super small and simple Flamingo party that you can do with a quickness! A little dollar store, a little Target, a little Amazon…the triplets of easy and cute party planning. Here are a few details for all of you hoodlums out there.
Customized anything is the best thing in the universe. I customized this template on Zazzle that my 4 year old picked out. I ordered them in a tiny 3 by 5 size and they were cute and made the corners of my mouth move upward in a smiling position.
I don’t want to surprise anyone, but those cute mini lawn flamingos came from Target in the dollar spot, which is actually up to a 5 dollar spot. That is also where I found the cute metal cake stand a year or two back. The two lacey containers and the solid ceramic pot are from Ikea where I hope to be laid to rest one day.
Fishing line and balloons helped me finish her party reallll quick in the final 15 minutes. I taped a napkin on to the light pink ones for cheer and good measure.
The napkins are from Target and the plates you can get at Mighty Dollar and feel mighty about your one dollar plates. The runner is from Hobby Lobby and I’ve used it for 3 parties and counting: Disney Zombies, Series of Unfortunate Events birthday, and now, Flamingo party. It went back in the party trunk and lives to see another celebration.
You can buy these lights at a ton of places. This particular one is from Target, BUTTTTTT I got this Target light at Bargain Hunt for 2.50 so two fingers in the air if you’re a gangster.
These food picks came from Oriental Trading Company in packs of about 5 million. I scored each pack for a little over three bucks, one of each, and ripped the idea straight off of their site. They were too cute and I thought they went well with the neon light flamingo. You can also buy these same picks on Amazon. Click to find the flamingos here and the palm trees, here.
Holler if you hear me on these cups/favors from the dollar store. That’s right, one dollar. Don’t hate the player.
Inflatable drink floats used to serve ice cream. That’s it. I’m done. It’s my favorite. I’m sure everyone has seen these little floats in the Target cheap spot and I had to have them. I had to have 6 exactly, and then figure out how to use them at my child’s party. I bought clear pedestal dessert cups for another party and they so happened to fit perfectly in the drink holders! How fun is this, Sally?
You can pay 100 dollars a cup for Dippin’ Dots OR get this brand for 99 cents a cup from Kroger. I vote Kroger. I not only voted, I bought 9. This was another super fun unexpected birthday treat!
The balloons came in one pack from Amazon and the girl came from my womb.
Also, this decor is weak sauce but so is your mom.
Sand dig! I did this years back at my two oldest daughter’s 5th and 2nd Easter themed birthday. It’s an activity and a favor all in one. These favors are all Spritz from Target: glow in the dark ooze, flashing rings, and flamingo erasers that you can take apart. Actually, I lied. The erasers were from the Target bargain area. (I’m trying to see how many different things I can call that spot in one post.)
Each guest went home with the favors they dug from the sandbox, their Flamingo cups, and one of these pineapple doughnuts from Krispy Kreme! I tied the boxes with black and white baker’s twine and they were perfecto. It was so easy and perfect that they have these as one of their summer doughnuts! I thought, “Rebecca, the kids might think these are gross.” Then I thought, “These kids don’t know what’s good for a party.” Then I felt better about buying them because they were special in my party heart.
This cute watermelon/flamingo float/pineapple shirt is from Walmart, their Garanimals brand. Listen, Walmart has upped their game in the clothes department from kids to grown stinkin’ ups. Get it, Walmart. Thanks for all you do for affordable cotton materials.
I did this kitchen for some friends of mine who needed some help decorating. It was simple and right up their alley and to make it all even better, I bought almost every single thing in the room for 15 to 50 percent off. Only one or two things in this entire kitchen were purchased at cost! Oh yeah, girl.
These bowls are much more jade-ish mint in real life and were half off from Hobby Lobby! They have matching pitchers and cake stands to this set that I love to death! I bought clear glasses from The Pioneer Woman collection from Walmart that sport the same antique glassware pattern.
The frames in the back were from the open frame collection at Hobby Lobby. The prints I had custom made for 5 bucks each from Hoot and a Holler on Etsy and then printed those files on Blueprint paper/engineering paper for $3.89 each and they were 24 by 36 inches!
This light fixture is my absolute favorite part of the room and I would happily rip it from their ceiling and take it to my house! It was simple and captures the farmhouse style perfectly. You can find it on Shades of Light.
The vases are Hearth and Hand by Joanna Gaines from Target, as well as the artificial stems. The vases have glass tubes on the inside so that you can use real stems also. The hand towels are also from the same Joanna line! Farmhouse made easy, fo’ sho’.
Jars by Anchor from Target and basket by Opal House at Target.
Jadeite dessert glasses in the top shelf, again, are way more mint jade in real life, and they are also Hearth and Hand from Target.
Again, I repeat, I did not put that small carpet under the counter stools! The owner put them there to protect a spot in the floor that was being redone. These great gray natural barn wood colored counter stools were from World Market and were perfect for their style and this room!
So simple, but I adore these black iron schoolhouse hooks from Target by Threshold! I actually bought a few packs for my own house, but they didn’t look good in the only spot I could put them. Figures….
I can’t end without talking about the rug from Ruggable! If you aren’t familiar with the company, they sell rugs that are water proof, stain resistant, and the top part, the uh…rug, folds up and is machine washable! It adheres to a rubberized mat that fits the rug and it holds perfectly in place with a velcro type of gripping. It is high quality and simply the best solution for anyone who needs rugs that can take a beating! LOVE them!
This rug in particular, though it’s hard to tell, has mint and turquoise very subtly within the nuetral scheme and it was perfect for this nuetral loving momma’s family, all while giving some color just so slightly that I could pull out in other spots of the room.
Ditch the cake and do something different! There are just shy of a billion flavors of pie and even some spins on the presentations, so why not mix it up a bit?! Confession, even though I use to decorate cakes, I have never made a pie! It seems like a natural progression of life to end up making pies, but something has gone terribly wrong with me. Oh yeahhhhh, I hate cooking. That’s it! Still, I love me some different and opting for a birthday pie is just that!
I always appreciate when my kids want an uncommon theme naturally so I don’t have to force any creativity upon them, lol. It may be an obscure theme and if you haven’t watched the show or read the books, you may not know what everything is or why I did what I did so thank heavens above, you can read my comments on the pictures! I tend to do parties that you can’t buy any party supplies for so I have to really flex the creative muscles, which I love! I hope you enjoy this very unfortunate party.
One of THE BEST resources for your party’s customized goods is Zazzle! I make custom stickers and shirts, like this one, alllll of the time for parties. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are three of the main characters and my girl’s favorite. I saw a shirt similar to this on-line for around 28 dollars. Nope, pass. I used the Word Swag app to make the wording on a transparent background and then uploaded the image to a custom shirt on Zazzle. I made this shirt for 15 bucks, shipped and all.
Ahhhh, cake sniffer. It’s weird and I love it. It’s a name that a little rich spunky character calls the Baudelaire kid’s in one of the episodes and one many lovers of the show remember! I bought a blank garland and stickers from Hobby Lobby to make this banner.
I decorated the kitchen table with the books and these little toadstool mushrooms. I learned this year that these mushrooms that are in all of the cute fairy tales are actually very poisonous! In Series of Unfortunate Events, there is a deadly mushroom called Medusoid Mycelium. These red poisonous mushroom represent the toxic make-believe mushroom from the show!
While we are on it, I bought stamps and made my own napkins because, if they don’t sell it or you can’t find it, you have to DIY! I bought a round larger frame stamp and then the seperate toadstool stamp. Make sure to buy the good stamping ink: waterproof, smear resistant! I used this one. You don’t want a bunch of people wiping ink on to their mouths and hands! I use the right ink and I’ve never had a problem.
This set up it missing 4 amazing little white ceramic houses from Target’s one spot with orange and red paper flames coming out of the windows and chimneys. It’s from the show and ties in many ways, and it went awesome with the set up and color scheme, but, it ain’t in these pics, y’all.
I LOVED this part of the party and couldn’t wait for my daughter to see it! The theme song shows a board just like this where they link the characters to count Olaf with yarn as the show plays. I printed pictures of each of our party guests and the birthday girl and made a clue board just like the opener. I just used a foam board wrapped in newspaper that I taped down and the rest is obvious!
Lachrymose Leeches! There are two people that die in the series because of the Lachrymose Leeches so I made these gummies one of their movie snacks. To make these food labels, I googled the leeches from the show on an image search and found this picture. I took this picture and uploaded it into Zazzle and made custom stickers. HOWEVER, I didn’t get them on time so I took a screenshot of the stickers I made and printed them out like 4 by 6 photos and then hand-cut them out and taped them to toothpicks. The show must go on.
I printed a Lemony Snicket quote from an image search and put it in this cute Ikea frame. It was perfect all around, homies.
The whole series of Series of Unfortunate Events centers around the Baudelaire orphans and Count Olaf trying to “adopt” the children to gain access to their fortune. I made these little labels the same way I made the leech labels and hot glued them on. I bought plain white dessert cups from Hobby Lobby like these here and filled them chocolate coins, a million dollar chocolate bar and a ring pop. This, and the leeches, were their movie snacks and, of course, we watched the show as well!
Okay, so these are happy little sunshine cookies with bows….and fangs. There is a character named Sunny and she is a little baby girl with some sharp old teeth. Get it…sunshine…Sunny…..
I don’t know why I didn’t order an actual baby face with fangs, but these were super cute and delish! Mackin’ Made nailed the picture I sent her exactly and just added in a nice set of fangs on each one.
“Look Away” is the title of the theme song and I don’t want to throw anyone for any loops, but I also made theses custom stickers myself on Zazzle with the help of the Word Swag app. You are welcome for that awesome hack!
Zazzle + Word Swag= Party Dreams
Admittedly, this cute turned out, how you say, super ugly. I drew a diagram and color coded it. I use to make cakes and I draw fairly well so it was specific. Usually I love this bakery, but they are in the middle of the move and well, this cake. Let me explain it though. The aforementioned Medusoid Mycelium is a deadly mushroom that has a few cures in the book and one of these cures is the sugar bowl. The cake IS designed to look just like the sugar bowl and the top of the cake is the spy glass symbol for the VFD. I’ve been pretty committed to explaining most things in the post but it’s getting late so you will just have to google VFD if the suspense is killing you.
The top of the cake reads “Happy Unfortunate Birthday” which is similar to the wording on her invites.
This is not a fancy OR complete table for that matter, however, I wanted to show the black viper snake silhouette I made on the kitchen island. The viper is significant in several episodes so I pictured this for a table and simply cut it out of a black poster board.
Hope you like this unfortunate party for 13 rowdy 8 and 9 year olds!
This year I wanted to channel my creativity to the location and type of party versus all the detailed set up and, let me just say, I loved this party! Of all of the birthday parties that I have thrown, this mall party has to be one of the most low stress, fun, simple and affordable party of them all! Many of the girls that came to my girl’s party said that they wanted their next party to be at the mall so I think that’s what we call success!
The venue is free and the fun is built in and very inexpensive. You will love having a mall party as a parent and your child will LOVE it just as much, or more, than you!
Read on to see what all we did, how much we paid for the whole she’bang, where I bought some of the details, or how I made some of what you see here!
Buy these cute credit card invites from DigiDoodling on Etsy to edit and print at home for only $5.35!
The invites were cute as is, BUT I really wanted them to be even more realistic so I bought these self- laminating sheets made for credit card sized cards! I had my daughter sign the backs of the cards before sealing them and they were so easy to use! I trimmed the edges down to eliminate too much overhang and they were really stinkin’ cute! You can find them on Amazon here.
I have to throw in the shirt detail. I always find a cheap and easy way to make my kids a custom birthday shirt. I grabbed a glitter flecked Cat and Jack shirt from Target on sale for 5 dollars and a rhinestone iron-on number from Hobby Lobby for 2 bucks and some change and bingo! So easy, so cheap and she really thought it was special! I thought the glitter was good for a girly-girl type of party like this one, too.
We started things off with the good ole’ carousel! For 15 dollars, 8 kids could take a ride AND I earned a free ride at a later date because the 8 riders filled up one punch card to get a free ride next time!
We hit up Claire’s and I took advantage of the buy 3, get 3 free deal. For 34 dollars, I got 7 packs (added one extra) of jewelry that the girls helped pick out and every girl got one bracelet, one choker necklace and one ring of their choice! We were left with jewelry to spare!
For barely over 20 bucks, each girl picked out a jar at Candy Craze and filled them to the top! The price included the jars plus candy.
I gave the girls a choice between Candy Craze and the Spider Jump! Three of these little ladies wanted to jump so for 21 dollars, we had 3 jumpers.
The play center at the mall is free, of course, so yay! Even though this picture doesn’t end the post, it’s how we ended the party and the parents came and picked up their children from there. I set up our table right next to the play place to make it easy.
These little sequin coin purses are available on Amazon as well as the half pound bag of chocolate coins that I put in each purse. I tried to make them like real purses with “money” and Lip Smackers. Even though some girls had candy jars and all of the guests got jewelry from Claire’s, I still wanted them all to take home a little something extra and that’s where these guys came in. I bought a 7 pack for $7.39! Find them here.
These perfect little plates are awesome for a mall party, slumber party, spa party, etc. I bought them from Mighty Dollar, my favorite dollar store! I always get my throw away tablecloths from dollar stores as well.
One of my favorite ideas that I do for cupcake toppers is using pictures of people or, in this case, logos! I simple screenshot the images and then printed them like regular photos at my local Walgreens and cut them out at home! Tape them on toothpicks and, you done girl!!!
How cute are these receipt thank yous?! You can buy the template on Etsy from SIMONEmadeit for just $2.50 and edit and print them yourself at home! I like to take pictures of my party girl with each guest during gift time and mail the them as thank yous! This year they included these receipts. LOVE!
THIS ENTIRE PARTY and everything in it from plates, invites, food, activities, EVERYTHING was 153! You can’t even rent a party location for that and that is without any food, favors, activities, food, party goods, invites….just the rental, if you are lucky, will be 150!
Pin, share and enjoy and by all means, HAVE A MALL PARTY!
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!
I love this theme, but I ain’t gonna talk to you about it. We all know we all just come to these posts for pics and not commentary! I could type paragraphs here about how cats love bananas or how I ate a kangaroo for dinner. No one would ever know. So with that, I bring you awesome ideas and the sources of the awesomer people who created these things!
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My oldest little girl came up with some of THE BEST Valentine ideas so I think she has some “her party pants” in her genes! Woo hoo! She wanted to do a “blow me away” Valentine with balloons so we made it happen. We found a “you blow me away” instant download printable in the Etsy shop TitaTipsPrintables that was meant for bubbles. She thought we could replace the bubbles with balloons and fill the balloons with candy, so we did! She picked two different color coordinating balloons and we stuffed them and tied them with black and white baker’s twine.
To fill the balloons, I put my fingers in the opening and stretched it open for dear life will I pleaded with my 8 year old to hurry up and stuff the dang candy in! #reallifebro
I glued each balloon on with a hot glue gun and, believe it or not, it doesn’t damage the latex at all and they peel off effortlessly! The candy empties easily and the balloon is ready to blow!
