As we were thinking about birthdays I realized that she had never had a birthday party of her own. With Arran and Bryttain's birthdays only being two weeks apart, we have done several joint birthday parties but because of that we have kept them pretty generic. Of course we didn't have space to host a party but then it dawned on me that they have rooms at the seminary that we might be able to rent. Turned out we could, and at a great rate, so I set about planning a girly party for my girl.
Turns out planning a party that you have to set up elsewhere in a limited amount of time instead of gradually putting together in your own home, is a lot of work. But it was fun! After going back and forth and back again, rather than making her decide on a single theme, it became a princess/ballerina/fairy party with the girls encouraged to come in costume, with a couple of baskets of alternatives for them to change into or for those who hadn't come in costume.
We had almost 30 little girls between, family, friends and school friends. Throw in some sugar and that was a lot of energy and personality (!) to be contained in one room. We had crafts and dancing games and of course food and a pinata.
The girls got to make ribbon wands.
There was coloring and they got to decorate little tiara crown headbands.
Dancing games.
The pinata was so much fun and then they all pounced.
Our sweet girl. Not sure how soon we'll do a party to that scale again but it was worth it.
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