Life is Wonderful: A Frozen Birthday Party

For months Sophie has been saying that she wanted a Frozen birthday party. I kept giving her other ideas but she wouldn't change her mind. The nice thing is that everybody seems to be doing a Frozen party so it was easy to find ideas of what to do. However a quick search on the Internet left me overwhelmed. There were so many possibilities! I could have easily gone overboard but decided to keep it simple.

The Decorations, Favors, and Games

Like I mentioned, I didn't want to go overboard with the party decorations. Since Josie had a Winter 'ONE'derland theme for her birthday, I was able to reuse some of those decorations. I also picked up a couple of snowflakes that I spray-painted silver, which we will reuse for Christmas. I also found some paper banners in blue-and-white that I hung up around the house. I cut out letters to spell 'Happy Birthday Sophie' and hung them on our wall. I also printed out a few quotes from the movie Frozen that I put in picture frames and put on tables. I bought some centerpieces that had Frozen characters on them, though I wish I wouldn't have wasted money on that.

Sophie helped me create the party favors. We made blue glitter Gak.. The only issue with the Gak is that the glitter would settle to the bottom of the container and it would come off easily on your hands. We did make a second batch for boys that didn't have glitter in it and that was much better in general. I looked all over for containers to put these in but they were either too big or too small. I ended up just using old (but clean) baby food containers. They still had the names of what food was originally in there but who cares.

We had the trampoline and the bounce house for the kids to play on. They really enjoyed that and spent a big chunk of time outside. We also played Pin the Nose on Olaf. (My students from last year traced a picture of Olaf on a poster board for me. They even traced out carrots for the game. I am so thankful to them for their help!) We tied a scarf around the kids' eyes and let them try to put the nose in the correct spot. We ended up with two winners who each received an extra large sized chocolate bar.

Food

Of course we had to have sandwiches for lunch. I printed out the quote from the movie that was obviously the inspiration for the meal choice. We also had picnic type sides such as coleslaw, broccoli salad, and deviled eggs.

Instead of a big cake this year we had cupcakes. My mom's friend makes amazing cupcakes so she helped us out. They were delicious! Everyone enjoyed them, especially Josie.

Gifts

It was so much fun watching Sophie open her presents. I loved hearing her exclaim over everything before she tore through all the presents. We are so thankful for all of our generous family and friends.