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Friday, January 20, 2012

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Party and how we got there!

Wow! January has rolled around once again and i find myself going through past years photos of our themed parties we have had for Tara to get some inspiration for this years theme.

Tara's 1st birthday party was a Hawaiian Pool Party



With fresh fruits and Hawaiian pizzas





They all had a turn of the fish pinata






And topped off with a princess style cupcake tower of tiny teddies in bikini's, frangipani's, fish and flip flops.










The adults got the palm tree bottle opener thank you's





And the smaller guests got the Hawaiian rubber duckies






It all seems such a long time ago, how quickly life flies by when they are so young






Tara's 2nd birthday was when we moved to the farm so our theme was easy to choose "Wild Wild West-Cowgirl party"





Thank you's were sheriff badge cookies and art supplies like stickers and pencils









I made the party table from bales of hay, gingham material and each child got a hat to stick with the red and blue theme







With a few little tweaks, i was able to make the dolly cake was made into a cowgirl cake




Our cowgirl with her matching cowgirl cake






Another year flown by and the three musketeers will soon meet another member




And then she was THREE!





The year of the ladybug!





Ladybug Frankfurt's





On the ladybug table






Ladybug cupcakes and ladybug strawberries





Adult ladybug crackers with cherry tomato,cream cheese and an olive






Thank you Ladybug spotty demi tea cups for all the guests





One Ladybug cake sitting on a leaf waiting to be eaten!





And then there were four....Mason was 2 weeks old the day we celebrated Tara's 3rd birthday here





Which brings us to 2012, Our first COMBINED party Mason turning 1 and Tara turning 4.The best theme we could think of for one hungry caterpillar and a beautiful butterfly was ERIC CARLES' "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"





The party table for all the hungry caterpillars




And so the story begins..On Monday





On Tuesday...







On Wednesday...









On Thursday...







On Friday....









On Saturday he ate through......






















































Hungry caterpillar cupcakes








Water for the beautiful butterflies







I hid egg carton caterpillars around our garden and told the children they were eating all the plants so i needed them to collect them for me






Then they had a chance to decorate them with paint, glitter and stickers






While the smaller grubs crawled around and played



All that playing made someone hungry




Mason's 1st birthday cake




Tara's 4th Birthday cake




Time for some "Pin the head on the caterpillar" game







The birthday girl with Mummy







The Awesome Foursome xx






The Birthday boy with Daddy





A beautiful butterfly Pinata





Thank you bags were all themed with worksheets, VHC magnetic wooden puzzles, VHC sticker sheet a popcorn butterfly




And some Hershey kisses VHC style





And that brings us to the end of our party planning adventures for another year, although Tara has already put her request in for next years theme so keep watching this space for upcoming parties!




















































































































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