The Home-made invite, outisde/inside
Welcome to Deadwood! Watch out for Sheriff Lexi!
$15 Clearance Sheriff Station we found
Chuck Wagon Food Tables
General Store front I Made
Prospector's Plateau was the favorite activity of the day!
A close 2nd was the donkey rides
Outlaw Zoey at the Shootin' Range
Zoey's Cake
Cupcakes for everyone else!
By the end of the party she was an outlaw turned prospector! =)
Loot bags all the kiddos went home with.
My newest party planning endeavour is rapidly approaching time to execute. And OMG is this gonna be bigger than the last two parties COMBINED!! (IS that even possible?) The theme for Zoey's 3rd birthday is a Circus Carnival. I am having so much fun planning and collecting the supplies for it, but holy hell it is going to be one big undertaking! I am going to set up a midway full of carnival games including Ring Toss, Duck Pond, Whack-a-Mole Tower, Duck Shoot, Bowling, Ball Toss, Tattoos and many more! We are going to set up a "rides" area with Zoey's backyard toys (slide, playhouse, ride-on cars, swing) with her brand new trampoline she's getting as a gift. Our gazebo will serve as the concession stand where I'll (hopefully) have helpers to serve up the hot dogs, nachos, cotton candy, popcorn, tea and lemonade. My Step-Dad has learned how to make balloon animals and will serve as our clown for the day (he can also juggle!). I am going to set up my parent's Radio Flyer wagon and our matching wagon as Elephants and Lions "cages" to use as decor. The birthday cake will be cupcakes baked and served in ice cream cones! What else...oh yeah, I am also going to set up a photo studio area where the kids can dress up in a variety of circus costumes and have their photo taken and/or stand behind circus "standees" (you know, where a scene is painted and the faces are cut out for you to replace with yours?) and have their photo taken.
This is the rough draft of the invitation and the flyer I found to make the invite from.
One of my sketches of how the party should look once completed! Each booth will have a plastic table cloth in alternating red/yellow/blue behind it. We've got a shed (as big as a house) in our backyard that connects to the carport and then the neighbor's 6ft fence row which the Midway will be placed along.
What the cone cupcakes look like
The Duck Shoot game we found (retails on like for up to like $60! and we found it at an outlet store for $13! / Also, the carnival duckies I ordered for the duck pond booth.
My mom has been a HUGE help already with this party. Having around 15 Midway type game booths -- you need HELLA prizes. So she's been hitting up Goodwill and yard sales collecting new/like new stuffed animals for us to have at the booths. I am not sure what our current count is up to yet but we have about 10 trash bags FULL of stuffed animals. I really need to take a count of it all and figure out what other prizes I still need to get because Texas wont let Goodwill sell used toys anymore. We were getting huge bags full of stuffed animals for $1 each!! O-well, we should be pretty close to a full prize batch for all the games, *crossing my fingers*.
Anyways, I've got so much planned and so much to do before her April 25th birthday that I am sure you'll be hearing and seeing much much more about it in the coming weeks.
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