My Party
- 25 guests
- 19 March 2011
- Mia's Cave / Miramar / Florida / United States
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- Birthday Girl
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- Birthday Banner
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- Sweets Table
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- Close up of sweets table
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- Cake pops
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- more sweets!
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- Chocolat rocks! What a great addition to the dino party!
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- Birthday Girl's favorite!
Comments
Dee S says...
Everything looks fantastic! I'm wondering how you made the little volcanoes. My son turns 5 in June (we're in Miami so it will be nice and hot:) and he would flip if i could pull of these little cuties.
Dawn W says...
Thanks! @Dee S: The volcanoes were really an experiment for me too! I used small plastic bottles (like the size of a Pedia-Sure or Special K Protein Shake) in the center. I formed newspaper around that to give it some shape and avoid it becoming too heavy. Then I just pieced salt dough around it to form the volcano. Let it dry for a few days, painted & sprayed with clear finish! Pretty easy, just a process over a few days and probably the biggest hit at the party!
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Party Recap...
When my darling daughter told me she wanted a Dinosaur birthday party, I hesitated quite a bit. Then I got to rolling with it and had all sorts of cartoonish pink & purple (girly) dinosaurs picked out and she quickly put the kabosh on that! She wanted "real" dinosaurs, not funny ones! So we went with it and truly ended up with a fabulous party! I made everything myself from the decorations to the pinata & volcanoes to all the food, cakes & desserts. The kids had a ball digging for dino bones & fossils, hunting for dino eggs and errupting their own volcanoes! Not to mention the fun they had with the dinosaur pinata and cake!
Party Highlights
Best Moment
When my daughter told me that all her friends wanted to be in her family because she had the best birthday party ever!
Funniest Moment
Watching the kids anticipate the volcanoe erruption the first time they did it! Too cute when they didn't know what was going to happen for sure!
What People Ate
We had grilled burgers and dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets with potato salad, baked beans & chips along with fresh fruit and LOTS of sweets!
What People Drank
Fresh made lemonade and sweet tea.
Dessert
I made all of the sweets including a two tier dinosaur cake, volcano cake, cake pops, Oreo stuffed brownies and candy coated pretzel rods!
Activities / Games
I made each of the kids their own T-Shirt with a picture of a dino and their name dino-fied (added "-cera tops" "-saurus rex" to their name). When they arrived they were given a bucket and a brush and instructed to go to the dig site and find one set of dino bones and a fossil. We later identified each of their fossils. There was a dinosaur egg hunt, a dinosaur pinata and volcanoes to errupt.
Kelley H says...
@ 11:11 on Mar 28, 2011
Your party looked sooo awesome!!! I loved the shirts!!!