Octonaut's Birthday Party

I decided to start with the backdrop, which I created in Illustrator and was inspired by the whimsical underwater scenes from the show & books. I wanted to stick with the show’s bright color scheme of different shades of aqua, green and orange. For cupcake toppers, I traced the faces of each of the Octonauts and then was able to reuse those for masks for the kids to use. I have no idea how to make fondant characters, so I decided to be experimental and make them out of clay. I figured that way he could save them after the party. I also created some Octonaut hats, invitations, and a pin the patch on Kwazii game.

For the food, we tried to keep it in theme with the ocean creatures, so I had a talented friend create cake pops that looked like the Octonauts characters as well as the Octoalert cookies. We also served french macaroons that looked like clam shells, sand pudding, sand dollar cookies, jello sailboats, and shark tooth necklaces.

We tried to have a variety of activities for the kiddos, which included a Kwazii treasure hunt, a walk the plank contest, fishing, and a cookie cutter shark decorating station. We also had a photo booth setup where the kids and parents could take photos together, which I later used in their thank you cards.

• What People Ate

  Pizza

• What People Drank

  A pretty blue koolaid & lemonade drink & juice boxes

• Desserts

  Candy Sushi, shark tooth necklaces, macaroons that looked like clam shells, octonauts cakepops, sand dollar cookies and of course cake

• Party Favors

  little sea life creatures

• Activities / Games

  Pin the patch on Kwazii, fishing for sea creatures, treasure hunt, decorate your own cookies

• Chrissy Trujillo (me)

  Printables & graphic design

  https://www.etsy.com/shop/SeawayStudio - I designed the graphics and printables for the party

• Maria V Creative

  Cake pops

  https://www.facebook.com/mariaVcreative

• Vitalic Photo

  Photographer

  http://www.vitalicphoto.com - I photographed the party