Avery's 3rd Birthday!

My daughter loves Ariel, the mermaid. We wanted to celebrate her 3rd birthday in true under the sea fashion. It was a lot of fun!

• Desserts

  Vanilla cake and egg free chocolate cupcakes.

• Party Favors

  Purple and Blue star shaped lollipops I bought at Michael's.

• Activities / Games

  The kids guessed how many candy fish were in a jar and wrote down their guesses on a post it. The kid with the closest guess won the jar at the end of the party. We played "Put the sea shell in Ariel's hand" like pin the tail on the donkey. There was a slip 'n' slide, hidden plastic starfish in the sand to find, and sand castle molds for building sand castles. I also had a water table to play with. After the kids ate cake and ice cream we had an Ariel piñata.

• Budget

  $400

• Best Moment

  Seeing Avery's excited when she blew out her candles, opened her gifts, and when she kept saying "happy birthday to me!" over and over.

• Funniest Moment

  When Avery opened a gift that was a toy puppy (she'd been following a puppy around the whole night that belongs to our cousin.) The toy puppy looked just like the real one.

• Most Touching Moment

  Hearing everyone sing Happy Birthday to Avery. You could feel the love.

• What People Ate

  For the kids, I served octopus hot dogs (hot dogs cut like an octopus), ocean jello (blue jello jigglers), goldfish crackers and potato chips ("fish and chips"), fruit, sand dollar cookies (vanilla Oreos with gel icing on top to look like sand dollars), and fruit snacks. For the adults, I also had a veggie tray with spinach dip, more fruit, and turkey, ham, and chicken salad sandwiches.

• What People Drank

  Under the Sea Punch: Sprite and Polar Blast Hawaiian Punch mixed.

• Michael's Craft Store.

  Party Favors

• my sister, Jaime

  Printables

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• Party City

  Decorations

• Target

  Decorations

• my sister-in-law, Janine

  Cake designer