My daughter loves candy…all sweets-mostly she gets that from her father. So it should come as no surprise that she wanted to have a Willy Wonka/Chocolate Factory birthday party to celebrate her 8th birthday and because she starts discussing her ideas for a party months in advance, we had plenty of time to plan! (I should also mention, her birthday is November 4th…so being right after Halloween, candy is cheap & easy to get!)First we had to decide on the wording for the invitation. We’re purist so we went to Google & searched for the wording from the Golden ticket in the movie. There were many options to choose from but we decided on this:
GREETINGS TO YOU, the lucky finder of this Golden Ticket from Mr. Willy Wonka & Miss Olivia --- Present this ticket at the factory gates of The Chocolate Shoppe located at _______ from 5-8 pm on the 5th day of November and do not be late.
In your wildest dreams, you could not imagine the marvelous surprises that away you at Olivia’s 8th Birthday
Golden Ticket ensures admittance.
Finding the gold paper was actually one of the hardest parts of the party. We wanted gold, not yellow! We settled on a gold card stock from a craft store & printed out “candy bars” from the internet (The image of a Wonka bar). The original idea was to include a Wonka bar in the invitation but they were pretty expensive so in the end, we settled on Nerds…because they’re a Wonka candy too!
Invitations are sent, RSVPs received-now we had to get to business. There was going to be candy…a lot of candy!
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