Missed Part 1 of the party? Go HERE to check it out! Before the girls arrived we had “lollipops” outside lining the driveway up to the house. I made my lollipops with balloons because they were $1 for a bag vs. $5 per round Styrofoam piece I found at the craft store. Some cellophane wrap, dowel rods & ribbon finished the job. When the girls first arrived, we had the movie playing & they watched as they waited for rest of their friends to arrive. Once all the girls were there, we served our “TV dinner” on trays I found at the Goodwill, 5 for $3 ( a very lucky find)!
After a dinner of hot dogs, mac & cheese and broccoli, there was an Oomph Loompa race. The girls were split into 2 teams and I had Oompa Loompa costumes ready. The costumes were made from white women’s shorts I found on clearance, white ribbon for suspenders & brown t-shirts I already owned. The girls did a series of Simon says-like commands before I said go, and then raced to get dressed the fastest. The first girl to put up her hands, rock back & forth and say “Oompa Loompa Doomadee Do”, won thea point for her team. The winning team received bubbles as their prize.  |
| Oompa Loompa Race |
After the races, we moved to the candy portion of the show. We had the table set up to make candy art (like sand art but made out of pixie sticks, nerds, jelly beans, gum drops, etc). This took a fair amount of time because they were trying not to spill the candy all over, but into the bottle. After the candy art, they moved to chocolate fondue. We had marshmallows, animal cookies, pretzels & cookies to dip, and that was part of the goodie bag that they took home. Plates were labeled with the girls name, so they took home what they dipped. We also let them dips strawberries & bananas and eat them at our home. After all the dipping & candy art, was cake & they finished watching the movie. I only wish I had thought to bring out a few aprons for the fondue, it was a little messy!
We had a few minutes before all the parents came, so the girls played charades…which is our go-to time filler-upper. They love the game and it super easy. Party favors were easy, because they made candy art & chocolate dipped food that was the bulk of the favors.
More than once we heard one girl another comment on how much fun party was-one girl even said it was the best birthday party she had ever been too (woohoo!), my daughter loved and it was inexpensive. We waited to buy candy until after Halloween (and a few of our friends donated candy to the cause!) used items we already had, like a silver serving tray, to display the candy and didn’t go crazy on elaborate decorations or food
This is the third year we’ve done the party at our house & the third year my daughter said , “It was the best birthday ever!”
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