Monday, March 28, 2011

Sophie’s Rapunzel Party

This year, soon after seeing the new Disney Tangled movie, Sophie knew she wanted to celebrate her 5th birthday party with a Rapunzel party.  
We did just that a few weeks ago and I wanted to share some fun photos from our Tangled day.

Sophie 5 tower cake

I made this “tower” the night before her party and Sophie loved it so much.
It’s just a styrofoam circle on the bottom with a wooden dowel stuck in the center.
I stacked premade pecan rolls on the dowel, added one in a cupcake wrapper and then topped it with a waffle cone that I covered in purple candy coating.   Then I slathered the tower with green icing to make it look like the vines.  I am no cake decorator, but I think turned out cute.

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I placed it on my cake stand making it super tall and put some of Sophie’s new favorite dessert below, brownie covered Oreos.  Yum!

  Sophie 5 cupcake toppers

My sister Haley made these adorable cupcake toppers that I planned on sticking in the brownies.  They wouldn’t jab through the Oreo centers, so I randomly stuck them into the stryrofoam. 

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I am not a very good decorator.  I just make up random things as I go.
I decided to hang fives all over the house for a little splash of color.
Sophie really loved this and kept saying “cool fives Mom!”

Sophie 5 treats  

Some candy coated pretzel sticks and gummy bears.

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We draped an eighteen foot blonde braid on our front door, that my husband so kindly help me braid.

 

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  Kid cups for the lemonade station. 

Sophie 5 Flynn Rider

Remember in the movie how Rapunzel hits Flynn Rider in the head with a frying pan when he creeps up into her tower?  Well I saw a cute idea to have the kids play “Pin the Frying Pan on Flynn Rider.” 
I asked my husband to draw him on a big poster board and I must say, he did such a great job! 
I wish I was half as artistic as he is.

 

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Hersh, my dad’s longtime friend, was so kind to volunteer to be the official poster  holder.

Sophie 5 Gracie

We covered all the kids eyes’ with my scarf and sent them on their way with their very own frying pan.

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Everyone did such a great job!
(Check out all the kids! And they are all cousins! My girls are so lucky to have such a big, fun family!)

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I found some Tangled printables online and made these fun banners to drape randomly around the house.

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They have the cute sun emblem from the movie.  Sophie loved these so much that they stayed up for several weeks after the party!

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Ella, my sister Haley’s sweet girl, was kind enough to bring her new Rapunzel tower to add to the decor!
It opens up into a table with two chairs.  So fun!

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The present station.  I sewed purple circles in a line and just hung them on our mantle.
”Sew” easy. 

Sophie 5 sign    

 Sophie 5 tower2 

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We had a “build your own tower” station for the kids as well.
I bought skewers and put different fruit and cheese in frying pans to play off the movie again. 

Sophie 5 tower line

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It was cute to see all the kids making their own “towers!”

Sophie 5 tower

Sophie all smiles in her retro Rapunzel dress up dress.

Sophie 5 mimo

Mimo holding my sister Adie’s new baby, Cooper.

Sophie 5 present time

Present time!

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Loving this day with her side braid.

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Time for cake!

Sophie 5 cake time

Sophie 5 candle Sophie 5 happy birthday song

Happy Birthday to you…

Sophie 5 candle time

Blow out the candles!

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As her little guest left, she handed out some “Rapunzel Paint” to the girls and “Flynn Rider Paint” to the boys.

Such a fun day filled with family and friends.
Thank you to all who came to celebrate Sophie’s 5th birthday, Tangled style!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love all your great ideas!

It's so great to see more and more people have parties at home for their kids- They remind me of the parties my mom had for my brothers and I when we were younger.

Looks like she had lots of fun!

Two Little Tots said...

LOVE your party...great job, hats off to you! Looks like a lot of fun. And I love your new look...I have not been to your blog for a little bit and it is so, so cute!

Ms Mae said...

What cute ideas! Is it sad I'm already looking for what to do for our Sophie's bday in September? :)

Love the braid on the door. What a good way to say "party is here"!

Tanya said...

I think the braid on the door is my fave!! SO cute :)
What a great party.
Yay for brownie covered oreo's!!

penny lane designs said...

cute, cute, cute! your girls are absolutely adorable too! :)

Joanna W. said...

Yep, love the braid! And that you thought to use Pecan Spins for the tower- clever!

Tony Gomez said...

Love the ideas, definitely used them for my daughters birthday.

 

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