Tuesday, July 13, 2010

farm birthday party











I have been so busy with planning my husbands 40th birthday (which is this Friday) and making the out of town bags for a wedding that is next year that I have not had a chance to add anything new to my blog. I decided that I would share some pictures from my son's first birthday last year that was a farm theme. For young children I like to have activities out and let them explore at their own pace rather than having more formal and directed activities. Some of the things I put out were a farm stand and a duck pond (just some rubber duckies floating in a water table.) As I have mentioned before I am much better at adding things to cupcakes to "decorate" them. In this case I found a small picket fence at the craft store and perched some small plastic farm animals on top. I think they came out very cute! For the cow cookies I made sugar cookie dough and put small balls of chocolate cookie dough on top. When I rolled the dough together the vanilla and chocolate combined to make a marble effect. We served lemonade in mason jars and used bales of hay to decorate. For the favors I put petite white piggy banks into red and white gingham take out containers and also included some chocolate pennies. I tied some raffia and a wooden pig to the handle.
After Friday I will start sharing some of the details from my husbands birthday.....

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5 comments:

  1. Very lovely details! I was wondering if you had any sources to guide me in doing a similar farm-themed second birthday for my son. I love the wooden pigs! Were you able to find piggie banks inexpensively? Thanks!

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  2. I got the wooden pigs from Michaels Craft Store and found the tiny piggy banks at Oriental Trading. They were $16.99 for 12 which I thought was very reasonable. If you go to their website www.orientaltrading.com and type in piggy bank you will find them. They are called "paint your own". Hope that helps. Good luck!

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  3. i love this! could share where you got the gingham boxes?

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  4. The gingham boxes are from a store called I Party.

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