pool party

We are trying to eek out every last minute of summer before school starts next week.  We have been invited to a friend's pool this afternoon so we decided to bring a treat.  We put teddy grahams in a chocolate donut inter tube and then added a beach ball and pool noodle for fun.  These were so easy to make (actually I should say assemble) that the kids did it all by themselves.  If you are looking for something even easier, I brought some gold fish crackers in a glass fish bowl to a friends pool a few days ago!  What are you doing to enjoy your last few days of summer?

every teddy bear who's been good, is sure of a treat today

For party favors we gave out petite picnic baskets and chocolate (bear shaped) lollipops. In the baskets were all sorts of tiny treasures including treat size bags of gummy bears, picnic themed stickers, miniature magnifying glasses to look for bugs and erasers shaped like ladybugs and watermelon.

let them eat cake

So I have to admit that I am not very good at decorating cupcakes. They never seem to turn out how I imagine they will. So, I have learned instead to just find things to put on top to decorate them. For the teddy bear picnic I found red/white gingham cupcake liners from "Bake It Pretty" and then used some small chip wood baskets (to look like miniature picnic baskets) and filled them with some petite fruit shaped candy. I was going to put on some plastic ants that I had- but, since this was for 2 year olds I decided not to. I found the red cupcake stand at Target a while ago and love how the cupcakes looked when displayed on it.