Blue's Clues Party- contd.

Today I'm super excited to show you PB's cute shirt as well as how I only paid $6.51 for favors for 10 kids and how I incorporated the Blue's Clues theme into our food.

Shirt
A couple nights before the party I went a little crazy with the puff paints as you can see here and with PB's t-shirt. I first went to buy it at Michael's and they were $6 and sold out. I went over to Target and got a toddler boys shirt for $4. They didn't have any girl's shirts without a picture on the front.

Seriously, could this kid get any cuter? Maybe I'm biased :)

 I did an online search for "Blue's Clue's birthday coloring pages." I found this image and printed it out. I put a piece of stiff cardboard and the image inside of the shirt. I had a bit of a hard time seeing through the shirt but I outlined using the puff paints and used a small paintbrush to fill in the larger areas. I had a color copy of Blue on hand to I could make sure that I was using the right colors and getting the details right.

For the back I free handed the outline and again filled it in with a tiny paintbrush.

Favors
I couldn't have been more happy with how these favors turned out. I first went to the Dollar Store and bought two bags of bubble gum and 4 3-packs of bubbles.

For the bubble gum I counted how many pieces I had and divided it by 10. I got 10 snack bags and filled them.

 I got all of the air out the bags as I sealed them. I cut 10 pieces of 3.5"X 3.5" and folded them in half. I took each bag and folded it in half width-wise.

I slipped the folded piece of paper over the top and stapled the left and right side. I labeled each bag with a child's name.

For the bubbles I measured how big of a label I needed to cover. I went into my photo editing software and whipped up these beauties.

Feel free to add your child's name and use these! I took PB's name off so you could easily do so!

I cut them out and taped them onto the bubbles.

In total:

2 bags of bubble gum $2

3 1/3 packs of bubbles: $3.33

2 color copies: $.1.18

Total: $6.51 or $0.65 per favor :)

Food

Since Blue is well Blue I decided to make our food have a blue twist. We had blue raspberry lemonade.

We had blue licorice (thank you Dollar Store for carrying blue candy).

We had blue speckled cupcakes with blue and white polka dotted cupcake liners.

I know that Funfetti cake is just cake with sprinkles so I bought blue sprinkles and added them to the cake. 

If you have watched the show a many times as we have you know that Steve loves anything banana-flavored. In one episode them make banana muffins and he gets super excited. I made some from scratch and labeled them as such.

I also served fruit, veggies, chips, and mini pizzas. The mini pizzas we let everyone make for themselves. We had BBQ chicken and regular pepperoni. There is no need to let people make them for themselves. Almost everyone wanted pepperoni, a couple wanted plain cheese, a some wanted BBQ.

Check out the invitation and more fun details about the party!

I hope you guys have a great weekend and this inspired you with ideas on how to have a simple show-themed kids party! 

PB's 2nd Birthday Party- Blue's Clues

Once I looked back through I pictures I determined I definitely didn't take enough! I will just have to describe parts of the party for you, sorry! Our camera ran out of card space in the middle of opening presents so some of the time was missed waiting for the card to empty.

Characters
So first of all when I was planning this party since it is centered around a show I knew I wanted to bring in the characters. I made a list of the characters and how I would represent them at the party.

• Blue and Magenta- stuffed animals we had on hand
• Mailbox- decorated our mailbox
• Tickety- Sign on front door
• Steve- Daddy dressed up (he happened to have a similar green stripped shirt and khakis on hand :) )
• Shovel and Pail- I purchased from Michael's for $1 (I had to buy a yellow and red bucket to get the ones I wanted but that was okay who doesn't need more sand buckets!?)
• Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper- inexpensive salt and pepper shakers.

Acrylic and Puff paints helped me put the faces on all of characters. 

I traced a paper plate and sketched the rest before filling it in with acrylic paints

Confession time: I never took a picture of good ole' mailbox and forgot to for a few days until it had rained on him. His colors were more vibrant on party day and there were blue polka dotted balloons tied to him. 

Sidewalk Art
To also bring in the characters and bring some excitement to the party I drew fun things on the sidewalk leading up to the house.

Decorations
I forgot to get good pictures of the decor other than the characters but similar to last year I used Dollar Store table clothes and ribbon. This year to go along with the color theme I used red and yellow table clothes. In our eat-in kitchen behind where PB would be sitting to eat her cake and get pictures taken I put a red table cloth on the table and I used two table cloths as pseudo-curtains with red ribbon tie backs.. I felt like it went along with the Blue's Clues theme. I also used the table cloths on the counters and the dining room table.

Here you can see the side of the pretend curtains. As well as a tiny bit of the banner I got at the Dollar Store. 

You can see the decorations a little better here

I also got helium-filled balloons which I won't be doing again. First of all they are not noticed because they are above eye-level and by the next morning they were all on the floor and half way deflated. No need to waste the money next year! What do you think about getting balloons for a party? I paid less than $10 for all of the balloons but just less thing to think about is better!

See that super cute shirt PB is wearing? I'll show you how I made it tomorrow, as well as how I only spent $6.51 on favors for 10 kids, and how I incorporated the Blue's Clues theme into the food. See you then!

Want to see the invitation for the party? 

You're Invited! Blue's Clues Party Invite + a printable

Remember PB's ice cream party from last year?

She was so little!!

This year we decided to do a Blue's Clues theme. She watched all of the episodes with Steve (there are 98 but don't you dare put on one with Joe) two times over on Netflix. She sleeps with a stuffed "Boo" and loves to say "Maaaaail!"

In the next couple days I'll be posting details and things I learned along the way from her party. Today we'll start out with the invite.

To start I counted how many invitation I would need. I decided to make 12 and I could fit 2 cards per page (my dimensions were about 5.5" x 10") so I bought 6 pages of yellow card stock. I went to Staples to get 3 color pages of the chair and 3 of the inside picture printed. The prints turned out better than my printer and were only $.59 each. 

I cut out the chairs and inside info and 5 pieces of about 3" long ribbon per card. I glued the ribbon on the front first under where the chair picture would cover. 

 I then flipped the card over and glued the ribbons onto the back. I glued another piece of card stock scrap over the ends to secure. I then glued the picture onto the front and to the inside and they were ready to go in the mail.

Here is the printable for the front of the card. Enjoy!

Join us tomorrow for more from the party!