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Reader Submission: Rainbow Birthday Party

Today’s submission comes from Michelle, who threw this fabulous Rainbow Party for her daughter’s sixth birthday!  I love how fun and colorful everything is!  I’m sure her many efforts were well worth it, because it looks like it was a huge hit!

 

Take it away, Michelle!

 

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Last summer I was excited about throwing my soon-to-be six year old a birthday party. For the past two years we were vacationing during her birthday and did not have the opportunity to do anything. So, this year, I decided to go all out. My first step was to search Pinterest, of course. I gathered several birthday party themes I was willing to use and asked my daughter which one she liked the best. I had all the pictures right there on the computer screen for her to compare. In the end, she chose rainbows! (I may or may not have slightly influenced her decision).

Then came the really fun part! There are SO MANY fun rainbow party ideas out there. It was tough trying to limit my choices down to 1) inexpensive and 2) not TOO time consuming.Here’s how it all went down, though.

The Cake

This blog has some pretty great tips on making the fabulously tall rainbow birthday cake.  All the tips are helpful, however, I did not have success trying to freeze a layer of buttercream in advance. To be fair, it only had a short time to freeze, so that may have been my problem. All her other suggestions were spot on. My visual inspiration came from here.

                     

I love everything about this cake! It made for such a great focal point.  I couldn’t resist showing it off to all the parents when they came to pick up their kids. Shameless, I know.

The Goody Table
 
There are tons and tons of rainbow food ideas out there. I opted for the rainbow veggie tray, although I thought purple onions may not be the best party food. Sadly, I could not figure out another purple or blue veggie so our rainbow stopped at green broccoli. Oh well. We did add blue corn chips to make up for it. 🙂

The rainbow jello cups were too fun to resist. In hindsight, I would either make them several days in advance (and not the night before) or forego them altogether. They take FOREVER to make. It would not have bothered me had it not been so late and I not had so many other last minute things to put together. They did turn out pretty dang awesome though. Tip: a plastic cup full of jello is a lot of jello! But a half full cup of jello looks lame. I will be sure to use smaller cups if I ever make them again.

 

 

The rainbow slush punch turned out very visually pleasing! And very sweet.  Just make sure you have some water to go along with it. 

 

The Decorations

 

Again, so many options! A good friend of mine, Dani, who has her own blog http://craftrookie.blogspot.com/ helped me make some tissue pom pom balls. In fact, she helped me with everything. She, being crafty, was instrumental in putting everything together. The visual inspiration came from this site even though I ended up using them in a completely different way.
I loved this picture and used both the streamers and the wall of balloons as decorations. The steamers are pretty simple to make and have a big visual impact. 

The wall of balloons made a great backdrop for pictures of the birthday girl as well as the group photos.

 

I also decided to make a great game out of it. I bought a cheap set of Nerf guns and added some tacks to the ends of the “bullets”. The kids got to shoot the balloons from a set distance away. If they popped a balloon with a “star” inside, they got to pick a prize. The kids loved it!

 

All in all, everyone had a great time. I couldn’t have done it without Pinterest!

The best part of the whole thing? I got to re-use most of the decorations when my younger daughter turned four a few months later. She is a huge “My Little Pony” fan. Her favorite character? Rainbow Dash! You can see where I’m going with this, I’m sure. 

Instead of cake, we went with these cute cupcakes instead.

 

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This is such a cute party idea!  Thanks so much for sharing, Michelle!

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  1. The Rainbows and smiles abound at a party like this...how could anyone help it! Awesome job! Stopped by cuz I spotted the darling rainbow cake photo at the linky party, and this whole post is just that colorful and cheery-- touche! Nice job!

    Thank you for sharing with the rest of us! Always great to see creative minds at work. :)

    Visiting from Whatever Goes Wed @ Someday Crafts linky party
    Smiles,
    Suz @MaytagNMom
    NW Illinois
    Link To My Party Project This Week

  2. Everything is so cute. We have a link party called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop and would love to have you share this and any other posts with everyone. It runs from Tuesday night through midnight Sunday. Here is the link to the party.
    http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2013/03/wednesdays-adorned-from-above-blog-hop_19.html
    We hope to see you there.
    Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above

  3. So Pretty...wish I was a little girl again or had a little girl, just boys here...Loving it! Thanks for sharing! Came over from the Not Your Ordinary Recipe Party. Have a great week!

  9. Wow! I love the theme and I love how great everything looked. I always have such a hard time finding games to play for parties but that balloon one would work with pretty much every theme. BTW I found you on Monday Funday and am a new follower.

  10. How super fun!!! I wish my birthday was soon so I could have this party! I love the balloon nerf idea as well as all the yummy treats! I'm a new fan too!

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