Rebekah just celebrated her 8th birthday; planning her party is still in the works. This year she has chosen a Paris theme, so I am in the process of gathering lots of pink and black items and anything with an Eiffel Tower on it!
I started looking at her past birthday party photos reminiscing about when my baby was really still a baby. As I scanned through, I came to “Rebekah’s 7th Birthday Party -Under the Sea”, this one was my favorite! This is definitely a DYI #Disneyside birthday party. For inspiration I started searching the World Wide Web for ideas and then put my own twist on them. I found great items at Dollar tree and The Christmas Tree Shoppe, Party City and Oriental Trading. This party took place in my house so I was able to decorate the day before, which was a must because of the large amount of preparation needed.
I began lining my walls from ceiling to floor with blue and white streamers, (ocean colors) and in some areas I twisted two different colors of green to look like seaweed.
The ceiling was draped with blue and white streamers to simulate ocean waves. I hung the green streamers from the waves for a seaweed effect. If you purchase your streamers from Dollar Tree you will get a bigger bang for your buck, two in a pack. I ordered tropical fish from Oriental Trading and hung them on the ceiling, swimming in the waves 🙂
I called my couch the Sand Bar and hung an ocean scene on the wall. We used white Christmas lights behind the ocean to act as sunlight glistening in the water and wrote each girls name on a fish which was taped onto the ocean scene. Mini paper lanterns were purchased from The Christmas Tree Shoppe and used as jellyfish by hanging steamers from underneath. White and blue balloons acted as water bubbles in the ocean.
The Christmas Tree Shoppe had light-up battery operated neon colored faux pussy willow plants on clearance (I wonder why, haha). I placed them in a corner to act as coral. If you look real close to the back left you can spot them.
I created a mini grotto adorned with a photo of Prince Eric, seashells, a string of seashell lights and a basket of dinglehoppers (mini cocktail forks).
I covered the windows with blue cellophane to give the room an additional ocean-esq feel.
The party table had a light blue plastic table cloth with trimmed out brown paper to look like sand. I found these fake plants at the Dollar Tree and used them as seaweed. I placed them in florist foam cubes and covered them with green tulle, holding them in place with star fish. I placed shells, Little Mermaid confetti and green and blue glass rocks along the “sand”. Lunch was a served up for our aquatic bunch. We had sea shell pasta and star fish sandwiches (cut with a star cookie cutter), I sliced the ends of a mini hot dog, bending them outward to resemble octopus legs. Snacks included Goldfish, Swedish Fish and oyster soup crackers.
We had a face painter adorn our Birthday Girl and guests, below are a few of my favorite faces!
One of our crafts was creating foam/sand art scenes. We had colored sand, ocean confetti and stickers and jewels.
With such a great deal of decorating it didn’t leave much time for cake trimming. So I had to create something simple and fast! I used two 9 inch rounds for the bottom and a star pan for the top. The green grass was Easter candy grass and crushed graham crackers as sand.
At the end of the party we played different Disney pop versions of The Little Mermaid songs as the girls danced and played with the ocean bubbles. My goodie bags we clearanced sea themed gift bags from The Christmas Tree Shoppe, they were filled with ocean and Little Mermaid fun finds. At the end of the party the girls were told to fill their bags with the decor that adorned the party table.
I had so much fun creating and decorating this party! Now onto Paris~
~Maureen
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