This year Boo was having a hard time deciding what to do for her birthday so I started throwing ideas out and the only one she liked was a candy themed party. I had a lot of fun planning it but a little advice...candy is expensive. And yes you may be thinking to yourself isn't her birthday in July? Yes, yes it is, but since we were gone to Philmont for her birthday and then we had a million other things going on this was the only day that worked to have her party on.
Here is her invitation that I made using photoshop. It is a good thing I took a picture with my phone to send to a friend of mine otherwise I would not have a picture of her invitations. We passed them out without me getting a picture.
Here is our candy buffet. I have been buying candy and jars for the last few months.
I made the banner and labels for the candy jars using Photoshop.
Licorice, pixie sticks, sweet tarts, giant lollipops
m&m's, laffy taffy, starbursts, skittles
air heads, lemon heads, jolly ranchers, swedish fish.
I used plastic plates and balloons wrapped in cellophane to make a candy garland.
We started out with each of the girls painting a clay pot for our project so we could make sure they had enough time to dry. I am sure you know exactly what we made, but if not I will show you in just a bit.
Yep we made candy jars that look like bubble gum machines.
They later filled these with all of the candy you saw on the candy buffet.
We played life sized candy land. I used construction paper and taped it to the side walk for the squares.I was going to use fun foam but decided that either way they were going to get ruined. I used plastic plates stapled together and placed on sticks for our lollipop trail. I planned on wrapping each one in cellophane and tying them with a bow, but I ran out of time.
Here is one of the dice I made. I had another one just like this only each side was a different color. They rolled the colored dice to see what color to move to and if they landed on a pink they rolled this dice to see which person they went to. I printed out another set of the people and placed them at different pink squares along the "game board".
After we finished a game of candy land we played two more candy games. The first one(no pictures) I took a bowl and filled it with skittles and the girls sat in a circle and reached in the bowl and pulled out two skittles if the colors matched they could eat them, if not they had to hold them in their mouth until they got two that matched. I think Kierra ended up with 18 skittle in her mouth before she was able to eat them.
After that we played the candy bar game...I am sure I have explained this one before since this is a game that both my girls love to play and we have played it at several parties. To play you need a candy bar or two for each person, no duplicates if you can( I did enough for 2 each plus a few so they had a lot of choices, I added gum this time)and two dice. Put the candy bars in the middle of the circle and each player rolls both dice, if they get a one or a six(not adding the dice together) or doubles they get to pick a candy bar from the middle and then hide it behind their back. When the next player gets a one or six or doubles they can still a candy bar from another player only if they can name the candy bar that player has, or they can take one from the middle. Play continues this way until the kids get tired of it or everyone has what they want.
Every time we play this game there is always one or two candy bars that are in pieces from being traded so many times. This time it was a Hersheys cookies and cream candy bar and shockers.
After the game it was time for cake and presents. This is the cake Kierra chose for me to make, which I totally love her for because it was so EASY and I still have yet to master the whole cake decorating thing.
The girls went home with a cute candy dish and a ton of candy. I hope they all had a fun time.
