Shirley's party advice part 3 - in which Shirley may make a guest appearance

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We appear to have filled another thread

sorry, Blathers, you answered that qu already [must read thread]

I bought a pretty tote bag for DS's teacher in the end I am going to try making one but decided that my first attempt should probably be one for me rather than the teacher so it doesn't matter so much when it's an awful mess. DS picked one with a Peacock on and I bought some peacock feather ribbon to tie it up with. It looks really pretty even if I do say so myself :)

Little Pascals are a brilliant idea for the Rapunzel party. I bet they wouldn't be too tough to make or buy and then you could put one in each party bag maybe? The Octonauts party was at the weekend and they did the game where you race a paper fish across the room by flapping at it with a piece of card which was fun. Maybe you could make a paper Pascal?

The 'Pin the....on the...' has to be plait on Rapunzel surely? Lots of yellow wool to make plaits with a different coloured ribbon tying the bottom of each so you know who's is who's.

DD's rash looked more like insect bites that spread and joined together to form big patches, then faded in the centres before turning to bruises all over the little body. She's totally back to normal now though thankfully.

Looking forward to the Mr Tumble party plans.

Do you know any demon knitters, DrsW - chameleon pattern?

Stretchy lizards?

Im stood outside playschool drowned. Dd is gonna be most pissed off. Its a 45 min walk on buggy board in pissing down rain and all i have with me is a banana! She's gonna go toddler apeshit. I could have caught the bus in ten mins but i liked the idea of practicing the school run, until i got poured on. I will be back to this later to show you the ideas in existance for rapunzel. We have to make this good people, huddle round, we have to show that a homebased party diy job can be better than a fice year olds wedding reception birthday.

Stretchy lizards would be easier, but there might be tears from pedantic 5yos insisting that Pascal is green. DrsW do we need a gender-neutral option for this party (i.e. are there going to be boys there?).

My DC have perfect Pascals which I nabbed at some work event - neither of them cares that their Pascals have "Suse" (Linux vendors whose logo is a chameleon) embroidered on them

We can easily make this better than a pink glitter fest, don't worry!

Im back from the school run. We are soaked through so jumped in the bath together. I underestimated her, not one grumble, we had to stop for every. Single. Slug. All the way home!

Right i have trawled the net for ideas whilst doing night feeds. Thinking of having purple bunting with the 'sun' logo. Yellow braids of wool right round the room. Pin the braid on rapunzel or nose on flynn rider.
Colouring in sheets. Obviously. Maybe a 'hair station' to plait hair and have flowers and tat to clip into it. Or maybe wool braids to weave in or something. (lets hope we dont all catch lice).

As dd is a nov birthday it'll get dark at 4, so can do some lantern release. New house has a conservatory (will be the playroom) thinking if i use that i can put fairylights/lanterns all around and it'll reflect back off the conservatory windows in the dark.

But stealth you found the problem. Boys. There will be cousin who will be 2.5, godmothers newly adopted son(squeeeeeee they should get him aug 1st, but he'll be 11 months) and his cousin who will be 3.

As they are all a bit little i could let them sit on the sidelines without guilt. Or invite girls only. And now for some links to the good stuff...
birdonacake.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rapunzel-tower-cupcakes.html?m=1

m.pinterest.com/recessionhome/rapunzel-tangled-birthday-party-ideas/

recessionhome.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/how-to-host-a-tangled-party/

I need more for the actual party. Dress in princess dresses. Do hairstyles. Pin the tail on the... Ooo ooo instead of pass the parcel could we take stuff outta flynn riders precious satchel? Make crowns? Or decorate them?

Sil has a disney print company type thing as a new venture so i can get some stuff knocked up with rapunzel on it and mil is heavily into beading (hobby before sewing) so crowns can be done. Bags. Mil also dies these really cute ballet dresses that you can clip hair clips to. I can get her to knock rapunzel ones up. ...
family.go.com/crafts/craft-953109-pascal-party-blowers-t/

Wow that was mammouth. Apologies.

ffs after all that i forgot to convert links. Hold on...

And it interupted the link at the bottom. Im tired!

Oh can someone relink for me? My phone wont let me select it all now.

recessionhome.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/how-to-host-a-tangled-party/

birdonacake.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/rapunzel-tower-cupcakes.html?m=1

family.go.com/crafts/craft-953109-pascal-party-blowers-t/

blog.littleavocado.com/2011/08/peytons-5th-birthday-party.html?m=1

m.pinterest.com/recessionhome/rapunzel-tangled-birthday-party-ideas/

cakephoria.com/new-cakes/rapunzel-tower-cake-inspired-by-disneys-tangled.html

I can definitely recommend the Baker Ross crowns and their stick-on jewels. (we had plain crowns, but I notice they now do colour scratch ones, coloured ones, and gold and silver ones - spoilt for choice) I think I would keep those for a craft activity rather than pre-make them TBH. A monster dressing up box and a "best dressed princess" (in which everyone wins prizes for most colourful/ neatest / messiest / whatever) would be cool.

Hmm - small boys - give the walking ones hobby horses and they can be Flynn? Just involve Flynn, Pascal and whatever-the-horse-is-called (my resident Tangled consultant is busy) a bit more to dilute the princessiness? Are you aiming for "Tangled" or "Rapunzel (non-Disney)"?

You could also consider a "build the highest tower" contest (for all, not for small boys) - we did if for DS's science party, with wooden coffee stirrers and marshmallows?

Stealth that tower idea is brilliant. And def 'tangled'. Im thinking i can go round singing mother knows best!!!

And we have a hobby horse. The problem i always have is that dh's family always want to see the party and so we end up having to invite everyone and it turns into 50 guests for ten kids! Im dreading it and dh wont budge on it. I might do a family tea but half the adults would still end up at the kids bash anyway! I could use the local hall but it wouldnt be as easy to decorate or be as sparkly.

And your cake is fabulous by the way!! Is the asparagus one done?

Tower building would dilute the glitter a bit and keep the adults busy if they are anything like as competitive as my family. If you have access to a cheap hall I would be tempted to go for it, though - it would give you more room to do stuff without falling over all the excess adults.

I think we could fill a hall with decorations quite cheaply - some of these inside paper lanterns would look lovely, for a start...

Did you not see finished asparagus cake? Full set is here and it is at the end.

How is DH's/your woodworking? A truly spectacular Tangled cake would need scaffolding, but would be otherwise relatively easy, IMO.

I absolutely love the asparagus. Fab. What did your dad say?

Yes to do the cake well ive gotta get a platform screwed into a pole into s base aint i? My fil is really handy but he drags his feet with requests. Hmm but if i screwed a pole like a broom handle or hanging rail into a big cake board and a smaller board on top, that'd be simple surely? Then just make the house part and 'glue' it with royal icing?

Yes - cake just needs 2 cake boards and a nice sturdy pole. I would be tempted to make the tower bit out of rice krispie cake and only the top bit out of cake cake IYSWIM.

My father loved his asparagus cake

I have a Suse USB stick! You pull the Chameleons tail off to plug it in :)

Now that's just mean

This house is full of software related junk! When is the party DW? Maybe between Stealth and DH we can get you a load of freebie Chameleons :)

I cant ask dh if he has a 'nice sturdy pole'!

Agree with you about rice krispie treats for the pole. Im thinking if i make a little cake for the cottage bit and those individual cupcakes for the kids that'd be enough.

Party isnt until end of nov anyway. The hall is actually a good idea as it backs on to a huge playing field. Ideal for an end if party lantern release. Dd has played me up a treat for two weeks at bedtime. Shes petrified if noises in the house (i heard them too and shat myself at 2am feeding littl'n). So now i have dd1 on a mattress in my bedroom floor and promising her a bloody rapunzel bedroom at the new house now too!!

And now im not focusing on dd2's thanksgiving day. I needed to practice flowers still but i emptied the loft and found my party box, pearlescent curling ribbon, pink pearlescent balloons and pink balloon weights. Is this god telling me to do balloons?

If you can't ask DH, who can you ask ?

How old are the balloons? I have not had much success in keeping balloons - they end up popping and DD howls

You might get more than you bargained for if you ask him

Exactly. Im feigning chest pains and beating him off as it is!!

First face painting party on Sunday. Wish me luck!

Good luck Blathers - just a quick post to say pirate party a huuuuuge success. Thanks again for the waistcoat Stealth - DH looked great. Got so many good ideas from you all - couldn't have done it without you!

Hooray. Glad you had fun. I was playing Pop up Pirate with DD this morning and thinking of you :)

I have some tissue paper circles and squares and some construction paper. I need a Hungry caterpillar craft activity - help!