Saturday morning I woke up and said...
Ferb, I know what we're doing today!
I planned a Phineas and Ferb party for Isaiah's birthday. He's nuts about that show and I had the most fun planning around the theme. It was a win-win!
I couldn't find any invitations and I had thought about ordering some off of Etsy (there are several people who sell custom Phineas and Ferb invitations on
Etsy and
Ebay). I just couldn't find any that were exactly what I was wanting and I was on a short time frame. As usual, I had waited until the week I needed invites sent out to find invites. So, I went to Office Depot and found some fun paper, snagged a cute/wintery Phineas and Ferb pic from the Internet...wrote up a little invite and inserted the pic and voila...
Invites on the cheap.
I was able to find TONS of decorating stuff on Party City's website (click
HERE). They had a great selection and great prices.
I was up in the air about the cake until the last minute. I just couldn't decide what to do with it. There were so many possibilities. I could have went with something from the theme song. For instance, I had thought about having an Eiffel Tower cake made and putting Phineas and Ferb scaling up the side...or I had thought about having a Yeti cake made and putting Phineas and Ferb around the sides giving him a shower. The wheels in my head were turning, but I really didn't have the time to wait much longer, so I just had a simple Phinea and Ferb-ish cake made at my favorite local bakery (Merritt's for all you local peeps...they never disappoint).
It wasn't elaborate or anything, but I thought it was cute and went well with the rest of the decor.
Isaiah made it known that he wanted to build "contraptions" like Phineas and Ferb, so I set up a table with all sorts of craft/building materials. The kids had a blast using their imaginations and putting together their very own contraptions.
We also had a couple of games.
Pin The Tail On Perry was fun! One of the perks of my job is working with a bunch of drafters. We have a huge plotter at our office and one of the guys printed Perry out for me, but you might be able to have it printed some where. I found a pattern for a platypus tail on line and saved it, colored it orange, printed them, and cut them out.
Find the Lawn Gnomes was a hit!
I told them that the EVIL Dr. Doofenshmirtz had STOLEN all of our lawn gnomes and we need them back! I sent them on a hunt for all the lawn gnomes they could find. Prior to the party starting, I had went around and hid 40 lawn gnomes all over...under tables, on walls, under chairs...anywhere inconspicuous. They had fun finding them and they were rewarded with mini chocolate bars.
For the lawn gnomes, I just found a picture of one that I liked online, saved it to my pictures, a printed them out on card stock.
I also set up a Dr. Doofenshmirtz Laboratory and performed a couple of experiments.
We inflated a balloon with vinegar and baking soda and made green slime! It was SO cool.
I'm not sure who had more fun them or me! LOL.
We served cheese pizza and carrots w/ ranch dressing, at the request of the birthday boy. I was going to serve grilled cheese because P and H's sister, Candace, loves grilled cheese. I was going to cut them all into fourths and put them on a skewer. Grilled Cheese on a stick! Sounds cute, right?! Isaiah INSISTED on cheese pizza. Oh well.
We also had a yummy Sundae Bar and a Candy Bar. The kids loved making their own sundaes.
Their favor bags consisted of Phineas and Ferb stickers and tattoos, pencils, sticky hands, a compass, Phineas and Ferb fruit snacks (found at Wal-Mart and Target), and a Phineas and Ferb Mix CD. For the CD, I just downloaded about 10 of Isaiah's favorite Phineas and Ferb songs onto iTunes, made a playlist, and burned it to CDs. I found some really cheap CDs at Office Depot (10 for $1).
Every kid also got some cool shades just like Phineas and Ferb wear (found them at amazon.com).
(the two adorable children above are courtesy of my one of my best friends, blogger at
my3ellas.
I think it was a success.
I know the birthday boy had fun...he said, and I quote, "it was the BEST day ever".
That was what I was going for.
I'm sorry if you tried to click on the link to my last giveaway from yesterday's blog post.
I forgot to link it up. So, you can click
HERE to make sure you entered. Promise. It'll really take you somewhere. Not over the rainbow, but it will take you to my giveaway, which is just a $10 Starbucks card and a $10 iTunes card and another little surprise...no bluebirds flying and it wasn't sang about once in a lullaby.
I don't know what the heck I'm talking about. Just go
enter my giveaway. I'll announce the winner in Thursday's blog post.
Hope you're all having a great week so far.
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