Cupcake Party

Rebecca’s birthday always comes at an inopportune time for a friend party.  Her birthday is always right when school is starting and friends are finishing up summer vacations.  So this year I decided to delay it just a bit after everyone had settled into the school year.  We decided on a little cooking / cupcake party.  Here is the invitation minus a number or two.

We played a few games after dividing up into two teams.  One game we would have a player from each team come up and get blindfolded.  Then I would put an item of food in both of their mouths at the same time, and the first to announce what it was would get a point for their team.  I fed them a marshmallow, chocolate chip, M&M, nut…. They were so giggly and into the game. 

Another game was a relay with wooden spoons with their teams.  It always amazes me how competitive kids can get with a simple game.

I had bought chef hats and aprons for the girls to do the cupcakes in.  We also took fabric markers to the aprons so the girls could personalize them.

We had a couple of different cupcake stations  for the girls to create their own version.

There were twelve girls in all, including Rebecca.  I’m sad that I didn’t get more pictures, especially with all of the girls.  Parties just get too crazy and I always just end up with the before party pictures.  Here is one with quite a few of the girls during a game.

  

The little gift Rebecca handed out to her friends as they left was a package of cupcake lip gloss with a cake mix to whip up at home in their new baking attire.

   

Rebecca had so much fun with such a variety of friends.  My mom was here to help with the party and we just sat there amazed at how different each girl was.  Rebecca received a lot of great gifts, but I think she mainly enjoyed having her friends over.  She was especially excited to have an extended cousin, Maddie come for the weekend with my parents.

It really was a fun party!  Thanks for all the help mom, and thanks for running the rest of my kids around to their activities dad.  You two are awesome!