Monday, March 18, 2013

Kaylee’s Mall Party

The unsuspecting victim thought she was out for the night with her parents, going to a Greek restaurant….

Kaylee Girl

However, we had a surprise in store for the birthday girl.  Can I just say that I love surprise parties, especially when they are actually a surprise!

 @Kaylee Invite2 She is way into taking pictures and instagram, combined with the mall, I thought it would be perfect for 12 year olds.  I invited a few soccer friends, and then a few school friends.  We split into two teams so that the girls would feel comfortable in their own groups.  I had Kaylee switch teams halfway during the scavenger hunt because I knew she would want to be with both.

@Birthday Scavenger

I had two very sweet friends help out with the teams.  I gave each one of the teams a flashy purse that had a mall directory, pen, scavenger list, change for candy dispensers, and then giftcards for some of the activities.

Here are a couple of candids….

Mall Mall4 Mall6 

We ended with blizzards from Dairy Queen at the food court. 

Kaylee had a blast!  Happy 12th My Kaylee Girl!

11 comments:

tren said...

what a fun idea! I might have to borrow it for one of my girls!

Jamie M. said...

How fun!! I think I will be saving this idea, my oldest would love it!!

Jamie M. said...

How fun!! I think I will be saving this idea, my oldest would love it!!

Juf said...

I don't like being the object of surprise parties, I think I'm too much of a control freak!
THis looks like a lot of fun, though! I also love how you emphasized at the beginning how they should be considerate of others.

Anonymous said...

Love it! You are such a cute mom!

Beth

Anonymous said...

I'm stealing this! My oldest is 7 but this is getting filed away for her 12th. Love it!

T.Irwin said...

She is beautiful and how awesome was this surprise party!!!!

The Hammond Family Blog said...

Cute idea!!!

The Hammond Family Blog said...

Cute idea!!!

Crystal said...

May I please pin your fabulous idea for this birthday party? It's such a great list and so perfect for tweens - thank you for sharing it. I can see our granddaughters having fun with this in a few more years. Happy Spring!

Unknown said...

Of course you can pin it! The party was a BLAST! :)