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:

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

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

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

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  4. 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.

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  5. Love it! You are such a cute mom!

    Beth

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

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

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  8. 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!

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

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