Kaylin's {Tangled} 5th birthday

Kaylin turned 5 (a few months ago, but who's counting?)!  She loves a party and decided shortly after her 4th birthday that she was going to have a Tangled party for her 5th birthday.  [Side note:  She has decided that she will have a pajama party for her 6th birthday.]  I started compiling ideas in a folder in my email.  It's hard to believe, but I wasn't using Pinterest at the time.  Once I started actually planning the party I was a Pinterest addict and transferred my favorite ideas to a board.

First up, the invitations.  Come get Tangled in fun at Kaylin's 5th birthday party!!

I was inspired by a tower shaped invitation.  I found a tower shape in the Silhouette store and let my new toy do the dirty work.  I was having some problems with my printer, so I wasn't able to use the print and cut feature.  I settled on just writing it out by hand.

Here is what our guests saw as they arrived on party day:

Rapunzel's Braid!

Idea found here.

To keep our royal guests occupied while others were arriving, I covered the dining room table in Ikea paper.  I told them to draw, "just like Rapunzel".  I don't know if they drew like Rapunzel, but they enjoyed coloring all over the table.  Please notice that Kaylin wanted all of her friends to dress up, but at the last minute she refused to wear the Rapunzel costume we borrowed for her.  Let's just say I was very happy I didn't make or buy one for her.

Down the hall from the front door, past the dining room, is the entrance to the kitchen/family room.  I made a kingdom banner (idea found on pretty much every post about a Tangled party) and Laura made the amazing tower.

 

Isn't that awesome?  It was the best part of the party!  I'll try to take some credit... I made the braid :-).  Yes, I got the easy part.

As guests arrived, I took their picture inside the tower (they had to stand on a stool) and later used the picture as part of the thank you note.  Here's my cute niece:

We played some fun party games:

First we played "pin the frying pan on Flynn Rider":


 Apparently I hung the poster a little too high.  I need to remember not to base things on the height of my incredibly tall daughter... at her 5th birthday check-up she was the height of the average 7 year old and she's a full head taller than quite a few of her friends.  I originally saw the idea for the poster here.  I printed a coloring page off of the Disney site and traced it onto poster board at my mother-in-law's school using her document camera.  I cut the frying pans with my Silhouette and put each kid's initial in the center to make it easier to see whose pan was whose.

Kaylin loves pinatas, so I came up with a lantern pinata:

  
 I used a goldfish cracker box (Costco size).  I glued strips of crepe paper, that I cut to make it look fringed, around it.  I cut suns using my Silhouette and taped them on top.  I made it a pull-string pinata, I wasn't about to have kids swinging a bat in my family room.  Plus I didn't have anywhere to hang it, this way I could just hold it up.

No party is complete without favors!


 I first saw the idea here.  I used purple gift bags (bought at Michael's) with the sun medallion.  My printer was working again, so I used the print and cut feature on my Silhouette and printed each kid's name on a sun.  It worked well because they were able to put their pinata prizes in their bag and they didn't have to worry about getting them mixed up.

Each girl received a sun medallion necklace as they arrived:


Laura had the suns in her stash and donated them to the cause.  She really came through for this party!  I just strung them on thin purple ribbon.

Rapunzel Paints:


I first saw this idea here.  I bought sets of water color paints and used, you guessed it, my Silhouette to cut out suns and labels.

I let Kaylin decorate her own cake using sprinkles and her Tangled figurines:

Although she refused to wear it at the party, I made Kaylin a Rapunzel braid to wear.  It has since seen lots of action.

Kaylin had a blast!  It was a lot of work and I said, "I won't do this again!"  Someone please remind me of this when it is time to plan the next birthday party.  Although I'll probably do it anyway, because Kaylin loves a good party.