...for a birthday party! Ever since we met Daniel Tiger at the local library's story time a couple of months ago, my oldest daughter has been over-the-moon about him. So when asked what kind of cake she wanted (upholding the family tradition of special birthday cake creations), she responded with a resounding, "Daniel Tiger!"
Now, my husband will attest to the fact that I get carried away with
things a little too often. When I have an idea I take it and run until
the sidewalk ends. For this party, with the cake as my starting point, I tried to reign myself in a little
and I attempted to keep the things I did on the inexpensive side.
The cake was homemade, of course; here's the finished product. E was able to identify it as Daniel Tiger, so I considered that a success. :)
For the favors and decorations I went to the
PBS website and found all kinds of great printables that made my life so much easier (and cheaper)! I printed the Daniel Tiger Friends masks on card stock that I already had lying around at home, and Lowe's Home Improvement store provided me with the free paint stirring sticks that I taped to the back to complete the favors.
I didn't do a great job capturing pictures of the decorations I printed from the website, but you can see a few hanging in the pictures below. I literally spent nothing on the favors and decorations, except whatever the paper and ink cost to print them out. The balloons I had leftover from last year.
My favorite decoration, though, was the neighborhood trolley I created. I posted a request for a large box on my neighborhood's Facebook page and luckily someone had just bought a deep-freezer. It was perfect! Not only that, but another neighbor had just finished a princess castle party and offered her castle...yes please! So not only did they have Daniel's trolley to play in, but Prince Wednesday's castle too! I had to purchase the red and yellow paint, and of course, put a little time into it, but it was so worth it!
With a few balloons blown up, and these two boxes, the kids were completely happy and kept themselves occupied the whole time!
E and her friends had a BLAST and my husband was definitely happy with the final bill. ;)
