...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. ;)
I love your idea! Going to try and recreate for my sons first birthday. Was it super hard or can you please provide any insight on how to do it? Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteOkay, so clearly I need to get better about checking my comments. So sorry! Just in case it'll help future readers, It wasn't hard at all! I just got small buckets of red and yellow paint, a box cutter, black sharpie, a pencil, a freezer box and a smaller box to go on top. I drew the lines for the trolley windows while looking at a picture of it online...they weren't perfect, but they did the trick! Then it was simply cutting and painting. I hope yours turned out!
Delete