The party plans for my two younger children never quite came to fruition. We celebrated an April and a May birthday in July with a few close friends (whom we called at the last minute!) With all the renovations, I just couldn't get my act together. Since we had promised the kids, I managed to throw a small swim party together; easy and outdoors!
The good news was that I had already collected most of the things for their themed parties. These large chocolate fish, found at Wal-Mart during Easter, prompted the fishin' theme for my son's party. Since I didn't need them right away, I waited until after Easter to purchase them. They had tons of them, and I doubted people were filling their Easter baskets full of chocolate fish. Plus, they would be on sale!
Wal-Mart also had these chocolate bunnies with fish and red and white bobbers. I set the bunnies aside and used the other chocolates. I had cut down a bunch of bamboo to make fishing poles and had planned to hang the fish and bobbers from fishing line to give as party favors. Unfortunately, I never got around to it! Just passing along the idea...it seemed like a good one!
Another idea I had was to get some maps of Lake Wylie or sketch a simple one and put copies in the baskets. It didn't happen, but thought I would share! I saw on one Pinterest site, someone also made up fake fishing licences. That would have been cute, too!
...as were the peanut butter sandwiches. Another idea I had was to use a cookie cutter shaped like a fish to make the sandwiches...as you see, I did not find one because of so little time. Later, I saw that they actually make goldfish shaped bread! Good to know if you are planning a fishin' party!
This idea was found at Pinterest, as well. I bought the cupcakes from our local grocery store with blue icing. I added the fish, pretzel and fishing line, made with white icing.
The baskets were lined with newspaper and filled with a sandwich, Goldfish crackers, a drink, chocolates and candy. These served as the party favors, too! Because I packaged each lunch individually, it made things much easier! I made them ahead of time, so there was no stress prior to the party and very little clean-up.
For my daughter's belated celebration, we made picnic baskets. These served as their lunch, as well as party favors. I had purchased the Lilly fabric from Ebay a long time ago, to use for making quilts for my daughters. I had so much, that I cut squares for each of the few baskets. The baskets were clearance items after Easter at Michael's. I think I paid fifty cents each. This eased my conscience, because of the price of the fishing creels!
I had the pink and green flower cupcakes made at the local grocery store. We spread a large blanket out on the lawn, handed each child a basket and had a very simple picnic! Easy to prepare and easy clean-up! Most importantly, we kept our promise!
Thanks for stopping by for these belated parties!
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