So those of you who know Grace are aware of her great ideas. She has an idea about everything. If you are simply informing her of the day's plan she "has an idea" of how to make it better or more interesting. "How bout [this] mom..." before I finish my sentence. Needless to say she had some pretty grand ideas of what she wanted her birthday party to be like. She knew right away that she wanted a Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party. She's been a longtime fan of the Roald Dahl book and old Gene Wilder movie. We discussed the possibilities, and even though I wasn't willing to wallpaper the house with lick-able fruit or make her dad a Willy Wonka costume, Eve into a blueberry, and Daphne into an Oompa Loompa; we still were able to come up with some fun, yet realistic ideas.
The Invitations: We wrapped up chocolate bars to look like Wonka Bars and slipped a "golden ticket" inside each one. When we delivered the bars to her friends they got to tear open the outside wrapper to find the invitation (which was the golden ticket.)
I found a picture of an actual golden ticket from the movie, printed it out, made a few changes to make it applicable to our party, copied it onto gold paper, and voila!
This Oompa Loompa poster served two purposes: a bean bag toss game and we used it to take silly poses of our guests (we will send each of them a copy of themselves in the thank you cards.)
Grace made this sign to welcome her guests.
Favors: Giant lollipops and "an afternoon supply of chocolate" (our version of the "lifetime supply of chocolate," which was the grand prize promised in the story.)
Pin the hat on Willy Wonka game (I think we had some peekers...there are just too many kids that got the hat in the right spot!)
My personal favorite: The cake. This is my artistic interpretation of the candy room that the characters first enter in the movie (when Gene Wilder sings "pure imagination.")
The chocolate fountain...this was a big hit! The kids (and adults) enjoyed dipping fruit, pretzels, and marshmallows into the flowing chocolate.
There were lots of chocolate faces (and shirts!)
More happy, chocolate faces!
Grace blowing out her seven candles with the help of Daddy!
Opening presents from friends.
So those of you who know Grace are aware of her great ideas. She has an idea about everything. If you are simply informing her of the day's plan she "has an idea" of how to make it better or more interesting. "How bout [this] mom..." before I finish my sentence. Needless to say she had some pretty grand ideas of what she wanted her birthday party to be like. She knew right away that she wanted a Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party. She's been a longtime fan of the Roald Dahl book and old Gene Wilder movie. We discussed the possibilities, and even though I wasn't willing to wallpaper the house with lick-able fruit or make her dad a Willy Wonka costume, Eve into a blueberry, and Daphne into an Oompa Loompa; we still were able to come up with some fun, yet realistic ideas.
The Invitations: We wrapped up chocolate bars to look like Wonka Bars and slipped a "golden ticket" inside each one. When we delivered the bars to her friends they got to tear open the outside wrapper to find the invitation (which was the golden ticket.)
I found a picture of an actual golden ticket from the movie, printed it out, made a few changes to make it applicable to our party, copied it onto gold paper, and voila!
This Oompa Loompa poster served two purposes: a bean bag toss game and we used it to take silly poses of our guests (we will send each of them a copy of themselves in the thank you cards.)
Grace made this sign to welcome her guests.
Favors: Giant lollipops and "an afternoon supply of chocolate" (our version of the "lifetime supply of chocolate," which was the grand prize promised in the story.)
Pin the hat on Willy Wonka game (I think we had some peekers...there are just too many kids that got the hat in the right spot!)
My personal favorite: The cake. This is my artistic interpretation of the candy room that the characters first enter in the movie (when Gene Wilder sings "pure imagination.")
The chocolate fountain...this was a big hit! The kids (and adults) enjoyed dipping fruit, pretzels, and marshmallows into the flowing chocolate.
There were lots of chocolate faces (and shirts!)
More happy, chocolate faces!
Grace blowing out her seven candles with the help of Daddy!
Opening presents from friends.
3 comments:
such an adorable and innovative party idea!!! i love it and would definitely like to copy it with grace's permission! ;)
sssssssssssooooooooooooo cute!!!! LOVED it all ... you are such a great MOM. Love those girls :)
That turned out soooo cute! I am so impressed with your creativity - and I love the fact that Grace picks things out of the ordinary. Wish we could have been there!
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