Party Decor Details

Last week I shared my daughter's fifth birthday party with you and today I thought I would share a couple of ways that the Hello Kitty party decorations came to be.

Well you know there had to be a banner at the party, of course.  I simply used pink & red polka-dot scrapbook paper, pink ribbon, and staples for this one.

It was the quickest and easiest banner I ever made and one of my favorites.  I just put the ribbon on top and stapled it to the paper.  I liked the staple look, it was quirky and not so perfect.

I made the mini banner the exact same way...

I found three other uses for the cupcake toppers since we weren't serving cupcakes at the party.  I printed them on white cardstock and used my scallop circle punch.

I added magnets to several of them to decorate the metal buckets that were used to hold food and drinks.

I used Hello Kitty ones for the pink food buckets...

and number fives to hold the mini banner on the drink bucket.

My daughter helped me glue some back to back on green popsicle sticks to create "flowers".  We added chunks of foam we found in the garage to the bottom of the silver buckets and then added green Easter grass to fill up the top.

We then planted our little flowers at various heights right down in the foam.

Our next use for the cupcake toppers was the goody boxes.  These mini Chinese take-out boxes are actually leftover from our wedding.  I even used them as favor boxes for Avery's first birthday party.  So glad I saved the extras because they really do come in handy!

We filled them with Hello Kitty goodness for the little guests.

We added ribbon and a topper to each box.

The red ribbon boxes were filled with boyish fun and the pink ribbon boxes were filled with girly fun.

Then there was the adorable Hello Kitty drawn, colored, and cut from posterboard that I asked my sister to make for me.  She did a fabulous job and copied a bunch of cute bows in different colors for the kids to "Pin the bow on Hello Kitty".  So fun.

I had a ton of fun making the giant Hello Kitty to be used as a photo op.  This project was quite a process, but very rewarding at the end.

I started off just drawing an outline with pencil.  I erased lines a hundred different times trying to get it right.  I then went over the pencil with a thick permanent black marker.

I painted the white first and then went on from there.  We glued white paper polka-dots to her clothes and paper flowers around the outside.  The grass was the last addition because it just needed a little something more.

Then I used a knife to cut some sort of oval that would fit little faces.

This was a big hit at the party and made for some very cute pictures.

The final project was the doughnut holders.  I didn't want to just set them out any ol' way so I decided to use dowel rods and plain wooden circles from Hobby Lobby.  My husband helped me out with this by drilling the holes and cutting the rods to be 12 inches.

I enlisted some help to paint the doughnut holders and my son was more than happy to participate in this part.

I loved the way they turned out!

I set the holders on little red plates and they looked almost too cute to eat!

Hope you had fun checking out the party.  Thanks for stopping by!  

I will be linking to these parties this week!

Happy Tuesday!