Tuesday 3 June 2014

How to organise a Frozen Theme Birthday Party

Is was my daughters 6th Birthday at the weekend and this year she wanted a "FROZEN" Theme Birthday Party. Being the online shopping junkie that I am I started searching for Elsa Costumes only to realise they could not be got for love nor money, and not much else in the line of Frozen Party things either...


So when all else fails who do you call ???  NANNY of course, Nanny can do anything, and for those of you who dont know Nanny is the Kay in Kay's School of Floristry, and belive me Flower Arranging and Floristry is only part of her amazing talents.


Princess Elsa Costume
So off to Michael Guineys in Dublin City she went  to get the Elsa Fabric, and she did and as soon as she came home starting working on Cara's Elas costume, no pattern, just from looking at the Frozen Movie she designed this stunning dress.  But of course every Queen needs a wand, and Queen Elsa is no different so Nanny sets out to make her a wand to match her dress.  Now those of you who have bought our Brooch Bouquet Kits in the past will know how to make these fabric flower wands, if you didnt get these advanced notes drop us an email and we will send them on :)

So here is the finished design, doesnt she look beautiful
 ( I know im biased )







So the dress was organised and now the rest of the party to plan, we were looking for Elsa, Anna and Olaf cutouts but these were very pricey indeed so my 14 year old and 11 year old cut open two cardboard boxes to draw Olaf, and such a professional job they did.


So what is any party without Entertainment?  I contacted Jo-Anne Maher who is a party entertainer at www.jojospartytime.com & who I had met on Facebook many years ago in a business group we were in together and she was free to entertain Cara's friends for me and did she entertain them, they made bracelets with snow flakes, had their faces painted frozen themed and sang & danced and played party games, oh and sang "Let it Go" 20 times, but every little princess had an absolute ball.  If you are thinking of having a party at home and not sure how to entertain the kiddies Jo Jo is the lady to call, I would highly recommend Jo Jo and her team, the worked non stop for 3 hours, entertained every child and cleaned up after themselves.  It was certainly a treat for me :)  








When we decided to go with the Frozen Theme, we decided we needed all the sweets and goodies to be blue like Elsa, but again they were not easy to find so through a business group Kay's Flower school is in on Facebook called IrishBizParty I contacted the gorgeous Amanda from Sugar & Spice, Amanda normally does sweet tables and carts for wedding events and the like, but all I wanted was the blue sweets and Lollies.  Well I have never met someone as obliging helpful and offers an amazing service, as you can see from the photos what Amanda created for Cara, we were so grateful and her prices are so good, 





These Party boxes were so impressive, each one decorated and personalised.  I was thrilled with these.


For years I have bought Personalised Chocolate from Maria's Little Wrappers, for lots of different occasions, communions, thank-you for teachers, Christmas etc, so I knew when I asked her to do "Frozen" Chocolates personalised for Cara, she would not let me down.  These Frozen Chocolate bars were loved by all the girls.  Maria offers the most amazing service for presonalised chocolate, but make sure to book in advance as she is always busy because everyone knows how great she is :) 




As  treat for the party pages I asked Michelle from Funky Crayons who I had not met before but like Amanda had met on FB via IrishBizPary could she make Frozen theme crayons, and she did not let me down, each of the princess coming to the party also went home with snowflake crayons and all in the gorgeous personalised boxed from Sugar & Spice

If you are an SME looking to connect with like minded people who help and support other SMEs check out Samantha Kelly's #IrishBizParty on Twitter every Wednesday night from 9pm -11pm 




To decorate the house we have to say a special thanks to Ronan Mc Mahon, it was one of his Election poster that we found on the ground at Tymon Park that we used as a backing to some Frozen Poster, Cara will actually hang these in her bedroom after the party.  Thanks Ronan and hope you dont mind, but I'm sure any heavy card would do just as good a job.

I made lots of large Cluster Bows in Blue & White and used them to decorate the house and tie to the pillars outside so her friends would know what house the party was in.  This is a really inexpensive ways of decorating a venue, Florist Ribbon in very cheap and there is a video link here to show you How to make a large cluster bow. 



Cara also made snowflakes in her Nannys and I bought some lanterns on-line, that came from China, that were really cheap but took 4 weeks to arrive :)  





But over all the finished result was not bad.

All the Princess had an amazing time and lots of Blue Tongues :) 







Thankyou to all those who helped in the planning of this Frozen Themed Party, if your Princess is looking for similar, definitely check out all the businesses linked above who helped me.

Deirdre
xxx



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