Vintage School Baby Shower

One of my dear friends was expecting a sweet little baby girl soon but she didn't want to do a big shower since she already has a child, but I couldn't resist doing SOMETHING! So we decided that a nice little lunch with some close friends would do.

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE themed invitations and these ones from Invitation To Mars were just too cute to pass up and perfect for the theme!

How cute are these details!?!

For the table centerpiece I kept it simple with a vintage pattern table runner, basket of apples, mini chalk board, baby blocks and flash cards.



We had a light lunch served in the traditional brown lunch sacks, but I wanted to dress them up a bit. So I folded a doily over the top and tied them shut with a cute little ribbon to give them kind of a shabby chic look.

Inside the lunch sacks was a chicken salad croissant sandwich, bag of chips, container of leafy salad with a wooden fork, and a small fruit cup with alphabet cookies. Yum Yum!

And refreshments of course...

We had just a simple little dessert bar to keep it light with few treats. The backdrop was a vintage window I had and covered the glass with different vintage styled paper patterns to give it some color. Then I hung some flash cards with clothes pins for bunting. The table was accented with stacks of books, apples, and more baby blocks and flash cards.

I tried based the main treats off of what I used to have in my sack lunches growing up: Pb & j sandwich, an apple, usually some cookies or chips, and a carton of milk - gotta love themes! So here is what I came up with:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars

Cookie and Milk Parfaits


 and Mini Apple Pies

That is our little baby shower lunch, SUPER budget friendly!

Vendors:
Event Styling and photographs: Sweeten Your Day Events
Invitations: Invitation to Mars
Vintage Flash Cards: Pretty Little Studio
School Theme Inspiration: One Charming Party

Bee My Valentine Class party {activities}

The way our school has done class parties in the past are only about an hour long and the kids get divided into groups and then rotate around to different stations were they play a game or make a craft. I figured that I would just stick with what they know and came up with 5 different rotation activities for them to enjoy, all staying with the Bee theme of course :)

I am going to try and keep this post not too long, so some of the descriptions are brief and hope they make sense.

#1 Antenna Assembly - craft

 For this craft the kids are making little antenna headbands to wear as they buzz around the party!

Cut a large piece of cardstock in half (I did yellow for the boys and pink for the girls). Let the kids decorate their papers with crayons, markers, stickers, etc. Measure the kids head and staple the pieces together. Then punch 2 holes in the front side and thread black pipe cleaners through. Glue some colorful pom poms on the ends and done!

 

#2 Pin the Bee on the Hive - game

This one is pretty self explanatory... I enlarged Bird's printable Beehive and cut out some small bees and attached some poster putty on the back to make them stick. 

This game isn't very long, so during this rotation the kids are also going to pass out their valentines to the other classmates boxes.  

#3 Buzzy Bee Valentine - craft

I found this cute little idea via pinterest 

What you need per bee: 2 googly eyes, 1 black pipe cleaner (folded in half), an oval piece of construction paper for the body, 2 matching long strips for the legs, 2 shorter ones for the arms, 3 black strips for the stripes, 2 small red hears, 1 large white heart (cut in half for the wings), glue, crayons or markers to decorate. 

*Have everything pre-cut to save time and make it easier for the kids to assemble. We did yellow for the boys and pink for the girls. 

 #4 Heart Hive Tower Stack - game

For this game you just get a couple of bags of large conversation hearts. Go around the table and each kid stacks one heart on top of each other at a time, trying to build it as high as they can without knocking it over (kind of like Jenga in a way). When it falls over, just start again trying to build your Heart Hive taller each time!

#5 Pollen Pong - game

I also found this game via pinterest and thought that the kids would go wild for it!

For this activity take 2 different colors of paper plates and glue a jumbo Popsicle stick or tongue depressor on the back to make a paddle, decorate with a flower. Then blow up a large balloon and draw a Bumble Bee on it with a marker. 

To play: Hit the Bee with your flower paddle back and forth (collecting pollen) trying not to let it touch the floor before it gets to every flower.

 Well that is it for the activity portion. The class party again is only about an hour long, so each rotation will be about 10 minutes long and then another 10 minutes at the end for treats and refreshments. I hope you all enjoyed these posts and gives you some ideas for your own Bee Mine celebration! Again don't forget to stop by Bird's Party for your set of Bee My Valentine printables today!

Bee Mine Valentine Class Party {treats}

This year I was asked by my son's first grade teacher to organize and put together their Valentine Class Party. This is the first time I have been in charge of one, but have helped out before many times before, so I was ecstatic to do it!

After searching the net for some ideas I can across these absolutely adorable printables from Bird's Party that were perfect for so many reasons!

First off they are free! You can't beat that! They are great for all ages, and not too girly so boys can enjoy them too. Last my son's school mascot is a Bee/Hornet :)

Once I had my theme I started thinking of the treats, that is always my favorite part. For the center of the table I made a cupcake hive (tutorial found here) designed to match Bird's graphics. 

Then I filled the hive with pink pastel iced cupcakes topped with their matching topper printables, just too cute!

Along with cupcakes Pink Lemonade to drink.

I wanted to create a special treat for the teacher as well. So I got a small vase and filled it with pink sixlets and made some lolllipop flowers.

Last for the a cute little take home favor I got some gumball tubes and filled them with alternating layers of pink and black gumballs with a cute little 'Bumble Gum' label.

That is it for the treats for the party, keeping it light since they will also be getting lots of valentines from their classmates :) Be sure to check out the next post for all the activities too!