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Kokeshi Dolls are Japanese friendship dolls and when it was time for my daughter Keely’s birthday we thought it the perfect theme – after all it is friends celebrating together.

We started the day with a painting activity where we used wooden peg dolls and painted them to create little kokeshi dolls.

I also hand painted a canvas and used a plain headband, wool and chopsticks to create a photoboard.

For lunch, I cooked an Asian smorgasbord including California Rolls, spring rolls, fried rice, prawn crackers, beef in black bean sauce, fortune cookies, deep fried beef balls with sweet and sour sauce and mini dim sims. Of course the guests could choose to use either knives and forks or chopsticks!

We then took the children outside and they played with sparklers. A Pass The Parcel was also held, with kawaii stationery prizes.

To finish off the day we then opened up the buffet table.

The table area was decorated with lengths of pink plastic tablecloths and lanterns with paper cherry blossoms placed on them.

The table featured a pagoda-esque tower that carried cupcakes decorated with fondant sakura flowers and little kokeshi dolls.

Big butterfly cookies with glitter sheen, lemon curd flower-shaped pastries, fruit flowers, chocolate sponge roll portions and gummi-fish on rice krispie treats were the main desserts on show, however bamboo steamers and big pink flower shaped bowls were used to hide other lollies.

The children collected a noodle box and filled it with whatever treats they wanted whilst the Asian movie Mulan was played in the background.

At the end of the party each guest got a chocolate bar and also a loot bag filled with things like Chinese Finger Traps, Asian boiled lollies, kawaii-like ice-creams and party poppers.

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