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My daughter Zoë (4 years old) and I knew we wanted an Olaf party for Zeke's special first birthday, but imagined something a little different than the typical Frozen party. Plus we were so sick of the cold ALREADY, that we didn't just want snowflakes. We knew we needed a bit of summer fun, but had to make sure that Olaf would be safe and not melt. My daughter was VERY adamant about that part. So we had summer on the table and winter in the air!

The table runner was made out of paper grass. Three different Olafs lounged in the grass. One on the sand, (kinetic!) with a mini pail, umbrella, and sand castles made out of duple legos! One in the middle with a beach ball (one of the favors!) and one with the tea set! (From Amazon!) I got fake yellow flowers from IKEA and rigged them with wire to stand up straight. I added little bees "Bees will buzz…" with wires to the scene and also on the bucket favors. The yellow buckets were from Party City and the custom sticker from Zazzle. Inside were bee finger puppets, beach balls, and green and yellow maracas.

On the ceiling I hung white snowflakes from Amazon and I made the clouds by hand using white paper lanterns, spray adhesive, polyester batting and fish wire. They were a bit labor intensive but worth it! I lined my large kitchen sliding door window behind the table with "sky" paper that I ordered from Amazon. It was a heavy paper used in classrooms.

On the sideboard I lined some foam core with the same sky paper for the background. Then just added my trusty cupcake holder with homemade cupcakes and toppers from Etsy. Also got the water stickers from Etsy.

I had a vision of all the little kids sitting around the table, so I had moms bring portable chairs and borrowed a few from my neighbors. We had a great musician named Nikolai from Music Together who entertained the little ones for 45 minutes!

It was a great party with three generations and lots of toddlers! Happy Birthday sweet Zeke! We love you!

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Party Highlights

  • What People Ate

    Homemade white cupcakes Veggies & Dip Pinwheel sandwiches Cheese & Crackers

  • What People Drank

    Juice boxes Wine!

  • Desserts

    Cupcakes!

  • Party Favors

    Yellow bucket from Party City Custom sticker from Zazzle Bumblebee finger puppet Beach ball Maracas

  • Activities / Games

    Nikolai from Music Together played the guitar and we sang, danced and played instruments!

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Party Helpers

  • Nikolai Morderbacher

    Musician

    www.nikokids.com

  • treelittlebirds (Cindy Karnbach)

    Etsy designer

    Cindy made the adorable cupcake toppers, the water stickers and the lovely Happy Birthday Zeke banner!

  • Linda Rohler

    Mother/Grandmother/Party Queen

    I couldn't do it without my Mother! She helped design, hang, stuff, photograph, babysit, and anything else you can think of! Thanks Mom!

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