When we first started talking to my daughter about her 4th birthday party, she really didn't have any ideas about a theme she wanted. Her first birthday party was You are my Sunshine themed. Her second birthday party was Minnie Mouse themed. And her third birthday party was Tangled themed. For a couple days she said she wanted another Tangled party, but this time focusing on Pascal. I vetoed that right away! My husband started thinking about the timing of her birthday. It correlated well with the timing of a big airshow here in Evansville. He suggested this to her and she loved the idea. I think mainly because she knows how much her daddy loves airplanes. It was an added bonus that we could take my husband's family to the airshow the day after her party. Here is what we came up with for her party.
I found white tulle pom-poms at hobby lobby. I was originally going to use them in the cloud pictured below, but they weren't big enough. So I tied 2 together and hung the rainbow tulle from them. I cut them short because I knew my daughter would try to grab them and hang from them or twist up in them (which would result in lots of glitter everywhere). The banner and the invitations were created by RoxCreativeDesign on Etsy. She did the information that I asked and sent me the files. I went to Office Depot and got them printed on card stock. Here is her Etsy shop link:
I found the cloud/rainbow tulle idea from another pinterest post. My mom had paper pom-poms that she gave me. I think I ended up using 6 pom-poms to make the clouds. I cut a white piece of poster board around the shape I wanted and hot glued the pom poms to the posterboard. Then I hot glued strips of tulle from the posterboard. I attempted to tape the rainbow tulle to the tablecloth, but it didn't really work well, but they all seemed to stay in place.
The cake was awesome! It was a chocolate cake with airplane designs (just like her invitations and banner). We loved looking at it...and eating it! It was made by Gayla Cake:
These were the invitations created by Rox Design on Etsy (see previous banner picture for link to Etsy shop).
This plane was created by my husband. I knew we had a bunch of cardboard from our grill we just bought. So I asked my husband to make a plane for Cora's party. I should have known it would be huge and great from knowing my husband, but I was still surprised. He is a perfectionist, and he had to make it look good! Unfortunately, I'm not as good with details. I got one can of spray paint at Hobby Lobby. When I went to get the second can of spray paint, I went to Wal-Mart. They didn't have the exact same pink color. So we had an ombre looking plane. The stripes are designed duct tape. We also had some letters from a previous project so we could add her name and age. We needed a seat, so we borrowed a toddler chair from our church. This thing was huge. My original plan was to have it outside, but there has been a TON of rain this summer and the weather was unpredictable. We managed to find some space in our living room to keep it during the party.
I wanted to post all of this because when we first started, I thought the task was impossible to find decorations and make her birthday party a girl party. It was a bit difficult because many decorations were for the Disney Planes movie. We didn't want that. I am pleased with how it turned out!
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