Frozen Birthday Party

So recently my daughter celebrated her 5th birthday.  Needless to say, it was a frozen birthday party.  We knew the theme since last year.  So after we came back from our vacation, I started planning the party.  I searched the internet for ideas and found some good starting points to create our own frozen extravaganza.  Unfortunately, I didn't get very many pictures.  I still wanted to share our ideas though, in case someone reading was like me a month ago and desperately trying to come up with something original for their party.

So the biggest thing for our parties is the decorations.  We always set tables up in our garage for our guests who would rather stay out of the bustle of the house, or for the kids who want to play in the yard.  We decided that  the garage would be Anna's area.  The tables got either a pink or a blue tablecloth.  I bought some cheap snowflake ornaments at Michael's and hung them from the (opened) garage door.  Party City had some Frozen wall hangings for $6 that had a 5 foot poster of Anna, a 5 foot poster of Elsa, two small Anna and Elsa posters and a Happy Birthday banner.  We taped the Anna poster next to the door leading into the house, and taped up the Happy Birthday banner so that it was visible to our guests as they walked up. We placed a stuffed Olaf on one table and a stuffed Anna doll on the other table.  My husband wrapped my daughter's play house in white paper to make it an "ice palace."

I made this Happy Birthday banner on the computer.

Once you came into the house, Elsa took over.  The kitchen table and the dessert table both had a light blue tablecloth topped by a white tablecloth that was cut to look like icicles. I made a Happy Birthday banner that hung above our bay window.  We put the 5 foot Elsa poster over our sliding glass door.  I bought table decorations from Party City for the dessert table as well as a balloon bouquet.  Our dessert table sat in front of our 6 foot shelving unit, and I wanted something prettier than black bins for the background, so I bought a 62x42 Frozen poster from Walmart and put it over the shelves.

I made the kitchen table our snack center.  I put out bowls of snack foods with a Frozen theme.  I had baby carrots as Olaf noses, pretzel sticks as Olaf arms, Blue Jello cubes as Kristoff's ice, combined blue and pink M & M's as Anna's chocolates, another bowl of mini york peppermint patties as Elsa's chocolates, and a bowl of white sixlets as Marshmallow's snowballs.  I doubled these as treat bag snacks by telling the kids at the end of the party to fill their bags with whatever they wanted to take home.  We also made a frozen punch by filling a punch bowl half full with blue hawaiian punch, and the rest with Sprite.  We finished it off by scooping in vanilla ice cream on top.

Elsa crowns for the girls.

For the party favors, I made sparkly blue crowns for the girls and brown antlers for the boys.  I drew up a template for each in AutoCAD then cut them out of foam.  I punched a hole on each side and tied an 18 inch ribbon. Inside each treat bag, there was a rock candy wand and a few frozen tattoos. 

Antlers for the boys

 Finally, I made white, brown, orange, and black play doh and assembled them into Do You Want to Build a Snowman kits.  Here is the link for the white and orange play doh.  I mixed some fine white glitter into the white play doh to make it look more like snow.  To dye the play doh orange, I stuck my white play doh into a sandwich bag, then added food coloring.  I then closed the bag and squished the play doh around until the food coloring was completely absorbed.  It keeps your hands from getting all messy.  I used a chocolate play doh recipe for the brown play doh.  Here is the link to that recipe.  It smells like brownie batter, but don't eat it.  It won't hurt you, it just tastes awful.  I then dyed some of it black using the same technique I used for the orange play doh. 

I assembled my kits by buying small, round containers from Michael's in their wedding section.  I made one full container of white. I then split the other container into 3 compartments for the other playdoh; half brown, 1/4 black, and 1/4 orange.  These containers came with white labels that you can print at home, but I ran out of time.  I just stuck the containers in the treat bags, but you could easily put them into a sandwich bag and make a topper saying "Do you want to build a snowman?"

My daughter loved her party.  I had other ideas but I ran out of time.  Here are a few other things you may want to consider:

• I wanted to put a picture of Oaken's sauna on the door leading out to the garage.  It was 99 degrees that day.  

• I wanted more snowflakes especially on the windows.  You can buy a paper punch and then punch them out of vinyl shelf liner and stick them up. 
• We didn't do any games, but pin the nose on Olaf was popular at my daughter's school.
• You can also build snowmen out of marshmallows, pretzel sticks, fruit by the foot for the scarf, half of an orange mike and ike or a candy corn for the nose, and a miniature reese's peanut butter cup for the hat. I also used edible ink pens to make the face and buttons, but mini chocolate chips could probably be used.

Like I said, we had a great time at our Frozen birthday party.  I hope you can use these ideas to plan your own perfect party!