Enchanted creatures birthday party

My daughter just turned 9. Of course she wanted a unique theme. She chose enchanted creatures so she could have unicorns, dragons, mermaids, and fairies.  Needless to say, you can't find all these at party city.

I started with the invitation. I recently got a new tablet with the airflow app, and I love it. I was able to draw up the invitation, then dropped it into photoshop to add the text.

Then it was time to decide on decorations. We decided that each area of the house would represent a different creature. Our living room was for unicorns, our kitchen was the fairy forest, the outside was a mermaid grotto, and her room would be for dragons.

Unfortunately I ran out of time to do all that I wanted. I made a simple forest background for the cake table and had unicorn balloons in front. We hung unicorn dangles in the hallway. I would have liked to have done some other unicorns in the windows but I ran out of time. We also got the giant unicorn balloon from party city. The kids loved it.



The fairy table turned out great. I made a fairy house for the kitchen table centerpiece.  I started with a milk carton and cut it the way I wanted. Next I hot glued aluminum foil to the milk carton, and once it looked the way I wanted,  I covered it in paperclay. I let it dry then painted it. I also made a bendy doll fairy.

Our kitchen table sits in a bay window. I covered the edges in crumpled brown paper to look like trees, and added green tablecloths to the top for the leaves. I used my cricut to cut out butterflies that spelled out happy birthday. I laminated them and hung them under the trees with fishing line.

The other two areas also suffered from too many ideas and not enough time. We did hang clear balloons to resemble bubbles, but it got so hot we didn't go out there much. I also wanted a beware of dragon on my daughter's door, but ran out of time.

The girls invited to the party each chose a creature to be. Once they arrived, they got accessories that helped them get into character. The unicorns got horn headbands, the fairies got wings, and the mermaids got sea shell headbands (they wore their own tails from target.)  No one wanted to be a dragon.


Our first activity was to use "mermaid waters" to make shirts. For each child I had cut a silhouette of their creature out of freezer paper and ironed it onto a plain white shirt. Then we mixed the tie die colors and put them in spray bottles. I bought a kit with blue, pink, teal, purple, and black. The girls then squirted the colors onto their shirts. There was a little color bleeding, but overall they really came out great.

Next we came in and got our faces painted, then made unicorn dreamcatchers. I bought 5 inch hoops and wrapped them in white cord. I cut a large length of rainbow cord and taught the girls how to weave a dreamcatcher. Finally we added touches such as the tail, horns, and ears.

Our final activity was a dragon egg pinata. It was made by paper macheing a 12 inch balloon then painting it with metallic paint. The gift bags contained a unicorn horn lollipop and a rock candy lollipop.  Then they had all their candy from the pinata and their crafts.

The party was a lot of fun, and everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves. This week I get back to work on some murals and I'll be starting Halloween preparations. See ya soon.