Its Birthday Party season at our house and I just made two wonderful parties (if I may say so myself!) The first one, for my daughter, was a SNOW party! All white decorations, white balloons, and white cake with marshmallows on top. I bought a bunch of white tuile to cover the furniture. We drank hot chocolate and played Snow-themed games that I adapted from games I read about online. The biggest hits were "Frozen Hot Potato" where you fill a balloon with water and put it in the freezer until its a frozen ball..then you play the traditional Hot Potato game..lots of giggling and frozen hands! The other big hit was "Shoveling Snow"I dumped a very large bag of cotton balls on the floor..then two teams had to race to shovel the "snow" to their own area on the other side of the room using only their noses! Hilarious!
Birthday Party #2 was a Hockey-themed party. I made this fabulous indoor hockey rink using 60" wide drawing paper taped to the floor with gaffers tape. Then the lines on the ice were just red and blue gaffers tape. We used inflatable hockey sticks that I purchased here... and the puck I made by covering a round plastic container with black tape. We had three minute games..three a side..the winning team going on to the next round. Everyone won a little plastic trophy at the end..then the whole party deteriorated into whacking each other over the heads with the inflatable hockey sticks..just like a real NHL game!
