"Tie-Dyed" Party!

This party was really fun! 

The inspiration for the party was the cool tie-dyed balloons we got at Hobby Lobby.  We also hit a sale on tie-dye, so we based the party around that!  We found these cool napkins at the grocery store.  The party favour bags had tie-dyed balloons (not blown up) and the old classic candy buttons.   They looked cool.

 We had each guest bring a t-shirt to tie-dye.  Once the t-shirt was tied and dyed we placed it in a large ziplock baggie.  We wrote the kids name on the bag and then stapled the directions onto the bag, so the parents would know what to do with it!  Hopefully it wasn't too much work for them.  We know of one guest who loved his 

t-shirt and wore it all the time!

 These balloons are soo cool!  They were from walmart.  I think we got 100 for 2 dollars.  We made them into water balloons for the balloon toss game.  It was hot out, so after dying their shirts, we played this!  Cooled them down!

 Waterballoon toss, with towels. 

 We were going to use tie-dyed pillowcases, but we didn't.

Alas, the Cake!  It was pretty crazy!  It was a round cake base,  star cake middle and a fondant ball top.  For the cake we divided the batter into 4 bowls and coloured each bowl a different colour. We then spooned the different colours randomly into the cake pan.  Use a knife to then swirl the colours around in the cake pan.  Be careful not to mix them, just gently swirl them, so that the colours don't blend into one yucky colour.  Then after baking and cooling, we covered it in tie-dyed fondant.  This was our first time to attempt fondant.  We made it ourself, easy!!!!  Don't ever spend lots of money on it, cause it's too easy and cheap to make yourself!  See the blog for the recipe.  Anyway, we separated the white fondant into 4 balls.  We coloured them neon pink, purple, blue and yellow.  We then rolled them into snakes and began twisting them together.  Then we rolled the fondant out.  It looked tie-dyed.  We cut out the ABCs and glued them onto the cake, by applying a dab of  water to each letter.  

The black on the face of the smiley face balls is just 

black food colouring.

Pretty Crazy!  Here are a few more views!  

NOTE* Play-doh ice cream would have been festive too!