Yellow Sunflower Cake!

My daughter was in love with the colour yellow one year, so she wanted a YELLOW cake.  We made a sunflower cake.  TOO EASY!  We used the leaf tip to make pipe the sunflower pedals and leaves on the cake.  Then chocolate chips made the seeds in the sunflowers.  Fun and simple, hu?  She was delighted!

Hamburger Cake!

One birthday my son announced he wanted a hamburger cake.  Ha!  He doesn't even like hamburgers, in face I don't think he's ever even eaten one....but I think he just wanted one.  We had seen them at the grocery store, so, we made a hamburger.  It was really too simple.  They shouldn't charge so much in the store, cause anyone can make one!  It's 2 white round cakes, with a chocolate round in the middle.  Let the chocolate be seen, cause that's the hamburger.  Frost with tan frosting.  Then pipe on yellow, red and green.  Top with sesame seeds or frosting seeds.  Voila!

"Toy Story" Party!

My son wanted a "Toy Story" birthday, so we delivered! Ha! We made a Mr. Potatoe Head cake!  It was funny!  His shoes are made out of rice crispy treats, covered in blue icing.  The rest is cake.  We used the dome and a small round to make the oval body.  The eyes, noes and ears are jumbo marshmallows.  The kids all LOVED him! He tasted good too!

We played pin the tail on "Bullseye", Woody's horse.  The kids coloured the poster....as you can see it didn't even get finished, but they didn't care.

 We went on a scavenger hunt of clues that led us to the party favors.  The green army men led the way...

 Here's a clue left by the army men.  The kids really liked this game....

Also the party guests really got into the theme...some wore toy story clothes.  CUTE!

 My favorite game was a relay to see who could assemble the potatoe heads the quickest.  They had to follow a certain design...so they had to look at the picture of the potatoe head and then dig through the box to find all the pieces, and build it, then disassemble it and then run back to home base for the next team player to take a turn.....

crazy and fun!!!

We also played a bunch of outdoor relay water games.  Fun Party!

D.I.Y. Party!

This party was a D.I.Y. party!  "Do It Yourself."  It was so fun, and very little effort on my part.  The kids did all the work.  They made their own necklaces...

...they decorated their own party bags. (brown lunch bags).  They painted their own little wooden shapes.  (Note*yard sale ahead of time to find the supplies for this party.)

 We had piles of random stickers that we gathered from yard sales.

 The dessert was so fun!  We made cupcakes and let the kids decorate them by themselves.  We had a variety of cupcakes, icings and toppings.  They got VERY creative!

Super Hero Party!

I din't have a good camera at this party, so the photos aren't perfect....but boy was this a fun party!  Lots of cousins came.  Kids ranging from 13 yrs down to 3 years old....and they ALL had fun, even the adults.  Here's the "Superman" Cake!

 We had each guest dress up like a super hero.  We had super hero training cards.  As they worked their way through each challenge we would cross off that challenge and move to the next.  There were probably 10 challenges.  This one was to scoot under the "laser" and not get hurt.  The laser was a string of red.

 The x-ray vision was hilarious.  My son had just gotten an x-ray, so that was lit up in the box.  My son stood on the other side of the box and when the guest would look through the box, they would see his x-ray.  Ha!  Looked like they were looking right through him!

 Passing from one room to the next, we had crumpled up red crepe paper that represented fire!  Each kid had to pass through it unharmed, Ha!  Not hard, since it was just paper;)

 Another challenge was lifting a heavy object.  The water holder was actually empty and light.  The kids loved it!!

This activity was simply popping bubbles...

that we called "meteors"!

This game was blowing over plastic cups...using your super breath.  The cups were supposed to be fire that you had to blow out.

 It was a very successful party!  Everyone had fun!

Little Mermaid Cake

So, here we made an "Ariel" cake.  It was a round cake, with pieces of cake piled on it to form a rock.  We frosted the rock grey, then spread blue frosting for the water.  Then put white frosting on in random spots to make it look like water crashing on the rock.  The Ariel doll was from Dollar General.  Fun!  My daughter LOVED it!

Keroppi Cake and Party!

 As you can tell, we love keroppi.  We've had a few keroppi birthday cakes.  Here is yet another one....Simple design.  For a gift my sister in law crochet this cute keroppi plush!  It was adorable.