Mellow Lane: Rainbow Art Party, Part Four

This is so long overdue, but finally I have the time to sit down and write about Juliette's Rainbow Art Party! It seems like such a long time ago... It certainly was a different hairdo ago! Here are the final details and pictures from her party.

We made this banner so easily! Just a cute, free downloadable font, with the letters really big in rainbow order. I printed one letter per page and then cut them using my paper cutter. To do the bottom, I just folded the page in half only part way up the page and then cut on an angle from the corner to the middle. I strung them using multiple colors of yarn and my hole punch. Then I just taped that bad boy to the garage!

We also made these cute tissue paper puff balls for decorations.

They were really easy and cost less than a dollar each, having bought tissue paper at the Dollar Store. I planned to make a super cute balloon arch that I saw online, but time management still is not my friend, and the arch never got made. We ended up with balloons all over the living room which provided extra entertainment for the kids! Some balloons got hung up around the front yard, but most were kicked around, thrown and added to the fun. We also had our fabric wreath on the front door.

So have I mentioned that I have a problem with time management? Yeah, so it's a major issue. Now would be a good time to bring up the fact that all these pictures (with the exception of the wreath picture, which was taken well before the party) were taken by a ten year old. If I were an organized person, I would have taken pictures before the party started. Instead I was trying to string together a balloon arch that never got finished while my husband and mother spent the first half hour of the party finishing assembling the food. So you'll have to believe me when I say that the fruit salad was beautiful. Bottom layer: purple grapes, blueberries on top of that, then green kiwi, yellow pineapple, orange tangerine sections and red sliced strawberries on top. Here's what it looked like when we finally took a picture of it:

Oh well. At least they liked the fruit!

We bought white bread (Those who know me are shocked!) and took a flower cookie cutter and lengthened it to make cloud-shaped sandwiches.

The veggie cups were super easy to assemble... just some ranch dressing in the bottom of the cup, then a red pepper stick, carrot stick, yellow pepper stick and a celery stick. (Sorry, no blue or purple veggies!)

Grown ups had different sandwiches. When I have a lot of little people over, instead of buying a lot of water bottles that just get wasted, I buy these little shot glass size cups for water. There's still a lot of waste, but not as much as one four year old going through four water bottles at one party. One of our grown up friends got clever and served himself up a little wine!

Here are the rainbow cupcakes. They were a little tricky and time consuming. For one batch, I just lumped the batter in instead of spreading out the layers. Juliette got a lumped up one. Still super pretty, I think!