3rd Birthday Party

My daughter's 3rd Birthday Party was themed around Dora the explorer. A TV show that teaches children Spanish. She has learned several words from the show. Sometimes I'm not sure if she's speaking Spanish or just saying gibberish so sometimes I need to look up words too. Guess it's educational for me too ha ha. 

I had a great time working on it and honestly I'm really proud of my swiper.  He's a character on the show that steals things. 

I thought I had pictures of my cupcakes, they turned out great... expect they melted a bit in the hot sun (next time I should bring them in a cooler)

 I just wish that I had taken more pictures. I thought I had several but apparently not.

 I made Swiper out of the box that the trampoline I bought my daughter came in. I printed a picture of him and then drew a grid and used it as referance, if I made him exactly to scale I would have needed a wider box becasue he has an extrodiany long nose and huge tail, but he looked just like him when I finished painting him. I used white spray paint and little acrylic paints I bought at the dollar store. Then I outlined him with markers with matching colors.
Contrary to the picture I cut off the top section. It was just about the height of my toddler. The kids actually really liked it and two of the girls were trying to feed swiper cookies ha ha.

 

Swiper the fox!

We made rings in the colors of the show. Strung them up in the trees at the party. We also had streamers in the same colors. A purple table cloth, pink cutlery (which they used to try and "cut down a tree"), and tons of balloons. 21 filled with helium, more filled with air and even more filled with water. Yay for water balloons (they kept drinking the water from the balloons)

Another key character on Dora is Backpack. So I made everyone little backpacks. I bought sheets of felt and cut them out and sewed them together and then hot glued the faces on, made with other bits of scrap felt. Finally I hot glued little bits of velcro on to hold the backpack closed. Stuck a "map" in the side pocket. I filled the backpacks with Dora shaped fruit snacks and Dora tattoos.

 

Here's my little princess at her birthday party!

(The other pictures have other kids in them and I don't want to post them online without permission from their parents)