Over the past couple of months I have been posting about showing my DisneySide via an @Home Celebration. I have teased you with posts about making Chocolate Dipped Oreos and Marshmallow Olaf Floats, both of which were pretty yummy. 🙂 I have showed you how I channeled my inner Martha Stewart with my creative Frozen Inspired Decorations, Part One and Part Two. 🙂 Now the post you have all been waiting for (drum-roll please…..) the party wrap-up!
The opportunity to have a DisneySide @Home Celebration came along when I was planning the joint birthday party for my two kiddos. Emily and William celebrate birthdays two days apart so the question was “how do I show both of their DisneySides with one party?” Fortunately the movie Frozen has captured the hearts of this entire family so it was a no-brainer to have that as our theme. As popular as Frozen has become since it’s release in November 2013 it is impossible to find party decor themed to this movie. It’s just too new. My love of Disney came to the rescue and I think our Frozen themed party was a hit!
Due to the number of family and friends we wanted to have we decided to hold this party at our local pool. My children love to swim and the pool has a large hall where we hosted the party. I wanted to have a way to capture some of the memories being made that day so we set up a “Show Your DisneySide” photo booth! I picked up this cool kit for the backdrop for $6.00 at Party City and it worked great! We added in a suitcase full of props in the form of Mickey and Minnie ears, some pirate gear and princess finery as well. Emily and I painted these wooden circles we picked up at the craft store to create a Hidden Mickey face frame as our special prop. It was super easy to make and can be used over and over again.
As the hall is quite large we did not want to go crazy with streamers and such, but we did make a bunch of items to spread around. Simple black circles transformed into more Hidden Mickeys for the walls and the addition of some pink polka dot ribbon gave us Miss Minnie! Mickey and Minnie graced one of our food service areas to remind everyone of the magic that day. 🙂
To keep the Frozen theme prominent our table decor included these beautiful silver frames (from the dollar store) with quotes from Olaf and Elsa. The extras were put up on the walls along with cut-outs of the sassy snowman himself. I think I really nailed the theme between the wall art, the table decorations and our food table. Some blue paper bags, stickers and silver tissue paper combined with these Frozen labels and silver ribbon and the loot bags I created were a hit! Courtesy of Disney Parks, Mom Talk Radio and BSMMedia we were also able to give each family a beautiful poster of Mickey and Minnie, which I just loved. 🙂
I had wanted to create food for the party that reflected my DisneySide, however, due to our location we had to be a bit more practical. I left the themed food for the desserts, like our Marshmallow Olaf Floats, snowflake and Mickey shaped krispie treats and my personal favorite, our vegan and nut free cakepop “snowballs” from Rashmi’s Bakery. With such a large family we always have birthdays overlapping so more cakes were needed. 🙂 William celebrated turning five with this beautiful vegan and nut free Frozen cake ( also from Rashi’s) while the budding tween Emily had a One Direction cake. My mother in law tried her hand at making Olaf’s hot tub friend to go along with her Olaf cake! All in all we had some incredible desserts that everyone could enjoy!
Emily and William were very happy with their DisneySide birthday party and they loved surprising their friends with all the special touches. Between swimming, dancing and singing to the Frozen soundtrack and playing with the photo booth props they were worn out by the end of the night. 🙂 It was well worth the time I put into this party and I would like to thank our generous benefactors at DisneySide Celebrations for helping to bring this party to fruition.
***How do you show your DisneySide?
FT&PD
Suz
Suzanne, that was an A+++ “Disney Frozen” children’s party! Really! The food, decorations, and table decorations were fabulous! Great job all round! Lots of work, obviously, but well worth it! Now what ever will you do for an encore next year?! lol
LOL, thank you Gem. Ya, I never thought about that part. How will I outdo myself? Time to put our, yes our, thinking caps on!
Wow! That’s amazing I want to come to your party!
LOL, thanks Darcy 🙂
Suzanne you did a wonderful job of putting that birthday party together. I know that Emily was a great help to you and well appreciated by you. I thought that you did a great job on all the “Frozen” decorations, coming up with them on your own was wonderful.
Thanks Mom, we had a great time together, that is for sure <3
You are so creative lady! I love the invitation and the WHOLE theme. I am a huge frozen fan now.
Thank you so much Randa 🙂 Thankfully the movie is very inspiring and with this winter we have had, well, let’s just say the creative juices were a flowing, LOL
Such a fun bunch of treats and decorations – all the party goers must have loved being part of a Disney celebration. Looks like a fabulous time!
Thank you Kerrie, I think our guests had a good time. I know I did, LOL
THIS IS AWESOME. I love the rice krispie treat mickey’s!
Thanks Kyla, we had so much fun making them 🙂
I love the snacks, they look delish fun and totally on theme. The marshmallow Olaf floats look like he is doing the back stroke in a pool which ties into the party location perfectly Love the Mickey face frame as well, pictures of the memories are so important. Great job.and looks like everyone had a great time!
Thank you so much Cathy, it was such a great time and I loved planning the whole thing. We only do parties like this every few years and now I remember why, LOL
There’s not much to say other than WOW!! you did an excellent job..you should become a party planner, Happy to hear it turned out so awesome and you deserve all bragging rights!! and a very Happy Birthday to Emily and William!!!
Aww thank you so much Lynda, that is very kind of you to say. I had a blast doing it 🙂
It looks like you had a brilliant time Suz! I love how you did all your decorations, especially the Frozen quotes in the frames.
Great job Suz!
Sam xx
Thanks Sam, I had so much fun with it. It is amazing what we can do with some dollar store stuff!
What a great idea!! I love the marsh mellow Olafs and the picture props!! What a fun way to remember your birthday!
Thank you Jenn, it was lots of fun!
Great Job Suz! I enjoyed reading about your Disneyside party! Great theme and wonderful food!
Thank you so much Amy, I had a great time doing it!
Wow! You sure know how to party, Suz!!! 🙂 My LO has requested a Frozen party for her next birthday. Umm…her next birthday is in NOVEMBER! LOL!
Thank you Christine, it was so much fun! You will see when you start to plan LO’s party. Better get started, LOL
Great way to integrate Frozen into a party theme! I know my niece would love the Olaf’s cake!
Thanks Darlene, it was a lot of fun!
love the decorations, theme and does those treats ever look delicious!! totally wanting those cake pops
Thanks Kristen 🙂 The cake pops are beyond yummy!
The dedicatiion to detail is amazing. I love the decorations and the treats. It all reminds me of the time I saw Disneyland through my four year old daughter’s eyes. It was incredible 🙂
Thank you so much Diana, I appreciate the kind words 🙂
WOW! Looks like a fantastic party! You did a wonderful job!
Thank you Veronica, it was a lot of fun to put together 🙂
Like frozen <3
Me too 🙂
You certainly know how to throw a party