Ainsley's 4th Birthday Party

 We had a "color" themed party this year for Ainsley.  She is very much into colors right now and blue and purple are her very favorite.  I can't find the invitation that we sent out.  Marcus (again) did some clever rhyme that included some rainbow code that I have never heard of.  Oh yes, and because we were both running on low, neither one of us caught our spelling error, will instead of we'll.  AWESOME.

We played a coloring version of musical chairs.  Each child had a marker and when the music stopped, they would stop and color.  It worked just okay.  If I did it again I would have a paper for them with shapes or something that their specific color needed to fill and then have a contest to see who could get their color on the most papers.  Hind sight.  The kids still had fun.

Next they headed downstairs for games.  Of course they needed to dress-up first. 

We tried a couple of games and soon realized the kids were not quite old enough.  This was dropping the pom pom into the jar.  They would pretty much touch their noses to the jar.  It was hilarious.  Again, at least they had fun.

We tried a couple of relays but then aborted and played "keep the balloon off the ground".  It was a much better option. 

Then Marcus had this great idea to try and pop the balloon by sitting on it.  Oh boy did those kiddos try to pop the balloons.  Unfortunately, they didn't realize that I am terrified of blowing up balloons and always make sure that they will not pop in my face (meaning they aren't super inflated) so those balloons were not popping.  So darn funny to watch the kids try.

Marcus couldn't just watch but even he couldn't pop the balloon... with out a little additional weight.  The kids quickly realized that if they sat on him, his balloon would pop.  Again, so darn funny.

Then we played Twister.  Kind of.  Again, so funny!

 

I finally bought some color paste from Michael's (seriously, why did I wait so long!) and we had a blast making the coolest cupcakes.  My parents were in town and my mom had two creative ideas that turned out awesome... the cupcakes and the party favors.

Our cute neighbor girl Emma.  This is one of Ainsley's favorite friends.  She is the daughter of the fireman family that lives up the street (the same family that had to unlock us out of the girls' bedroom when we locked ourselves in during story time).

The last activity was a treasure hunt where the kids had to find four paper crayons to put in their "crayon box" or party bag.  We attached play dough, crayons, paints, and these super awesome pretzel crayons from here.  We had a great time.