Tangled Party!

Months ago Leila told me she wanted a Sleeping Beauty birthday party but after going to Disneyland and meeting Rapunzel and Flynn Rider and then seeing the movie Tangled she was all about a Tangled birthday party.  I started searching the internet for ideas, there weren't a ton out there since its a fairly new movie but I did find a couple really good ideas.  Like this really cute invitation idea, I found it here. Plus I found a bunch of other cute ideas from that same website. 

I really had a lot of fun planning this party and tried not to stress to much about it.  It turned out really fun and even though Leila had several meltdowns I think overall it was a success.  Leila woke up at 5:30 am on Saturday morning because she was so excited.  We already had the house decorated and ready so it was a long morning of waiting for the party to start for Leila. 

We started out the party coloring rapunzel and flynn rider coloring pages that I found here. But we I forgot to start taking pictures until later on during the party.  We then moved on to making little Pascals Party Blowers. The instructions call for foam eyes but I have a huge bag of googly eyes and thought that would be a lot easier.  The template for the pascals is found here.

We then moved on to the games.  We started with a princess walk.  I had printed off pictures of different Disney characters and glued them to constuction paper and then layed them out on the floor.  The kids walked from picture to picture until the music stopped and whoever was on the character I called out got a thing of Rapunzel paint (watercolor paint).

The next game was Pin the Hair on Rapunzel. 

And finally we went on a treasure hunt.  All my creative juices had pretty much dried up but luckily my husband came to the rescue and wrote an adorable treasure hunt.  These are all the clues the kids recieved. 
-Treasure hungting we will go, To find some treats and toys you know, I'll tell you where you want to start, A seat the color of a heart
-The next step I'll have you take, Is to the place you bake a cake, So hurry fast and don't look back, It's in the room where you make a snack
-You're doing great I can't deny, Can you find it? I hope you'll try, The next clue that will lead you there, Is in a room under the stairs.
-So now you found another clue, I'm gonna tell you what to do, Make sure your wearing all your clothes, Cause your next clue is near the hose
-I hope you all are having fun, Cause now I want you all to run, Into the room where you make a stink, You may want to look behind the sink
-You'r almost there your getting warm, So please be careful not to swarm, the treasure you're about to win, Is found within the brown square bin

After the games it was on to cake!!! My amazing and talented friend Robyn made Leila's incredible Rapunzel cake, check her out at Patty Cakes Bakery.  I was so relieved to not have to make the cake, it is so stressful to me plus I could never come close to making a cake so awesome! 

She seriously is amazing!



This is where Leila's melt downs began.  She had told me earlier that she didn't want us to sing Happy Birthday to her so we all just said happy birthday and then she blew out the candle.  But when I first place the candle I put it in the river but she wanted it on the grass she immediately started flipping out luckily I was able move the candle without too much damage.  Then she got upset that it was too noisey and then because I gave her the wrong piece of cake.  The kids at cake and ice cream and played outside. 

Then at the end Leila opened presents.  She was blessed to have such generous and thoughtful friends.  She loved every single gift she got!

I also have to add some pictures of Greydon.  Thank goodness my mother-in-law was here to help because Greydon was a handful during the party.  At one point him and his buddy Jaren snuck outside and got the lid off the water table and got soaked.

And after the party we all had fun playing with rapunzel's hair!

Happy Birthday Leila Girl! Have a fantastic year 4!