the greatest birthday part two...

on to the party...

i made the invites in photoshop with digital scrapbooking kits by maggie holmes

 

so all the props and set up are pretty easy diy projects...

the ticket booth was a last minute addition. my grandparents got our kids a trampoline and the box was pretty much asking to be something fun because it was so big and the littlest kids fit in it! i spray painted it white and then painted the pink stripes on. add a couple pieces of poster board and cut out a window and you're done. 

the tent is a regular pop up tent (like for the beach) and i draped the striped fabric from ikea over it and pinned it in place and done. to be fair though this was like 36 feet of fabric, it was left over from my sisters isle runner at her wedding 4 years ago.

spray painted ladders already done and in my house, all the rings are hula hoops. luckily it was the beginning of summer and the dollar tree had a bunch of hula hoops in a variety of sizes. you guessed it, i spray painted them...pretty much everything in my like gets a coat of spray paint, lol.

our favorite ring master, daddy.

for the photo booth area i had the trunk (its a dorm room one from like wal mart), chair, marquee arrow and fabric. 

i added the balloon garland (balloons from wal mart and amazon), lantern (michaels), big metal letters and the w is actually an m but i got them 70% off and they were out of w's (michaels)

and the big dumb bell i made...a dowel rod from hobby lobby and two giant styrafoam balls from miachels...not spray paint though! acrylic paint!!!

the fire hoops were one of my favorite...my sister found two HUGE hula oops at wal mart and they were metallic...so i spot spray painted them yellow and orange and then cut tiny strips of tulle in the same colors...my 4 girls tied the strips onto the hoops.

animal crackers..duh...and fruit because my girls love it and marshmallow bar bells (big marshmallows on striped paper straws from amazon, cut in half) tickets also from amazon

home made buttercream frosting

because we needed a lion and our friends have a sweet pup!

balance beam...two concrete blocks from lowes, painted with acrylic paint. and i don't remember exactly what size wood i got, i think 1x4, 6feet also from lowes. i was going to paint it but then i thought if someone was barefoot they may get splinter so i used some leftover fabric and staple gun to cover it.

for the ring i was trying to figure out how to make a giant ring with out spending a fortune...it ended being the cheapest thing i did. dollar tree pool noodles and a roll of duct tape. 

5 pink pool noodles taped end to end. done.

the ringmaster stand, a galvanized bucket from lowes, painted.

since it was a double birthday party i needed two cakes..the tent one i got the idea from a vintage party planning book, just changed it up to be more my style and match the party better. the trapeze cake was inspired by a cake lady on instagram... @cake_happens_ she made a beautiful cake with a zendaya sugar girl on it...i'm not that talented in the cake arena so i tried to figure out how i could re-create something similar but me. pictures and xacto knife for the win. i set up my girl with her costume on and a hoop and shot her from above, then printed 5x7's and cut her out and put her on her own tightrope on the cake.

in the end it was a fun birthday and the girls didn't mind sharing a party too much, yay!

some pictures from our shoot for the cake...