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A Beach-Themed Second Birthday

in Birthdays, Let's Party on June 13, 2017

This warmer weather has me reminiscing about my little nugget’s beach-themed second birthday party, that we held in our backyard last summer! A fun beach/ocean theme was the perfect celebration idea, since we had recently ventured on two separate beach vacations. I will never forget the look on her face when she placed her toes in the sand for the very first time, or her first experience getting knocked over by an ocean wave. The latter experience aside, she absolutely loved the beach! But…we live nowhere near the beach, so I had to figure out how to bring the beach to our backyard.

Beach Birthday Party Decorations

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I started with the decorations. I found so many amazing beach/ocean party decorating ideas on Pinterest. I created a handful of paper bowl jellyfish, based on photos I came across on MPM Ideas (http://www.mpmschoolsupplies.com/ideas/2326/adorable-paper-bowl-jellyfish/). I painted some medium-sized paper bowls in varying colors, and then glued on some streamers for tentacles. I hung them from our exterior pergola posts and a few tree branches throughout the yard.

Next I grabbed a bag of foam balls, some red, yellow and blue paint, and some string, and made this adorable beach ball garland that I found on Studio DIY (http://studiodiy.com/2012/07/31/diy-beach-ball-garland/).

My little nugget had a blast helping me make several colorful construction paper octopuses, that we placed on various tables, that were being utilized for the party. I found the inspiration for this easy little craft on Minieco (http://www.minieco.co.uk/ss-octopus/).

A Beach-Themed Second Birthday Β© Capturing Parenthood

My favorite party decoration turned out to be these adorable, and fun, paper plate fish. We customized each one and taped them up on the exterior of our house. They were a huge attention-grabber and all of the kids loved them! I found this awesome idea on Made Everyday (http://www.madeeveryday.com/2011/08/tutorial-paper-plate-fish.html/). My little nugget’s favorite paper plate fish was most definitely the one I created to look like the little white fish, from the book Little White Fish Has A Party by Guido Van Genechten (complete with a pink crown with the number two)!

I also snagged a few items from my local Party City – a small inflatable crab and flamingo, some flip-flop tablecloths, and balloons, of course! I went with a few colorful latex balloons covered in the number two, a large, pink #2 foil balloon, and a dolphin foil balloon!

A Beach-Themed Second Birthday Β© Capturing Parenthood

Lastly, I found a couple of cute picture display options at Hobby Lobby, where I placed some of our favorite beach photos of our little girl. Next to the photos I displayed the completed set of Birthday Interview Questions that I had asked our little nugget. I fell in love with this adorable idea, when I came across it on Blue Door & Burlap (http://bluedoorandburlap.blogspot.com/2013/07/birthday-interview.html?m=1). You simply ask your child the same set of questions every year on their birthday. On their 18th birthday, you can break them all out again, and take a few moments to reminisce about how things changed over the years. My daughter will also be getting an envelope full of letters, that guests from her 1st birthday party wrote to her (specifically for her to open on her 18th birthday)!

Oh…and for an added festive flourish, I utilized our chalkboard garage door, to showcase a cute little underwater scene!

Beach Birthday Party Food

A Beach-Themed Second Birthday Β© Capturing Parenthood

We served a wide array of snacks and treats, which included the following:

  • Beach Bucket Veggie Cups – inspired by Rust & Sunshine (http://www.rustandsunshine.com/2011/09/abes-first-birthday-party.html)
  • Melon Sailboats – inspired by What To Expect (http://www.whattoexpect.com/tools/photolist/summer-party-foods-for-kids#list1)
  • Sand Pudding Cups – inspired by Sugar, Spice and Family Life (http://sugarspiceandfamilylife.com/2014/08/sand-cake.html)
  • Chocolate Cupcakes with Ocean-Themed ToppersΒ (octopus, turtle, clam, starfish)
  • Catch-of-the-Day (multi-colored Goldfish)
  • Shark Teeth (Mozzarella cheese triangles)
  • Bait (gummy worms)

We also prepared a cheese, meat and cracker tray, some delicious pasta salad, and of course…cake!

A Beach-Themed Second Birthday Β© Capturing Parenthood

I developed the concept for this adorable beach-themed birthday cake, when I came across a photo of someΒ cute Teddy-at-the-Beach Cupcakes on Pinterest. (https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/teddy-at-the-beach-cupcakes/d02e62b9-5416-45fe-bb1f-c471c1a6486c?nicam4=socialmedia&nichn4=pinterest&niseg4=bettycrocker&nicreatid4=post&crlt.pid=camp.tvebg5kzdel9).

I used three mini Springform pans, to bake my chocolate cake base. I then layered the three cake rounds (with frosting in between each layer). Once my cake rounds were stacked, I used a decorating bag with a star-shaped tip and spun the cake around in a circle, frosting from the bottom up. I found that the star-shaped tip made (what looked like) beach waves when used in this manner. Once the entire cake was frosted, I took some crushed Vanilla Oreo Cookies (sand) and gently pressed the cookie crumbs onto half of the cake. On the sandy beach, I displayed two sunbathing Teddy Grahams (laying on fruit leather beach towels, under a colorful umbrella). In the water, we had two Teddy Grahams floating in inner-tubes (chewy Lifesavers). Sprinkle a bit more sand (cookie crumbs) around the outside of the cake plate and Ta-Da!

Beach Birthday Party Fun & Activities

A Beach-Themed Second Birthday Β© Capturing Parenthood

It wouldn’t be a beach-themed party if there wasn’t water to play in, so we setup our small splash pad for the kiddos to enjoy. They also loved kicking, bouncing, and throwing the jumbo beach balls that I found. I had been looking at the Intex Jumbo Inflatable Beach Balls online, and was getting ready to buy them, when I happened down the wrong aisle during a grocery shopping trip, and stumbled upon the same exact balls for half the price! Thank you King Soopers!

Aside from the splash pad, giant beach balls, and bubble machine, another highlight for the little ones was most definitely the bubble foam tub! I came across this brilliant sensory play idea on Busy Toddler (http://busytoddler.com/2015/11/bubble-foam/). Just follow the link to find out how to make your very own bubble foam – you won’t be sorry.

And now, as I’m wrapping up this post, I’ve realized that I must have forgotten (in all of the excitement) to take photos of our awesome beach party favors. While I don’t have a visual to show you, I can describe them. I purchased some small beach bucket and shovel sets from Party City, and we filled them with mini inflatable beach balls, bubbles, sunglasses, single-serving bags of Goldfish, and an ocean-themed bath toy that squirts!

A Beach-Themed Second Birthday Β© Capturing Parenthood

When all of the party favors were gone, and all of the presents had been opened, we were all exhausted…but happy! We had a wonderful time celebrating our little nugget’s second birthday, and she had an amazingly fun day that she still likes to talk about. I’d call that a win!

Now…on to finding the perfect theme for birthday #3!

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We followed Kaitlyn's extremely helpful Haunted House Drawing Guide (you can find it over on her Teachers Pay Teachers account) and completed the project over the course of 3 lessons.
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During our first lesson, we sketched our houses in pencil, and added some eerie exterior landscaping. πŸͺ¦πŸ¦‡
We popped in a few spooky characters (ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, and a vampire). πŸ‘»πŸ•·πŸŽƒπŸ§›
And then we traced over our pencil lines with black Sharpie.
...
During our next lesson, we used a coloring technique that we learned from Kristian @friendsartlab ❀️ We colored our pictures with oil pastels...and then painted over the top of the oil pastels with baby oil...it causes the oil pastels to bleed and blend together! 🀩
...
During our final lesson...we added more spooky characters to the inside of our house...that can peek out behind the doors and windows. πŸ’€πŸ§™β€β™€οΈπŸ‘»
To do this...I used an X-acto knife and carefully cut around the outside edges of the doors/windows (leaving the hinge sides intact so that they could fold open and closed).
We placed yellow construction paper in the background...and added witches, ghosts, skeletons, a mummy, and a Frankenstein! 😍
This step made our haunted houses really come to life...and we just can't thank Kaitlyn @artwithmrs.e enough for sharing this awesome lesson and drawing guide! THE ABSOLUTE BEST! ❀️❀️❀️
...
It was very evident how much our daughter loved this project...as we worked through each step...but the thing that solidified just how much she enjoyed it was - one weekend morning I walked downstairs to find her and her dad sitting at the table - and she was very excitedly teaching him how to draw his own haunted house - while she drew a few more herself (scroll to the last picture in the carousel)! πŸ₯°
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...
You see, when we went to prep our garden beds this spring, we noticed a plant that had already started growing. We assumed it was a cucumber plant, since it was in the same place we had cucumbers last year.
We left it alone and planted a couple of other cucumber plants nearby. πŸ₯’
At first, the leaves on our mystery plant looked very similar to the leaves on our other cucumber plants.
But a couple of weeks later the plant had grown A LOT bigger. It was now obvious that it was not a cucumber plant. But what was it? πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ
...
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It was so much fun to watch the pumpkin plant grow! 🀩 We had to cut down the wire on one side of our garden bed to let the vines out...and they ended up growing 6-10 feet long in both directions! 😳 It was crazy!
They put out the most gorgeous flowers...that the bees absolutely loved! 🧑 And soon enough, we spotted a few round gourds growing at the base of some of the flowers. They grew quickly...and then turned a beautiful shade of orange! 😍
...
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We popped it out onto a tray, grabbed a shaker of salt, a bottle of warm water (colored red for added effect), and some tongs.
And then it was time to Free the Frankensteins (our daughter coined the phrase)! πŸ˜‰
…
This spooky activity provides chilly sensory play, motor skills practice, and scientific exploration (salt and warm water speed-up the melting process)! πŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ
As an added bonus…you also get some color-mixing! And the addition of the salt makes it extra sparkly too! 😍🀩😍
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...
Back in 2019, Lauralee @2art.chambers shared several colorful, air-dry clay pumpkins that her students made...and after rediscovering the saved post, I decided that it would be a perfect October art lesson for us too! 🧑
...
We used various colors of air-dry clay, and rolled each color into whatever pumpkin shape we wanted...and then we added our lines/indentations using the side of a credit card. πŸ’³ The stems are just small, broken pieces of old crayons (another genius idea from Lauralee). πŸ– And we topped our stems with pieces of pipe cleaner, to create the little curly cues. 😍
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...
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...
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...
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Ok...@artwithmrs.e Haunted House project is hands- Ok...@artwithmrs.e Haunted House project is hands-down the best Halloween-themed art project out there! πŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ
We had a blast creating haunted houses for homeschool art this month! 🧑
...
We followed Kaitlyn's extremely helpful Haunted House Drawing Guide (you can find it over on her Teachers Pay Teachers account) and completed the project over the course of 3 lessons.
...
During our first lesson, we sketched our houses in pencil, and added some eerie exterior landscaping. πŸͺ¦πŸ¦‡
We popped in a few spooky characters (ghosts, spiders, pumpkins, and a vampire). πŸ‘»πŸ•·πŸŽƒπŸ§›
And then we traced over our pencil lines with black Sharpie.
...
During our next lesson, we used a coloring technique that we learned from Kristian @friendsartlab ❀️ We colored our pictures with oil pastels...and then painted over the top of the oil pastels with baby oil...it causes the oil pastels to bleed and blend together! 🀩
...
During our final lesson...we added more spooky characters to the inside of our house...that can peek out behind the doors and windows. πŸ’€πŸ§™β€β™€οΈπŸ‘»
To do this...I used an X-acto knife and carefully cut around the outside edges of the doors/windows (leaving the hinge sides intact so that they could fold open and closed).
We placed yellow construction paper in the background...and added witches, ghosts, skeletons, a mummy, and a Frankenstein! 😍
This step made our haunted houses really come to life...and we just can't thank Kaitlyn @artwithmrs.e enough for sharing this awesome lesson and drawing guide! THE ABSOLUTE BEST! ❀️❀️❀️
...
It was very evident how much our daughter loved this project...as we worked through each step...but the thing that solidified just how much she enjoyed it was - one weekend morning I walked downstairs to find her and her dad sitting at the table - and she was very excitedly teaching him how to draw his own haunted house - while she drew a few more herself (scroll to the last picture in the carousel)! πŸ₯°
...
#hauntedhouse #hauntedhouses #hauntedhousedrawing #directeddrawing #spookyart #halloween #happyhalloween #halloweenart #halloweenfun #elementaryart #homeschoolart #homeschool #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
I decided that these six little pumpkins needed a I decided that these six little pumpkins needed a permanent place on our feed...because WE GREW THEM OURSELVES!!! πŸŽƒ
That's right...first-time pumpkin-growers over here...and it was all actually a bit of a surprise. πŸ˜ƒ
...
You see, when we went to prep our garden beds this spring, we noticed a plant that had already started growing. We assumed it was a cucumber plant, since it was in the same place we had cucumbers last year.
We left it alone and planted a couple of other cucumber plants nearby. πŸ₯’
At first, the leaves on our mystery plant looked very similar to the leaves on our other cucumber plants.
But a couple of weeks later the plant had grown A LOT bigger. It was now obvious that it was not a cucumber plant. But what was it? πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ
...
And that's when it suddenly dawned on these exhausted parents, that our daughter had spontaneously tossed seeds from her pumpkin (last Halloween), into the garden bed. πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ The mystery was finally solved...and by the looks of the large golden flowers that were emerging all over the vines...we figured we might have a few pumpkins come fall! πŸ™ŒπŸŽƒπŸ™Œ
...
It was so much fun to watch the pumpkin plant grow! 🀩 We had to cut down the wire on one side of our garden bed to let the vines out...and they ended up growing 6-10 feet long in both directions! 😳 It was crazy!
They put out the most gorgeous flowers...that the bees absolutely loved! 🧑 And soon enough, we spotted a few round gourds growing at the base of some of the flowers. They grew quickly...and then turned a beautiful shade of orange! 😍
...
Needless to say, we are now officially pumpkin-growing people! πŸ˜‚ My husband can't wait to plant more next year...and he's already looking in to different varieties - hoping to grow some larger jack-o-lantern style ones next season! πŸŽƒ
…
#pumpkins #growingpumpkins #ourpumpkinpatch #homegrownpumpkins #homegrown #homegarden #pumpkingrowing #gardening #fallharvest #happyhalloween #timetocarvesomepumpkins #gardensurprises #gardenfun #capturingparenthood
Free the Frankensteins from the Frozen Rainbow Bra Free the Frankensteins from the Frozen Rainbow Brain! 😬🌈🧠
…
Yesterday, we shared how we made this colorful, frozen rainbow brain - full of Frankenstein mini erasers…and today we wanted to show you what became of our beautiful brain! πŸ˜ƒ
…
We popped it out onto a tray, grabbed a shaker of salt, a bottle of warm water (colored red for added effect), and some tongs.
And then it was time to Free the Frankensteins (our daughter coined the phrase)! πŸ˜‰
…
This spooky activity provides chilly sensory play, motor skills practice, and scientific exploration (salt and warm water speed-up the melting process)! πŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ
As an added bonus…you also get some color-mixing! And the addition of the salt makes it extra sparkly too! 😍🀩😍
…
Eventually, all you’re left with is some mini erasers floating in a pool of colorful water…and a happy kid! ❀️❀️❀️
…
#frozenbrain #rainbowbrain #frozenrainbowbrain #brains #freethefrankensteins #halloween #happyhalloween #halloweenactivities #halloweenactivitiesforkids #halloweensensoryplay #sensoryplay #sensoryexploration #motorskills #motorskillsdevelopment #scienceforkids #kidscience #funactivities #funactivitiesforkids #halloweenfun #capturingparenthood
We are definitely getting into the fall and Hallow We are definitely getting into the fall and Halloween spirit...so during a recent homeschool art session, we decided to make some air-dry clay pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns! πŸŽƒπŸŽƒπŸŽƒ
...
Back in 2019, Lauralee @2art.chambers shared several colorful, air-dry clay pumpkins that her students made...and after rediscovering the saved post, I decided that it would be a perfect October art lesson for us too! 🧑
...
We used various colors of air-dry clay, and rolled each color into whatever pumpkin shape we wanted...and then we added our lines/indentations using the side of a credit card. πŸ’³ The stems are just small, broken pieces of old crayons (another genius idea from Lauralee). πŸ– And we topped our stems with pieces of pipe cleaner, to create the little curly cues. 😍
...
Once we had our pumpkins...we decided to change things up a bit, and grabbed our stash of googly eyes. πŸ‘€ (Most of) our fall pumpkins then transformed into Halloween jack-o-lanterns! πŸŽƒ
We pressed the googly eyes into the clay, and we used a few small tools (that came with our box of air-dry clay) to add their mouths. πŸ˜ƒ
...
And now we have a cute and colorful crew of clay pumpkins adorning our mantle! πŸŽƒπŸ§‘πŸŽƒ
...
#pumpkins #jackolanterns #claypumpkins #airdryclay #airdryclaycreation #airdryclayart #airdryclaypumpkins #elementaryart #fallartprojects #fallartprojectsforkids #halloweenart #halloweenartprojects #halloweenartprojectsforkids #homeschool #homeschoolart #homeschoolfun #halloween #happyhalloween #capturingparenthood
Andrew from @elementaryarts shared a patterned, bl Andrew from @elementaryarts shared a patterned, block letter name project a couple of weeks ago (I'll share the post in stories today), and I immediately added it to our list of art projects to do this year! 😍
But we decided to switch things up a little bit! Instead of using our names, we each picked a color that we like...wrote the name of the color in block letters on our paper...and created our color patterns using at least two different shades of our chosen color. πŸ–
...
This colorful project ended up being a lot of fun, and also very relaxing...as we all quietly focused, and zoned in on adding the color patterns around all of our letters. It was actually a bit hypnotizing! 🀩
...
Needless to say, we are really happy with the way our block letter color project turned out! πŸ™Œ We even had a special guest who wanted to join in on this art project! ❀️
...
P.S. We also used Andrew’s free TPT handout on how to make block letters! The bundle includes bubble letters, cursive letters, graffiti letters, and more! πŸ‘
…
#blockletters #blocklettering #colors #color #colorful #artproject #artforkids #kidart #elementaryart #artactivity #artactivities #artactivitiesforkids #colorfun #homeschool #homeschoolart #homeschoolfun #capturingparenthood
We created self-portraits for our first art projec We created self-portraits for our first art project of our homeschool year...and we are pretty obsessed with them! 🀩✏️🀩
...
I love the idea of doing a self-portrait project at the beginning of the year, and then again at the end of the year...so that we can see how much we've grown and changed.
...
We used Kaitlyn's @artwithmrs.e Simple Self-Portrait Drawing Guide and it was so incredibly helpful (especially for this new homeschool teacher who wouldn't necessarily list drawing as one of her stronger suits). πŸ˜‰
We actually purchased her entire Guided Drawing Bundle (over on Teachers Pay Teachers) and we highly recommend it! πŸ™ŒπŸ™ŒπŸ™Œ
...
We looked through the self-portrait drawing guide to get different ideas for our eyes, nose, mouth, and hair. πŸ‘€πŸ‘ƒπŸ‘„
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Now...if you caught our stories earlier this week, you know that our daughter recently made a pretty big change to her hair (that included a partial side-shave and bob-length cut - she also dyed it blue). πŸ’‡β€β™€οΈ
She was used to drawing pictures of herself with her long, blonde locks...and her new hairstyle proved rather difficult. But she persevered, and ended up with a self-portrait that she was truly proud of! πŸ₯°
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When we were finished drawing our likenesses, we decided to cut them out and create a special background to glue them onto. I went with random black and white designs...and our nugget decided to draw various things that she loves (her family, winter, candy, books, dolphins...and more)! ❀️
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It was such a fun project...and I can't wait to see what our self-portraits look like at the end of our school year! πŸ˜ƒ
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