Gracie wanted to have an oriental Birthday party this year. She's a big girl now, 4 years old. She was looking through the Oriental Trading magazine and one of the fans caught her eye. She didn't know what to call it...but after several attempts trying to convince her to pick a theme that I thought would be more kid friendly, I finally agreed and am
soo glad that I did. It was so much fun. We made Kimonos for all of the girls and dragon costumes for the boys.
Addyson and Clayton made up a short dance with the girls spinning their umbrella's to fend off the attacking dragons that they performed for the parents at the end of the party. It turned out
surprisingly well, complete with oriental music and everything. I have it all on video, unfortunately didn't get any still shots but for the practice and the boys didn't have their costumes on. There where 7 girls and 5 boys in all.
As for the rest of the party we made
Chinese dragon's, played a game using chop sticks and had
miniature cake rolls to resemble sushi for the cake. The take home bags included the inspiration of it all...a fan, fortune cookies, a
miniature Chinese drum, a
miniature Chinese lantern, their chop sticks, and this little sheet of stickers to dress a panda bear in traditional oriental clothing. It was all very cute.
Gracie wanted to have an oriental Birthday party this year. She's a big girl now, 4 years old. She was looking through the Oriental Trading magazine and one of the fans caught her eye. She didn't know what to call it...but after several attempts trying to convince her to pick a theme that I thought would be more kid friendly, I finally agreed and am soo glad that I did. It was so much fun. We made Kimonos for all of the girls and dragon costumes for the boys. Addyson and Clayton made up a short dance with the girls spinning their umbrella's to fend off the attacking dragons that they performed for the parents at the end of the party. It turned out surprisingly well, complete with oriental music and everything. I have it all on video, unfortunately didn't get any still shots but for the practice and the boys didn't have their costumes on. There where 7 girls and 5 boys in all. 
As for the rest of the party we made Chinese dragon's, played a game using chop sticks and had miniature cake rolls to resemble sushi for the cake. The take home bags included the inspiration of it all...a fan, fortune cookies, a miniature Chinese drum, a miniature Chinese lantern, their chop sticks, and this little sheet of stickers to dress a panda bear in traditional oriental clothing. It was all very cute.
2 comments:
Looks like a GREAT party!! What a fun idea! Fun to look at your blog - everyone's growing so much! Job well done on the race too - looked like a perfect little trip for everyone!
les
OH MY GOSH! I had the same theme for my tenth birthday. Love Izabelle
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