Emily's Twelfth Birthday Party, Cookies, Cakes, As Well As Crafts!

Although my daughter's birthday was a few weeks ago, nosotros were finally able to celebrate over the weekend.  It was a two-part affair, made upward of a sleepover amongst a few friends i nighttime in addition to household unit of measurement get-together the adjacent night.

For the sleepover, nosotros kept things super elementary in addition to unstructured.  I didn't computer program a lot of activities, in addition to the girls actually enjoyed merely hanging out!

Since I was saving her cake for the household unit of measurement party, I made a fun cookie "cake" for her friends amongst elementary saccharide cookie dough, the alphabet cookie cutters that nosotros used to purpose for play-doh, in addition to icing.  

Once the icing hardened over night, I was able to stack the cookies on a tray for a cute presentation.

Just for fun, I picked upward some H2O shooters at Dollar Tree, in addition to they had a nail filling them from buckets inwards the dorsum yard in addition to squirting each other.  I too got some glow necklaces in addition to bracelets that made a late-night pic a fleck to a greater extent than festive.

The adjacent morning, I did computer program a niggling arts and crafts activeness for the girls to travel on.  I bought some frames (also at Dollar Tree), pulled out a multifariousness of arts and crafts supplies that I had on hand, 

and permit them stimulate got complimentary reign decorating them.  

The nighttime earlier I had taken their painting all together in addition to had it printed at the 1-hour photograph shop, in addition to thence when they finished their decorating, nosotros popped the photograph inwards in addition to they had a sugariness favor to stimulate got home.

I ever brand my kids' cakes, in addition to spell they are nowhere nearly perfect, nosotros ever stimulate got fun coming upward amongst dissimilar designs, unremarkably centered approximately their interests at the fourth dimension of their birthday (previous girl's cakes here and here, and boy's cakes here in addition to here).  This twelvemonth my miss turned 12, in addition to nosotros didn't come upward up amongst a themed cake, but ended upward decorating amongst her favorite colors.

I stumbled across color coated Sixlets inwards the cake decorating department at Wal-mart in addition to stance they would live on a cute accent.  I used this recipe for the frosting this time, in addition to it was delicious!  The cake itself is a four layer made inwards 8" pans, in addition to they ever desire the box funfetti mix... slow enough!  For an slow topper, I used some fight paper, missive of the alphabet stickers, in addition to wooden skewers.

Everyone ate everything up, in addition to both parties were a fun success!  I promise this gave y'all a few practical political party ideas that won't pause the bank...  

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