Jelly Bean turned one in May and the theme I chose to do was a bumble bee theme. I wanted to have everything to do with bumble bees, or at least the color of bees. I made the invitations out of the scrapbooking stuff again. I thought I had a picture of the invite, but I guess I don't. Will have to find the one I saved and add it later!
For the decorations, I used a yellow plastic cover and the black wrapping paper for the food table, black and yellow streamer and balloons. Who would have guessed that you could do so much with these simple decorations! I had the thought of drawing a bee on the balloon before I inflated it, but the marker barely showed up once I started blowing air into. So the balloons were just hung up around the house, and again I did a number one on the garage door, actually took a picture of it, but it never uploaded to my computer! How frustrating!
The food was mainly finger foods with fruits, vegetables, a cracker, cheese, and meat platter, and "ants on a log," also known as celery with peanut butter and raisins on it. For the fruit, I got a fresh pineapple and sliced it up and grapes. Those were really the only black and yellow fruit I could think of without going over our budget and everybody likes grapes and pineapple! I laid them out in a yellow and black pattern to represent the body of a bee. For the vegetables, we got baby carrots, celery, and cucumbers. I thought about black olives, but I think Princess Pea and I are the only ones in the family that will eat them, so I opted out. The cracker, cheese, and meat platter was already put together and was on sale. For a drink, I just bought grape juice.
For the "cake" portion, again, I made cupcakes. I wanted to find a recipe that had something with honey in it. I searched high and low until I found one that I really wanted to try. Finally, I found this Lemon-Honey cupcake and frosting. I used the biggest round tip I had on hand to try to pipe a bee hive on the top of the cupcake. I thought about piping up some little bees, but decided otherwise. To be honest, I was lazy and had just gotten back from a trip of house hunting in CA. They. Were. Delicious. The frosting really brought out the honey in the cupcake and it was exactly what I was looking for!
For the goodie bags, I wanted to keep with the bumble bee/black and yellow theme. I kept with the edible goodie bags like I did with Cuddle Bug's goodie bags, but I added a little extra since it was the middle of May. I bought a box of Honeycomb cereal and mixed it with raisinets (chocolate covered raisins), and attached a little vial of bubbles. I used little tiny goodie bags instead of the normal size ones. I made a little sticker tag that read "Thanks for buzzing by!" Of course that picture is lost with my number one made of balloons. :( After I put the cereal and raisinets in the little bag, I folded the top and placed the sticker tag over the flap to keep it in place. I used a single hole punch towards the corner of the bag and tied a strand of black and yellow ribbon (the smallest size you can get) around the bubbles, then treaded the ribbon through the hole, and tied a bow.
I took the same concept of the tutu I did for Cuddle Bug and made one for Jelly Bean's birthday outfit. I also crocheted something. I was debating on whether or not I wanted to crochet some sort of summer hat or some kind of headband. I finally decided to do the headband with a yellow flower and little amigurumi bumble bee that I attached to the headband. I was astounded to find that I had an outfit with little tiny bees on it that went perfectly with the tutu and headband! The headband didn't last long as you can see she is trying to take it off her head! It was a little bog on her so hopefully she will be able to wear it when she gets a little older as well.
It was such a beautiful day for her party that I got some cans of silly string and found a couple of bumble bee bubble wands all at the Dollar Tree! So we let the kids run around outside, chasing each other with the silly string. It was a mess to clean up, but the kids had so much fun! The bubble wands were a big hit too and I was so glad to have found them the day of the party.
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