Cakes had her third birthday party today. Seeing I still haven't blogged about her second birthday I thought I better get a crack on with this one and start straight away (I will catch up, and do her second birthday sometime this year as I know rainbow horsey parties are all the rage, haha). Her party is going to be a series of posts so I can bite off small bits at a time and really show case her hard work in planning and implementation. Yes you read that right this little almost 3 year old planned and implemented most aspects of her party with a little help (when skill and time became a concern). So where better to start than the invitation.
Cakes wanted something "arty" for her invitation. She had many ideas that she threw around, once she saw a crayon box (which as she pointed out "is perfect because it is already yellow" on Pinterest that was it she was having it. So luckily enough we were able to get great editable printables from Makdoodle for both the crayon packet and the crayons. As we were only inviting a few children this year and no adults were getting physical invitations we only had to print a few so we printed these at home. If you were going to make heaps I would suggest heading to a printing shop to keep costs down as they did use a fair bit of ink. We were also cheap with our crayons and bought a 96 pack from the cheap shop for about $3 rather than using crayola crayons.
We were lucky enough to be able to hand deliver a few of the invitations saving us a little on postage. I really thought they would cost heaps to post but was pleasantly surprised when the post office sold us prepaid envelopes for $1.20, only twice the cost of a normal invitation.
My favourite part of these invitations was the photos and stories of the recipients using the crayons as replies. Cakes loved getting the crayons ready and didn't think anything of them as to her this was a completely normal invitation, I dread to think what sort of invitation she will want next year.
Keep your eyes peeled for more posts for Yellow Art Party activities, food and games over the next few weeks.
My favourite part of these invitations was the photos and stories of the recipients using the crayons as replies. Cakes loved getting the crayons ready and didn't think anything of them as to her this was a completely normal invitation, I dread to think what sort of invitation she will want next year.
Keep your eyes peeled for more posts for Yellow Art Party activities, food and games over the next few weeks.
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