Lucy's Art Party: The decorations & food

Jackson Pollack inspired cupcakes

 At the end of the party we invited the parents to attend a gallery show to view the artwork.  

We served sparkling apple cider and finger food and then admired the artwork.

A rainbow of paper dahlias

Lucy with her birthday sign (we started with it when she turned 2!)

The start of the dessert table

The party favours included some glitter glue sticks

Food included a rainbow fruit platter (on the left), cheese platter and a deli meat platter. 

 

 

 Then we had apple cider in champagne glasses

The art work from the party decorated the walls.

The completed dessert table.  Bags under the table to take the artwork home.

Lucy's Art party: The playlist

Finding art related songs turned out to be a little more tricky than the sunshine list!

First I started with rainbow songs.

Then I trawled through lists of art related songs on various blogs.  However most of these were for adults and thus some lyrics were not appropriate.

However I think we ended up with a good list and even a song that mentions Chagall.

Lucy's Art Party: The cake

With the rainbow theme in mind I made an 8 layer rainbow cake.  

It took a really long time to cook all the layers as I only had 2x9" pans but icing it didn't take long at all.

The trick was freezing the thin layers so that they were easy to work with.

It was impressive to cut the cake! It went from just an ordinary white buttercream cake to an explosion of colour!

 

Lucy's 6th birthday

I decided this year that Lucy would enjoy an art party.

In that vain we had a rainbow birthday celebration.  Full of colour and fun!

Lucy attended school (in her flamingo dress!) but beforehand she requested a breakfast of bacon and eggs.  She took GF muffins to school to share with her classmates.

I had lunch with Lucy at school in the cafeteria (an eye opening experience!) and then met Lucy at the bus stop with a huge butterfly balloon and purple balloons. The teachers gave her a special birthday hat to wear and a card.

Lucy had lots of fun opening her presents and enjoyed all the arty presents from her family in Australia. We gave her a suitcase among other things with her name on it so that she can travel to Australia in style!

For dinner we had home made GF gyoza plus other Chinese delicacies followed by a lemon bundt cake with strawberry coulis and double cream.

Andrew's birthday

And finally we get to Andrew's birthday.  

Poor fellow, his birthday is squashed between Felicity's and Lucy's.  

But he did get at least 24 hours where the attention was solely on him 

and not any other parties.

He wasn't neglected mind you.  He ate lamb for breakfast, lunch AND dinner. He got lots of presents (particularly elephant ones) and he took an annual leave day.

And on top of that I made his favourite cake - a triple chocolate mousse cake.

 

 

Felicity's 1st birthday

We did quite a lot of celebrating and then we got to Felicity's ACTUAL birthday!

We continued with the yellow theme...

We were a little over cake so went with Felicity's favourite food - 

homemade strawberry icecream.  

Look at this face after just a mouthful of icecream!

 

 

Felicity's 1st birthday playdate

we had a small playdate with our mom's group for Felicity

we ate gluten free apple cinnamon muffins (with the little miss felicity cupcake toppers!), pretzels and fruit

the jumpy house was fun for the kids but we had to have separate times 

for the babies and the bigger kids

isn't it a great photo of Henry peering at the food table!