2012 Family Day

 We had a lovely time on Family Day over at Markham Museum!

 Kali really enjoyed being pulled around in her sled-we haven't had much snow this winter so this was only the second time we'd had it out.

 Playing with ice -they had squirt bottles with colored water, which was a great idea.

 Watching the ice sculptor at work

 There was free hot chocolate --Katie just wanted a empty cup!

 Learning how to throw a Frisbee

 Checking out the sun-dial

 We replaced the cup with a cookie!

 Craft time!

 

 

 What a great day!

Dance Party DYI Cupcake Stand

I made this cupcake stand out of hot glue and three wooden tangerine crates. I first used it at Logan's Jungle birthday party and then at Kalia's baptism and now again at Logan's dance party. I've covered it with duck tape, scrapbook paper and tin foil. Once you have the framework you can change it up for any theme!

Here's a look underneath. I just hot glued the three wooden crates together and then hot glued the paper on.

So that I could take it off easily I just tacked the tin foil with a few drops of hot glue underneath.

We just added two Christmas decoration disco balls and a record and it was finished!

Our four year old loved it!

Logan's Dance Birthday Party

Logan had his 4th birthday and by his request we had a dance party!

The Decor

I made some tissue pom-poms -very simple to make and so cute!

I made some record bowls to hold tattoos and made some signs from the Ikea frame with Logan's picture (like I did for Kali's birthday party)

These I reused from Logan's 1st birthday party --I just added a little disco ball that I picked up at the dollar store at Christmas time. I just punched out different sized circles out of shiny sticker paper with my circle punch and then stuck them on a ribbon.

The cupcake stand got a quick re-do the night before --It was a wild zebra print for Logan's 3rd birthday and an elegant black and white for Kalia's Baptism). The tutorial is here.

Activities

Pin-the-Record-on-the-Record-Player / Blind DJ

With my amazing drawing skills (ha!) I sketched out a DJ set up and then punched out some circles out of black paper. Add a scarf and we had a game perfect for a dance party!

 Logan had fun helping the smaller kids

 Disco Ball Craft
I cut sticker paper into little squares and the kids put them on paper plates to create their own disco balls

 The dance floor downstairs

Watching B-Boy videos

Tattoo station

Cake time!

Kali checking out all the shoes

Thanks for making my 4th birthday awesome!