Life as I know it : Emmas Minnie Mouse Party

We celebrated emma turning one with a big Minnie Mouse taco bar party! All of our family came to celebrate with us and a few friends.

Setting up and decorating was the most fun for me. I used black tablecloths on all of the tables where people sat and cut out circle and bows to use as confetti. The centerpieces were ivy bowls with white tulle and pink petals inside and three minnie shapes on skewers.

We also put chips and salsa and candy out in the tables. (Candy because this party happened the weekend before Halloween.)

I made a curtain out of pink, black, and white pom poms and put the drink and cupcake table in front of it. The curtain was my favorite decoration, it looked so cute!

We had sodas, water bottles, and agua frescas for drinks. The aguas frescas were made by my husbands aunt and in two drink dispensers.

My sister in law made the wonderful minnie cupcakes and smash cake. For the cupcakes, she made little chocolate ears and bows from a mold. She also made a sheet cake with minnie made out of confetti sprinkles and sprinkle pearls for Minnie's bow but I didn't get a picture of it. The smash cake was strawberry flavored.

They turned out so cute!

The food tables for the taco bar had pink tablecloths on them with a black and white polka dot table runner down them. I made the utensil holders out of baby formula cans. I glued construction paper around the cans and polka dots then tied a ribbon around it. Love being able to repurpose something!

We had a taco bar that family graciously helped pitch in to bring everything together. I set up plates, napkins and utensils in the front followed by a basket of chips, black trays with flour and corn tortillas and the four crock pots had ground beef, mexican chicken, and nacho cheese in them.

On a table right next to the first one we had huge trays of beans and rice, followed by lettuce, shredded cheese, olives, sour cream, guacamole, hot salsa, onions, and Pico de gallo. The picture was taken before we put all the food out but I attempted to make little mickey shapes out of the black bowls set up on the tables. I.e. A big black bowl with cheese in it and two small bowls above it with onions and olives.

Polka dot tablecloths. Minnie tableware Minnie party set

The food labels were all written in disney font!

This was the favor table. I bought the kids mickey and Minnie cups from the dollar tree and put small bubbles, mickey straws, and party horns with the sparky foil streamers inside of the cups. I wrapped a ribbon around the cups with a black tag and wrote each child's name in disney font.

This is where emma sat for her cake smash and when she opened presents. The streamers were the hardest to put up because they kept falling. On top I used the leftover pom poms I had from the curtain but I originally wanted to out balloons there. The balloons were to heavy and wouldn't stick to the wall. The emma letters I cut out myself using construction paper and just glued pink over black and added white circles and bows. So simple yet so cute! The balloon on her highchair was a minnie balloon from the dollar tree.

Here she is as we sing happy birthday to her, eager to get into that cake!

She ended up being more interested in the mickey toppers them the actual cake.

I set up stations around the room to keep the kids occupied. This was Donald's duck pond. Little ducks from the dollar store with butterfly nets to catch them in her old baby bath.

The kids loved splashing in the water, hence the plastic tablecloth underneath.

There was a coloring table with minnie coloring pages and crayons.

Mickeys car town. My nephew brought a bunch of his cars to share on this little playmat we had.

Feed Pluto! I drew this and painted it on a trifold board I got from the dollar tree. I bought little dog bones and a dog bowl for the kids to throw bones into his mouth. I don't think this game actually got played with that much.

There was also a little mickey bean bag toss game by the Pluto game that I just cut out mickey circles with an exacto knife and painted.

Goofy bowling!

The ball pit was probably the biggest hit!

A blow up pool full of ball pit balls we bought from Walmart.

Fun for all ages!

For the adults I had a game for them to guess how many months old emma was in each picture and the book on the table was for writing a caption or a phrase emma was saying in funny pictures.

There was also a poster of emmas one year old stats.

This was the front door, it was simple but let people know where we were.

I also made a piñata punch game for the kids. I cut out holes in a foam poster board, taped on tissue paper and added a paper bag full of little prizes in the back for kids to punch out and get surprises.