This year, we decided to go back to the UK for two weeks during half term. It turned out to be very lovely as J got to celebrate her 7th birthday with the grandparents, aunties, uncles, and her cousins. We had a wonderful time in London, Chatsworth, Carlisle, Cotswold and Oxford. It was a very special holiday :)
Almost as soon as we got back, besides battling with jet-lag, we had to start all the preparations. Luckily, we managed to send out the invitation cards, ordered the balloons and bought most of the bits and pieces for the party before we left to the UK.
J wanted a Lion King party initially. However, after taking into consideration that not all the girls in her class will enjoy it, we decided to have a Unicorn and Princess Party, a very safe theme and definitely popular among the girls :)
This is the invitation card that Jemima made:
She drew the picture, we scanned it, cut it out, glued it on the white card and finished off with some sparkly stickers.
We invited all the girls from her class so she had only 10 cards to make and write and 10 envelopes to write the address on. Phew!
I made this giant board when we first moved to SG, using the cardboard from Santa Fe the mover. This turned out to be brilliant as I can use it over and over again (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!) ... The other side of the board is for Tabitha :)
We ordered different shades of pink helium balloons to decorate the house and put around the giant board to create the atmosphere.
J wanted a big painting of unicorn. I told her, she had to paint it herself. The day after we got home from the UK, we rushed to Bras Basah Complex to buy a giant canvas. First, we poured the paints onto the canvas so that J can covered the canvas up with different shades of pink, white, blue and purple. While waiting for it to dry, J drew a big unicorn on another piece of paper. She worked very hard to "draw" the unicorn with different mediums (different types of paint, marker pens, glitter foam with adhesive back, glitter glue etc) Once the unicorn dried, I tied a silver ribbon onto the tail and stuck the unicorn onto the dried canvas using blue tag.
This is the first time we bought a pinata. We bought different type of fillings (pretty hair clips, different types of unicorn foam stickers, erasers, paper clips, organic lollipops and gummies) to fill up the pinata.
We ordered an unicorn cake from our friend Levy as we know that we won't have enough time and energy to do the baking. J loved this cake very much and played with the unicorn toy after the party :)
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I like using fresh flowers to decorate the house :)
Besides using balloons and fresh flowers to decorate the house, I also used pink and purple crepe papers and some cut out paper unicorns to make the party more fun.
We made an unicorn head piece and a badge.
For activities, I bought this unicorn canvas for each of the girls to colour in during the party. They took the canvas home afterwards (and the paint and brushes too) besides the party bag and balloons.
We had pin the horn on the unicorn game, pass the unicorn game, unicorn hand painting, musical statue and wonderful story telling by David. We ordered some lovely unicorn stickers and notepads online as presents for the games.
The girls had a good time I think and J received generous birthday money and presents from her friends. It was a lovely afternoon.
Now, once the thank you letters are sent out, it's time to get ready for Christmas!!
