This weekend we celebrated Ainsley's 6th birthday with a Minnie Mouse sleepover! Her actual birthday isn't until the 20th but I've found the closer we do it to her birthday, the lower the turn out due to Christmas parties and such so this works! Ainsley requested a "Minnie Mouse" theme so that's what we did....
The invitations-got these from here and then printed them out.
I got the banner from here, the mouse ears from Party City and I made the shirts.
I created a Minnie Mouse "Bow-tique" and all the girls received minnie mouse, matching shirts and ears when they arrived to change into...
This was Ainsley's very first sleepover and many of the other girls as well so I wasn't sure how the night would turn out;0
Her cake and cupcakes, made by my friend Jeannie!
I got the cupcake toppers from here, the boxes from Micheal's and the Minnie Mouse heads on the boxes were cut outs from extra invitations.
So cute!
After cake we played a fun game and then they decorated their own minnie mouse cookies. Believe me people, I had these girls on a tight schedule or else total chaos would have broken out! 7 girls, ages 3 (Harper) to 6-need I say more?
I ordered the Minnie Mouse head cookie cutter on line. I got the minnie mouse confetti on the table from the same place as the banner and cupcake toppers.
Here are some of the cookies they made! LOL, aren't they cute?! I wouldn't let them eat them though-they already ate pizza, cake and cupcakes and were getting ready to have popcorn! I told them they needed to "dry":)
After cookie decorating it was time to get in our p.j.'s (we call them "jommies" in our house) but that's definitely not what others call them as I found out when I said "lets get our jommies on!"-"Jommies??"Ha-ha.
We watched 2 movies (Minnie Mouse and Barbie) with popcorn, read a book and then it was time to brush our teeth and then "lights out"....
A couple of the girls started to get a tad nervous -"I miss my mommy and daddy";( so I asked if they wanted to have all of their heads close and that way everyone would have someone next to them. They liked that idea and then Ainsley suggested they all hold hands to help the girls that were scared;).
All was quiet by 11:30 and not a peep until 7:15 the next morning-not too bad! I must say that I was quite shocked that my Harper shared the spot of "ringleader" for much of the night. I don't think she realized or even cared that they were all almost 3 years older than her-she fit right in!
The next morning Mike made "Mickey/Minnie" pancakes!
(Just cook three pancakes together and you have Mickey/Minnie!)
Bennett was asleep when the girls arrived the night before but when he woke up...
he charmed the girls, naturally;)
So all in all it was a successful sleepover!! Everyone said how brave I was but really these girls were great and just so sweet and it really helped to have the night scheduled.
We love you Ainsley and hope you had the "best birthday party ever"!
Looks like a huge success! So creative!
ReplyDeletethis is such an adorable idea. looks like they had a blast. love it!
ReplyDeleteahhhhh....i love it!!!! :) You are so creative!! :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness... DARLING!
ReplyDeleteVery Very Cute!! I am glad you survived. You have given me some courage for when Paige is old enough -- of course, she thinks she is old enough now. She may be, in her mind, but I am pretty sure 4 is still a little young.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Ainsley!!
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Oh my these are all adorable! I was confused between Minnie and Hello Kitty but both are fine for a little girls party since they are pinkish. But seeing your helpful Minnie Mouse party ideas , I think I'm gonna suggest this to my friends!
ReplyDeleteI will be exploring more maybe I could add them to my own compilation. thank you so much!!