Mia's RAINBOW party was a huge success!
THE CAKE
I made a marble cake.....divided the batter into 5 and coloured it very brightly before blobbing alternate colours randomly in a ring tin (no need to swirl before baking). When cooked and cooled, I cut it in half, iced with white butter icing and decorated with M&M's. It looked fab and was a huge hit with the kids.
THE PRESENTS
Wrapped in stripey rainbow paper - of course!
Mia got her longed-for pink Razor scooter plus heaps more.
THE FOOD & DECORATIONS
All garishly coloured (and sugar-loaded!)......gum balls, fairy bread, swirly lollipops, sherbet sticks, blue clouds, homemade M&M fudge.....
Not all bad.....my rainbow fruit platter kept the health-conscious Mum's happy....
I used a white plastic tablecloth and served the food in mainly white or glass containers to make the colours pop. Colourful plastic party trays from Crazy Clarks held chips and fairy bread. The girls went crazy with textas on white sticky labels to attach to white plastic cups for each guest. Decorations easy - colourful party hats and balloons tied to every available spot. And the guests were asked to wear rainbow colours.....
GAMES
I found the perfect pinata at our local party shop.....
....was stuffed with Chuppa Chups, mini boxes of Smarties, gold coin chocolates and party favours the kids collected up and placed in their take-home lolly bags.
We played Pin-the-Nose-on-the-Clown, Musical Colours (Twister Scram circles scattered on the floor, danced around to music, when music stops choose a circle to stand on, spin the spinner, everyone on that colour is out, repeat until one person left!), had a fashion designer team challenge using streamers.....
.....I let the kids colour-in my chimney with chalk.....
......and had face painting and rainbow manicures.....
.....and the trampoline is always a fave....
Mimi announced it was the "best party ever".....and you can't do much better than that!
