Sierra is 5!
For her birthday she wanted a Barbie party with friends. She loves to play with dolls and loves the newer Barbie movies with Barbie and her sisters. I wasn't exactly sure what to do for a Barbie party because we'd already had friends over several times for Barbie movie nights, and I just couldn't imagine all the girls ages 4 to 8 happily playing Barbie for very long...our play room is kind of small. But we came up with a few good activities, and the girls had a great time!
This pin the bow on Barbie game and the cake were our main decorations.
Mike hung a few pink balloons and streamers too, and the girls colored some Barbie coloring pages and we stuck them up around the room. They love to help plan and decorate for parties!
My main ideas for activities were for the girls to each decorate their own cupcake like a skirt and stick a little barbie topper in it, and decorate their own white Barbie dress with fabric markers and put on a fashion show. I didn't really think the second one was the most practical idea, because I always try to keep it minimal with our budget, and how much time I spend planning a party, and I couldn't find any white Barbie dresses for sale for cheap enough. But I did have some white fabric, a Barbie dress pattern, and a serger, and felt a little more confident than I usually do starting out a sewing project because I had recently done the girls Easter dresses and that project turned out really well. Plus Mike was supportive and liked the idea a lot too. ...So I took a leap of faith and sewed 14 little white Barbie dresses in one night. Once I figured out how I wanted it to turn out on the first one I cut them all out and sewed them assembly line style and it went quite fast. I even got to bed before midnight. I really thought the girls would get a kick out of designing their own dresses, and didn't have any other better ideas of things to do at a Barbie birthday - so I went for it. Glad it turned out!
The Birthday Girl
She's holding up a little mini umbrella she begged me to get for the party.
Such a love!
..with the cake
the girls and their Grandma
Mike took a few photos of us before the party started.
Party time!
Dress designing
Here's how Sierra's turned out :)
This is the pick I made to put in the cupcakes.
I somehow missed taking a picture of all the girl's cupcakes!
I did snap a picture of Mike decorating one!
I was too bust making pizza to take pictures of the girls fashion show, but I think they probably had more fun without me in their face doing that anyway! ;)
The cake
Present time
One her favorite gifts was her longed for "American Girl" doll
We had such a nice group of girls at the party.
They played so happily together and had such a fun time!
I am so happy the girls have sweet friends!
I can't believe my baby girl is 5 years old!
So grateful for the opportunity to watch and help you grow!
