Birthday Decorations

7 months later, I am finally finishing this post. For the longest time I couldn't find the birthday invite, and I didn't want to do the post without a picture of it.

I knew I wanted to go with a jungle/zoo/safari theme and set out to find some fabric to center the party decorations around. Although it is mainly blue, I loved this fabric and the animals on it.

Here are a few pics of the decorations:

The invitation. I ironed the fabric on cardstock in order to put them on the card. I loved that the cards were all different and had different textures on them.

The birthday banner, made easy by the wonderful CriCut!

I figured it would be easier and less stressful for me if each kid had their own glass to drink out of. I love the take and toss glasses- cheap and work pretty well. So the kiddos didn't mix them up we put an animal and their name on each one. The animals came from the 'party fabric'.

The upstairs drink set-up.

The 'main' table with Ellie's 2 scrapbooks.

An up-close of the scrapbooks and the party favor bags. I had extra fabric, so I figured why not make the favor bags out of them. Saves me from having to buy them and the kids can reuse them to store things in.

I took an easy way out with the centerpieces and just did photos of Ellie throughout the year. Each table had one. I also did table clothes out of the fabric to put over the boring pink plastic ones. Afterwards I made bigger bags out of those for Ellie to store her play kitchen food in.
We are always huge fans of the Costco cake! Cheap and yummy. Unfortunately they don't do special designs, so a caterpillar it was.

And of course the birthday girls' smash cake.