TRAVELING HAND IN HAND: Under the Sea Party

This year Jena had an "Under the Sea" Party. I found SO many adorable ideas and luckily Jena was excited about my plans as well. We spent the last few weeks drawing, painting and using contact paper to make all sorts of sea creatures. I had even seen a post on how to make a tie dyed shirt that looked like waves. Ours didn't quite turn out like the original, but they were still the cutest tie dye shirts I've ever made :)

During her party we started with coloring dolphin pictures, fishing in a little kiddie pool, and playing a bean bag fish game. Then after a little chaos we went to everyone's favorite part... DESSERT!

We had cupcakes and instead of ice cream we had Jello Fish Bowls. Heather posted this idea a while ago... you mix up blue jello and put it in the dishes you want. Then cut slits in the top and push the Swedish fish inside so it looks like they are swimming. The only thing with these is that you have to eat them up within a few hours after putting the fish inside... apparently the fish don't do well in the Jello after too long :)

The kids loved finding the fish in the Jello and who doesn't like frosting... Jena sure does!

Then we went outside for some fun. The kids played on the slip n slide and in the mini pools. We had little squirting fish for them to get each other wet. We tried to make bubble snakes, but chasing and popping bubbles seemed to work better. Then Ryan unleashed the hose and no one was dry after that...

I forgot to put Taylor in a water diaper and this is what she looked like when I realized my mistake :)

Once we were all done with the water, we dried everyone off and went inside to watch Jena open her presents. She had such a great time with so many of her friends here and of course she is already thinking about great ideas for her next party.

Nothing, but smiles from this boy today... he did get to eat Jello, cupcakes, gold fish, pretzels and there were lots of people running around ... he thought he was in heaven!