Party Decorations:

In the last post I shared how I’ve collected some things over the years that I’ve used over and over again for my kids' parties--like cake stands, a drop cloth for the table, balloon air pump (time and life saver!) and some dishes for snacks. Once I have a color palette figured out I start browsing Amazon and Target for other decor pieces to go with the theme. I like to keep it simple and sometimes use out of the box ideas to pull the theme together, like I did here in the color of flowers or the star garlands.

The great thing about having older kids now is they love to help out putting everything together so it really does become a whole family activity. Shane and Dash blew up all the balloons and the older girls tied the balloon garland together that was hanging above the table. Sage and I painted a moon and some glittery planets that stuck around the balloons too to give it the whole outer space look and feel.

Here’s everything we used for this party:

Here's the full list on Amazon with everything we bought and used.

• Drop Cloth for tablecloth backdrop
• White Balloons
• Tan Balloons
• Star Garland
• Twinkle lights
• Silver sparkle stars
• Blue napkins
• Sparkle cups

I grabbed some simple white and purple flowers from the grocery store for the little jars of flowers around the table. And then the morning of the party, my dear friend Jenna who is the floral designer of Milk and Honey Florals gave us the gorgeous bouquets that were left over from an event she did earlier. I loved how perfectly they fit in--she’s so talented!

(Btw, I always think adding flowers to anything makes it that much more beautiful and elevated, in my humble opinion.)

I also drew up some illustrations of planets and printed them off to stick in the flower bouquets to tie the whole theme together and I love how it all turned out!

Party Activities:

Something I love to do for my kid’s parties is have a simple activity to do. I think it keeps the flow of the party going and is helpful to entertain kids as we’re together. We usually will do one game or activity, sing happy birthday and open presents and that’s enough to keep the flow going. Since Sage loves anything to do with art and crafts, we decided to have some crafts for the kids to do to go along with the theme and these were so fun to see each kid use their creativity in different ways with some simple supplies. 

For the crafts we made paper rockets made out of, yes, toilet paper rolls, construction paper, glitter and tape. (I’m telling ya, these TP rolls are some of my kids’ favorite things to get creative with. Recycling at it’s best!) Then we made “moon rocks” with glitter and air dry clay and they all turned out so cute! We used jars for them to collect their moon rocks in and decorated the outside with glow in the dark stars and took home with them as a keepsake.

I’ll share a tutorial soon on how we made these crafts, but they don’t require much and are seriously so simple that anyone can do them.

Here's some of the supplies for the crafts we used here and I have them linked in the amazon list here:

• Gray and White Air Dry Clay
• Glitter
• Construction Paper (from Target crafts section)

One thing that I also do with each kid’s birthday party is design their own birthday party invitations to match the theme it goes with. I love this process too because it also pushes me to use my love for design and making art for something meaningful for my kids. And I love that they’ll have these as keepsakes to look back on growing up. 

Making all of these parties over the years has me dreaming of putting together some kind of party shop with all the invitations and themes we’ve made over the years so you can have a way to easily use them too . I’m not sure exactly what it would look like yet. Is this something you’d like? if you have any ideas along those lines, I’m all ears so let me know in the comments! 

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Thanks for being here friend, 

Coley