How To Train Your Dragon Party

Here is some pictures of what I've been working on this past week... My cousins daughter's 7th birthday party... We worked for HOURS to get things ready for the party... Everything we did was very budget friendly and fairly easy if you're the crafty type... btw if you haven't seen this movie, I HIGHLY suggest it. It was AWESOME.

The colors of the party were Purple, Red & Black...

Chocolate lollipops - Purple candy melts and a candy mold... VERY EASY!

Cupcake Toppers that I made (We searched the web and there was very little party decor for this movie). The cupcakes are Red Velvet with Chocolate Ganache filling. However in this pic the frosting looks grey. It wasn't; it was purple. They were heavenly nonetheless.

Viking Ship my crafty cousin made courtesy of Looledo. Great craft website if you like building things out of milk cartons and paper towel rolls. 

We made swords for the kids to color out of foam board... 

Nutter Butter Balls and S'mores Marshmallows. The NBBs recipe is from one of my FAVORITE bloggers and new author Bakerella. She has some fantastic baking ideas and she posts step by step pictures. I can not remember what blog/website it was that inspired the S'mores marshmallows but thank you for them.

More cupcake toppers :)

Another Viking Ship...

Food place cards... My other cousin makes this super yummy salad; hence the name Monica's Salad. Genius huh?

Water bottles with this cool dragon figure we picked up at... wait for it... the 99 cents store. Got to love that place sometimes.

Here is the cake we made... The Dragon was German Chocolate with a semi-homemade (love it) Cream Cheese frosting. I was mighty impressed with the outcome since neither one of us have ever made a stand up cake. The design was courtesy of Instructables.  



Here was the invite to the party that I made... I think it's cute.

For lunch we made Finger Sandwiches (Turkey & Cheese, Ham & Cheese, & Tuna), Potato Salad, Mac & Cheese, Monica Salad, Veggies with dip & Fruit. It was so hot that we literally served and then put everything away. The kids played games then jumped in the pool. It was a great day.

We were sooo busy running around that these were the only pictures I captured of the party (besides guests). Next time I need to hire someone to follow us around snapping pictures... next time...

xoxo, Elle