Party

Each child gets to make their own encapsulated landscape in a Terrarium Party!

Inspired by our friend, the artist Sharon Jong, we held an art party in our backyard for my daughter’s 10th.  It was divine!  We painted magical fairy trees and embellished them with buttons, beads, resin fairies, butterflies and glitter glue.

Who wouldn’t want to turn their house into a Laura Ingalls world?  Best party ever.  Not only did the kids play with the chuckwagon set up for weeks, but we ran the party twice it was so much fun.  We created an old fashioned general store where the kids could play shop, we made real hand-churned vanilla ice cream for a treat, and the kids constructed their own little log homes out of sticks from the woods.

Small, simple, family style with dress up and lots of play acting, this party was a hoot.  Grab bags full of marbles became the loot and a little cubby closet made a great jail.

Grandfather taught the boys how to tie special knots with rope, then lots of tumbling and climbing on the snowy hill outside kept the boys busy the rest of the day. Maps and backpacks for props, and a length of ‘mountain climbing rope’ from our local wall climbing gym was the take-home gift.

We made princess crowns with felt, jewels, and elastic headbands.  I enacted the Thumbelina fairy tale with puppets.  Each girl made their own take-home ivy planter with a magical little world of clay mushrooms, silk flowers, seashells, and teensy ‘worry dolls’ as inhabitants.  5 years later Maddy’s ivy is 7 feet long and still a cherished part of our home.  Of course Papa brought a famous cake and put on a wizardly magic show.