Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Happy Birthday Emmaline!

We had Emmaline's birthday party today, although her actual birthday is on Saturday. It was Dora themed and I think she had a blast!
First off, we invited her entire nursery class, and I was thinking that only half would show up but that wasn't the case! I got two "nos" and two no-shows but a few kids brought siblings or friends for a total of 15 kids! WOW! Somehow I managed to have enough stuff for everyone too!
So here was the idea: Swiper came and swiped Emmaline's birthday party! Everyone got a "backpack" and a "map" to show them how to find the party. We followed the Map to the playground where we saw that Boots had gotten new shoes and he needed help trying them on. So all the kids got to help Boots (like pin the tail on the donkey, it was pin the boots on Boots!).
Next we went to the Mailbox where we met Esa, Benny and Tico who were so happy to have friends over that they wanted to make frienship bracelets.
We then went through the Lollipop Trail and got to pick some lovely lollipop flowers and onto Turtle Pond. We got to play Musical Turtles and when the kid's numbers were called they got a lovely pair of sunglasses as a prize!
As we went to finally get to the party we all saw Swiper! The kids were very good at yelling "Swiper No Swiping!"
We sung Happy Birthday to Emmaline, ate cupcakes and then opened presents!

1 comment:

Laura said...

Yay! Your posters looked lovely, the games sounded delightful, and you even managed to get yourself into some of the pictures. Good job all around!