Rainbow Party {decor & food}

I have a confession to make.

Ready?

This party was clear back in APRIL!  I know.  Shameful.

I had totally lost my blogging mojo.

But it seems to be back now, so let's get on with this, shall we?

Charly requested a rainbow party this year.

SWEET!  She already had a cute little outfit to fit the theme.

And there are so many ADORABLE rainbow party ideas out there!

Check out my Pinterest board that is dedicated to all things rainbow-party-goodness here.

Because it was the end of April and was SUPPOSED to be a nice Spring day, 

I went with an outdoors-y, spring is in the air Rainbow theme.

I got the rainbow kites in the $ Spot at Target and used pink string to write Charly's name between the two.

My ABSOLUTE FAVORITE decorations were these pinwheels.

I just love how they turned out!

I used this pattern found here.

No, I did not cut them all out by hand.  Are you crazy? ;)

I wrote the designer and asked for permission to convert the pattern into a Silhouette template.

They very graciously said yes.  Thank you!

I can't even tell you how much time that saved me!

(I recently found a pinwheel that looks similar to this in the Silhouette store,

if your interested.)

I used this tutorial to color the bottles.

I used sand to weigh them down, but I don't think it is really necessary.

Over time, the sand has absorbed all the color off the bottles.

I hung balloons from the ceiling for a simple, fun photo backdrop.

The table skirt was a total last minute idea.

It needed more color, so I folded some tissue paper in half

and taped it like pennants around the table.

Easy Peasy!

We went really simple on the snacks this time.

Each girl got to fill a bowl with jelly beans and popcorn.

They also had their choice of Kool Aid drink mixes

 There were also otter pops

 and rainbow cupcakes.

Talk about a sugar rush!

It was definitely a sweet way to end my sweet girl's 6th birthday party.

Come back tomorrow to see what we did at the party.

We're talkin' 7 different activities!  One for each color of the rainbow.