Seeing as it was Ava's birthday last week I thought I'd share a few more of her past birthday parties.
You can find a post on Ava's 4th birthday party
here and a post on her 2nd birthday party
here.
This time let's go back to 2010 for Ava's 3rd birthday party...
For Ava's 3rd birthday party invitations I decided to use one of her drawings of herself.
It's amazing how much her drawings have changed over the last few years!
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The invitation for Ava's 3rd birthday party |
Below is the original drawing that Ava's picture came from. This is a family portrait that Ava drew. That's Kim at the top (with no arms or hair!), me in the middle and Ava at the bottom. I love how Ava's hair and ears combine to make it look like she's wearing headphones!
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Ava's original drawing |
The drawing on the party invitations was also used for the lolly bags. I forgot to take a photo of the lolly bags at the party but you can see them in the corner of the photo below.
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Tiger with the lolly bags |
And here are the labels that I used.
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Lolly bag labels |
I'm quite proud of how Ava's birthday cake turned out. It was a pinata cake with a shell of chocolate and lollies over a chocolate cake - and more lollies! After we sang Happy Birthday Ava smashed the pinata shell open with a toy hammer. Such fun!
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The pinata cake |
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Singing Happy Birthday |
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Time to smash it open |
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Smash, smash, smash... |
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A break from smashing to eat some of the chocolate shell |
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The kids all dived in for pieces of chocolate before the smashing was even finished! |
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All gone! |
As you can see from the photos above we had a face painter at the party. The kids loved getting their faces painted. We had tigers, butterflies, cats, flowers, a few arm tattoos, a zombie and a vampire. A good mix I think!
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Face painting |
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Flowers, cat and a tiger |
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Vampire and zombie |
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Pretty little girls in their matching outfits |
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