Ironman turned 4 back in January, and we had a woodland fairy birthday party for her. She is all about fairies, glitter and other sparkly things, but we had as many boys coming as girls, and I didn’t think they would all want to be dressed up in pink wings and flowery crowns, so the woodland theme allowed for bugs as well as fairies!
I scored some bug wings left over from halloween at our local dollar store, and made antennae from hairbands and styrofoam balls. The girls wore flowery crowns and butterfly/fairy wings.
We spent the week leading up to her party making decorations and party favours. For party favours, Ironman and I made fairy playdough, thanks to this recipe. In fact, a lot of the inspiration for our party came from this wonderful blog, including the toadstools.
We also made coffee filter flowers and butterflies, which I used to decorate the table and the light fixture, these are really easy to make, although I ended up doing most of the flower assembly, as Ironman lost interest early and went off to do some colouring!
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More to come later, we still need party food and games!