It's a FROZEN celebration!

The obvious choice for Juliana's 7th birthday theme was Frozen!  She helped me plan a lot of the details for the party.  It was a blast.  Very loud and crazy, but everyone had a great time.

Here's the invitation:

The Decorations:
Turquoise, white and silver were the colors this year.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these colors:)  We had lots and lots of snowflakes (on the floor, windows, hanging from the ceiling, etc) and glittery decorations!  I thought it turned out beautiful.

Juliana helped me make a bunch of these gigantic snowflakes for the basement

 

She made this sign to welcome people:)

Movie quotes and coffee filter tree

Glittery letters (a HUGE pain to find all the right ones, but I ended up loving them!)

beautiful trees and snowflake picks from Hobby Lobby

the balloons

we wrapped the door with shiny turquoise paper and hung a glittery wreath

giant snowflakes marked the way

movie quotes

giant glittery snowflakes

more snowflakes

more movie quotes

life size cardboard cutouts

birthday banner out of doilies

hanging glittery icicles

snowflake lights behind sheer glittery fabric plus a tulle skirt on the food table

Food:
I had fun planning for the food.  We had all kinds of "frozen" treats.  The kids, of course, loved all the sweets and the crock pot hot chocolate was a hit:)

Frost Bites: cake batter truffles

Elsa's Snowflakes: chocolate covered snowflake-shaped pretzels

Eternal Winter Pasta with sprinkle Snow Cheese: snowman and snowflake pasta with parmesan cheese

Nutella snowflake sandwiches

Olaf string cheese

Elsa's Ice Crystals: rock candy

Kristoff's Ice: Candy-coated rice krispie treats

Frozen hearts: strawberries

Olaf's Snowballs: powdered sugar donut holes on a foam tower!

 

Olaf noses: carrots and dip

Elsa Punch: Hawaiian Punch, Sprite, Pineapple juice, ice cream balls

melted snow: water bottles

Sven's Hot Chocolate (with snowmen marshmallows and whipped cream!)

 Activities:

We planned lots of activities (this was Juliana's doing!)  We had a snowflake bead keychain craft, building a snowman out of marshmallows, making a sugar cube ice castle, a song lyric scavenger hunt and a team build a snowman race.

trial of the sugar cube castle with Matilda a week early:)

 

 

Team Anna vs. Team Elsa...who can build a snowman the fastest! 

Song Lyric Scavenger hunt

 

And...the photo booth....

 

 

 

The Special Visitor...

A half hour after the girls arrived, a special visitor was announced....Queen Elsa came to Juliana's party!  The kids were mesmerized.  Juliana appeared a bit shy and embarrassed, but it was her very favorite part of the party!  She was totally surprised since we hadn't told her Elsa was coming (and she even asked if we could get someone to dress up as Elsa but I told her it was too expensive!)

Elsa told the kids a story, sang with them, played freeze dance, and posed for pictures & signed autographs.  She even brought a little gift for each child...a sparkly snowflake straight from Arendelle!  She was only here for 30 minutes, but it was so worth it!  Thanks to Looking Glass Friends!

initial reaction!

 

"Let it Go"

The Cake...

We saw a picture only of a snow globe cake.  Somehow we managed to re-create it.  I thought it was beautiful, and Juliana loved it too!

 

 The favors:

Juliana helped me make snowflake favor bags.  Inside were a Frozen word search, a turquoise glitter notebook, some stickers and a lip gloss.

            

Thanks to all our friends for helping make this day so special!  

Some people truly ARE worth melting for:)