Humpty Dumpty 3rd Birthday Party

Yesterday we celebrated Elly turning 3 with a little Humpty Dumpty Party at home with family, just 14 in total. It was small and intimate (cosy inside, due to rain) and lots of fun!

I made the invitations using a pack of Nursery Rhyme Snap Cards. In fact, I used the Snap Cards for all my decorations, including party hats;

[Here is a good party hat template, to make your own]

I have a new love - crepe paper streamers. They are so versatile!

I also used the Snap Cards to make bunting;

I stitched a line straight across the top of them and they were ready to hang.

No cutting, measuring, so simple.

And used more streamers to add colour to our fireplace;

The girls were very excited about guests arriving. It was a shame party time was at 2pm... it was a long wait! Of course, she was totally spoiled (thank you, everyone!);

Livvie kept calling her little sister the 'Party Girl' instead of the 'Birthday girl'. She made her sound like she was turning 21 and not 3!

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I made up this simple party game by painting a piece of cardboard one afternoon:

Pin the Bow Tie on Humpty;

We used a blindfold and spun everyone around 3 times (Uncles were spun around 10 times!);

Nice try, Uncle Luke... His is the one right at the bottom of the brick wall. When he put the blindfold on, his wife held the board up really high and tricked him! Good one, Auntie Donna!

Pass the Parcel was also featured, to the tune of 'Give me a Home Among the Gum Trees' (Elly's current favourite song) and I think everyone (or maybe just Livvie) was truly surprised to see a chocolate Lindt duck in each and every layer. 'You can't believe it, can you?!?!' she kept asking. So funny!

Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures of the food. We tried to stick to tried and true, classic party food in the party colours;

Green Lime Jelly, which seemed to be a big hit with everyone.

Passionfruit Slice (not pictured) and Chocolate Crackles;

Lolly Bags below.

Big hit with the kids, of course;

Savouries included ham & corn and basil & cream cheese bread boats, two cheese platters, corn chips and dip. There were chocolate-dipped strawberries...

....which I left in the fridge!!!!! I totally forgot to serve them. There is always something that gets forgotten, this was it! It's ok... I made sure some of them got eaten afterwards.

And the final game we played was the papier mache Pinata, which I had very quickly painted the night before the party;

The girls loved filling him up with lollies, eclairs and party whistles on the morning of the party;

He looked very cute when hung up...

But I must admit, I don't think I had really prepared myself for him to be clobbered and whacked - with a golf club, no less - and.... split in half! {I honestly felt a bit sad, but really, what did I expect? He was a pinata!}.

Believe me, there is no watering-down of nursery rhymes in our house - quite the opposite. I'm afraid poor Humpty met with a rather violent end at our party!

Now you know why all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put him back together again... he was decapitated! (or maybe they were too busy scouring the site for lollies!)

Luckily, it was cake time next and Nanny's cake definitely put a smile on our faces;

She says it is the eighth Humpty Dumpty cake she has made for 3rd birthdays in our family! Grandpa draws on Humpty's face and makes a cute little hat - This time in green, Elly's favourite colour;

This was the final celebration of Elly's 3rd birthday...

She has blown out candles three times this week!

Want to know what she said at the end of her party?

'My birthday am a happy birthday!!!'