My beautiful birthday girl!!! It has been an amazing journey and I am so grateful that she is here with us with her toothless grin :) She is an angel straight from Heaven. She wanted a rainforest party this year. She loves animals and doing good things for the earth. She loved the butterflies from Kaity's party so we decided to do that again. (http://www.insectlore.com/ the school refill kit for painted lady caterpillars) Hope you can get some creative ideas from this and enjoy the magic of birthdays & the amazing butterfly.
Her big brothers decorated the porch posts to look like jungle trees. They really turned out awesome.
Everyone went on a bug hunt! They had little bags and searched the yard for little plastic bugs. I got the bugs & bags from the dollar store and hid them all over the yard.
The bubble machine made everything magical.
For the invitations we copied & enlarged a clipart butterfly and printed the words on the back.
Then we cut the center to make a pencil holder.
Our best party favors were of course the painted ladies. They come in a little jar with food and all you have to do is watch them until they make their chrysalis. They got to go home in this cute little basket.
We made awesome rainforest bug jars. At the party store I found strands of wooden beads for a dollar. Their were lots of beads on a strand. I put all of the beads in a bowl and everyone picked their own "flavors". I got screen door mesh from the hardware store and cut it into small squares and then I had green wire on hand.
I put the wire under the lip of the mason jar and twisted it together leaving a small loop on the opposite side to hook the end of the wire in and then looped it over the top. The jars were ready that way for the party. Then the kids all strung their beads on and then I put the end of the wire in the loop I had made and twisted it together. (I used pliers with the wire so it was nice and tight.)
Kaity & my good friend Kim decorated the cake. The birthday girl loves m&m's, animals & chocolate so it was perfect! What a fabulous day! The funnest thing about the caterpillars is we get to watch them for a couple of weeks, growing, and growing and then finally becoming a chrysalis and then magically hatching into a beautiful butterfly. After that we also get to release them - so this party lasts for a long time!!!
