We held a CandyLand Theme Birthday Party for my daughter's second birthday. It was a lot of fun decorating and coming up with things for the kids to do. There are many ideas out on the Internet around this theme but not a lot of pictures. I am a visual person who desires to see pics of other people's creative ideas. So I will be sharing a lot of pics today.The CandyLand path was the repeating decor item through the party. I used construction paper and duct tape to make a path on the front sidewalk of the house. Then, I made lollipops by duct taping cardboard circles on metal lawn stakes. I covered the circles with sparkle scrapbook paper and wrap it in cellophane.
Inside, we repeated the candyland path on the walls with smaller construction paper squares and gingerbread man. I also had cardboard peppermint candies wrapped in cellophane hanging on the walls along the candyland path. Up my stairs, I cut out gumdrops from the same sparkle scrapbook paper from the lollipops outside.
For the table, I purchased glass jars from Old Time Pottery and filled them with different kinds of candies. Our party was hosting kids from 6 months old to 5 yrs. We stuck with gummie bears, twizzlers, skittles, soft peppermints, and valentine heart candies. I also had apple chips, grapes, strawberries, and goldfish for the kids along with rainbow colored cupcakes. For the adults, I had a 3 tier platter of chocolates from the local chocolate factory in town. Mommies always need chocolate!
Within the entryway, I placed the lollipop tree that I created using a foam topiary and dum dum lollipops. It took about 6 bags. I have more candy sitting on the entry table. Instead of gum balls, we filled the candy jar with bouncing balls for the kids to take home as part of their gift bags. In the little favor bags, I included toothbrushes for the Mommies didn't hate me too much!
As for activities, we had the kids decorate "Candy Castle". My husband got a dryer appliance cardboard box from Lowe's. We cut out a door and windows and then covered the box with
pink bulletin board paper. I had cut outs of gumdrops, gingerbread man, peppermints for the kids to decorate with. They loved using the glue sticks for this task. I also had washable markers for them to draw with. This was the biggest hit of the party I believe.
pink bulletin board paper. I had cut outs of gumdrops, gingerbread man, peppermints for the kids to decorate with. They loved using the glue sticks for this task. I also had washable markers for them to draw with. This was the biggest hit of the party I believe.
We played two games at the party. I had some non helium balloons which the kids popped in the air to music like Frutti Tutti, Sugar Sugar, CandyMan, and Good Ship Lollipop. I purchased from ebay the Candy Land DVD Game. I had the kids play Gramma's Nut Musical Squares. Basically, the kids walk around in a circle which the music plays. When the music stops, each child jumps on a square with a face like Mr Mint. Gramma Nut calls out a square and that child wins a gingerbread man. The dvd game is slow which was perfect for this age of kids. Older kids would need something a little faster.
To slow the pace the party after cake and gifts, I had planned to read the Gingerbread Man story but I lost track of time. If I had it to do over again, I would not skip this step. The kids really did have a "sweet" time and I had a blast putting it all together.
