Rainbow Polka-dot Party – real party
April 10, 2010 by Missy
kids theme parties
Rainbow Polka-dot Party
Where does one come up with THIS theme, you ask? I’ll tell you. Because that is what you get when you ask a certain little 4 year old girl who’s super power it is to shoot rainbows from her hands that wrap around the BAD guys and catch ‘em and a certain other little girl’s mom who is obsessed with anything polka-dot what kind of party they want…if this is not a run-on sentence, I don’t know what is:). Maybe don’t ask next time, EM… no, do ask ’cause this turned out FABULOUS! Two minds are definately better than one when planning a party around a made up theme…especially when EM is the other mind! Her creativity amazes me.
I promised you pictures and pictures I took! Sorry if your scrolling finger gets tired:)
Garland used around the room to add polka-dots and color…and cute pics of the birthday girls!
These are streamers we hung from the doorway for the kids to walk through. Em just stapled round foam circles we found at the dollar store to wrapping ribbon.
tutus and…
feather rainbow hair clips for the girls. Nicely done, EM.
party favors for all
Gotta Love Ikea Plates!
Colored Lemon Heads for a treat. Found these at CostCo – you NEED to try these, YUM!
Shelley’s ADORABLE birthday hat, click here for her tutorial on how to make these. And beads to make rainbow bracelets…on pipe cleaners so 4 year olds could actually string their own!
The party table.
I couldn’t figure out how to photograph this to give it justice…this doesn’t. Emily tied and tied and tied and tied and tied until all the colors of the rainbow were connected onto a long string which we hung over the back door. It MADE the party decor. You could do this with any colors to match your theme, it took a bit of time, but it was worth it…I can say that ’cause I didn’t do all the knots…I did, however blow up my fair share of balloons, even if they weren’t as big as EM’s and she made fun of me:) Just be sure to do it in the middle of the day and not at 11:00 at night when you are so tired that you can’t stop laughing at each other’s faces as they puff out each time you blow into a balloon, it really hinders your progress.
Last but certainly not least…the cake. EM did an AMAZING job on this! Look at the polka-dots:)
Each layer had frosting in between…lemon flavored…delicious!
And I have to share a few of the BIRTHDAY GIRLS…
Girls and Secrets
Do these wings look familiar??? EM shared a tutorial for angel wings at Christmas time. She adapted them to fit the rainbow theme. Also, the shirts I made with the Silhouette…a tutorial can be found here.
I LOVE her giggle:)
bEST fRIENDS fOREVER!
Over and Out until next year…or the next year – I don’t know how much of this I can take!
Love it! So adorable.
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Okay, I ♥♥♥ this post!! My daughter’s 3rd bday is in June, and I’ve started planning a Rainbow party!! I’ve been bookmarking ideas, and trying to find more rainbow inspiration. Thanks so much for sharing!!
I’d already planned the rainbow balloon arch and the rainbow {cup}cakes. Thanks for the heads up on the rest of the stuff! I’ll definitely check out the rainbow Lemonheads from Costco.
Thanks again!
♥ Amber
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What a fabulously fun party! The colors are amazing and I just adore the theme {The rainbow shooting fingers super power is adorable!} That cake is TDF! Great Job putting everything together – looks great!
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I LOVE the theme! How fun and colorful everything was! I am throwing a baby shower in June- I might use your idea!
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that is terrific! I love those colors. I’ve started collecting ideas for my kids’ birthdays and I will definitely be remembering some of these ideas!
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my birthday is this month and i would LOVE this! who cares that i am 39!
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I did a rainbow playdoh party for my 3 year old daughter recently, but in pales in comparison to yours!
Here’s what we did:
http://johnandjackidaley.blogspot.com/2010/01/natalies-birthday-party-part-1-rainbow.html
And here’s my Cricut post on decorations/favors:
http://johnandjackidaley.blogspot.com/2010/01/natalies-birthday-party-part-2-rainbow.html
So wow!!! Loving this. I want my super power to be shooting rainbows from my fingertips, too.
What a sweet & colorful party. I just did a pink princess party for my 1 yr old & had so much fun doing it. I’m kinda into parties now. I want to do another one! It’s addicting. lol. Thanks for sharing such beautiful inspiration. Love how it all turned out.
Blessings!
-Sarah
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Adorable! Especially the little b-day girls. That table really is out of control cute!!!
Looks like it was so much fun! I told my 10yr old I want to have a polka dot party and she just giggled.
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Love it! It just made me smile through the whole thing. What a perfect party and love ALL the fabulous ideas. I love parties. They are just happiness.
Super fun! I love bright colors for kids parties!
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I’ve been planning a “Rainbow Party” for my daughter’s 8th birthday in June….thanks for some great ideas!!
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LOVE it ALL!
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Oh man! I’m doing a Rainbows & Sunshine theme for my daughter’s second birthday April 24th! (the day she was born) I actually was gonna do Ikea plates too! I wanna be as green as possible! I love what you created! Got my mind flowing even more! Do you have a recipe for the frosting?! It sounds super yummy!!
Where did you get the tutu’s? there super cute! The red fabric near the arch is that just a curtain or a bed sheet or something?! Oh man your getting me super excited for my daughters birthday! 
I hope I can finish everything in time! Thanks for explaining what you did because I was trying to figure out the balloon arch but those link-o-loons are kinda pricey. You did an awesome job! 
I will have to ask EM for the recipe, if I get it I will comment again. We found the tutus at the dollar store in the toy section, the red fabric is just my curtain for my back door. Your party sounds fun! Good Luck!
This is amazing. We went to a polka dot party awhile back and one of the cutest ideas was a ‘craft’ using the “do a dot” markers (Michael’s or Joann’s) and using them to fill in a picture of a gumball machine. You could do the same thing with a rainbow picture. The kids loved using them, but I guess it would depend on the ages.
I am in LOVE with this party!! So, so fun!! It’s amazing!!
At the risk of sounding like a baby, I just have to say you got me crying! Those two truly are Best Friends. I love how you talked about Lays super power. You are a good story teller. You are also the best photographer ever, and I can’t wait to steal the pics!
This party was perfectly decorated and photographed.
I hope you don’t mind me saving a few pictures for future inspiration, you just did such a fabulous job!
This is fabulous, so colorful!!! Beautiful girls in colorful party, ENVY!!!
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That party was RAINBOW HEAVEN! Thanks for sharing your fabulous ideas and photography!
I loved looking at all the pictures, I miss those days. I am hurridly trying to come up with ideas for my daughters 16th birthday.
This is awesome! Another idea- not the perfect rainbow colors, but still fun. There are these beads you can order online (I’m sorry I don’t have that information handy)… they are ultraviolet beads that are bland colors- make bracelets with them then go out in the sunshine- they will change colors from the light! Kids love them!
Love the rainbow theme – how cleverly executed! That cake is just fabulous! Looks like the adults had as much fun planning the party as the kids did attending! Thanks for the fun ideas.
I am SO having a rainbow party for my daughter’s 1st birthday in May! Yeah!
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I love it! i fully plan on pinching these ideas! ;-D
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What did you do for invitations? Thanks!!
I used a circle stamp in photoshop and stamped polka-dots all over a 4×6 in rainbow colors then I put the information about the party in the circles along with a couple pictures of the girls – it turned out pretty cute! Then I just printed them at costco as a 4×6 picture.
How adorable, you have the cutest ideas I am so making a cake like that for someones birthday this summer
the party looked like so much fun!
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Wow! That is SO awesome! We had a rainbow cake this year, but one of my BFF’s and I have little girls born less than 23 hours apart…I am thinking this would be a great future party for them! Thanks for sharing!!!!
Such a cute idea! I absolutely love all the bright colors!
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I LOVE this party, it looks fantastically fun and I will have to print it off and put it in our party book. I keep a running list (with visual aids- ideas for games/favors/decorations/cakes) for my kids to pick their party themes out of so that they don’t pick weird things that I can not do (last year my son picked a ‘bear in a den’ theme for his party and this year he has selected a bat theme for his June birthday- we need to limit it to things I CAN do).
On her wing tutorial it says that Em may be doing a tutu tutorial, is that in the works? I would love to find a way to do them inexpensively, without having a lot of left over materials. We only have two girls and teh way that I know how has LOTS of leftovers in materials and wasted $.
Thanks for sharing this
Alyssa
She said she would do the tutu tutorial – YEAH! Now I just have to get to helping her…ie take pictures of her doing it so I don’t screw it up!:)
What a fun party! I love the cake and the candy on the outside makes it even better!
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What a great party! Wish I could have been there! I don’t know how I missed this post, but it looks like it was fabulous! I love the rainbow cake…so cute!
Super cute party! Where can I find the recipe for the cake? Is it a mix tinted different colors or made from scratch? I would love the lemon icing recipe too!
I will have to get the cake recipe – but white cake mix tinted the colors would work. Here is the frosting recipe:
2/3 cup butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla ( I think she used lemon extract instead)
2 to 4 tablespoons milk
Beat butter until kight and fluffy. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating well. Beat in extract and enough milk for desired consistency.
YUM!
Were you ever able to post the cake recipe anywhere. thanks!!
sb
I am geting Em on it as we speak!