Okay, so you've already seen these... a little card stock and crepe paper.
Here are some black paper lanterns that got tissue paper faces as well.
Here is the gorgeous cake, made by the lovely ladies at 'Tis So Sweet. Note the little sugar-coated marshmallow ice blocks. :)
We had a penguin waddle race,
musical ice blocks,
and a somewhat macabre bludgeoning of the piñata.
Poor little guy. You can see the tutorial here.
Here's the food table, complete with one of those really loud toy rollercoaster thingies, where the penguins hop up the stairs and then go down the slide, over and over, with obnoxious carnivalish music playing. DS loves it a little too much.
SO ANYWAY, I put fish sticks and hot dog squid in food safe metal pails to resemble penguin feeding time. There were veggies and fruits, too, with emphasis on the orange accent color.
I made a small army of these guys,
and then rolled a bunch of sushi. Some people call me crazy, but really, my three-year-old asks for sushi for his birthday? I'm not going to refuse such a healthy request! And besides, what else would penguins eat??? Well, sashimi, if you are being technical. Whatevs. No raw fish this time, though... California roll is DS's fave. Shrimp nigiri was DD's request. Cucumber and carrot rolls were included for the unadventurous. I love making sushi, and it's really not that hard!
I'm not sure why I don't have more pics of the desserts, but here you can see the birthday boy enjoying his cake with his dairy-allergic BFF eating blue jello cubes intermingled with Swedish Fish. There were also rice krispie squares, made with coconut oil instead of margarine, of course!
This party was laden with food allergies, which is why we were almost entirely gluten, egg, and dairy free except for the cake itself. There were a few other small things, but enough choices that everyone had plenty of penguin-related partying. Allergy-friendly goodie bags are tough, though. In the piñata, we had enough treats for everyone to get a lot of candy that they could eat, but the goodie bags were mostly handmade prizes. The one food item in there was Trader Joe's kettle corn... yummy for everyone, and beautiful packaging, too!
Here are the recycled crayons I made, inspired by this. The sticker on the baggie says "Arctic Art." I got the fish shaped ice cube mold from IKEA, and the crayons were free because we already had them. The mold is okay to use because the oven temp is pretty low. I know a lot of people who get crayon molds from the dollar bin at Target. I will say, though, that once you use a silicon mold for crayons, you probably can't use it for anything else after that.
Then I made play dough and added glitter for "Snow Dough." (Please note: play dough is NOT gluten free. The kids I made it for are old enough to not eat it. Use caution for younger kids who might "accidentally" try some, or for those who have contact allergies!) I added a penguin eraser that I got at Party City. Also in the goodie bag were black and white paper blow-outs.
Did I forget anything? We are pretty penguin-ed out. Or maybe that's just me. I did obtain a penguin game at a yard sale two weeks ago, so keeping the penguin thing going is really pretty much my fault. O.o
And then the week after the penguin party, DS started preschool, and he got to be the popular kid who brings a treat on the first day. So this happened:
unscrewed "Joe's O's" cookies for faces and wings, molded orange Starburst candy for beaks, and candy eyes bought from the cake isle at the craft store. Maybe I am just a little crazy.
