A Pretty Princess Birthday Party (On a Budget)

So my daughter's second birthday is coming up, I got together with Colleen to come up with ideas for a theme and she suggested a princess party. I thought this was perfect so we started cruising the web to come up with ideas for the party and got together the next day to plan it.

Let me tell you, if you are on a budget, the dollar store is your friend.  And even if you aren't, we found the coolest stuff there. Thank goodness it is about Valentine's Day time, so there was a lot of pink stuff at the store.

We came up with the idea of doing a candy bar for the guests to fill up on before going home. We got some glass jars and candy dishes, some great pink candies, some little clear plastic tongs, and some favor boxes to put it all in.

For the favor boxes, we got some little foam hearts to glue on, some heart stickers and some curling ribbon.

For the candy jars, we got some tulle and some ribbon and tied them around the jars into bows.

We got pink and white napkins and pink and silver plates and white paper cups so we could write everyone's name on it in sharpie so no one would get their cups mixed up. We got pink lemonade and water to drink and put the pink lemonade in a pretty glass pitcher that got the ribbon dress up as well.

For food, we made pizza logs (will be doing a post on that in the future), got a veggie tray, made cake batter blondies (you can find that recipe here) and firecrackers. Colleen made sugar cookies, and a friend made a cheesecake. We had sausages and hotdogs on the grill with individual bags of chips, and bags of sliced apples. 

For a party game, we had pin the tiara on the castle. This game came from the dollar store, but I bet you could make your own version.

Balloons on the mailbox (The universal sign for "Party over here!" and ribbons and crepe paper decorate the front porch


All in all, I think the party was a smashing success!