For anyone who doesn't know the book, here is a quick run down.
Once upon a time a little girl name Sal and her mom go out to Blueberry Hill to pick blueberries to can for the winter. Sal has a little tin pail and manages to get 3 berries in before getting distracted eating berries. Meanwhile Little Bear and his mother are eating berries on Blueberries to fatten up for winter. I wont ruin the rest of the book for you.
In addition to the obvious blueberries and bears in the theme, I decided to go with Mason Jars, tin pails, and blue gingham for the decor.
The plan for the cake backfired because my cake girl's daughter was in the emergency room the night before the party and couldn't finish the blueberrry cream-filled cupcakes and large tin pail cake. I bought plain green frosted cupcakes from a local grocery store bakery and put 3 fresh blueberries or 2 teddy grahams(one small one large) on each one.
We also had cheesecake with blueberry pie filling served out of a mason jar.
(I failed at getting a picture)
Blueberry yogurts on ice in a tin pail.
Blueberry Lemonade
The recipe was literally "Simply Blueberry Lemonade" with a bag of frozen blueberries floating on top.
I found these adorable little chalkboard mason jar signs at Craft Warehouse.
You can see the blue gingham in the background, I got a huge piece of fabric at a yard sale for $1.
Under the cupcakes on on the favor table I put some circles and blue gingham designed scrapbook paper I had bought for the invitations that I didn't end up using. I got the little tin pails at various thrift shops and a bunch from Oriental Trading.
Teddy Grahams and fresh blueberries (of course)
And for a break from all the blueberries, fresh fruit salad.
For activities, we had teddy bear shaped wooden picture frames to paint:
And a water table full of "blueberries" and tiny pails for scooping.
(water beads)
The party favors were a variety of second hand teddy bears with blue ribbons and little jars of blueberry jellybeans.
Everyone enjoyed the party!
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