Strawberry Shortcake Party

I was sooo excited when my Sister-in-law asked for my help planning my niece's 7th Birthday party. 

On the front door

Strawberry balloons at the end of the driveway.  I got this idea and some other inspiration, from PartyPlanningMom

 

Gift table early before many guests arrived. The giant strawberry was a random find at our local Party City. 

For favors, we made strawberry boxes using this template . inside were some strawberry candies, some fruit shaped silly bands, some stickers and a tattoo. They were tied to SS coloring books from Dollar Tree. The boys got more boy-ish coloring books. My sister-in-law put together some prizes for the Orange Blossom game with SS bath products.

The birthday girl made this little strawberry family. On the back she wrote Dad, Mom, and her and her siblings names in order of age. 

The kids table. We bought the table runner here. We took some fresh strawberries, poked them on to skewers and inserted them into vases full of greenery.

Balloons the girls (birthday girl and her sister) drew seeds all over tied to bushes in the yard.

Honeycomb strawberries tied in various places

Sign the birthday girl made. She is quite the artist.

Strawberry chandelier and banner. 

Dessert table

Strawberry punch. I cut hearts out of leftover black sticky vinyl with my Cricut, cut them in half and stuck them to my drink dispenser. On top is a flower design cut out of green cardstock for a stem. Under the strawberry is some grass cut from a few different colors of green cardstock. 

The girls drew seeds all over red Solo cups. I cut stems out using a templet from the strawberry boxes. 

We bought a few licensed products to tie in the theme. We supplemented them with some leftover pink and green plates and napkins I had. 

we served chocolate dipped strawberries and Oreo truffles. 

For the green and white stripes, we put out a vase of mints (with a ribbon around it)

And of course we had to have classic strawberry candies. Under the vases I put a little scrap of strawberry fabric that came pre cut into squares with a set in the canning aisle at Wal-Mart, intended to be used over the top of a jar. 

Strawberry Shortcake House Cake by Pink Princess Cakes

The girls helped decorate heart shaped strawberry cupcakes.  I had some heart shaped silicone cupcake cups but not enough. for the rest, we used these instructions I wanted the tip a little pointier so I pulled a bit of the paper away from the cake, inserted a white chocolate chip and frosted over it. 

We served fresh strawberries of course. I found the felt strawberry clips at Michael s  In the background you will see we had some strawberry Twizzlers too. 

The strawberry labels were in the canning section of Wal-Mart with the jars. 

This darling white dessert holder was my sister-in-laws. We put leafs from the floral arrangement under the truffles. The next level had red paper under it and the bottom had some green and white wrapping paper my sister-in-law used for gifts. 

 Strawberry Shortcake has some friends. To have some variety in the crafts, I designed a craft or activity with some of her friends in mind. The girls decorated plain pink bags using a strawberry stencil and some Sharpies. We used more canning labels for to give each one a name tag. In this picture you can see the kitchen counter (conveniently red) with a table runner and some SS confetti.

 There was Huckleberry Pie's skateboard design station, since he rides around on a skateboard.

Her friend Angelcakes is a cake decorator. I got some coloring cupcake magnets from Oriental Trading company and put one in each cup of a muffin pan, so it was like you take the cupcake out of the pan and decorate it. 

I downloaded different fonts for the different friends' signs and got images from wikipedia of each friend. 

The most popular activity was Gingersnap's Cookie Decorating 

 I got some clearance gingerbread cookie decorating kits and added some stickers from my collection. Everyone loved making paper gingerbread cookies. 

We also had a table for "Strawberry growing" which was a felt strawberry and gem seeds but most of the kids just took that craft kit home with them so I didnt get a picture of them using it. 

 Strawberry Shortcake has a friend name Orange Blossom. I got some ping pong sized oranges and we had an Orange Blossom's Orange Balancing race. The kids got 2 rounds, they balanced the orange on a plastic spoon along the driveway to a finish line. Most of the kids got strawberry shortcake theme prizes.

Another picture of the dessert table. 

 I love the look of wonder on Sophia's face. We got the SS tiara party hat at Oriental Trading Company.

Everyone had a great time. Sophia says it is the best party ever. 

Honeycomb Strawberries

This weekend we are having a Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party for my niece Sophia.

When I found these I knew immediately I could turn them into strawberries.


I de-strung them from the white ribbon and cut the lacy edges off (leaving the hole-punched top section).

I dotted the folded up edges with black Sharpie for seeds

opened up, the seeds are faint but I think it takes the heart look away. 

We had extra stems from another Strawberry project and they seemed to work well at the top. I cut a little slit in the middle and slid the hole punched section through.

I had to fold the curling ribbon to fit it through the hole.

All done. 

we opted to string them individually so we had more flexibility on where to hang them rather than a garland as they came. Planning this party we are realizing how easily a heart turns into a strawberry!

cost: 3.75 for a string of 7 hearts
we got 2 strings

These will look great hanging all over the back yard at the Strawberry Shortcake Party. 

Strawberry Shortcake Party Banner

I made this for the up-coming Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party for my sweet niece Sophia. I love how the light and dark pinks work so well with the lime green and white stripes, (like Strawberry Shortcake's pants/hat ribbon. Also love how the polka dots sort of look like seeds on triangle shaped strawberries. 

The letters were cut from scrapbook cardstock using the Plantain Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge on Roly Poly at 3 inches. The strawberry stem is the flower in 4-5 inches (I forget) on the same cartridge folded over the top. 

I could have made the pennants but I found them for sale here (and I was ordering other stuff and got free shipping) for less than if I bought paper and cut them myself. I bought 3 different colors, hot pink, candy pink and lime. They came strung on fishing line (3 separate banners) , but I wanted to alternate colors, so we cut them off of the fishing line and hole punched the corners. 

all the pennants were strung on green curling ribbon, which was curled once it was hung on the wall. 

Depending on where we hang the banner, I may split the bottom line in to 2, having a strawberry pennant at the beginning and end of "birthday", I have one dark pink triangle left over. 

I considered cutting letters for the other side, in case we wanted to hang in the window or from the ceiling above the kitchen island, but we will see how much paper/time I have left over first. Because it isn't over the top specifically Strawberry Shortcake, the banner could be re-used for another party, a baby shower or something, the letters should come off easily, or we could use the back. (ETA I ended up using the extra pennant to make a "7th"  at the end of "sweet" and hung in the 2 rows shown.) 

Cost Breakdown

banners: 3x$3, 

3 sheets of cardstock from my stash (calling that free)

a glue stick I had (calling this free)

green curling ribbon (included in other craft budget)

26-27 triangle banner, about 15 feet for ~$9

There will definitely be more Strawberry Shortcake posts to come!