All of the little things...

First let me start off by telling you what happened after my last blog.  Yesterday morning Lilly woke up, went down stairs and saw the Gabba Character boxes I stayed up to work on.  Her face lit up and she said, "Mama Look!" She ran over and said, "Hey Fufa, Hey Muno, Hey Plex, Hey Brobee, Hey Toodee!" She talked to them until it was time to leave. When we were leaving she said "Come On Guys".  I literally think she thought they were real! This made my day and let me know that I did a good job!  Ok, as promised here are some other things I made for Lilly's party!

#1- Goody Buckets- Went to the dollar store and got buckets in each of the Gabba colors (Sorry no red for Muno).  I then used paint pens to color on eyes and a nose for Toodee.  Inside the bucket I put the following things-
*Memory game I printed off Nick Jr.com
*Bubbles- dollar store-1 dollar for the bubble packs
*Bubble Gum and Ring Pops
* Train Kit- I took a picture from the "Train" episode of Gabba and stapled it onto a train goody pack from the NC transportation museum.  Inside is a train whistle, pencil, eraser, and 2 free passes to ride the train at the Transportation Museum.  Free, Free, Free... extras from class field trip!

*Krazy Straws

* Yo Gabba Gabba mini coloring book- Printed from NickJr.com

Each thing that is in the bucket has a Yo Gabba Gabba Episode picture that goes along with it.  For example the bubbles have the Gabba Characters blowing bubbles.  The candy Bags have "There's a Party in my Tummy" too.

#2- More boxes.  I made some more boxes tonight also as decoration.  Some are larger, and one is a boom box like DJ Lance has.  My plan is to put the mask I made (pictures later) in the boom box for the kids to take.

#3- Visors.  I found these visors at Hobby Lobby and had to get them.  They were only 3.00 for a pack of 7 visors! The foam for the eyes was only a dollar also! What a deal, and they turned out so cute!

#4- Cozies- These were also at Hobby Lobby today. An 8 pack of cozies were only 3.50!! I used the same foam as before and added eyes to these too.  I plan on using them to hold the utensils at the party, and maybe carry around my Coke Zero!

More pictures will be coming on Saturday of the actual Party and how everything turned out! All ideas I did came from pictures I saw on Google! Parties do not always have to be expensive to be great. With all of the hard work I have put in this is sure going to be a Birthday I remember, and I think Lilly will too!!