Birthday time again! This time the request was an ocean birthday... lots of fish and sea shells. This party is for our daughter who probably should have been born a fish. She loves swimming, shells and mermaids. I was really excited about this birthday theme.
I was hoping to make a sandcastle cake, but the birthday girl really wanted cupcakes. So, I made chocolate cupcakes, frosted them with vanilla frosting and dusted them with graham cracker "sand." Then I added a picture of a sandcastle and some chocolate fish and sea shells. The picture is simply taped to a drinking straw and poked into one of the cupcakes.
We bought baskets of shells from the dollar tree and hung them on the walls, from the ceiling and scattered them around the table and the window sill.
I bought a deck of "Go Fish" cards at the dollar store and we hung all the pictures of the fish on the walls, along with some sea shells.
I managed to acquire the very last set of these fish decals that our dollar store had. This entire birthday party was a dollar store creation, but our girl couldn't be more thrilled with it.
She woke up to our creation with pure delight and wonderment. Decorating at night to have them wake up to it creates the anticipation of a trip to Disneyland.
Creating this ocean birthday theme was really fun and easy!
