Fruit Slushies
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It doesn’t seem to matter what season it is, kids love slushies. Those slushies from corner stores look as though they are full of sugar and food colouring but they still sell quickly when the school kids walk past.
Slushies can be relatively healthy and make a great party drink in the warmer weather especially for pool parties and outdoor events. They stay cool for a long time (even if they lose their slushiness).
This recipe came from the Sunbeam site and it sounds delicious as well as healthy. Tuck this one into your party recipe book for summertime.
Fruit salad slushie – Serves: 2
Ingredients:
500g frozen fruit salad
200g tub 97% fat-free frozen passionfruit yoghurt
2 cups mango nectar
Method:
1. Place all ingredients in the jug of a blender. Blend until just smooth and combined. Serve.
Handbag Loot Bags
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Have you seen our handbag shaped loot bags?
Available in hot pink and lime green, they are colourful and funky. They are perfect for birthday parties full of girls up to early teen age.
This one is dressed with one of our Candy Wings bag tags and it looks fab. Doesn’t it make you want to go look inside it?
These bags are useful for gift giving, too. Don’t worry about having to wrap the present neatly, just slip it into one of these bags and it will look great.
The Pirate Party
By · CommentsThe Pirate Party is simple and fun to do and can suit both boys and girls. Since the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies were released the demand for pirate goods has increased.
A good pirate party has touches of adventure and fun. We have a great range of pirate products to make setting up your adventure very easy. Here are just a few.
Helping you find information
By · CommentsWe’ve had a lot of information coming through our blog so we thought we should do a summary post to help you find things. We have listed our recipes, kids games and informative articles in the one spot. We hope this is useful.
Recipes
Perfect Pineapple Pops (food allergies)
Party Games
Articles
How to Write a Birthday Party Invitation
Creative Food for Baby Showers
By · CommentsI have been looking at decorating ideas for baby showers and I found this great tutorial on how to make a baby carriage/pram out of a watermelon.
The video shows you step by step how to do it and the end result looks colourful and healthy. I thought it might appeal to you.
Kids Parties and Food Allergies
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Planning a kids party isn’t easy. You need to be a logistics wiz to make it all go smoothly. One of the most difficult parts is planning and preparing the food. So many children seem to have food allergies or intolerances, don’t they?
I recently found a website that can help with ideas for food to suit the various dietary needs of kids. It is called KidsHealth.org and while only some of the recipes are for ‘party food’ there are enough ideas in the lists to help you prepare your party menu.
The site lists recipes suitable for vegetarians and kids with cystic fibrosis, diabetes, lactose intolerance and coeliac disease. It is a very handy resource site to know about.
This is one of the recipes taken from the general section and it is called Perfect Pineapple Pops.
Ingredients:
- 2 c. plain yogurt
- ½ c. canned crushed pineapple (packed in its own juice instead of packed in syrup)
- 1 can frozen pineapple or orange-pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
Utensils:
- medium-sized bowl
- mixing spoon
- small paper cups
- plastic wrap
- wooden popsicle sticks (available at craft stores)
- measuring cups
Directions:
- Drain the can of crushed pineapple so all the juice runs out.
- Put all the ingredients in the bowl and mix together.
- Spoon the mixture into the paper cups. Fill them almost to the top.
- Stretch a small piece of plastic wrap across the top of each cup.
- Using the popsicle stick, poke a hole in the plastic wrap. Stand the stick straight up in the center of the cup.
- Put the cups in the freezer until the mixture is frozen solid.
- Remove the plastic wrap and peel away the paper cup. You’ll have pineapple pops to eat and share
Drop in to KidsHealth and have a look at the recipes. They will appeal to all kids and you will be able to relax knowing that the food you have selected is safe for the child with food allergies to eat.
Age Appropriate Loot Bags
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We know that all kids love loot bags to take home from a party. Even adults have been known to scamper off with the spare loot bag. The trick to a good loot bag is to provide contents to suit the age of the child receiving it.
Here are some things to think about weh putting your loot bags together.
1. Don’t include small objects in bags for toddlers. Small toys and lollies are a choking hazard.
2. Sometimes it’s hard for little ones to tell the difference between a toy and a lolly. Gumballs and bouncy balls don’t look a lot different to young eyes. If there’s chance of confusion, don’t include that item.
3. Make sure that you have a loot bag for everyone. Children hate to see others miss out and have been known to hand over a loot bag even to babies. Make a special look bag up for babies and include rusks or teething toys as their loot. That’s a safer option!
4. Don’t give the loot bags out until it is time to go home. That helps to keep the contents of the bag intact until they leave the house and reduces the risk of having goodies fall into the wrong hands.
5. Older children and pre-teens still love loot bags but they won’t want to be given the same things as the smaller kids. (They have to preserve their image, after all.) Pens, notebooks and temporary tattoos would be good for this age.
Loot bags are part of the fun of any birthday party and with a little care, will keep every child happy once the party is over.
Party Themes E-Book
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We are happy to bring you our new e-book simply called “Children’s Themed Parties“. We have had lots of people asking us for ideas on how to create a theme an carry it right through the whole party. Many had surfed the net looking for ideas only to become totally overwhelmed by it all.
Our “Children’s Themed Parties” e-book will save you time and many headaches. You can print it off to read or just read it online. It contains everything you need to know from how to word the invitations right through to party games.
It includes themes like “tea party’, ‘pirate’, ‘princess’ and more.
The e-book is now in our store so grab yourself a copy and make life easier for yourself.
Edible Photo Cake Images and Stickers
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I found these clever things on Facebook and thought that they might save you lots of work in decorating that special cake.
PhotoEditing create edible photo images and stickers for cakes. I have seen edible photo cakes before, but not stickers. What a great idea. You can use them to decorate the sides of the main cake or as decorations for cupcakes. The picture shows stickers of the little girl who was having her first birthday.
Imagine using these as bonboniere after a wedding or christening? Edible and personal at the same time.
Another clever idea is the side decorating images. If you have a cake that looks fab from the top but unfinished on the sides, this could be your answer. The Humpty Dumpty cake in the picture uses an edible image of the wall to surround the cake. Doesn’t that make it look professional?
You don’t have to worry about creating the images, either. Just supply the photo and PhotoEditing can do the lot because they are trained as graphic artists. They use exceptional quality printing equipment and edible inks so that the images are amazingly clear.
What a great find.
Treasure Hunt with Shopolat
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This week we have joined in with the Treasure Hunt being run by Shopolat. It’s the first hunt The Spotty Napkin has been part of and it has been great fun.
Have you joined in? It isn’t too late to join. The Hunt officially started on 1 August but it doesn’t end until tonight.
All you have to do is to go and register then follow the clues. Here is a link to some FAQ about the Hunt and how it works. There are some great prizes up for grabs!
I hope to see you online today as you pass through on the Treasure Hunt. Good luck!
