#Ginger stache birthday full
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I'd never seen this game played before so I wasn't sure how it would work out.but in general the 'cats' ran around and tagged everyone pretty quickly and no one else had a chance. The kid with the most rubber bands after 10 minutes was the winner. If someone was tagged, that person was to relinquish one of her rubber bands and then had 10 Mississippi-seconds to run away without being re-tagged. Mice got a running head start, followed by birds, and then cats. The rules were explained that cats were allowed to tag everyone, birds were allowed to tag only mice, and mice weren't allowed to tag anyone. Mice received 10 rubber bands to wear around their wrists, birds received five, cats got none. I separated the kids into three groups: cats, birds, and mice. This one's slightly more confusing.but basically it's a complicated version of Tag. I'm 27, I don't have kids, and I went through a serious unedited rap music phase so I promise you this was not a good idea. This was a good idea in theory but I didn't think to make a playlist ahead of time and just let my iTunes randomly shuffle. I played music from my iPhone and randomly stopped it. Sam had a few large bags of stuffed animals that were en route to be donated so we combed through them in search of animals that a cat might eat (mice, birds, etc) and my dad hid them throughout the yard. This game was basically an Easter Egg hunt, but cat themed. Sam went so far as to make me a list of cat names from the books and their colors so I could be sure to make the right amount of properly colored ears. Sam and I decided everyone would be assigned a cat-sona (see what I did there?) upon arrival. Don't let your little humans down like this, big humans! Cat Ears These books are about normal cats that happen to be wild, not leopards. One thing I found while trying to find parties that other people did (which was very slim pickins) was that grown-ups must not have really researched the books and often tried to go with a jungle cat theme. I took it upon myself to do some scientific Google research so I could make the party as true to the books as possible without actually having to read them.

#Ginger stache birthday series

In short: it's a book series about clans of wild cats who live in the forest and do cat stuff. If you find yourself conversing with 10 year olds, then you may have heard of the Warriors book series. But, lest you think this was because she enjoys my company, it was actually because she knows I throw the most legit-est of all the kid parties. In a completely un-10-year-old-y move, she decided to postpone her birthday party until I returned. A few weeks prior to her birthday she started dropping hints that perhaps I should be planning out her soiree for her, but, unfortunately for her, Kurt and I were finally going to get around to taking a honeymoon on her actual birthday. DR AWKARD: person in costume who went around and acted like an awkward doctor. RACECAR: game prize & racecar bed for foodģ3. NO POOP? TED, I BAN A BIDET POOP ON! toiletģ1. PEE DEEP I SAY, AS I PEE DEEP.: bathroomĢ2. GODDAMN MAD DOG: Mad Elf & Flying Dog beerĢ1.

GO HANG A SALAMI! I'M A LASAGNA HOG!: food-lasagna with salami hanging aboveġ3. TULSA NIGHTLIFE: FILTH, GIN, A SLUT: gin mixed drinkġ1. HERE SO LONG? NO LOSER, EH?: sign at exitġ0. NO LEMONS, NO MELON: fruit salad without lemons or melonĨ. I created all of these block letters to make my very own font.ħ. I'm a sucker for snail mail so I do often send paper invitations, but I've also been using Greenvelope a lot recently and I gotta say you can't beat it for easy/cost effective sending and tracking.

I used Greenvelope for these so I also included screenshots of how they looked when sent and formatted digitally. I didn't really-not until March and this was October.

Anywho-I made a mental note that the next time someone I knew turned 11 or 22 or 33 or perhaps even 44 I would throw the most over the top palindrome party.įlash forward 4.5 years and Jen from Prism in Annapolis approached me to create a styled birthday party shoot in her space and asked if I had any parties coming up near-term. But then that monster (mon-sister if you will) decided she wanted a luau instead.

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I also started a word doc full of ideas for this glorious party.