Mason's 3rd Birthday....A carnival!

 The carnival party was so much to plan!  But if your not careful it can get very expensive!  I found some creative and cheap ways to make it still feel like a carnival!  I had this piece of plywood in the garage for some reason and decided to make it into the ticket booth.  My husband did all of the cutting and assembly while I did the painting and decorating.  As the kids came into the carnival they were greeted by the ticket booth worker who presented them with personalized bags that had plenty of tickets to use for all of the games.

 We hired Mike the balloon man to make the kids whatever they asked for!  You have probably seen him at Moe's on Family Night.

 I found these bags on oriental Trading and used them for the popcorn!

 The Popcorn machine was a BIG hit!  We rented it from our local party store.

 The kids also got to make their own pizzas!

 One of the many games we had for the kids to play!  Each booth had little trinket prices that I purchased on Oriental Trading as well.

 Bean Bag Toss!

My husband made the cupcakes!  I bought the clown face, hands and feet on ebay.

Mason's First Birthday....Baby Einstein

 I came up with the Baby Einstein theme because that is all that Mason was interested in at the time.  I decided to make the cake myself by using Wilton's Sports Ball Cake Pan.  I bought the icing at the local grocery store in the bakery department and then dyed the colors myself with Wilton's Cake Dye.

 For the table decorations, I bought baby Einstein puppets at Target and then bought cone shape styrofoam to help them stand up.  They made great center pieces!

 The pinata I made myself!  I started this crazy project at least 3 months before the party!  I used large balloons and paper mache'd them and let them dry and cut out hole's to fit the next body piece into place.  Inside of the caterpillar is a cardboard wrapping paper roll that helped keep it's shape.