Rebecca is 8: a Tangled Party

What a great day.  Rebecca turned 8! We celebrated in the morning with our family. Rebecca received her own scriptures and some "Tangled" toys to go with our party theme.  

 

In the afternoon 6 of her special friends came to celebrate a "Tangled" Rapunzel Party with us.  We played pictionary, sherades, and made candy necklaces. We also played "Pin the frying pan on Flynn," and Rebecca got him smack in the nose.

 We had fantastic decorations, if I may say so myself.  The theme was purple and yellow like the party theme in the town in the Rapunzel movie.  We had a purple tablecloth and yellow plates and my pride and joy, the sun banner.  We cut the banner out of felt, made a sun stencil and sponge painted the suns.  The kids all got in on the action, but it was a little harder than I thought it would be and I needed to do most of it myself. 

We made "Lanterns" in honor of the floating lanterns from the movie.  We modgepodged pieces of tissue paper onto glass vases and put tea lights inside to glow.

 
We did a conga line to cross the street to find a tree to use for our pinata. (We don't have any big enough trees in our yard, but our neighbor had a perfect one.)
We haven't done a pinata since Rebecca was 1, so it seemed like it was time to do it again.

Mad scramble for the candy

Rebecca actually broke the pinata on round 2 (after everyone had had a turn). It couldn't have been better.

Rebecca requested an unfrosted Angel Food cake, so that is what we did.  We served it sliced with fresh whipped cream and cut strawberries (coated in a little sugar).  We had trick candles that kept coming back on and got lots of squeals out of the girls.

Rebecca made the signs herself.  "Welcome to the Snuggly Duckling" (the tavern in the movie), a "Wanted dead or alive" sign and a Happy Birthday sign.  I believe it is important to let them be involved in the preparations as much as possible. 

What a fabulous party for a fabulous girl.  Thanks for coming to our family and making me a mommy! I love you, Rebecca! 8 is GREAT!!!