Belle's Tangled Birthday

guests with Tangled braids :)

For Belle's 5th birthday, after much deliberation, she decided she wanted a Tangled party.  We have watched Tangled probably 5,000 times at our house & it is still their favorite!  Since we are so familiar with the movie, we had all of these awesome ideas for the party PLUS I found so many awesome ideas on the web that we had to really pick & choose what we wanted to do. 

First, I LOOOOVE treat bags :)  I wanted to do something that the guests could use later as a toy bag or book bag.  I found these adorable bags for $1.oo at AC Moore.  They are a canvas/poly type bag~very sturdy & strong.  AND they were big enough (18x12).  I bought all kinds of ribbons (3 for $1.00), embellishments (3 packages for $5.00) & some fabric paint.  I tried to decorate each one unique for the guest & made a very special one for the birthday girl :)

The boys had special "boy" themed bags filled with shields, body armour, and other "knightly" goodies.  Each guest got Tangled candy (found @ the party store), a white horse ($1.00 @ Walmart) for Maximus, Tangled notebooks ($1.00 @ Dollar Store), & Tangled markers ($1.00 Dollar Store) along with the goodies they made @ the party.

trying to get a picture of all 12 kids was harder than catching
 Flynn Rider!  lol

 As all the guests arrived, we had the girls come to the braiding station & decorate their braids with flowers (think Rapunzel @ the Kingdom) & have their braids attached to their hair.  For the girls with short hair, I attached the yarn to rhinestone headbands so it looked like a wig with a tiara :)  The boys, meanwhile, were given a mission to find the crown (a hidden tiara) & report back to the tower (concrete form with a poster board roof decorated to look like Rapunzel's tower).  We also had downloaded the Tangled soundtrack & combined it with our princess soundtrack from last year's birthday for background music/dancing music.

 After everyone arrived, we headed out to the bouncy house to work up an appetite for lunch.

 After lots of bouncy fun, we headed indoors to have a Rapunzel-themed lunch.  I always let the birthday girl choose the food then try to incorporate it into the theme.  Tangled was hard!  We had the Ugly Duck Cafe & served up as much "pub" food as the birthday girl liked~think bite size sandwiches, chips, veggie & fruit baskets (rather than fries).  We made purple (grape) jello jigglers in the shapes of horses & tiaras, as well as purple kool aid. 

After lunch we made sugar cube towers.  It turned

out to be much more hilarious than I imagined. 

There was a lot of stack a cube, eat a cube & a lot

 of finger-licking with the frosting.  Some of the kids were future engineers and had HUGE towers,

while some of the kids ended up making more

castle looking structures (wide instead of tall). 

Some of the kids formed teams to get the cubes

to cooperate & stay standing.  Overall, the parents

had as much as the kids watching them :)

After towers we did presents & cake.  We had the traditional store bought sheet cake decorated with Rapunzel, as well as a tower cake that I saw online.  I was too scared that the tower cake would not stand through out the day, so the store bought was a back-up, anxiety-reliever :)  The kids all had a wonderful time and the birthday girl said it was the best 5th birthday ever :)



our tower bookmarks we made :)