Hosting an under the sea birthday party is pretty easy and a lot of fun.
The first thing I made was the invites. I went with a take on a wedding invite on pinterest and made an oyster shell from pearlised card. To make it draw the shell and cut out the top half leaving the bottom piece of card attached, then fold it over, trace around the top and cut out the bottom half to have matching pieces.
Cut some lines for the gaps in the shell.
Print out the information for the party on paper and cut the shape of the shell around it only slightly smaller then glue in.
For decoration I largely used coloured crepe streamers and A LOT of balloons, all bought fairly cheaply from ebay. I picked out sea green, teal, pale blue and pinks.
A simple net from ebay allowed a balloon net on the ceiling.
And crepe streamers over the windows gave a real aquatic, underwater feel.
More balloons up the corners of the walls looked like bubbles, and were just stuck on rather than helium filled.
Shower caps and crepe made jelly fish to hang.
For the cakes I adapted a pinterest idea to fit our colour scheme and made a layered ombre green cake with waves on the sides, sand from brown sugar on top and a crab!
I also made a number one cake from the left over icing.
We had quite a spread in the end too…
…a watermelon shark…
…sea jellies…
…banana dolphins…
… and a pepper octopus!
I also made fish and chips in the oven (oven chips and scampi pieces) and served them in these pokes which I obtained after MUCH searching only to discover the name for these is actually a “fries scoop”.
I made her banner but painting a large roll of paper in blues and greens then cutting out a whale shape. Then I stuck on letters cut from pink paper.
Roslyn seemed to enjoy it so I think it was a hit!
Sandy's Castle 