Donut party!

I know the donut theme has been around for awhile, but I hope you're not sick of it yet!

If you're a regular here, you know that my 3 kids have their birthdays super close together. All 3 of them within 10 days of each other, in late April/early May. I usually do a party for each of them, spanning 3 weekends. This year, we were in the middle of house-packing/house-renovating stress and I nixed a party where the kids would have to maneuver around boxes, and asked if they could please pick a theme that would work for all three of them.

Lemme tell you something: asking 3 kids, ages 10, 8 and 5, to agree on a party theme is no easy task. As soon as the word "donuts" was uttered, I RAN to Michaels, bought a donut pan and told them the negotiations were over. Because, look! I bought a pan.

After the pan, I decided that I wouldn't use stamps for this party. I designed all of the artwork, which I'll highlight even more in a separate post, and had everything printed. As much as I adore working with stamped images, this was even more fun! Add in all of the amazing treats by Marlyn (of Montreal Confections) and I think this turned out to be a great party.

Donut worry, be happy! I grabbed that frame (from Michaels) from our basement, and had my artwork printed up BIG (24x36 inches).  Did you know that to print that in color would have costed more than 30$, but if you print it in black and white on engineering paper, it costed under 5$? I added the color with acrylic paints that I had lying around.



Marlyn made 3 cakes, for my 3 birthday babies. Every year, I keep thinking she will never live up to the previous year's cake, and every year I clap my hands and do a giddy jig when I see what she's created. It's always a surprise, and I'm always thrilled with how well she matches my vision for the parties. (She has a how-to video on youtube that you can access *here*)

A cake covered in sprinkles delighted Maia to no end. She was all about it. What 5 year old wouldn't be over-the-moon about all those sprinkles?



This square cake, with the donut cookies on it, was such a show-stopper.



All the parents were bent over the cakes, to get closer looks at the tiny donuts!



This one was my favorite. Tiny donuts all around, with minty green frosting. So cute I can't stand it.



And, with my 3 kids-in-a-donut on top, even cuter.



I had so much fun with the paperie for this party. "Donut mind if you..." on every food/drink marker made the kids giggle.

Don't laugh, but this was our first Krispy Kreme donut experience. We thought it would be fun for the kids to try them, since we usually stick to Tim Hortons. They are so yummy, but so heavy! I felt sick after 1 donut! But look, so pretty:

I felt obliged to put something on the table so that the parents wouldn't freak out over all the sugar I was feeding their kids!  Do you think any of them reached for fruit? Ha, nope.



Marlyn also made the cutest donut cookies. I asked her to make them as big as the donuts!



This one featured chocolate-covered-pop-rocks as sprinkles. I heard they were delicious. Ha.



I had this one instead. Something happened when I grew up, and I hate all the candy I loved as a child. I mean, bubble-gum ice cream? No thanks. I'll have the salted caramel with pecans, please.

My favorite party decoration?



hee hee.

I hung it from the dining room fixture, over the water-bottles.



We played a few donut-themed party games in our backyard (what a change from our usual April parties where the temperature can still hover around freezing!), one of which involved a sheet of gyprock that we had leftover from our renovations:

I sketched him out, and the hubs cut out the mouth. I used acrylic paints to color him in, and a sharpie to add the black outline.



I managed to grab an action shot of Maia's turn (I think Amar is grabbing her arm to move her back to where she was supposed to stand. ha.)

We had such a great time, and the kids would like to do a summer party with all of their friends again next year! I hope you enjoyed this look at our donut party!

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