Party Time!

Excitement levels have been building ever since the invites went out earlier in the week with Katy counting down the number of sleeps till her party! Gurney's only went out to a handful of school friends and a couple of special non-school friends as we thought a flower crafty theme wouldn't suit the cousins and older siblings of party guests. For various reasons (moving house, Andy heading off to Europe, imminent travels for the Grandies), we had to scheduled the party for Monday of the long weekend resulting in a few girls who sadly weren't able to make it.

The girls started by decorating flower cookies which they took home in their party bags! Next we threaded felt flowers onto wavy cord to make flower bracelets. While all the girls were concentrating hard, Nana arrived home wondering where we all had gone as the house was soooo quiet only to discover us in the family room!

Next it was out into the garden for a scavenger hunt set up beautifully by Ella. Each guest had 6 items to collect in their flower bag - lollipop flower, chocolate beetle, highlighter, stamp, notebook and an envelope with their name written on the front. Once all their bags were filled we retreated inside where we told them that Ella had given them some clues to find the hidden treasure!

We started to brainstorm....someone suggested that Ella might have written in the notebooks. A quick check revealed they were blank. Next idea was to open the envelopes....which we did and discovered a few coloured letters in each one. Remembering that most of the girls are only just beginning to read it was suggested that they spelt something and we should line them up which we did.  HDITEHOOGSENU! Not much help there. Someone noticed the colours so we grouped the letters accordingly. We couldn't get much sense out of SHOEU so we re-focused on the easier ones. Got IN and THE very quickly followed by DOG. Then back to nut out SHOEU to HOSUE to finally become HOUSE!! Whoosh....off they raced to find the dog house and the treasure (pinwheels). We pieced them together before testing them out in the wind!

By this stage it was time for food and once again all was quiet!! Musical statues was requested for the next activity nicely filling in time while burning off that excess energy they all seem to gain at parties!!

We concluded the party with cake followed by impromptu balloon tennis! A wonderful morning with a lovely bunch of girls! Katy was one happy girl!