Since November 2013, I’ve been thinking about Lucas’ 3rd birthday celebration. I know that I don’t have enough budget for a huge party so we decided that he’ll celebrate his birthday with 9 of his classmates in school and 2 teachers. Since it is going to be an intimate party, I thought I’d put effort into it. Besides, I’ll only need to prepare for 12 people plus 3 more friends in school. So first, I thought of a theme. I was browsing through Pinterest and saw a Little Red Car theme (of course I had to include a Volkswagen Beetle). I searched for several ideas and here’s my version of the theme.
Here’s the invitation:
As a teacher, I understand how hard it is to let the children bring home their left over party food. So I decided that each child will have a lunch bag where I’ll put everything in: food, dessert, drink and utensils. At the same time it’ll serve as a party favor. I asked a very good friend of mine to make the lunch bags. I just told her the shape and design I wanted. The bags were amazing and well-crafted. Blue striped lining for the boys and red striped lining for the girls. I just placed tags of their names to personalize each lunch bag.
For the food, I thought that the toddlers wouldn’t eat much. So I asked my friend, who’s a caterer to pack 6 pieces of chicken fingers for each food container (blue for boys and red for girls) labeled as “Pit Stop.” I also packed doughnuts from Dunkin Donuts for dessert as “Spare Tire”. I labeled apple juice boxes as “Fuel.”
Lastly, I made mini tool boxes out of a small Zip Lock bag where I placed the fork, table napkin and straw.
As for Lucas’ cake, I asked my caterer friend to make a simple 8″ inch round vanilla fondant cake with little red cars. I got the idea from Pinterest. I totally loved the cake and it tasted so good too!
For some final touches, I made a simple Happy Birthday banner for picture taking purposes 🙂 .
I also designed two shirts for Lucas. One shirt, he wore on our “Pre-Birthday” shoot and the other shirt he wore on his birthday. The designs were heat pressed by our Ninang (thanks so much!).
Birthday Shirt
Pre-birthday shoot shirt
Lucas’ birthday was just simple and intimate but he really enjoyed it. I don’t do a lot of DIY projects, but I had fun planning and preparing for this small party. It was worth it, the moment I saw the smile on my son’s face. Thanks so much to my hubby for supporting me on this. Thank you Golde for making the lunch bags for me. They’re adorable. I would never imagine myself doing the same thing. Haha! Thanks you Bebot of Ivy-Chris Bakeshop and Catering for the yummy food and beautiful cake. Thank you to Lucas’ teachers, Teachers Lee Anne and Miriam, for making Lucas’ first ever school birthday celebration memorable.
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