{"id":5770,"date":"2011-09-13T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T11:51:06","slug":"grayces-candyland-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/parties\/birthday-parties\/grayces-candyland-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayce’s Candyland Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who doesn’t love a reason to eat CANDY???<\/p>\n

Today, I am sharing Grayce’s 6th birthday – a Candyland inspired party.<\/p>\n

Here is a shot of the invitation that is new to the shop here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Grayce insisted on a candy party… and even though she is a little old to still play the classic Candyland game, we decided it would be perfect\u00a0inspiration for her candy themed party.<\/p>\n

We chose really fun girly colors: pinks, orange, lime green, aqua and yellow instead of the traditional primary rainbow colors.<\/p>\n

I wanted a sweet shoppe feel mixed in with gingerbread cookies, bright candies and lots of fun activities.<\/p>\n

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The candy\u00a0buffet was the main focus, however, I decorated the\u00a0dining table\u00a0with a candy forest, playing card placemats and\u00a0candy building stations.<\/p>\n

I also made over-sized candies out of paper plates and pink circular styrofoam, which I attached to the backdrops.<\/p>\n

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I had a side table where we put gingerbread cookies and large sugar cookies for a decorating activity.\u00a0 We also had little plastic cottages where\u00a0we stored additional candy supplies.<\/p>\n

I figured we might as well use all the candy for crafts – this way the kids didn’t eat as much \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Table<\/a><\/p>\n

Maureen made ice cream cupcakes as the main birthday treat (thank goodness she can bake… because I would catch my oven on fire if I tried!)\u00a0 Are these not the cutest???<\/p>\n

We cut out patterned papers and lined the bottoms of the glassware for interest.<\/p>\n

\"Table<\/a><\/p>\n

Each place setting was a personalized oversized playing card placemat, with a gingerbread figure.\u00a0 I put a variety of candies in 4 containers to use for the candy necklace building craft.<\/p>\n

Each setting also had a large plastic cottage that had gumballs, and different types of strings – they could make multiple candy and gumball necklaces.<\/p>\n

I also set out juice boxes wrapped in patterned paper in case they needed\u00a0a drink!<\/p>\n

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We gave the kids over-sized needles so they could easily thread their necklaces.\u00a0 It was so fun to see each creation… all the kids made something unique.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Some made plain gumball necklaces, some\u00a0 made lifesaver necklaces….. some even put all candies\/gumballs together.<\/div>\n
Once they completed their necklaces, they gathered candies from the candy\u00a0buffet table, and used them to decorate gingerbread cookies.<\/div>\n
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The gingerbread cookies were hillarious…. I had no idea what to expect but was pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 Of course the kids stole some pieces of candy to eat in between building their creations.<\/div>\n
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They also decorated the over-sized sugar cookies too…. they LOVED using the icing as glue, and the kids actually put a lot of thought\u00a0and effort into all of it.<\/p>\n

They were really proud of the final cookies!<\/p>\n

We then sang Happy Birthday to Grayce… she couldn’t wait to take a bite into her icecream cupcake!<\/p>\n

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Want a candylandy inspired party?\u00a0 Find the invite and package here….<\/a><\/p>\n

This week for Ruff Draft Wednesday, I will show you how I built the candy forest center piece, and share a few other fun details.<\/p>\n

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Who doesn’t love a reason to eat CANDY??? Today, I am sharing Grayce’s 6th birthday – a Candyland inspired party. Here is a shot of the invitation that is new to the shop here. Grayce insisted on a candy party… and even though she is a little old to still play the classic Candyland game, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,9,1481,58,25,31,198,557,1480],"tags":[841,182,973,909,154,30,882],"class_list":["post-5770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baking","category-birthday-parties","category-birthday-partyfolio","category-decorations","category-dessert-tables","category-diy","category-girl-parties","category-new-to-the-shop","category-partyfolio","tag-birthday","tag-candy","tag-candy-forest","tag-candy-land","tag-cookies-2","tag-lollipops","tag-party-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5770"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5770\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}