Saturday, 3 August 2013

A rainbow party

A sparkly birthday banner

K's colourful rainbow cakes
Miss A decided the party should have a rainbow theme. We acquired a rainbow inflatable, rainbow napkins, stripey cups, 24 coloured balloons, rainbow stickers and many other multi-coloured items.

The party was a truly community affair as neighbour J made the bread dough, neighbour K has concocted a rainbow of fairy cakes, and friend J did the face painting. Really wonderful to see. It really feels like we are part of the community, and I noticed the number of cards give by our neighbours - from nos 6, 7, 9, 13, 19 and 21.

Preparations started early (5.40am to be precise) with rainbow crowns to decorate, party bags to inspect, fruit kebabs to prepare and rainbow lunch boxes to pack.

At 11am 5 eager friends came to join us. By 1pm they had made lava lamps, squished bread into shapes, played pass the parcel, laughed, made crowns, made glitter soup, put hula hoops on their fingers, loved the bubble machine, had their photos taken, and sung happy birthday twice - a proper 4th birthday party.


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