Mercury is 3!

Rainbows and Ponies...

As girly as you can get for a party theme but here it is:

Birthday Girl's Outfit:

Birthday girl in a custom made rainbow dress, rainbow shoes and rainbow unicorn headband.

Purple sparkly shoes from the store with rainbow sequins hot-glued on one at a time.  For the rainbow unicorn headband I made a horn shape out of tape covered paper and glued the majority of the sequins on before attaching it to the headband.  When I got to the lowest section- the purple section I taped the horn to the headband, wrapping the tape around both the headband and the horn until it was secure. Then I wrapped purple ribbon around the area to hide the tape and glued it into place.  Next I finished the final, purple, layer of sequins.  Then I attached the felt ears (filled with stuffing) by hot gluing them to the headband and then wrapped ribbon around both them and the band.  I continued the ribbon down the headband to the end of it.

Decorations:

Rainbow "Happy Birthday" banner and paper chains for doorway.

Balloons, Balloons, Balloons. Believe me- these were fun for everyone!  We also included, up high on the fireplace mantle, a cup of permanent markers so that adults and older kids could decorate the balloons.

  

More paper chains for the window along with paper and ribbon rainbows hanging from the ceiling.

Ponies and horses taken from her collection were adorned with rainbow ribbons.

Rainbow colored canvas bags (6"x6") I got online and decorated with cut felt 

(again, hot glued on) in the first letter in each child's name.

Activities:

The dining room transformed into activity room.

Plaster ponies for painting.  The "pallets" are paper plates with little plastic 

cups hot glued onto them- cheap and effective!  The purple cup had some company's logo on

 it so I glued ribbon and a paper cloud on top of if.

More "pallets" with rainbow beads and lanyards for custom-made necklaces.

Edibles:

Rainbow silverware- I keep all the left-overs and always buy on a color theme so I had mostly

 all of the colors already on hand.  I used two of the clear drinking cups and glued a strip of left 

over felt to them to spice them up a little.

No small child can say no to rainbow cereal and rainbow goldfish.

What was the ice bucket for? The rainbow ice cubes made with kool-aid!  Word of warning- I would avoid the blue colored ice.  It made the drinks a muddy brown once they melted too much.  The kids loved it, "it's like popsicles in my drink!"  The adults used the leftovers later that night for their grown up beverages.

The gigantic confetti rainbow cake with purple icing and three ponies on top.  It is 

around 18" tall.  But wait, there's more... 

It's even cooler on the inside.  

Yes, a rainbow cake BUT the filling in between the layers is 

whipped cream and fruit.  Strawberries, peaches, pineapple, kiwi, and blueberries.  

This made it a bit less sugary and more naturally sweet.

And here it is after the dads and other adult males got their hands on it:

It doesn't stand so well when 85% of it is gone.

So, overall a successful Rainbow and Pony birthday party.