Elaina 's birthday party

As usual, we had a party for Elaina's 8th birthday.  Elaina is really into her sleepovers so that is what we had.  5 of her little girl friends came over to celebrate.

The theme of this party was Shopkins.  Elaina is VERY much into these things.  She has been into them for a while but the past 6 months these little toys have taken off and you can hardly find them.  Anyway....beside the point.  She loves any sort of "blind bag" really.  Anything where you get a bag that you can't see through and you get a "surprise" when you open it.  They come in all different types of toys.  Anyway, you try to collect all of them in each set.  For a while she LOVED to watch YouTube videos of people opening them.  Literally that is all they do.  You don't even see their faces, just their hands opening up blind bag after blind bag.  She has even done a few videos of her own.  Maybe one day we will post one.

My point, we had Shopkins and lots of different types of blind bags for this party.  We did a scavenger hunt where the girls collected stuff at each spot.  We also had a punchboard where they got shopkins and other blind bag stuff.

Okay, enough talk....on to pictures.

Here is the punchboard.  My friend, Marta, cut out the holes with her super fancy laser cutter that she uses for her business, C is for Cardboard.  We covered each hole with tissue paper.  Then, we hot glued solo cups to the back.  The holes were the perfect size to have a solo cup cover it.  

Our friends, Carl and Sabrina, did the cake again.  As usual, they knocked it out of the park.  Elaina added 8 of her favorite Shopkins to the top.  She chose to line them up in alphabetical order.  Love the orderly kid that she is!

I saw an idea on Pinterest.  I took Shopkins that Elaina already had and put party food out on the table that matched that Shopkins.  Each Shopkin was next to that food.  Then printed out a picture of that Shopkins and put it on the bowl.  

The Birthday girl

The little baskets that the Shopkins come in were the weights for the balloons

Sabrina and Carl made a box for the cake to go in.  It was made to look like the little Shopkins baskets.  It was super cute.  This box as turned into her Shopkins storage box so it has turned out to be super helpful in keeping all her Shopkins in one place.

The girls made their own "shopping bags" before the scavenger hunt

Scavenger hunt pictures...

Punchboard pictures....They had so much fun doing this

The last thing we did was an Oreo eating/guessing game.  Keeping in line with the YouTube videos Elaina loves to watch, she loves to watch these kids eat different types of food while blind folded.  One of them is an Oreo eating contest.  So, each child got a mask and we gave them all different types of Oreos to try to guess which one.  It was super fun to do.  Who doesn't love eating Oreos??

Love these sweet girls!  Elaina, Katherine, Tatum, Laurel, and Madison

Here they are opening their blind bags and Shopkins.  They traded and played with them.  They had fun doing this.

Last, each child made their own cup that looked like "Little Sipper" Shopkins.  It's a little red cup with an umbrella hat, straw, and cute face on it.

They turned out like so.....they drank their milk out of them while eating cake and Oreos.

Then, 4 of the 5 of them spent the night.  The next morning we went swimming for a couple of hours.  Then, the parents came to pick them up.  It was a very fun time.  Elaina has some really sweet friends