Part 3 - An Elmo extravaganza (the desserts!)

Thank you all so much for the lovely feedback on Part 1 and Part 2 of our Elmo extravaganza that we posted earlier in the week. Finally, tonight the dessert station!

We wanted the dessert station to be the centrepiece for the room, a focal point and obviously have a presence in such a large room. We started off by designing a set up that would use the stage area, as well as the floor below. The backdrop was hand-made to replicate the background of the original invitation.

The top level of the dessert station included two wonderful cakes from Fantasy Cakes. The client's son's are born only a few weeks apart, so each had a cake. One wonderful Elmo and then a divine Cookie Monster tied in with the theme perfectly.

On either side of the table we included some more goldfish bowls filled with gum balls, large oversized balloons (from Candy Soirees) and these two very impressive Elmo air-walker balloons. These balloons were HUGE and the birthday boys loved being able to take them home at the end of the day!

The bottom layer of the dessert station was filled with all sorts of wonderful treats... Elmo cupcakes, cake pops, jelly cups, popcorn, fruit cups, Cookie Monster cookies and of course, an array of lollies!

Alex also made these gorgeous Elmo cookies that were included in the tote bags that each child received. The tote bags also had some Sesame Street stickers, a packet of Elmo memory cards and we topped them up with plenty of lollies as well.

This photo is one of my favourites from the party - it's the birthday boy and the whole family, singing Happy Birthday! Love how happy they all look!

This party was so much fun to put together and we do have to say thank you to our fabulous suppliers at Candy Soirees and Fantasy Cakes. We also have to say thank you to our wonderful team, who always put in 110% to ensure our events go off without a hitch.

Hope you enjoyed our little Elmo extravaganza!

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Part 2 - An Elmo extravaganza

If you popped by our blog yesterday, you will have seen Part 1 of our Elmo Extravaganza that we put together for a lovely client earlier this month. If you missed it, you can catch up here. Now for Part 2 - the kids table.

Our venue was really large and with 30 kids, we thought we would take advantage of the space and fill it with a long table centred down the middle of the room.

At each child's place there was an Elmo blower and a decorated party hat. We have a tutorial coming up on the Handmade Hullabaloo in the next week or so for the party hats, so look out for it there!

As a reference to Elmo's goldfish Dorothy, we used large gold fish bowls as centrepieces. Filled with coloured gum balls, a selection of Elmo pinwheels (which each child took home at the end) and a large oversized balloon (from Candy Soirees), they looked so bright and colourful and the kids loved them.

Tomorrow we will share the final instalment - the dessert station!

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