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pastel halloween party

Even though Halloween and trick-or-treating aren’t really a big thing in New Zealand, last year, we decided not to let that stop us from our usual fabulous, group costume-y, October 31st festivities.

Enter the most fabulous pastel Halloween party ever! Since we don’t really do scary or gory (which was 99% of the ‘halloween party decor’ available here), this party was heavy on the use-what-we-can-find elements.

Hence 300 pastel balloons and the honeycomb balls that have made appearances at more parties that I can count- ha!

(Sidenote- I’m sure y’all know about this by now, but if you don’t- BALLOON TAPE. Y’all, it makes balloon arches and installations about 3000% easier. For real- GAME CHANGER.)

super easy pastel halloween party

And, of course, all sorts of letterboards and light up signs and balloon letters. (“Scary as” is a twist on the popular kiwi phrase “sweet as.”)

Piper and I also made a rainbow of tassels and added eyes for ‘ghosts’…

… and some pom pom ‘pumpkins’ to use as treat toppers.

Add in a “Pick Your Poison” station with a variety of flavored waters (love love LOVING the Hearth & Home cart that I shipped to myself in our container… it will make every party from now on cuter).

We added ginger beer and Fanta to the lineup later in the evening (and Piper stood behind the cart and helped serve everyone so that it wasn’t a disaster of sugar-y mess) and the whole thing was a huge hit.

Adam was stateside a couple weeks before Halloween and brought back a suitcase filled with a variety of candy corns (Burke and Pi love the pumpkin shaped candy corns!) and Reese’s pumpkins (the best Halloween treat of all time) to add to a pile of orange candies I found here for Halloween treat grazing platters.

The kids also made trays of cute themed food (let’s take a minute to pause and be thankful for big kids that help with party food!?! I don’t know if I even knew to hope for this day, but Burke and Pi did SO MUCH to help with this little party)! I’ll put together a whole post with their awesome Halloween Party food ideas…

We added candy eyeballs to a variety of treats for a dessert table (ok, mostly Burke added candy eyeballs… not really “we” added candy eyeballs).

Our favorite? THE MOANA COSTUMES. And the cutest Bohden-Maui you ever did see. (I need to put together a whole post stat).

pastel halloween party

And also- introducing our kiwi friends to the glory of Halloween (and treats like Reese’s pumpkins and candy corns)! And having our home and back yard filled with friends was pretty great as well!

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a paris themed birthday party

It’s no secret that Pi has loved Paris since she was teeny (remember her Madeline themed birthday party when she turned three? And the accompanying macaron and lolly station?). So it’s only fitting that, as she enters the land of double digits, she’d have a Paris themed birthday party filled with berets, macarons, mini eiffel […]

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DIY hanging golden snitches (harry potter party)

We started off the Harry Potter Birthday Month Fun with our Mini Honeydukes and are going to keep it going with these floating golden snitches. The Harry Potter party guests thought these were the coolest. And then the figured out they were chocolates that could be plucked down to eat. And then they REALLY thought […]

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the most magical harry potter birthday party

I cannot even believe how much I love this magical Harry Potter birthday party (see what I did there? But seriously. Magical). And what better use of corona-quarantine than finally going through 700 pictures and putting together the Harry Potter Brunch Birthday Party post. Before we start- here’s a quick list of Harry Potter Party […]

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a unicorn birthday party!

Even though I’ve shared bits and pieces of this Unicorn Birthday Party (the mini DIY unicorn pinatas, the most gorgeous DIY felt flower garland, unicorn horn headbands, and DIY unicorn dolls), I still haven’t put together a post sharing the party itself. And y’all, this is just the sweetest, prettiest, most magical, most unicorn-ish parties […]

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harry potter party- how to make mandrake cupcakes

Y’all. It’s been forever since I put together a post, and even longer since I did a full kojo party. But last weekend we hosted the most epic of all the Harry Potter parties and it must (MUST!) be shared. I will be honest- putting this party together was a little like plunging back in […]

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make your own italian soda bar

Italian Sodas were pretty much our drink of the summer, and our Italian Soda affection has extended itself into the fall (literally, we have a lazy susan filled with syrups in our pantry as I type). As the holiday season approaches, the kids have been asking about adding Italian Sodas to our Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year’s Eve […]

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a mountain-y bear party

Since we call Bohden “bear,” and since his little nursery has a (loose) mountain theme, we didn’t look far for a First Birthday (slash Happy Adoption Day) party theme- mountains and woodland creatures and bears (oh my!). Bohden pretty much loves food (all food), but has a special place for ChickFilA chicken biscuits, so we […]

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pizza party!

We have officially started transitioning into a new phase of birthday parties (at least with Burke)- to a more ‘big kid’ version. This year’s party was a smaller crowd (and no parents), with less organized activities (though, they played HARD in the neighborhood pool for the first half of the party) and no theme (unless […]