Under the Seven Seas birthday party

So she wanted a water party.
I talked her into an Under the Sea party.
And because Mia was turning 7,
I threw that in, too.

brown paper bags w/ paint

The seven seas were
seven different birthday stations:
activities & food 'n stuff!

Invitation:
For those close enough to hand deliver,
we wrote out the invitations
on crumpled brown bags
and stuck it in a bottle.

Red x's marked all the details
of the party.

Decorations:
blue, light blue, & white streamers
hung for the waves.
And ocean bubbles on the floor.

#1

Family Fun's Sandcastle Cake

The cake was a stunner!
Especially with the chocolate pebbles
and sugar seashells.

Pineapple Icerberg
aka
granita.
I wrote their names on the little umbrellas.

Hotdogs cut like octopi served over
green-colored ramen noodles!
Awesome!!

#2

Pin-the-fin-on-the-fish, basically.
They all "closed their eyes" at once
and did a mass pinning.

#3

Down in the basement,
the bottom of the ocean floor
lit by twinkly lights......

the girls played an Under the Sea Bingo.
(made by my neighbor, woah, so cute!)

#4

There was a bunch of Dollar Tree
seashells hidden in the sand.

#5

a Treasure Hunt
to find the buried treasure

There's that brown paper bag again!
Tore the edges and burned some holes.
So authentic, right?

There were 7 red x's which led to
more brown paper scrolls.
Each scroll had a symbol or letter.
After collecting all 7,
they had to unscramble the word
which was a clue to where the treasure was buried.
Sorry, no pic.
Have you tried running after treasure-crazed little girls?
Yikes! Look out.

The word was sunflowers
which happened to open just in time.

chocolate gold coins, tattoos,
ocean bubbles, shells, & silly bands

#6

Mia's Mermaid Lagoon

By the way,
Bugg was a champ during the chaos.
Happy to watch from the porch.

#7

We decorated flip flops.

And naturally,
the water balloons.
A must.

As we crawled into bed that night,
Mia said,
"I don't want my birthday to end."
I love her.