Mermaid Party

Saturday was my youngest granddaughter’s birthday and she had a mermaid party! She requested a mermaid skirt rather than a dress with pictures of mermaids so her Mama (my youngest daughter) made her one. We weren’t expecting a repeat of last year when she refused to wear her “baballoon dress” but that’s what we got. She did have the skirt on for a few minutes:

But as soon as she took her socks off she started fussing and pulled the skirt off and refused to put it back on. We’re not really sure why but she finally came up with “itchy”.

I wore the mermaid earrings my friend Lisa made and brought a lot of my mermaids. The large two piece one that looks like part of it is underwater and a few others decorated the food table. We were stuck inside so the plastic ones which were originally going to go in the water table outside sat on the art table instead. I also brought all my mermaid books. “Did you imagine that they were going to sit quietly and look at books?” asked one of the moms. I also printed out some mermaid coloring pages.

Either because of the skirt refusal drama or because there were so many children indoors and they were definitely not just sitting and looking at books, we neglected to take any pictures. My daughter was disappointed that she had not captured the party so I suggested a vignette featuring the skirt. She made several:

The mermaid tail cookies and ribbon wands were the favors.

While they look green in this picture, the mermaid cupcakes with tails were actually blue.

The napkins also featured mermaid tails. Both the birthday girl and her sister got these fancy hats and her sister wore a “Shellebration” tshirt. And it certainly was a “shellebration”!