Despicable Me (THREE) Party: Part 3

This is the final chapter for the Despicable Me party. Here are the last little final touches that I added to the party. Like I said before, there were so many more things I wish I had the time to add, there are a million possibilities and ideas with this movie! In the end I'm happy with the way it turned out. I think the birthday girl and her guests enjoyed it too. 

Swan Lake thank you tickets, these were all over the table for the kids, next to the tutus for the girls. I found this amazing tutorial here from pluckymomo, along with her pdf file!  






Our lovely Tia Mini added these adorable M&M favor tubes to the table along "fluffly unicorn" centerpeices, which sadly I didn't get a picture of :(



Minion Goggles aka minty lifesavers, below them are the girls tutus (Bonus buy from the Dollar Tree!)



Not only is this my favorite picture, you can also see Vic wearing the Gru scarfs I made for the boys. I simply bought a yard of grey and black strped jersey material and cut strips. Since jersey naturally curls it's a no sew project!

 


Last but not least, this could not have been done without my party minions (and a lot of Starbucks)! Thank you Tia Taco and Cousin Big Hair! :)



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Despicable Me (THREE) Party: Part 2

Minion piñatas are hard to come by, therefore I thought, make my own! It can’t be that hard, right? It’s not that it’s hard at all actually…but I think I bit off a little more than I can chew. I decided to  make it a HUGE minion haha. In the end I think it all turned out great, but man was that little (big) guy tedious to make. The finished product took 5 days, patience (I was already in too deep to give up) and 5 lovely volunteers help to get this finished in time. In time that is, to get smashed into pieces. Just like the party bags in part 1, I prepared myself haha.  

I found the large punch balloons and roll of brown, almost butcher paper, at the dollar tree and used all of our weekly adds for the pinata (maybe someday I will be better at actually using the weekly adds =\). I didn't get a picture of my helpers that stopped in throughout the week to add a layer to the pinata because well, our hands were a mess but I couldn't have done it without them! I actually didn't get pictures of a lot of the process, sorry about that. For the paste we used 1/2 four, 1/2 water and a dash of sugar to make it a little bit sticky. After each layer we had to hang "Stuart" on a hanger in the shower, otherwise he would have flopped overnight (next time I'm going to use a sturdier paper to contect the two).

Once Stuart was finished with the coats of paper mache (5 to be exact) I cut a square flap open, which will also be used to fill the pinata later, poped the balloons and poked a hole in the top for the hanger (found the tutorial here).

Now for the decorating! My wonderful Mother-in-law came by to help fill the party bags, asked if there was anything else to do and with a big smile I asked her to help me cut the streamers, it worked! As she cut the frays in the streamers I was attaching them. Yellow for his body and blue for the overalls. I already had Stuarts eye printed and cut out on cardstock and I drew and cut my own mouth. I glued those both on and finally finished! I think it was 12:30pm the day before the the party that Stuart was completly done.

Stuart in all his glory



The Bday Girl making sure he's on there nice and tight!




Giving Papa the thumbs up, it's time.



And there she goes, That smile enjoying the pinata is all worth it!

Check it out, Stuart's head doubled as a hat for Vay's Tio Cereal, Bonus!

 Stick around for Part 3, the finishing touches.

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Despicable Me (THREE) Party: Part 1

      As soon as we saw Despicable Me we were all obsessed. I’m not kidding you! Vic, Vayda and I were all quoting the movie…all the time. It’s become a favorite in the Arreguin household. So if you haven’t seen it, what in the world are you waiting for? You will thank me later :). I was surfing the web and decided that is it, Vayda’s third birthday had to be Despicable Me theme….or better yet, Despicable THREE!

Roarring of course ;) Here's our big 3 year old all dressed up in her "recital" outfit,
just like the girls in Despicable Me.

Invitations:

Here is the final invite I came up with, the original idea was from Plucky Momo, I just added my own little twist.

Party Bags: **blog post for party bags here***

I know there are the official Despicable Me party bags out there but for a ridiculous price and for that matter I only found them on Amazon and Ebay! Since there isn’t very much D3 (Despicable Me) Party items out there I decided to come up with my own party bags. It did take a lot of man hours but I was happy with the way they turned out. I do realize that kids really don’t even care about what their candy comes in as long as it’s there, but come on how could I resist! I had to mentally prepare myself to see them on the ground, torn, trashed and in the garbage…but they set the theme and I was ok with the bag massacres.

**blog post for party bags here***

To make the minion bags I bought yellow lunch baggies & blue heavyweight paper. I drew out a quick overall pattern to cut out for all of the bags and used the blue paper for those. I found a clear picture of the minion goggles and printed them on white cardstock. Cut those out and glued to the bag as well. With a black sharpie I drew on the minion’s side smirk and free hand a overall pocket and dots for the buttons. Like I said, these did take time but they were fun to make and it seemed like people got a kick out of them, so I would say success :).
 

party bags in use =]

Minion/Unicorn Cupcakes:
While doing my party planning research I saw a lot of these adorable minion cupcakes all over the web. So of course we had to try them out!

For the Minions on the cupcakes My Mother-in-law and I halved each twinkie, used black frosting for the goggles and the mouth and edible googlie eyes I found at Michaels. I had the intentions to use brown sprinkles for the hair but ran out of time =\. I think if I wasn't rushing at the park while doing this they would have turned out better, but in the end I think they get the point across, right?

A friend of mine was so amazing and made all of the cupcakes for the party including the “fluffy” unicorn cupcake cake you see above. She really did the hard/time consuming part for me (there was no way they would have been done if it weren’t for her), Thanks again Melissa!

Singing Happy Bday to Vayda! Check out the minions...trying to beat the heat haha

There is much more to come on the D3 party. Keep an eye out for Part 2. Here's a little teaser:

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