Highland Games

Food:

• tree stump cake (chocolate cake with raspberry filling and chocolate buttercream) by Laura Cannon
• bear paw cookies
• Scottish buns
• will o' the wisp cotton candy
• fruit and nut cups
• Scottish shortbread
• witch's brew (root beer with dry ice)
• and ice water 

Activities:

• upon entry, guests picked a clan and got Merida hair
• the Crafter Carver had monogrammed burlap drawstring pouches for the girls to string wood beads on necklaces or bracelets and also had rope to learn a Celtic knot
• The Highland Games had 3 parts of the competition: 

1. archery (each girl received a bow and arrow they got to take home)
2. caber toss
3. haggis toss (beanbags through a castle walls with window cutouts)

Music:

• bagpipes

Frozen

Well, I have obviously let my blog go to pot.  This is my feeble effort of trying to revive it.  I may add some backdated posts... may...

In the meantime, enjoy some "Frozen" inspiration.  My daughter fell in love with the movie and wanted to be Elsa for Halloween.  So I made her dress a little big for room to grow and thought if we have a dress, why not have a party?!

She invited friends from her class and we played

• pin the nose on Olaf
• musical chairs
• "freeze" dance
• "freeze" tag

and each of the winners got a prize

• nail polishes
• glittery lipstick and makeup
• "polar ice" gum
• snowflake earrings

Each girl got a ribbon twirler so they could through out snow and ice the way Anna does, tied onto "Olaf" arms, and got to cut paper snowflakes.

And then we generally just played and had cake with vanilla ice shards, hot cocoa, Olaf noses, and melted snowman (water) as refreshments.

It looks like a party of one, but I am not posting pictures of our guests out of respect for privacy.