Herbie Party: Part two, Decorations.

Party details!  Herbie is a white VW  with red and blue racing stripes and a 53 in a white circle.  For the party I stuck with Herbie’s colors but used the number three instead of 53.  It was SO, SO easy, I felt guilty at how good it looked.

No one comes to a three year old’s birthday party to be impressed by the food, right?  I doubt it, so we kept it really simple.  Burgers, chips, fruit salad, baked beans, and of course the cake.   I did not really get a chance to eat until after the party, but it sure tasted good to me!

Balloons, streamers, ribbons, and pictures of a photoshopped, number three Herbie.  Easy Peasy.

There were only three children invited;  four including  The Son.  Adults do great eating off of  their laps, but three year olds, not so much.  For the kids table I moved his little picnic table inside and Herbie-ed it up.  Here it is with the take homes for the kids… a picture of the guest of  honor Herbie, Crayons that were also Herbie-fied, and the coloring books I made.  I searched online for pictures of Herbie that could be made black and white, or already made coloring sheets (found here, but we never got our autographs so whatever.) I did some detail work on the front and back in publisher and had it all printed at my favorite-in-there-every-week copy shop and Voila! Custom coloring books.  They turned out cute, but some of the images were kinda pixellatey.  I went in to this project thinking it would be cheaper than goody bags full of plastic crap and candy, but honestly–they were kinda expensive because of copying costs.  The cover was card stock and all of it was on a larger than normal size paper so it could be folded and stapled in the middle.  I am not sure I would recommend this take home–goody bags would have been so much easier.

More decorations. Oh, notice the paper plates and cups.  I HATE paper cups and plates, but they were SO MUCH EASIER to set out and clean up.  Sorry Martha Stewart and you know, THE EARTH, but I may be a convert.

The Son loved these so much that I did not take them off of our light fixtures until after we got back from vacation.

Herbie confetti.  Yeah I know. Overkill.

Balloons were everywhere, these were our second batch.  We had unfortunate popping and deflating issues with the first batch.

The only decorating I did outside was designating spots for the car show, balloons on the mailbox, and red and blue stripes and a three on the front door.  It was cute!

I was really pleased with this party’s look.  It turned out great, was easy, was unique and fit my kid just perfectly.  Next up is the car show portion of the party.

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