Make a Splash Mermaid Party

Summer brings out the mermaids in

all of us at Purple Chocolat Home,

so we decided to have a Mermaid Birthday

Party for all of the little granddaughters this

summer.

Three of them have birthdays within a week of

each other, and we have celebrated big in the

past with combined birthday parties - 

Frozen, Cinderella, and Unicorn parties.

We had it at our pool at Tuscan Villas

so all of the kids and families who were

invited could swim.

I wanted to create a balloon arch,

so I made it the night before and tested

it at home.  I purchased the arch kit on

Amazon, and an electric balloon pump. 

Both were around $20 each and were great

investments.  I also found a green sequined

tablecloth and a mermaid table runner- green and purple.

The arch took me about an hour to blow up

the balloons and assemble.  I had purchased 20 - 12

inch balloons online for under $20.

  The balloon arch was carried

over to the party in the back of my Denali

in two pieces and then reassembled.

The arch clipped to the ends of a 6 foot folding table.

I had painted the mermaid sign last

year at a craft night with my SIL.  It was to

go down to the houseboat, but I brought it back

for the party.

I made cookie pops with Oreo Cinnamon Bun 

cookies - yummmmmy!  They were dipped in

white chocolate and covered in disco dust.

My glass shell bowl had a piece of foam placed

in it and it was covered in brown sugar for sand.

My DIL made signs for the treats.

My daughter made the sea water.

I created eight mermaid crowns for the party goers

to choose from, and purchased mermaid hair and

a mermaid necklace for them to wear.

The blow up clam shell was the setting for their

pictures.

The cake was purchased from Sam's Club.

They make a 3 tier cake for $65!

I then embellished it with chocolate and

fondant shells, fondant mermaid tails,

gumballs, sugar crystal suckers

for seaweed, cotton candy for seafoam 

and chocolate spheres.

Fondant clam shells,

The biggest white balls are chocolate spheres,

the medium ones are gumballs, and the small ones

are candy.

The mermaid tails and small starfish are

fondant and the large starfish and shells

are chocolate.

Fondant sea horses painted with gold.

Their cakes make an impressive yet easy

cake for a party, and it tastes really

good too.

It was topped with a cute mermaid birthday

cake topper.

I only included the birthday girls and their

sister's pictures, but all the little girls got their

photos taken.  We had over 40 people attend.  It

was a huge hit for all of the family members.

Of course the kids had to put the clam

shell floatie in the pool!

Thanks for swimming by to visit

our mermaids!

I will be sharing this with

Tablescapes Thursday

Share Your Cup Thursday

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