We celebrated
Ashlyn's 7
th birthday today at her grandma Sue's house with about 15 of her friends from school and church (plus about 5 of their younger siblings). We had a rainbow theme because we wanted to incorporate
Ashlyn's favorite color, orange. We had everyone wear a bright, favorite color from the rainbow.
We had an M&M scavenger hunt in the backyard where each team had to find six colors of the rainbow (M&Ms) using clues that rhymed (one example: "To find the first color of your M&M rainbow, you must go to the instrument that will tell you which way the wind will blow"). They would find a bag of red M&Ms under the wind direction thing in her yard (weather vane?) Anyway, that was a huge success and everyone enjoyed being out in the 80 degree weather!
We also told the story of Noah's Ark and the reason we have rainbows. Then they colored a rainbow picture and looked under their plates to see who got the 3 rainbows under their plates for a fun prize - rainbow Skittles. We moved onto to snacks and presents soon after...
We had
funfetti cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles instead of cake, a fruit rainbow with cool whip for clouds, rainbow goldfish, rainbow
marshmallows, brownies with M&Ms on top, and different colors of
squeeze-its to drink. It was a great fun day and
Ashlyn loaded up on new crafts for winter. We can't wait to try them all out. We will have our family party for both Joshua and
Ashlyn Sunday after church for more presents and food :)
We celebrated Ashlyn's 7th birthday today at her grandma Sue's house with about 15 of her friends from school and church (plus about 5 of their younger siblings). We had a rainbow theme because we wanted to incorporate Ashlyn's favorite color, orange. We had everyone wear a bright, favorite color from the rainbow.
We had an M&M scavenger hunt in the backyard where each team had to find six colors of the rainbow (M&Ms) using clues that rhymed (one example: "To find the first color of your M&M rainbow, you must go to the instrument that will tell you which way the wind will blow"). They would find a bag of red M&Ms under the wind direction thing in her yard (weather vane?) Anyway, that was a huge success and everyone enjoyed being out in the 80 degree weather!
We also told the story of Noah's Ark and the reason we have rainbows. Then they colored a rainbow picture and looked under their plates to see who got the 3 rainbows under their plates for a fun prize - rainbow Skittles. We moved onto to snacks and presents soon after...
We had funfetti cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles instead of cake, a fruit rainbow with cool whip for clouds, rainbow goldfish, rainbow marshmallows, brownies with M&Ms on top, and different colors of squeeze-its to drink. It was a great fun day and Ashlyn loaded up on new crafts for winter. We can't wait to try them all out. We will have our family party for both Joshua and Ashlyn Sunday after church for more presents and food :) 
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