I was so excited when I was picked to host the Disney Side party. I LOVE Disney and everything it stands for. The kit they sent me was so much more than I had ever expected too! So generous!! I shared it on my personal facebook page, but didn't really get a chance to do that here. Sorry, not sorry, my life is currently insanely busy.
So, I had originally planned on throwing my #disneyside party with my
FAST (families and schools together) program, but it got cancelled
because of a giant ice and snow storm we had. It was really bad, I live
in the country, on the bottom of a big hill, I was literally trapped in
my house for four days! The FAST program is currently on hiatus, so
using my connections at the literacy council (I volunteer there, mainly
doing taxes through the VITA program) I found another group of children.
TWO actually. It was very quickly thrown together and as my work
schedule is very random, kind of last minute. I did today's with an
afterschool group ran by Ms. Barbara's church, next week I am doing
another small one with another group of children.
The children came in, did their homework, ate a meal (with a few things added I provided, like salads). Then I handed out tickets and did a drawing for "big" prizes I had. One was a doc mcstuffins backpack I got half off from my work, the others were puzzles I got from Dollar Tree. I got tons of prizes and supplies from the Dollar Tree using a giftcard I won from another blogger.
Then we played a quick game of Bingo, using the bingo game and cut up construction paper, I let each child (that had not won a prize in the drawing) that won pick a prize out of the prize basket. It was very fun and kind of quick.
Then I pulled out my game of Eye Found it, which, again, I won from another blogger. The children had a TON of fun with that game. I cannot recommend it enough. You can see it here
I was super super busy, wrangling these children, my child, setting things up, even with help, so only got a few photos taken.
Oh! I also made strawberry and chocolate cupcakes and served them on the Mickey Mouse plates and napkins! I had some left over prizes and left them with the person who runs the program, to use in the future.
Party #2 is next week! Super excited to host it!
