Diddy and Boo

31/12/2024

05/12/2024

Cooking Party for Kids – Party Favours

Once the presents had been unwrapped and the last slice of cake eaten it was time to farewell our guests. I had made party favours by attaching labels which read “Thanks for cooking up a storm with us” to plain white paper bags. Each bag held a tea towel, a utensil (either a mixing spoon, tongs or spatula), a cookie cutter and the bags of pretzels. I was able to pick up all the items inexpensively at discount stores.

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04/12/2024

Desert Table
The other foods included a mix of chocolates and lollies in various shades of pink, red and white. We also served strawberry flavoured milk, tic toc biscuit tea cups and chef hat cups of popcorn.

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03/12/2024

Dessert Table

After our busy afternoon of cooking, we moved inside to the dessert table to sing Happy Birthday, cut the cake and enjoy some sweet treats.

The cake this time was simple to prepare but looked really cute. I made a circular vanilla cake and covered it in vanilla frosting, then decorated with toy kitchen accessories and utensils. There was plenty to choose from as my girls love their Sylvanian Families sets! The final step was to pose paper doll cuts outs of the birthday girls wearing miniature chef hats in their ‘cake kitchen’!

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02/12/2024

Cooking Party - Pretzels

While the pizzas were cooking we worked on our second recipe – pretzels. Again I had made the dough the night before and wrapped portions individually. The kids were free to roll out the dough and shape it as they wished, making letters of their names, snails, twists etc. We finished the pretzels with a spray of oil and a sprinkling of salt. Once baked and cooled, we placed the pretzels into individual cellophane bags. I had earlier labelled the bags with each child’s name. We popped the pretzels into their take home party favour bags to be enjoyed later.

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01/12/2024

Cooking Party Activities - Pizza's
Each child was given a plastic plate and a sheet of baking paper to work on as they rolled out their dough. We wrote their names in pencil in a corner of the paper to make sure everyone got the right pizza once cooked. Pizza sauce and various toppings – ham, mushrooms, tomatoes, capsicum, grated cheese, olives – were on offer. We laid all of them out in dishes down the centre of our work bench in easy reach. The kids chose whatever toppings they liked. We cooked the pizzas either my own cookie slides or disposable aluminium cooking trays I had bought inexpensively at a discount store. Most of the kids chose to eat their pizzas hot out the oven. We sent any leftovers home with them as an easy dinner.

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30/11/2024

Cooking Party for Kids – Activities
Once all of the guests had arrived and snacked on cheese and fruit platters, we had everyone help themselves to a simple lunch of chicken, salad and rolls. I also had water bottles available for the children with the label “Just Add Water”.

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30/11/2024

Cooking Party for Kids – Activities

Once all of the guests had arrived and snacked on cheese and fruit platters, we had everyone help themselves to a simple lunch of chicken, salad and rolls. I also had water bottles available for the children with the label “Just Add Water”.

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29/11/2024

Cooking Party for Kids – Decorations
I went with a colour scheme of red, pink and white. First I hung paper fans of various sizes on the wall behind the dessert table. I didn’t like the look of the only pink ones I had been able to buy. Instead I switched them out and blu-tacked pink plastic plates to the wall!

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28/11/2024

A Memorable Cooking Party

I recently hosted a combined birthday party for my two daughters, for their 10th and 3rd birthdays. I thought a cooking themed party might be fun since my girls both enjoy helping out in the kitchen, measuring and mixing. Read on to see how you can put together your own cooking party for kids

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27/11/2024

Minecraft Party Favours
Creeper party favour bags
One thing I enjoyed about this party was that the games and activities were just played for fun without prizes being involved. I find it easier sometimes if I don’t have to be looking out for a winner! That said, I still like to send guests home with a little something. In this case, they took home their masks, their pinata loot and these party favour bags.

I was able to buy these paper bags in two shades of green. Then I just cut out creeper faces and glued them on the front. Each bag contained a chocolate bar, a Minecraft bookmark and a ‘lump of coal’ in a cellophane bag. The coal of course was the same rice krispies from the dessert table.

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