At the end of January, Owen turned seven.
At first we agreed that there would be no friend party this year and that we would take a family trip to the aquarium instead.
But after getting invited to all his friends’ birthday parties, he changed his mind. Kind of last minute I might add.
I only let him invite his five closest friends, so it was a smaller party, but it was still lots of fun.
He is OBSESSED with ocean animals lately, especially squids and nautiluses (don’t worry, I didn’t know what that was until he told me either – ha ha). We have clotheslines strung across one wall in the boys’ room where they can hang their artwork and they are replete with ocean animal drawings.
So of course his birthday party was planned around that theme.
First up were the invites…
We used this old origami book that I’ve had since I was a kid, to get the origami fish pattern. Really simple. You can see the instructions in the picture if you really want them. 🙂
Because I used 8×8 card stock, the paper didn’t lie flat very well. So, I broke a bunch of origami rules and glued everything in place with a hot glue gun.
I also added a googly eye while I was at it.
There needed to be a place for the party information. I printed it up on white card stock and made it as one of the bubbles coming out of the fish’s mouth.
A little string of white yarn and some tape kept it all together.
Cute, unique, memorable, and fairly easy to assemble.
We also used these same origami fish to decorate the goody bags with. I just glued them right onto a white lunch bag.
I wanted to get beach buckets but there weren’t any in the stores yet. Just a couple weeks after the party they started popping up! Darn. This was a cute solution though and the kids really seemed to like it.
I didn’t want this party post to get too long so tomorrow I’ll share the rest with you. See you then!
For Part II go here.Â
The NAutilus is one of my favorite animals! Nerd moment here — did you know their spiral nearly matches a Fibonacci spiral? Beauty in math! Looks like a cute party. I love parties that have nothing to do with licensed characters.
I'm with little dude. OctoNoctua is a latin-ish mashup of Octopus and Owl. Love me some cephalopods.
HOly Crap! When I saw the title of today's post pop up I thought you were in labor and doing a water birth!!!!
WHeW.
Glad to know everything is still going well….don't scare me like that!
liZ
What a fun birthday idea! My little guy is having a birthday soon and he LOVES sea creatures so this might be perfect. (BTW for some reason I first read the title as underwear birthday party and I was scared to click over, boy am I glad it is underwater… 🙂
Awesome! I love how you were able to come up with something so cute and creative at the last minute! Give me a month and I couldn't have come up with something like that. You rock Delia!
ur a great creative mommy!!! good job! his party was super cute!
nice info, keep posting bro
wow, nice blog.. where i can get this template?
Definitely not a cliche birthday party with a clown and stuff. Well done, congrats.
Where is part 2.. Dying to read it.. The link is not working
Thank you for letting me know the link was broken! Sorry about that. I just fixed the link but here it is for your convenience: http://www.deliacreates.com/under-sea-birthday-party-part-two/