An Orange Party

If it wasn't orange, we didn't have it!

L's favorite color is orange and that is the theme he chose this year for his 7th birthday party.  I spent months planning and, of course, there were things I forgot or didn't get to, but all in all, I was pleased.

Menu~

• Buffalo Chicken Tenders
• Pizza Bites with Orange shredded Cheese
• Mac n Cheese
• Sweet Potato Fries
• Carrots and Orange Peppers with Orange Ranch Dressing (I just added food coloring to the salad dressing to make it orange)

• Cheese Balls
• Tortilla Chips with Queso Dip
• Cheezits
• Mandarin Orange and Pineapple Fruit Salad
• Cupcakes with Orange Icing
• Carrot Cake
• Orange Sherbet
• Orange Gummy Bears
• Orange Tic Tacs
• Orange Slices (candy)

• Orange Gatorade
• Orange Juice Boxes
• Orange Water (I just put food coloring in the drinking water)
• Orange Soda (regular and diet)

Activities~

• Photo Booth with props where guests could send a birthday message to L via a photo

the following series of pictures shows how i changed some Dollar Tree fake mustaches into ORANGE fake mustaches for props...

these didn't get much use as the photo booth wasn't as popular as i had hoped, but i made these signs out of colored pencils and paper plates for folks to hold up as they took pictures...

• Interior Design Center where guests designed a lampshade, pillowcases, and sheets for L's new orange bedroom (tutorial to follow)
• Nail Salon where guests could paint their names in a variety of orange hues

• Orange Toss Game where guests tossed artificial oranges from bucket to bucket
• Gone Fishin' for Goldfish where guests used nets to scoop as many orange plastic goldfish as they could
• Ping Pong Squirter Race where guests used pool squirters to move ping pong balls from one orange hula hoop to another down the yard
• L's brand new bounce n slide courtesy of his grandparents
• Jewelry Store where guest could make friendship bracelets using a variety of orange thread and/or hemp and orange button bracelets

Favors~

Each youngster received an orange personalized BPA-free tumbler.  The boys' names were written in orange using a Sharpie brand paint pen and the girls' names were written in pink using the same kind of pen.  I wrote the names on the top as well as on the outside wall.  The boys also received super fly orange shutter shades and the girls got orange nail polish in addition to the tumbler.