Summer Wrap Up – Garden Party with Kids

Our Garden turned out to be such a fabulous spring and summer activity. . We loved to see how fast everything grows and boy was it a fun day when we realized we actually had our own vegetables. We decided to create our very own “Garden Party Lunch with Kids”.

Using a rolling pin and clay we traced and cut out vegetables and then placed a metal stake into them. When the clay hardened we painted them sprayed them with protective spray and placed them into our garden to serve as our “garden markers”. The kids had fun with this project.

We served fresh salad using our very own organic vegetables. Although we were on the right track for a healthy lunch we kind of ruined that because we just had to make these adorable garden cupcakes!

We even decorated the tablescape with vegetables. We strung small garden shovels, garden rakes and carrots from our chandelier. The kids thought it was fun so we went with it!

We created our uniquely designed stepping stones, using cement, pea pebbles and glass stones from the dollar store and plastic plant saucers. When they dried we placed them in and around our garden for a creative path.

The lessons we learned this year from having our garden have been phenomenal and made a huge impact on the kids. We reviewed the food pyramid with kids, explaining the proper intake of food and appropriate eating habits. During the season, the kids measured the growth and charted the progress of our garden. The kids are looking forward to the garden next year, and they will definately be more involved in the planning and creativity!

Oh and our Sunflowers were gigantic and gorgeous, and the vegetables were the best we have ever had!

Happy Birthday Lauren!

Lauren's birthday is today!!!!

We are celebrating her birthday on the beach.  She asked for a beach birthday party so we are giving one to her! 

Here they are, the pictures from today! What a GREAT day!

The Pennant Banner we made that actually was tied to two bamboo polls and stuck in the sand but it was too windy on the beach so we had to lay it down.  The Banner is made from construction paper and printed letters from the computer that we cut out and glued.

Oh the yummie cupcakes....

These were so fun to make!  Chocolate Cupcakes with icing dipped in half blue sprinkles and the half in crushed vanilla oreo cookies.  The beach chair is Fruity Stripes Gum and the beach ball is a gumball.  Each cupcake had matching umbrella and beach chair :)

View to the right of the beach

View to the left of the beach

The adorable beach buckets...these were filled with a coordinating beach towel, water guns, bubbles, gummie worms, beach ball, paint to paint on seashells etc.

I totally forgot to line them up and take a picture of all of them but here are is one that shows more:

Lauren had a terrific 13th Birthday today!!!