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Josie’s Blue Bunny First Birthday

Our daughter LOVES a stuffed blue bunny that she picked out at the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor in Le Mars, Iowa. Once we were planning her birthday party, we decided that we should have a theme that she loves, and her blue bunny is her favorite thing!
We created sparkly blue bunnies and floral bunnies out of paper from Hobby Lobby and added fluffy bunny tails. We made these into two different banners. We also made a “Blue Bunny” month-by-month photo banner. Some of my favorite details for decorations were her “carrot” balloons, “carrot” napkins, and “Blue Bunny” cups. We made the cups by gluing cotton balls onto blue cups and I thought they turned out adorable!
We served “carrot” strawberries, bunny bread, carrot cupcakes, veggies, and also had a “Blue Bunny” ice cream bar. We made the “carrot” strawberries by dipping strawberries in melted orange Wilton candy melts. We served them over Oreo “dirt” and in a tray that we glued a small “picket fence” around. The “Blue Bunny” ice cream bar was a hit! We used small terra-cotta planters to hold a variety of toppings. We all enjoyed the ice cream!
It was such a fun party to plan and our little Josie Rose really enjoyed the bunny decorations…especially the balloons!
 

It’s Some Bunnies Birthday

I chose to throw a bunny birthday for my daughters second birthday because she never stops hopping around. She loves all animals and bunnies are one of her favourite. I wanted to host a garden party. Sadly the rain that day kept us mostly indoors and undercover. But with the flowers and moss decorations it still felt like it could be in a garden. A lot of these ideas could also be great for Easter parties. Or resumed again for such events.
Olives dress was an inspiration for colours and decorations for her party. It was made by dragonbees whose shop can be found on Etsy. It was very whimsical which was the atmosphere I wanted to create. Her banner was downloaded and customized by a shop in Australia also purchased through Etsy  Billy and Scarlett. I had seen their banner used on 100cakelet and found the source through Pintrest. A lot of the decorations I made myself like her 3D moss number two Bunny ears and large flowers. Others I got from Michaels crafts and winners. I made her a raw vegan cake from pure food and wines owners cook book. This has been my favourite raw cake since visiting the restaurant in New York a few years ago. I picked up Sarma melengills cook book when I was there  just because my daughters vegan doesn’t mean she can’t have a beautiful and tasty cake  I topped it wish flowers which she loved  she is my flower child
we played games like pin the tail on the bunny and a carrot toss  the bunny bag hop didn’t happen because of the rain  but she loved it and I hope she will remember it always