The latest Disney animation Frozen has been snowballed into
our lives becoming a huge hit with children of all ages that is
impossible to ignore! Frozen awakens children’s imaginations with the icy
Queen Elsa, quirky Princess Anna, the perfect Kristoff, a talking and rather
camp snowman called Olaf and a blizzardous Kingdom called Arundel – not to
mention the seriously catchy songs that are being played everywhere!
Since this film has come out, I have been inundated with
Frozen party requests and have thoroughly enjoyed being Queen Elsa and Princess
Anna at lots of lovely children’s Birthday Parties in London, Hampshire and
Surrey. From being to so many Frozen themed parties I would say that I
have become a bit of an expert on the good, the bad and the ugly of the theme
to help out all my lovely readers if your little ones are hoping for a Frozen
Party this year.
Lets start with the Ugly… Recently I turned up at a
client’s house early to discover that the children were going to be doing a
real life Snowman Making Competition and they had filled some sand boxes with
imported snow! Excellent idea if you live in a very cold climate but this was
at a garden party in May… Needless to say, by the time the children had arrived
there were several paddling pools and even Queen Elsa could not turn water into
snow on this occasion!
The Bad:
Most of the time my clients do an excellent job of
decorating the venue but on one occasion I turned up to a party at a very
stately home with taxidermy reindeer. The children believed they were
very realistic stuffed toys until the Birthday girl proudly explained in detail
what they really were! Needless to say there were several freaked out children.
My suggestion? Leave taxidermy out of children’s party decorations!
The Good:
Every party I go to has a lot of great decoration ideas and
are all different so I could give a very long list of suggestions! However I
have cherry-picked a few ideas that I thought were fab and also very
simple. One party I went to had made a lot of effort making beautiful
cardboard snowflakes (the simple ones everyone can make!) covered in
glitters. There were literally hundreds over the wall and hanging from
the ceiling to make the venue look like a Winter Wonderland. At the end
of the party I mentioned to the Mum how much I liked the decorations and she
explained how she had cut them out with the help of her family and children and
let the little ones decorate them with glitter and sequins. They had a
great time together making the snowflakes and the little Birthday girl was
super excited to show off her creativity on the big day!
Another simple suggestion is to change the colour of your
light bulbs to a blue and add sparkly lights across the venue, or wrapping the
lights around bushes and trees in the garden. This gives a really magical
feel to the party and is so simple. Most people have lights stored away
from Christmas time so you should be able to get your hands on some for free!
I will be writing about exciting games and giving step by step guides to hosting an amazing Frozen Party in my next blog!
Emma at Once Upon A Time Parties
www.onceuponatimeparties-london.co.uk
07969 841770
