Trolls Birthday Party

Lucy wanted to do a trolls themed party for her 6th birthday. She loved that movie. I did too! The music is so fun!

We found this Poppy wig and she had to have it for her party. Crazy fun!

I was glad the banner I made for her 1st birthday matched her colors. I just covered the cupcakes with troll pictures for fun!

She wanted strawberry cupcakes (cake mix) with cream cheese frosting. 

The world may not be all cupcakes and rainbows sometimes but it was for Lucys party today!

For the rainbows: we piped on teal frosting, cut a slit in the cake and frosting so the Airhead extreme rainbow strip could fit inside, and then piped on white clouds around it. Some of them turned out better than other.

For the swirled frosting: we colored 3 bowls of frosting, pink, lime green, and teal and added them to a piping bag vertically (being careful not to mix them too much). Start with a little at a time. 

We had fun making the take homes. We found fun hair bands, necklaces, socks, coloring pages, and fruit snacks

We made jello popcorn from the best bites cookbook:

8 cups popped popcorn

1/4 C butter (that’s half a stick)
3 T light corn syrup (honey is a good substitute)
1/2 C sugar
1 3.5oz box jello, any flavor (not the sugar free kind)

Preheat oven to 300°F. Line a jelly roll pan with foil or parchment. If using foil, spray lightly with non-stick spray and set aside. Place popcorn in an extra large mixing bowl.

Place butter and syrup in a sauce pan on medium heat. Stir until butter is melted. Add sugar and Jello and stir to combine.

Increase heat and bring to a boil. Then reduce heat so it just simmers. Continue simmering for 5 minutes.

After the sugar mixture simmers for 5 minutes, immediately pour over popcorn in bowl. Be careful, it’s super hot!! Mix right away and keep stirring so everything gets well coated. Spread mixture onto prepared pan and spread out evenly.

Pop in the oven and bake for about 10 minutes.

Remove the pan from the oven and let cool to room temp. Then break into pieces and enjoy! You can certainly eat this un-baked as well and it’s just soft and gooey, but definitely bake it if you’re going to pack it up for giving, or serve it as party food so it will be light and crunchy.

We also made jello jugglers to go with the pizza. Not sure why we didn't use the same colors we used for the popcorn. They were still fun!

Movie party! They loved having a picnic on the floor while they watched Trolls. 

We did a piñata! Too bad my sister wasn't here to make it for her. These cheap ones break so fast.

We used some of Lucy's decorations from her room to create this fun table. The kids loved seeing her as a baby!

Happy 6th Birthday Lucy!