The kids really enjoyed dressing up with the costume options.  Some couldn't choose between a pirate, pixie, or pan.

 

 The treasure hunt was in a sand box.  Gold doubloons, necklaces, tattoos, and hard candy were hidden.  They put the treasure in their individualized bags.

 

 There was a crocodile guarding the plank.  Tick tock.

 And a little teepee I made with dowels, a painters drop cloth, and felt. 

We love Neverland!

Cute invitation idea here, with tinkerbell silhouette!
Need a favor idea - Try a tinkerbell lantern!
Here are more decorations to put you in Neverland!

Main table with the awesome cake, made by Its a Piece of Cake by Maggi in Auburndale, FL.  Central Floridians, they are amazing.

 Here's the cake with the porcelain tink from amazon - hard to find and it was actually broken the day before the party, had to glue it together with gorilla glue.

 Have your own Pixie Stick!

Here's the hand drawn map.  There are lots of things to draw this from out there, I just free handed, then cut out a big directional legend.

 I used black craft paper to cut out huge versions of the characters.

The kids had supplies to be a pirate, pan or pixie.  The wings and hooks were from amazon.  I used paper towel rolls for spyglasses, and made little felt Peter Pan hats with a red feather.

 Here are the lantern party favors.

 And there was a treasure hunt with little bags for kids to collect their "loot".

Cute invitation idea here, with tinkerbell silhouette!
Need a favor idea - Try a tinkerbell lantern!

I made some Tinkerbell caught in a mason jar that glows in the dark for this 3rd birthday party.  We first sprayed craft bond on the inside of each jar.

 Then we poured in some glow in the dark powder I ordered inside the jar.

 It went really well, a little goes a long way (made 12 large mason jars).  And they glow in the dark!  It's awesome.

 This is what the first glow in the dark coat looked like.  Do the glow powder first so it is closest to the light source.  You have to pour into the jar and then shake.

 Next get your glitter (I hate the stuff, but it had to be done).  Spray another light coat of craft bond in between the glow powder and glitter.

Next step: shake.  Lots of shaking.  Spread the glitter around.

Then once that is done you may need to pour out any excess glitter.  Glue the mason jar lids on so kids can't open these.

 End result:

 Like I said, they glow really well.  You can tell your party goers that Tinkerbell is inside this lantern!  Or add your own tag explaining what it is.

See part 1 here.

My daughter's third birthday is coming up and of course I'm in planning mode.  She has requested "Tinkerbell" so we're doing "Neverland", since I don't enjoy really prissy parties and we'll have lots of little boys in attendance from her school.  Normally I do enjoy making invitations, but I found these adorable invites on etsy and just decided I couldn't do better than a graphic designer for $6.00 for the custom invite!

Shout out to Planning with Love for the awesome work and easy purchase with a quick turnaround.

Next I printed these with shutterfly, since it was .79 cents each cheaper than CVS.  And I bought more A7 (5x7) envelopes on Amazon.  Consider this task accomplished!

Come back for more as I blog about other ideas, like a pirate treasure hunt, a ring toss on Captain Hook's hooks, Crocodile Creek, a teepee, and a Telescope Decorating station