Some Treats to Serve

I plan on having a sweet table at my sons party and here are some treats that I made.

First, candy apples.  I first dip the washed and dried apples in caramel.  Then snipped the side off two marshmallows and suck them to the top sides of the apple for ears.  Last, I dipped the apple in chocolate.

Second, I made cake pops the old way, not by the new pans that they have on the market.  I baked a box cake, let it cool, and then crumbled it into my stand mixer.  I added canned frosting to the crumbled cake and mixed it until it was dough consistency.  Then I scooped out small portions of the dough and made small balls.  To form the ears I took mini Oreoes, separated the two halves, and stuck them into the balls.  I put them into the frig to set and then dipped them into chocolate.  I let that set and then dipped them into tinted white chocolate.

 

The next thing that I made was these cute Mickey cookies.  They are made from mega stuff Oreoes and Mini Oreoes.  Separate the minis and glue each half to the mega stuffs using chocolate. I let them set and dipped then in chocolate.  After that I dipped them in tinted white chocolate.  While the chocolate is still wet add yellow or white candies and then sprinkle red crystals on the wet chocolate.

 

 

Last, I made a Mickey head sculpture out of Dum Dum suckers.  I took floral foam and stuck Dum Dum suckers all around.

 

 

Some Décor

My son’s party will be outside under our four car metal carport.  I wanted to decorate the metal post of the shed so I came up with these.  I watch a lot of Mickey Mouse and would write down all of their sayings like “Say Super Cheers” or “We’ve Got Ears, Say Cheers”.  I then turned to Microsoft publisher and my printer and made all sorts of Mickey Mouse graphics, printed, and cut them out.  I used hot glue and glued them onto some ribbon that I had and made these great hanging banners, 10 in all with 15 different graphics.  Now all I have to do to decorate is place the Command hook on the post and hang the banner.  They are ready to go and hanging in my sons playroom until the party.

Some more décor is this Mickey Mouse statue that I got at the Dollar General and these letters that I got from a craft store that closed down close to us.  I got the letters for a $1.00 a pieces and used some paint that I had to paint them in a Mickey Mouse theme.  Then I used buttons off some old clothes and glued them onto the letters.  I will use these two decorating items to decorate the gift table.

 

I plan to put a tent, like you use for tailgating, over the gift table.  I decided to make some decorations that would hang for the tents center so I made these hanging Mickey Mouse heads.  A friend found the round floral foams at the Dollar Store for me, and I wrapped the large ones with black crepe paper and painted the small round disks with black paint.  I assembled the ears to the head with toothpicks and glue.  Then I took some felt that I had and cut out a “2” and glued onto the head.  I made 3 in total to hang for about $3.00 each.

  To decorate the tent I plan on making a cute Mickey Mouse banner out of these imagings I found on Google images.  Will use this to dress up the front of the tent.  Will show you the finished product the day of the party, so stay tuned.

I mentioned in an earlier post that I had visited a Kmart that was going out of business several times.  One of the items that I picked up was a package of Mickey Mouse wallies.  If you do not know what wallies are, they are vinyl stickers that you can stick to your walls and then peel of and re-stick when needed.  I bought them not sure at the time what I would use them for, however, when I was designing my plan I quickly thought of an idea based off a pin that I had seen on Pinterest.  I took each character and stuck them to white cardstock paper, cut them out and glued a wooden skewer to the back.  I will use these to make table decorations for the main food table.

Using the same idea as above I wanted to use each one of the Clubhouse characters as centerpieces for the eating tables.  A very popular pin of mine on Pinterest is centerpieces that use a flower pot with tissue paper and a Clubhouse character.  I changed it a little and used metal containers I got at the Dollar Store (2/$1.00), curling ribbon, and printed Clubhouse characters.  I only had five characters from the wallies and I needed a total of 9 centerpieces for the eating tables and I wanted an image both front and back so I made my own.  I found images at Google image and used Microsoft publisher to size them, make mirror images of them, and then printed them from my home computer.  So each character was printed twice.  I cut the first image, traced to the second image and cut the second image.  I then glued the two pieces together securing a wood skewer in the middle of the two and stuck the skewer into the floral foam within the metal container.  The metal container is decorated with stickers that I created using mailing labels that I had.  Created the image that I wanted, printed on the shipping labels and then cut the image out.  Each cost me around $4.00.  It is hard to determine how much the printing cost so I factored in $1.00 for the printing.

 

I needed a cneterpiece for the food table and the coloring table.  The coloring table cost me about $2.00 because I reused a centerpeice that I friend of mine had.  Just put it in a new container, used some stickers on the container that i had left over from the Wallies that I had purchased from the project mentioned above and filled in with curling ribon.  To cute.

 My friend just spray paint foam balls black and sesure with toothpicks.

 

The second one cost a little more because I had to buy the foam balls and spray them like my friend did. Used the same container as the above centerpiece from the Dollar Tree (love that store) and used more left over wallies that I had.  Added a felt number two to the mickey head.                                   

 

I have a lot more décor planned so stay tuned.