Stories from the Kangazoo: Walking in a winter wonderland Party

Sleigh bells ring....

are you listenin'?

In the lane, snow is glistnin' (Like, for real too, it snowed today)

A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight, playing in a winter wonderland.....

Today was Ryan's party day! Technically, he won't be three until next week, but it's hard to get people together for a party two days after Christmas. While we were busy creating an indoor winter-wonderland, mother nature was busy dusting everything with snow outside.

The games included playing musical ice-bergs (the ice-bergs are not shown here, but I put out large pieces of styrofoam which can be bought very cheaply at Home Depot) around the "Ice lake" and the kids hopped around to Christmas music.

The igloo was a hit. At one point there were about three kids in the Igloo. We turned the lights off and Ryan's "star" turtle made a beautiful star pattern inside.

It wouldn't be a wonderland without snowmen. We played pin the carrot on the snowman. A lot of the kids had never played this game before and so we nixed the blindfold and just tried to get the nose on the snowman's face.

Speaking of which, there was no shortage of snowmen at Ryan's party. I loved this idea from Pinterest using powdered donuts and candy corn.....among other treats.

When we were done playing the games, it was time to sit down for some of these snacks. Then, we pulled out the "Ice cave" (also from Pinterest.com) but I first saw it on a friend's blog.

Basically, the kids eyes grew as big as saucers when we brought up and inflated (using just your average fan) what is basically two painting tarps duct taped together and filled it with balloons.

They jumped in it. They rolled in it. They batted around the balloons and hit them with glow sticks. They played ring-around-the-rosy in it. They loved it. And as always when playing or putting your child in a large plastic bag, this activity was only performed under constant adult supervision.