Art Party

Today is Troy’s third birthday. It just so happened to fall on a Saturday this year, so we were able to throw him a party on the actual day. As in the past, we picked a theme for the party, and this year it was Art. We decorated with colorful, paint-splotchy and tie-dye balloons, table cloths, and wall coverings. And as an added touch, I hung some of Troy’s personal artwork on the walls to tie it altogether.

We invited the other kids from his daycare class, their parents, and our parents. All told we had eight kids running around in absolute chaos. My dad and I had built some short wooden tables for the kids to do arts and crafts at, but we underestimated how hard it is to wrangle that many young kids together and focus them all on the same activity. 

Eventually, we got them together to paint on these mini canvases and easels that my wife had found. But after ten minutes, they were ripping off their smocks and racing around out of control again! The funniest part was when I went downstairs to find Troy all alone, playing with his dinosaurs. Apparently, he didn’t like the going-ons upstairs either and left to take a break.

We finished the evening with catered BBQ and a neat rainbow cake my wife had ordered. Each layer had multi-colored frosting in between it. We gave the kids a bag filled with party favors, DIY craft projects, and some crafts we had done for them out of toilet paper rolls, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. It was fun but extremely exhausting. And we definitely over-planned it!