Emma's Ladybug Party

This past year for our daughter's birthday we decided to have a ladybug theme with a few butterflies thrown in for fun.  I had so much fun searching online for great ideas for ladybug and butterfly shaped food to come up with many fun ideas for the kids. 

I found some strawberry ladybugs at the following site
http://learningdevelopmentactivities.blogspot.com/2010/06/ladybug-strawberry.html By the time I made the heads and the bodies I tried putting on the legs but decided it was too much effort.

I found some cute ham sandwiches at this blog but decided I could do something similar with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  http://www.cutefoodforkids.com/2010/11/ladybug-sandwich.html

From the same website, I found some cute ladybugs made out of Bon Bell cheese.  They were a little harder than I expected but fun none the less.  http://www.cutefoodforkids.com/2010/11/babybel-cheese-sure-is-one-healthy.html

 I found a cute idea for butterflies made out of grapes and orange slices from this blog.  http://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2011/05/orange-slice-butterflies.html. 

Then for the cake.  I asked Emma what she wanted and she said a ladybug cake - strawberry flavor.  So, she got lady bug cupcakes with ladybugs made out of fondant on a green daisy cake.  She even helped cut out the fondant leaves for the border around the bottom edge of the cake.

  

We had to throw in a few cute decorations to go along with the theme and bought some red take out boxes from Party City that I drew black spots on and filled with some sparkly ladybug stickers and tatoos as well as other prizes.

Overall it was sure fun to plan this party, I am already looking ahead to next year.