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So I just couldn’t do an Elsa party… I just couldn’t. My daughter wanted one and I couldn’t swallow hosting or attending another Queen Elsa party. I was able to talk her into Frozen but with a twist. I was able to get her to name her favorite colors, she said “pink and gold”. With a little twisting we arrived at a Frozen Lemonade Stand.

I can’t begin party planning for anything without this amazing find thanks to my friends at Childhood 101. This KIDS PARTY PLANNER is my first printout, I use to do it on scrap paper, but why do that, when Christie has laid it out so much nicer.

Now that’s she’s older an evite will do. Nothing over the top just used pink and yellow to tell friends to come and play.

I hunted around the house for any pink, yellow and some “Elsa” blue items that we already had. (It really helps that my company colors are blue and yellow) Came up with some lanterns, parasols, tissue puffs, and a few great free print outs from Melissa at DesignEatRepeat.

The hard part was building an actual lemonade stand. We spent an afternoon with the internet and picked out a bunch she liked. I wanted something that would have more than one purpose. It is made to be a general stand so it can go in the playroom to be a store counter, grocery store, or anything they can imagine. It is also small enough that it fits in the truck so when they are older they can actually use it as a lemonade stand curb side. The stand is now available for rent, check out details by clicking here.

I channeled my inner Pre-K want-to-be-teacher and we filled the lemonade stand with a full stock of pretend goodies, lemons, ice cubes, pitchers filled with duplos and foam to be lemonade, wooden spoons, and a cash register. This became the entertainment for the afternoon with friends.

Centerpieces were easy and will find another life after this weekend. I bought lemons and dumped them into clear vases. This whole thing makes me giggle as all I can think of is Jennifer Aniston in the movie “The Breakup” when she wants to make a 12 lemon centerpieces and her dear boyfriend only buys 4. Again my sister came thru for me and made some rocking flower arrangements too.

What’s a party without cake? This is where Elsa comes into play. Because we can never have just one event there are a few variations of cake. We hosted a small family party, the day of, and a friends party.

Of course we served lemonade in both flavors. We also hit our our local Del’s Lemonade for some frozen yumminess. After the kid’s party ended we added some adult versions of Del’s for those that stayed for the afternoon.

Some of my favorite party details included. Table settings and decorations. At this point I’m past party favors that hit the trash once you get to the car. These will hopefully be used, enjoyed and than no longer kicked around our friends home.