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Help with Little Mermaid Theme Please
Hi! Am throwing a Little Mermaid themed party for my daughter's 1st Birthday next month. (She has red hair). I'll do all of the cooking - but am stuck for new ideas - I typically do Swedish Meatballs, Guacamole, Chips and Dips etc. For dinner - make ahead Lasagna and Salad. Then a store bought cake. Any great new recipes would be appreciated - especially if they can be made in advance.
Also - inexpensive decorating ideas, cake, favors etc.
Thanks in advance 
Re: Help with Little Mermaid Theme Please
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Do blue tablecloths, streamers to simulate water, and maybe change your menu if you can- to seafood?
If you can change your menu, you could do crab cake sandwiches for the adults and fish sticks for the little ones.
Also, it would be inexpensive to decorate with lots of seashells, starfish, blue sequins on a blue tablecloth covered in blue cellophane (to look "watery"). If you wanted to go all out, you could change out the lightbulbs in the room the party will be in with blue light bulbs, and hang blue streamers vertically, and blue and white balloons of different shades and sizes, to look like water (does that make sense? I can picture it, but not explain it well). You could also consider blue christmas lights and dim the rest of the lights (if you can find blue christmas lights) to get that under the sea effect.?
Little star fished shaped cookies would be really easy, too, and fish shaped candies (swedish fish, gummy sharks, etc). Maybe goldfish crackers? Shell-shaped serving dishes would be a bonus!
I am loving the cakes and cupcakes above. If those look tricky, consider buying this:?http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?sku=2105-4355 (Wilton gives easy instructions on how to decorate it).
Also, be sure to call the forks "dinglehoppers"?
I'd totally have a Little Mermaid theme party too! lol I love it!
I love all these ideas, too!
What about simulated fish/ocean foods? You don't necessarily have to do seafood ( thats a cool idea too) but what about like cupcakes with fish on them, grapes (fish eggs) chex mix (rocks at the bottom of the ocean) or you could use some sort of colorful candies for both those. Blue Koolaid/punch (Ocean water). jello (somehow make it into jellyfish type of thing).
Probably wasn't too helpful - just off the top of my head ideas...
Thank you so much! These ideas are really helpful. In the past I have made Shrimp Cocktail - but could also try the Crab Cakes and a blue "Cocktail" would be great...
I actually have blue Christmas lights - I will definitely pull them out. I never would have thought of that. Thanks ladies and will welcome any and all further ideas.
I'm on a budget - but definitely want to go "all out" for my littlest one.
I don't know what kid food you're doing, but I'd cut PB&J with a fish-shaped cookie cutter, make fish-shaped sugar cookies, have the little mermaid soundtrack playing low as background music
All of the ideas shown above are awesome, but I came across this below a while and bookmarked it for ideas.
http://fantasy-celebrations.com/pages/mermaidteapartyhouston.htm
I love the guppies/goldfish in fishbowl on the table...
On the decorations - we had a mermaid party for my own little red-head when she was in elementary school (she's in college now!).
We ate outside under a covered porch...we taped crepe paper streamers in various "water" and "seaweed" colors and allowed them to hang straight down. This allowed the party area to look as if it were "under the sea." We taped large construction free-form cut outs of orange sea horses and taped those...and brought out shells to decorate the table with.
That's awesome. I love creative stuff like that. Do you have a photo/recipe of it?
Am LOVING reading these posts and planning my party. I tried making Coconut Shrimp Thursday... it took six hours from start to finish because it was so messy - so I probably will stick with Shrimp Cocktail. Any other fish/seafood recipes would be appreciated too!
We just bought a octopus cake pan from the william sonoma outlet yesterday for a party we are having that is "Under the Sea" themed. I'm also getting for favors the placemat and plate from Paperly for each kid. Here's the link if you want to look:
http://www.paperly.com/ordering-info.asp?pid=10432
(I am a Paperly Consultant, so if you are interested in ordering, let me know via PM and I can send you some more info and give you my email address).