Graham's Grand Adventure: A Plane Birthday Party

 How to throw a 2-year-old a birthday he'll never forget? Easy, because he'll probably never even remember it. But because we live in such a crafty, Pinterest-obsessed world, I had to throw my nephew Graham a birthday centered around his current obsession : planes. And hopefully, through pictures capturing the day one day he'll look at them and remember what an amazing aunt he is:)

Pretty much everything in the pictures printed, was designed by me to match our vintage airplane theme and Graham's Grand Adventure. After making the invite, I was able to pull pieces of it for the rest of the party decorations - cup decorations, posters, and "In-Flight Snack" bags. My favorite decorations was the paper airplane streamer I made. Taking the party colors and making paper airplanes out of them and then sticking them on twine about six inches apart each made them look like jets zooming across the sky.

And then finally, for a game - I gave instructions for two different airplanes for each party goer to make. With hoops hanging from the ceiling at different point values, we found out who could get the most points throwing their airplanes through the hoops. It turned into quite the riot - I was surprised by home much adults could turn into little kids jumping and squealing when there airplane finally went through a loop.

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There were three little guests that were a huge part of making our party so successful. So for each of these little ones I made them a suitcase out of brown paper, and printing off vintage luggage stamps to decorate with. Inside was a home-made pilot skull cap for all those grand adventures in the sky they will take. These were made out of brown fleece, some white Sherpa and leather for the goggles. I didn't use a pattern but would be happy to share the one I made if anyone's interested!

 I can't take credit for this beauty - my mom took on the plane cake that Graham wanted. Though I swear after she took it out and got it ready, she cleaned the entire house and did enough baking for a bakery, doing anything to avoid actually starting the process until I forced her. She was a little embarrassed of the cloud, but I think it turned out great!

All in all, the best part was watching Graham blow out his candles.... and then having to relight them so that my other nephew could blow them out too. Boy, do I love those boys!