Under the Sea Party Ideas
My little guy turned six last month and chose an Under the Sea party. I was so happy to get at least one more year of doing a “cute” birthday before Transformers or Ninjago takes over! I usually start thinking of party ideas at least a couple of months before the actual party – there is something about party planning that I just love! This year, however, was much busier and Connor kept changing his mind every two seconds in regards to what theme he wanted, so this party came together with just a couple of weeks of planning and one really LONG day of pulling it all together!
Under the Sea Printables
I found the cutest under the sea party printables over at Dimple Prints. They have the most adorable party printables and an amazing selection of themes to choose from. The party package came with a HUGE selection of printables – invites, cute food packaging, decorations, favor tags … pretty much everything I could think of and more! It definitely made the decorating a ton easier!
Decorations
The decorations were kept fairly simple. I punched out various shaped circles in 3 shades of blue and hung them on fishing line in front of the window. On the walls we twisted some blue and green streamers for sea weed and hung balloons with more fishing line. We also hung some lighted lanterns from the light fixture to hang over the center of the table.
Food Ideas
The Ocean Blue Punch was a mix of blue Kool-Aid and lemonade.
Pretzel Goldfish + Ruffled Chips
I love these little water bottles for kids’ parties – they are small enough that the water does not usually get wasted and the sports top lids are great for avoiding spills. I bought the water bottles from Target, removed the labels and replaced them with some green cardstock and these cute printables from Dimple Prints.
For the “sushi” I used a cookie cutter to cut out an oval shape from Rice Krispie squares, placed a gummy fish on top, and wrapped it with fruit roll-ups that I sliced into strips. Let me tell you, green fruit roll-ups were really hard to find around here so we had to improvise with a little blue too! My boys are both color blind so they didn’t even notice.
Cake decorating has never been one of my strong points, but I do always make a point of making the kids’ birthday cakes each year. I found this cake pattern over at Martha Stewart and I think he turned out pretty cute. I didn’t have a tray that was big enough so I took a large picture frame off the wall and wrapped it up!
Party Favors
We had striped bags filled with candies, sand buckets with a large bouncy ball, and a package of goldfish as well as a goldfish food bar {with different varieties of goldfish crackers} for the party favors.
The kids also each picked some “sea coral” on their way out.
Thanks so much for dropping by the party! It was lots of fun to put together and I LOVED the printables! Dimple Prints was awesome to work with and the printables definitely made things quicker, easier, and SO much cuter!! 🙂 You can connect with Dimple Prints here:
You can also find our party invites HERE.
This post is part of Dimple Prints’ Summer Party Series and I did receive a free set of printables from Dimple Prints. As always, all opinions are 100% mine.
Jen…I love this party. You really outdid yourself, so glad we have you as part of our series! You kicked it off perfectly! And that cake…you MADE that?! Holy smokes! You did such a fantastic job! 🙂
Hey Jenn, I found your page from looking on Carli’s 🙂 I love your party. The colors are some of my favs! I can’t wait to take a look around your page!
Jenn, I would have had to start the year before to make and do all the seaworthy birthday details that went into making this fabulous 6th birthday.
Happy birthday to your sweet son! I’m sure this will be a most memorable birthday for him!
I love all of the tiny little details you put into this party. Everything is perfect! Love the table runner and those crab cupcakes.
Jen…you did an AMAZING job. I have pinned a couple of your pics as ideas for a future party. Oh and don’t worry you will still have alot of fun planning a Transformers or Ninjago party!
omg I can see Mommy was busy!!!! awesome decorations. I know that was a lot of work…Christine from http://littlebrags.blogspot.com
Jenn!!! What an awesome party! It all came together so nicely. I think my favorite is the fish and chips – so cute!!!
My kids want a party at a bouncy house place so I’m kind of sad no party planning for me this year!
Awesome party Jenn! My big guy turns six this fall… but we already made the transition over to “Mario” for birthday five. Ah well… you can still do cute things with less exciting themes:) Under the sea is so perfect for this time of year!! Maybe I can save that idea for my soon to be three year old…. must pin it!!
Krista
so many cute ideas here! I especially like the sailboats on the blue sea and the sushi! Adorable!
Jenna
Your parties are always so fun! I love it! Even though my son is only 6 we have been doing the boy themed parties for a few years now. No cutesy ones here (except for my daughter)! The toy themed parties can be easier and harder all in one.
Wow, what an amazing party! My kids would LOVE a party like this! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
LOVE! And this post totally reminds me that I’m throwing a party for my son on Monday and haven’t done the decorations yet.
If I can pull off a party as good as this I’ll be thrilled. 🙂
Angela @ A Typical English Home
Wow! What a cute party, with so many fun ideas. I absolutely adore the little jello boats,and can see why the kids scooped them right up!
Jen this is insanely cute!!! Want to come style my sons birthday??
what an adorable party! I know why those little sailboats went first–they are too darn cute!
Such a cute party, Jenn!! I looove those adorable sushi rolls and “coral” sticks- too stinkin’ cute! Looks like the birthday boy had a blast (: xoxo
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what a fun party! pinning!!
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What a party to remember for your guests even though they are young. What fun ideas…the sushi (ha!) and all the great decorations. I love the simple mandarin orange boats in the jello.
Great job!! Everything is darling!
Amazing party! I love all the details!
Thanks Sarah! 🙂