The Adventures of Eloise and Abbey: Eloise's Princess & Pirate 4th Birthday Party

It was a sea of pink for Eloise's Princess and Pirate 4th birthday party. Some came dressed as a Princess, some as a Pirate and Abbey came as a combination of both a princess and a

pirate !

Home made Martha Stewart Pom Poms were used as decorations

The girls eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first guest

Eloise and Mackenzie (one of her besties from Kinder & Childcare)

A sea of pink

Eloise is now at an age where she decides who she invites to her party, so in the end there were about 25 kids at the party !! And ever since Abbey's birthday party in April, Eloise has talked and planned her 4th birthday party.

There was plenty of party food ... perhaps a little too much ? There was rice paper rolls, chicken sandwiches, feta and watermelon bites, noodles, hot dogs, fairy bread, ham & tomato mini croissants, chicken bites, ham & pineapple muffins, sausage rolls, lots & lots of chocolate and vanilla cupcakes, princess sugar cookies, fruit kebabs, lemon slice, danishes, cake pops, meringues and melting moments.

The castle cake was made by Mummy and decorated by Daddy. It was made with 3 square butter cakes, ice-cream cones, loads of pink buttercream icing, some wafers and a few marshmallows.

Craft time

There were a number of activities for the kids. First up was a craft activity where the girls (or boys) could make and decorate their own crowns whilst the boys could decorate a Pirate's telescope or make a Pirate's sword. But as you can see from the photos it was only the girls that got into the craft activity !

Face painting with Princess Polly

Mirror mirror who is the fairest of them all ?

Pirate Aunty De

Abbey not at all shy to mix it with the big kids

A highlight of the party was Princess Polly. Apparently Prince Charming had told Princess Polly that Eloise was having a party and she dropped by and did some face painting, magic, dancing and played Pass the Parcel with the kids.

There was also a pinata which proved to be very strong as the pinata stick broke before the pinata cracked!

Eloise seemed to be quite pleased with her cake because it had two of her favourite elements - it was pink and it was a princess castle.

The girls waiting for the cake

There were a number of toddlers around including our own Abbey and they seemed to have enjoyed the food !

Abbey literally stuffing her face !

A party guest (Scarlett) also enjoying the food.

Scarlett still enjoying the food !

The birthday girl was very pleased with her costume which was a Barbie wedding dress and she thoroughly enjoyed being the Birthday Girl and centre of attention of already talking about her 5th birthday party !