Entertaining Archives

10 Mermaid Party Food, Craft, Decoration and Party Favor Ideas

28 October, 2014 by ES Ivy

Here 10 great ideas for mermaid party food, craft, decoration, and party favor ideas for a mermaid birthday party, swim party, or to go along with a mermaid book for a Mother-Daughter book club. (You know, a book like Miri Attwater and the Ocean’s Secret.) A lot of these sites have a lot of other amazing ideas, so be sure you check them all out!

Tired of giving bags of plastic junk and candy for party favors but don’t have the time to make your own favors? Give the gift of reading instead! Paperback copies of Miri Attwater and the Ocean’s Secret, the first book in the mermaid princess adventure series, make great party favors!

Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey Recipe

19 November, 2013 by ES Ivy

Little kids won’t really go for the fancy fruit salad with Jello and cottage cheese that your Great Aunt Ida always brings to Thanksgiving dinner. This Thanksgiving Fruit Turkey recipe is an easy way to make plain fruit look fancy. It’s also a great way to take fruit to a Thanksgiving class party.

Don’t worry if it’s not perfect! As I’ll show you at the end of the post, it will turn out great even if you’re not too persnickety.

But, if you’re picky, the trick to making fruit arrangements is to use uniformly shaped pieces. This may mean that you won’t use all the pieces that you cut from each fruit, so always have extra. The left-over pieces are perfect for rewarding your kitchen help and tiding them over until the big meal….

Jack O’Lantern Quesadillas

31 October, 2013 by ES Ivy

Happy Halloween! I’ve got a quick and easy Halloween recipe for you.

I don’t know about you, but we need something fast for dinner on Halloween night. And it needs to be something that the kids will eat without a fuss. Here’s a fun recipe for dinner or a Halloween party snack, jack o’lantern quesadillas. (Can you believe that WordPress doesn’t know how to spell quesadilla? There are red underlines all over this post!)…

Goblin Fruit Kids Will Gobble Up

17 October, 2013 by ES Ivy

Before you send you little ones to stuff their pumpkins (and then their faces) with candy, put something a little more healthy in their stomachs – goblin fruit faces!