This is the birthday girl on her 7th birthday. She was so excited to have a bunny themed birthday party. At this time of year it isn’t too hard to come up with bunny items to buy to add the perfect touches for a bunny party.

Food:

For the food I tried to stick with the bunny theme and serve vegetable based items. We had carrots, cherry tomatoes and celery (ants on a log). For the main course we had vegetable soup and salad.

Drink:

For our drink we had a special berry lemonade with frozen raspberries that we dropped in the drink to keep it cold. The kids loved this “special” drink. Another option would be to offer carrot juice or vegetable juice, I didn’t think my kids would go for it.

Dessert:

A bunny themed party requires a bunny cake. To make the cake I used a box mix and baked 2 – 9″ cakes. For the head part of the cake I cut some small sections off to form it into more of an oval shape. I used the other cake and cut out two ears from it. I then frosted the cake using white frosting. Then I colored the remaining frosting pink using a couple drops of red food coloring. I then frosted the inside section of the ears using the pink frosting. Next, I added coconut to the cake, but I skipped the pink ear part. I made the eyes out of chocolate and the nose from a jelly bean. The birthday girl was in love with her bunny cake!

Decorations:

To decorate for the party I made tissue paper fans with bunny heads. To learn how to create your own tissue paper bunny fans click here. I also bought a bunny themed table cloth, some solid color balloons and a bunny chair cover from Dollar Tree. I also made glittered bunnies using some plaster bunnies I bought from the Target dollar bins (hopefully I will have a How To for these soon).

Games and Activities:

1. To keep busy during your bunny party you can play pin the nose on the bunny. I used the bunny head shape from the tissue paper fans (free download in that post) as a head we could pin noses on. My son helped me cut out pink bunny noses from construction paper. All we needed to finish up was a blindfold and some tape.

2. You can also buy bunny Peeps for everyone to eat and for an activity have them dip them in chocolate fondue. Warning – little kids get chocolate everywhere and laugh a lot while dipping everything, including their fingers in the chocolate.

Party Favors:

As a party favor to give to your guests you can make a small jar of bunny noses using jelly beans and baby food jars. To read more about how to create your own bunny noses and get my free label download click here.

Invitations:

Don’t forget that you can download these free invitations to send out for your party by clicking here.

Handmade Gift:

If you are looking to make a special bunny themed gift for the birthday girl follow this link to download the pattern for this bunny pillow. The original instructions are for making this bunny using felt and a sewing it using the blanket stitch. If you want to sew the bunny using fleece, make sure to add a half inch all around the pattern as you cut out your fabric.

The day of our bunny party was beautiful and we were lucky that the kids could all go outside and play for awhile during the party!

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The best part of a birthday party surprise is planning the decorations. As I said in a previous post I do all my decorating when my kids are asleep, so the decorations have to be simple to hang up. My daughter was in love when she came downstairs on the morning of her birthday and saw these lovely tissue paper bunny fans hanging from the ceiling. Want to know how to make your own? Just follow the instructions below.

How To | Tissue Paper Party Decorations

Supplies:

• Assorted Colors of Tissue Paper (I bought a pastel pack from Dollar Tree)
• Embroidery Floss
• 11×17 White Paper
• Scissors
• Double-sided Tape
• Tissue Paper Bunny Head Download
• Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks

How To:

1. You need four pieces of tissue paper to create one fan. Use two pieces together and fold them using an accordion fold. Fold the second two pieces together using an accordion fold.
2. Tie both sets of folded tissue paper together in the center using embroidery floss. Leave two long tails of floss and tie them together at the top. The tissue paper will attach together inside of this open loop and will be used to hang the fans.
3. You will have four different sections of tissue paper.
4. Use pieces of double-sided tape to tape the sections together.
5. Once all sections are taped together the fan will be a complete circle.
6. Print off one bunny head shape from the file download (Tissue Paper Bunny Head). Use the one as a template to cut out multiple bunny heads. I like to staple multiple pieces of paper together and then cut them all out at once.
7. Using a hot glue gun, glue the bunny heads onto the tissue paper fans. Put a bunny head on each side.
8. Use the long thread to tape the tissue paper fans to the ceiling.

Free Download:

Click here – Tissue Paper Bunny Head

*(for personal use only)

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No party would be complete without a small take home gift for the party attendees. We made jars of bunny noses for my daughter’s friends to take home after her bunny themed birthday party. You can download the bunny noses label for free using the link below.

How To | Bunny Noses Party Favor

Supplies:

• Small Jar
• Pink Jelly Beans
• Paper
• Scissors
• Tape
• Bunny Noses Party Favor Labels

How To:

1. Print off Bunny Noses Party Favor Labels.
2. Cut out labels.
3. Use tape to adhere labels to jar.
4. Add pink jelly beans.

Free Download:

Click here – Bunny Noses Party Favor Labels

*(labels are for personal use only)

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