Cooking Birthday Party

Like I mentioned earlier my 2nd daughter turned 7 this past week, so on Saturday we had her birthday party.  We did a cooking party, I did this for my oldest daughter when she was in first grade 2 years ago. It was so fun that my 2nd daughter wanted to do it for her birthday party this year. I changed up a few things this time around, you know live and learn and all that.  So this is what we did this time...
This party works well with a smaller birthday group.  I let my kids invite as many kids as can fit at our dinner table.  So in our case she invited 7 friends. First thing I did was make Chefs hats for all of the girls, I used the directions from here.

For the party

The first thing we did was make personal pizzas.  I gave each of the girls one or two Pillsbury Grand refrigerator biscuits.  They smashed them flat to form a crust

then they added sauce and all the other toppings.

While the personal pizzas were baking in the oven they used fabric markers to decorate their white aprons, they also made fruit salad to go with their pizza.

Fruit Salad

Once they were done eating and decorating their apron, we did the  presents.  Once presents were done they came back to the table and they finished up by decorating their own cupcake.  Then we sent them home with a fun party favor.

The Party Favor
First I get a bowl and fill it up with various kitchen items.  The first time I did a bowl, spoon, sugar cookie mix, cookie cutters, and pot holders.
This time I went with a cupcake theme.  So we did a bowl, potholders, cupcake pan, cake mix, icing and a spoon. Then I wrapped that all up in clear plastic wrapping paper.

I just got it all from the dollar store, and some of the stuff comes in packages of more than one, like the potholders, bowls and spoons.  I think it works out to be around $ 3.75 per party favor. 

It’s always a lot of fun.  If anyone is inspired to try it for one of their kiddos, I would love to here about it.