Cake idea - Yes or No and Lolly / Goody Bags

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Hello everyone i am making a cake for my DD's 1st birthday next week and thought i would try my hand at some decorating (not great at it... lol)

So i have an idea for a SECRET FAIRY GARDEN cake, basically a square cake, will do green icing for the grass and then was thinking i might buy chocolate to build BRICK wall around a portion or the cake, not sure if i should do a whole secret square or do half / half half?

Have bought fake flowers to use so not spending a fortune on pre-made deco's and will use them a tiny bit outside the fairy garden but then make it very LUSH inside the garden area, am buying the pre-made fairies though.

Have also bought the butterfly sprinkle things and will use icing to attach these to some of the leaves and the brick wall.

What do you think?

Also for Goody bags for her actual party on Sat i was thinking of doing lollies and mixed toys fro children from 2 - 10 for any kids under 2 i am thinking of bubbles, a little book and then maybe like a whistle and little bracelets etc.. do you think these are ok or any other CHEAP suggestions that could go in them?

TIA !

[Butterfly Child]

that sounds beautiful babe,
i love the cake idea
and thats a good idea fot the goodie bags too (mite steal that idea for dd bday if thats ok lol)
i too am thinking if doing a theme simiar to ur dd's
You'll have to post photos how exciting!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Am getting DD's birthday cake for her party professionally made as over 70 guests coming and really can't be bothered but for her b'day dinner with Dp's nanna am trying to make the cake myself... lol
Will take some pics but i can never seem to upload to BB... hmmm will add them on my FB.

Hehe which idea for the goody bags? the books?
I figure i really don't want DD eating snakes etc so i would prefer not to give them to the kids her age aswell, also leaving them til people go so the bigger kids aren't eating lollies in front of the little ones.
Am not sure what else to put in their goody bags though, bubbles are ok as DD lvoes bubbles and parents can do those, whistles she likes aswell, but not sure about what else, maybe for the boys i can put a toy car? and jewels for the girls?
Hmm i just don't know.

[*Ang*]

From places like K-mart you can usually buy a bag of dinosoars or farm animals for up to $4...I sometimes put a couple of those in each goodie bag and the kids love them. You can also get sticker books with themes like fairies, farm animals, dinosoars etc for around $2 from your cheapo shops - I buy a couple of books and then rip out a page each(which has around 10 stickers on it) and put that in the goodie bag.

Oh and the cake sounds really good too.

[briggsy's girl]

books are a great idea for bubba bags. lolly's for the bubbas mumma are good too (i like violet crumble ok! lol)

ummmm, i would avoid jewellery type stuff for the under twos unless you can get chunky bangles that will survive chewing and stuff kwim?

i'm not much help - just wanted to put in my order for choc hehehehe - and to let you know the cake sounds cute

[Patooties]

The idea for the cake sounds lovely.
For the lolly bag, you could always make some playdough and put it in a bag with a cookie cutter. Depends on the ages of the littlies though. Another idea would be some rubber ducks or other cheap bath toys.
Another idea would be to make a big cookie on a paddle pop stick - and have the childs initial on it - either in icing or lollies. You could wrap it in a bag and make it look pretty
Have fun!! ( I love doing the kids parties )

[Winter]

Cake sounds fantastic! Just wanted to know where my invite is..seems to have got lost in the mail!