The Lapinski Family: Sophia's Unicorn Party with Friends

We celebrated Sophia's 7th birthday with her friends at our house, carrying on with the unicorn theme. As is our usual tradition, we scheduled a 2-hour party from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm on a Saturday, We ordered pizza and breadsticks to be delivered (so easy for me and a true crowd-favorite), had lemonade, strawberries, cupcakes and individual ice cream cups (again, so much easier than cutting cake and scooping ice cream). I also asked our teenage neighbor across the street to help out. When I told her that she would get paid and have all the pizza, cupcakes and ice cream that she wanted, she responded with, "You don't need to pay me to come to a party!" I laughed while I reminded her that she would most definitely want to get paid ... after all, she will be helping to micro-manage 11 little girls."

I went with a gold and pink theme, using some of the pink decorations left over from the joint dragon and unicorn family party two weeks before. Sophia loves pink, and the gold seemed rich and fitting for sparkly unicorns.

Sophia made it clear that she wanted white cupcakes (apparently she is not a fan of chocolate cake?), and they turned out so cute with the cupcake holder and toppers.

As soon as the guests began to arrive, I directed them over to a table that was set up in the dining room. While there, my helper, Autumn, showed them their unicorn names. This was probably one of my favorite parts of the party -- their unicorn name was based on the first letter of their first name and the month that they were born.

So, Sophia's unicorn name was Rainbow Silver Moon.

The girls loved it! They wore name tags with their names on them, wrote those names on their favor bags and then put them on the unicorn horns that we used for the game later on.

The favor bags (Sophia and I made these together one weekend using cardstock from my craft closet, simple white bags and silk flowers left over from Samantha's rainforest party back in November):

After receiving their unicorn name, the girls headed into the family room, where I had a table set up for them to work on a craft. This was also a favorite for me.

On the table, I had plastic ornaments, flowers, unicorns (made out of clay, dried and painted), unicorn ears, glitter and ribbon.

Just waiting to be claimed by the girls:

The girls got to choose which items they wanted to use and then made a trip over to the counter where Autumn and I helped them to add glitter inside the ornaments and then glue their coordinating parts on. Afterwards, I added eyelashes to the front with a sharpie marker and their name and year to the back.

The majority of the girls chose pink or purple glitter, but there were some green ones and this beautiful gold one that Sam chose to make. All of the girls were then able to take the ornaments home with them as a favor (and hopefully add them to their Christmas tree later this year!).

In addition to the ornament, there was a soft unicorn for each of them on the dining room table (I got such a great deal on these ... less than $5 apiece and free shipping!).

They also filled their bags with a bath bomb (they smelled incredible!), a unicorn pencil and note pad, a unicorn necklace and a chapstick.

The pizza and breadsticks arrived right on time (the pizza man got a very warm welcome from all of these hungry girls) and Autumn and I stayed busy filling their plates and cups of lemonade.

One of the guests had to leave early, so we made sure to open presents right after lunch. Sophia received so many cute things from her friends and she was beaming from ear to ear the whole time.

We followed the opening of gifts with a game of "Pin the Horn on the Unicorn." I drew the unicorn and cut it out weeks ago and was happy to finally hang it on the wall. (It now hangs in the girls' bedroom because Sophia didn't want to part with it quite yet).