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So happy to finally get around to sharing these pictures from a sweet Springtime birthday party! My friend, Gina, did this adorable carnival themed party that everyone is always asking about for her daughter’s first birthday. For her second, they celebrated her birthday Easter-style with an adorable petting zoo and a good-old fashioned egg hunt.

Here’s the invitation I created for the big day.

Gina made this moss “A” for the door to greet the party goers. Love.

Here’s the beautiful buffet table filled with all sorts of adorable goodness.

Like these sweet bunny sandwiches. If you’ve ever attempted sandwiches with cookie cutters then you know this wasn’t easy. If not, it’s much harder than you might think!

And how sweet are these carrot silverware treatments? So festive!

I love the natural neutrals of the bristle bottle brush bunnies with the bright colors of Spring here.

After getting rained out the previous year, Gina was brave enough to try her luck with another outdoor party and, boy, did this one ever pay off! Loving all that green.

Here’s a close-up of the centerpiece–Spring branches hung with decorative eggs!

Gina used these natural cups with lids from Think Garnish and decorated them with these little cottontails. No spill!

I love this decorative galvanized accent too. So bright and fun!

Here’s the birthday girl, Ava, getting ready to eat. I adore those cabbage leaf chargers!

The entertainment was a traveling petting zoo. The children were able to pet the goats, ducks and bunnies too!

Ava and her dad got up close and personal with this snuggly little bunny.

Here’s a peek at the birthday girl’s little smash cake.  So sweet and simple. Love the fondant tag detail with the writing.

Guests took home their eggs and a pair of these adorable bunny britches stuffed full of goodies.

The tag read, “I’ve been on the hunt for a sweet friend like you!”

A beautiful day for a beautiful girl turning 2. Can’t wait to share pictures from another party Gina is hosting soon. It’ll be wild. Stay tuned!

I whipped up a little Easter party for my daughter’s class yesterday. The kids are two and three years old, so I tried to keep things fun, simple and inexpensive. Here are a few ideas for quick and easy food and decorations.

Here’s one of the tables. The plates were all ears. Super quick, cheap and easy to make. You can download the template here.

I found some fun and springy plaid napkins and thought it would be sweet to pleat them into bows. Hair bows for the girls’ bunnies and bowties for the boys’.

I secured the center with a small piece of white pipe cleaner.

I used inexpensive plastic tablecloths–lavender layered on top of green with ruffled edges as seen here on Cupcakes & Cutlery.

I found some cute little plain spring trees in the dollar bins at Target and used them as centerpieces. I stuck jellybeans on the tips of the branches to make them a little more colorful and fun.

The kids couldn’t help but snack on them while they enjoyed their other food. I made my bird’s nest brownies, and served baby carrots and ranch dressing and some snack mix with juice boxes.

A customer of mine asked me for some treat tags for Peeps last week with the message “You’re one of my favorite Peeps,” so I whipped some up for her and they turned out so cute that I decided to make some for myself and leave those in the kids’ cubby holes from the big man – the Easter Bunny.

After they all had a belly full, it was time to head outside for the egg hunt!

They sure did find all those eggs a lot faster than we hid them! Go figure. I was really pleased with the way everything turned out. With just a few simple ideas that were easily executable, we had a cute and memorable party. Just goes to show you don’t have to spend weeks of time and lots of money to do something fun for your little ones! Note to self.