Sunday was Mad’s 5th birthday! After her baby sister’s 2nd Wizard of Oz themed birthday party back in January she decided she wanted a Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory themed birthday party. She loves the original movie. Normally I plan for weeks if not months ahead of time for one of our lil monster’s special day. Somehow after having family in from out of town and then going out of town the weekend before, this one snuck up on me. In total I basically had two days to plan for a party that I couldn’t run to party city and just buy decorations for. I had some work cut out for me but had a lot of help from my hubster, my mom, & then a good friend on the day of. Somehow we pulled it off without a hitch! Mad had a HUGE turn out for her party, with over two dozen children in attendance. That was a whole lot of mostly four and five year olds to keep happy, ha ha. There was more candy at this party probably than we have ever had in this house. How could you not have a ton of candy for a Wonka party? They had an ice cream sundae station. Chicken nuggets, mac & cheese, & peanut butter graham sandwiches. And a slew of other goodies along with the s’mores she requested. To drink we of course had to do “fizzy lifting drinks”, only these had a surprise color when the drink was poured. Chocolate, on chocolate, on chocolate cupcakes. And no Wonka party would be complete without “lickable wall paper”. We also played a “good egg/bad egg” game where all of the little Oompa Loompas had to pop their golden balloons any way they saw fit to see if their egg had a good surprise or not. Of course they all did, but it was priceless watching two dozen kiddos stomping on, bouncing on, and trying to squeeze them between their legs to pop them. Then as each Oompa Loompa left their party favors were giant pixie sticks, swirled lolly pops, & candy watches. It was an incredibly fun day celebrating this little wild child of ours with all of our local family and a ton of friends! After her guest was gone she watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory sitting on her new bike. What a special day!

A peek inside her day…

The invitation we used for her computer savvy daddy to recreate. Only instead of it saying “Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket” we used her name.Some of the candyGetting ready to make the “Golden eggs” for the gameMad’s grown a lot in the last year!“Mad is five!”a “candy” balloon I made (thanks Pinterest!)party favors…as if these lil Oompa Loopmas needed any more sugar!Mad, Aub, & Bitty’s Oompa loopma t-shirts daddy made
We love Wonka quotes!The sundae station“fizzy lifting drinks”…and some of the fun colors they turned!lots & lots of goodies!chicken nuggets & mac & cheese for all of the lil Oompa Loompasdonut kabobs, peanut butter grahams, oreo pops, homemade chocolate cups with marshmallows and blueberrieschocolate & sprinkle dipped cookies, pretzels & icing dip, and chocolate, white chocolate, & butterscotch candy spoons with mini m&m’s and reeses piecess’mores cups, animal crackers, & lots of candychocolate and sprinkle dipped pretzels and a lil more candyblueberries (for Violet) & a lollipop tree“lickable wallpaper”