Children's Birthday Party

I am participating in Kelly's Show us where you live series for the first time and I am not even showing you my house but my kid's birthday parties!
We just celebrated my daughter, Bella's 5th birthday last week! We had a Dora Beach party. It was so much fun! I went to the dollar store in search of some cheap decorations and was blown away to see all the Dora beach things they had!! It was PERFECT! I don't know if I got any pictures of those things but I was able to find dora frisbees, beach balls, buckets and shovels and sand molds!
My daughter also has allergies to gluten/wheat so I had to make her cake which actually turned out so fun and yummy! I used all her little Dora figurines and made a beach theme cake! She was so happy which is all that matters, right?
For party favors we gave each child a bucket and shovel, also from the dollar store, for them to play with at the party and then take home!


I am also going to show pictures of my son's 2nd birthday. We had a construction birthday party. It was so fun! I made him a construction site cake which was so fun to make and he had so much fun playing with it!!
We had the party in our backyard. For the invitation I just did an evite but I had a picture of Charlie on a steamroller so I put that on the evite and it turned out pretty cute. I set up a few stations for the kids to play with. I put all the trucks I could find in the dirt area by the tree for the kids to drive around. Then we had a building station where I put out all the block we had in our house with lots of plastic tools for the kids to construct.
The last station was a bean bag toss. I made a dump truck out of poster board and the kids threw bean bags into the back.
For favors I was able to find packs of small construction trucks and plastic tools at Target for pretty cheap. So each child got a truck and a tool and left pretty happy!!!
I seem to not have any pictures of the play stations but I think you get the idea!
We also made shirts on the computer that said "Charlie Construction Company" for our family and the grandparents which really added to the party!