Oreo Owling Fun

Aren’t these SO cute?!

We know Halloween’s past and we don’t REALLY celebrate Halloween in South Africa, but I came across these super cute Muffin Owls that we just could not keep to ourselves!

This is what you’ll need to make these yummy little creatures:

Smarties for the beak and eyes

The original Oreo’s for the big googly eyes

Plain chocolate muffins or cupcakes

And of course chocolate icing to stick him all together

Step 1 : Prepare your chocolate icing using the traditional method, Margarine, icing sugar and Cocoa Powder.

Step 2 : Ice the top of your Muffins / Cupcakes with your chocolate icing, make sure it's nice and thick to ensure everything sticks.

Step 3 : Twist 2 Oreo's apart. You only need the side of the Oreo that the white filling has stuck to. These will be used for his big owl eyes. Keep the other halves of the Oreo's as I will share another yummy and fun idea with you later on, which will show you how to use them ;)

Step 4 : Press the back of the Oreo halves onto the top of your iced cupcake so that the white Oreo filling is facing you

Step 5 : Now that his big eyes are on, fish out 2 brown smarties, put a tiny blob of icing onto the back of them, stick them onto the Oreo's and Voila!! Your Owl now has pupils to look at you!

Step 6: Lastly, to finish him off, push an orange Smartie into the middle of his "face" for his little beak.

Step 7: Enjoy him and all his chocolatey goodness!

 

Flowers and Bugs Party

Little Kayla's 1st birthday



"Welcome to Kayla's party!"







 and

look its a

" Caterpillar " cake !

 

Little pot plants with Butterfly's in them

Kayla's 1st Birthday party table:

Flags

Flowers decor

The goodie bags filled with

assorted sweets, a pack of chips, a spoon & bubbles to  blow.

Boxes were brought @ a factory shop & the rest I made myself.

For lunch - small cups of smooth veggie soup & tiny 'vetkoeke'...

the kids loved it.

I also served soup & mince filled vetkoeke to the adults.

A winner!

Bugs alice bands for the girls

                                           Joanne Human - Heidelberg, Western Cape 

Gardening Party - 3 years

October 2009

For my daughter's third birthday, we decided to do a gardening party! For the invitations, I cut out brightly coloured cardboard flowers. The center of the flower held all the details of the party. The invitation ended with a little rhyme which said: Come along, without a care - we'd really dig if you'll be there!

To set the mood, we stuck large cut out cardboard flowers on the trees in the garden.

As the guests arrived, each child was given a jelly cup with a plastic garden creature hidden inside - butterflies for

the girls and frogs for the boys. We had a large brightly coloured flower photoboard for photos, where the center of the flower was the hole for the kids to peep through.

When all our guests had arrived, we commenced our party activity: we planted flowers.

I bought several trays of seedlings from our local nursery. The children were each given a second-hand ceramic pot (sold at the botanical gardens for R10 each!) They also each received a little plastic spade labelled with their name.

They each planted three seedlings in their pots creating beautiful bright arrangements which they could take home as party souveneirs.

As an added extra, they could also "plant" plastic garden creatures and paper umbrellas in their pots.

We used brightly coloured watering cans to water their little gardens - and these turned out to be the hit of the day!

Soon it was time for the birthday cake and party packs!

Each party pack was a plain brown paper bag tagged with a big bright paper flower which had each child's name written on it. The party packs were filled with an assortment of healthy snacks.

We ended off our party with play time on the jungle-gym. All in all a really fun day!

Tamzin - JOHANNESBURG