Piggie & Gerald Party

Piggie & Gerald Birthday Party (based off of the Mo Willems series- Piggie & Elephant Books)

Ok, so my baby boy is now 7. I can't grasp that fact. It seems like yesterday... I won't digress but all those reading this that have kids I am sure you understand. Anyways back to the party... So here is the cake I made:

I am still a cake amatuer. I only started making cakes, well 6 years ago for my son's 1st birthday. Here are a couple of my favorites over the years:

I also made cupcakes to take to school on his actual birthday. They turned out so cute! I got the idea from parenting.com

So for the party I made, with the help from my sister, a pig pinata. I decided not to make it look like Piggie from the books because I didn't want the kids to hit/beat up Piggie but I thought the idea of breaking up a piggie bank sounded ok, so I fashioned the pinata after that. (This reasoning sounds logical but my 2 year old still screamed and cried that the big kids broke her pig).

Here is a tutorial on how I made the pig: pig tutorial

Once the candy comes out of the pig where are the kids to put it? So I made cloth goodie bags big enough to hold a bottle of bubbles, a stencil and a pencil but also candy from the pinata.

I used the freezer paper technique that I read about on http://www.dana-made-it.com/

I used my Cricut and a program called Sure Cuts Alot to cut Piggie & Elephant out of freezer paper.

I ironed the freezer paper on to the fabric and then applied paint.

After they had dried it was time to make them into bags. I took 2 rectangular pieces, one with the character and one blank and rolled under the sides so that the exposed edges were curled under.

Next I rolled down the top to the width of the ribbon I used as the drawstring and sewed across it. Leave the sides open for the ribbon.

Sew the 2 pieces together at the bottom, with the right sides together.

Next sew up the sides and flip the bag right sides out. Pull a ribbon through one way and knot. Take a second ribbon and pull through the opposite way and knot on the opposite side. Now when you pull both ribbons at once the bag pulls closed.